Startup Kit
Your directory of trusted service providers, investors, and vendors
ready to serve your
startup.
Accelerators & Incubators
Washington Technology Industry Association
WTIA is a non-profit trade association that serves the tech sector in Washington. For startups - we offer accelerator programs, networking and educational events, product discounts, health insurance, 401(k), and connections
Accounting & Tax
Cascadia Finance and Operations Guidance
Cascadia Finance and Operations Guidance provides operational setup for bookkeeping, payroll, AP/AR, and local tax compliance. We partner with startups and growing businesses to build solid financial foundations with accuracy and confidentiality.
Sequoia CPA
Sequoia CPA provides fractional Controller and accounting services built exclusively for startups. With IPO experience inside Seattle tech companies, we are the accounting partner founders trust when the numbers actually matter.
Banking & Financing
Every
The all-in-one back office for startups: payroll, benefits, bookkeeping, taxes, and compliance in one platform. It's built so founders can stop context-switching between tools and spend their time on product and customers.
Cloud, Tech, and SaaS
Clarify
Clarify is the autonomous CRM that sources your leads, sends personalized outreach, and manages your pipeline — so you can focus on your customers, instead of juggling multiple tools and manually entering data.
Lev
Lev is your AI co-founder, helping early-stage founders go from zero to one much faster. Find customers, understand your competitors, and detail your market... and prepare better for investors.
Microsoft for Startups
Microsoft gives early-stage founders free Azure credits, access to AI tools including OpenAI and Anthropic models, and the Microsoft partner network to help you build and scale. Sign up on their self-service portal and start building today.
Read AI
Read AI is a Seattle-based startup building tools that make meetings and work more productive. Read AI transforms interactions into actionable intelligence for users around the globe, and is now among the fastest-growing AI companies ever.
SparkToro
Instant audience research to do better marketing. SparkToro puts crucial information about any online audience, including behaviors, characteristics, and demographics, at your fingertips in mere moments.
Kednus is an AI-Native Blockchain Compliance and I
Kednus provides AI-native audit, risk, and compliance infrastructure for digital assets, turning blockchain activity into real-time, audit-ready financial and operational insight.
Consulting & Fractional Services
New Tech Northwest
The Northwest’s largest tech community with 60,000+ members offering community + connections + coaching to scale your tech career or company. Join us on the second Tuesday of every month to experience our neighborhood vibe with 200+ PNW techies.
CFO Selections
CFO Selections® LLC professional services firm offering scalable, customized solutions from strategy and leadership through exacting project execution with a blend of interim executives, financial consulting, project staffing and search.
Founder Inflection
Founder Inflection builds strategic self-awareness, to uncover the patterns shaping how you lead under pressure, so you can make better decisions, delegate effectively, and scale decision-making beyond yourself.
Government & Nonprofit Programs
Technology Alliance
We cultivate a skilled & adaptable workforce, increase research capacity, & strengthen the entrepreneurial climate by forging vital connections among the private sector, government, & education communities, in order to grow WA's innovation economy.
Insurance
Vereo Partners
Vereo Partners is a employee benefits brokerage built for high-growth employers. We deliver enterprise-level strategy, tools, and hands-on support to help startups attract talent and scale with confidence.
Legal Services
Carney Badley Spellman, PS
Our legal team advises on entity formation, venture and angel financings, equity compensation, governance, and commercial and technology agreements to help innovative companies scale, raise capital, and navigate legal complexities with confidence.
Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
Founded in 1962, Seed IP specializes in providing legal assistance in all areas of intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets and unfair competition, due diligence, IP licensing, and all related litigation.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
For more than 60 years, Wilson Sonsini has represented technology pioneers associated with virtually every milestone innovation, as well as life sciences trailblazers shaping the future of healthcare.
Marketing, SEO, and PR
SparkToro
Instant audience research to do better marketing. SparkToro puts crucial information about any online audience, including behaviors, characteristics, and demographics, at your fingertips in mere moments.
Brand Heist
Brand Heist helps startups stop winging their events. We build strategies that grow real community around your product and execute them so you can stay focused on everything else.
Fluent
Fluent is the marketing platform for B2B startups who are ready to start selling. Perfect your marketing pitch, give your branding a glow up, and build key content 10x faster. Start your 14-day free trial at FluentGTM.com
Saagas AI
Saagas is the managed creator content engine for growing apps and B2B brands — TikTok and Meta-ready video, sourced and shipped end-to-end with performance measured per creator. 5–10x more creative variants, live within 2 week.
Office & Co-working Spaces
Thinkspace
Thinkspace is a coworking space in Seattle and Redmond. We have supported over 1300 startups since 2008. Many founded by former engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta.
Recruiting & HR
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The all-in-one back office for startups: payroll, benefits, bookkeeping, taxes, and compliance in one platform. It's built so founders can stop context-switching between tools and spend their time on product and customers.
Swift HR Solutions Inc
We provide fractional HR leadership, Recruiting, and Leadership Development support for amazing companies from the earliest stage. Our SwiftStart HR program provides curated docs and dedicated support for businesses with fewer than 15 employees.
AltHire AI
AltHire helps startups run faster hiring loops by automating screening and first-round interviews with AI. Teams use it to reduce time-to-hire and focus on closing the right candidates. Special offer for attendees - $299/month unlimited interviews*
Skillsheet
9% for full cycle recruiting. Or do it yourself with our agentic operating system. Recruiting agency? Find your next customer using Skillsheet’s sales intel. 1B profiles | ID verification | outreach | Analytics
Staffing & Outsourcing
Swift HR Solutions Inc
We provide fractional HR leadership, Recruiting, and Leadership Development support for amazing companies from the earliest stage. Our SwiftStart HR program provides curated docs and dedicated support for businesses with fewer than 15 employees.
Startup Organizations & Events
Founders Live
Founders Live is an ecosystem to inspire, educate, entertain, entrepreneurs around the world. Across 150+ cities, 56+ countries we provide early stage founders connection to community, resources, capital and exposure to be successful.
New Tech Northwest
The Northwest’s largest tech community with 60,000+ members offering community + connections + coaching to scale your tech career or company. Join us on the second Tuesday of every month to experience our neighborhood vibe with 200+ PNW techies.
Technology Alliance
We cultivate a skilled & adaptable workforce, increase research capacity, & strengthen the entrepreneurial climate by forging vital connections among the private sector, government, & education communities, in order to grow WA's innovation economy.
Washington Technology Industry Association
WTIA is a non-profit trade association that serves the tech sector in Washington. For startups - we offer accelerator programs, networking and educational events, product discounts, health insurance, 401(k), and connections
VCs and Angel Groups
Alliance of Angels
The Alliance of Angels is the largest and most active angel group in the PNW. We are comprised of 180+ accredited investor members committed to financing and supporting high-growth startups in technology, hardware, consumer and the life sciences.
Ascend
Ascend is a Seattle-based pre-seed venture capital firm investing in SaaS 3.0 (vertical AI agents and applications), Fast Followers (AI infra and def tools), and Frontier (AI applied to the physical world's hardest problems).
Flying Fish Ventures
Flying Fish is a Seattle-based early-stage venture capital firm investing in startups that are building and enabling the future of AI.
Founders Live
Founders Live is an ecosystem to inspire, educate, entertain, entrepreneurs around the world. Across 150+ cities, 56+ countries we provide early stage founders connection to community, resources, capital and exposure to be successful.
Pack Ventures
Pack is a preseed and seed fund investing in University of Washington connected companies across AI, deeptech and life sciences (techbio)
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