Top Tech Startups in Washington, US in 2027

Chowbus is a food ordering platform which curates featured dishes from selected ethnic restaurants daily and delivers them fresh and hot to your home or office affordably with the tap of your cell phone. We provide dish-centric mobile ordering experience for consumers to easily explore and order authentic ethnic food and we empower local ethnic restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business.

DriveWealth is a financial technology firm pioneering embedded finance, fractional investing in US equities, and API-driven brokerage infrastructure. We’ve built patent-pending technology to fractionalize US equities and were the first to receive a license to do so in 2015. We help banks, fintechs, RIAs, and global brands build investing experiences in 153 countries. Some of our partners are Revolut, Hatch, MoneyLion, Stake, and Avenue.

Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family. We make Skylight Calendar, the smart calendar loved by millions of families (plus Wired and the Wirecutter). Our latest product is Calendar 2, which just launched to rave reviews. Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs who have scaled this business to $300M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We get to grow a happy, healthy company focused on making products our customers love without investors breathing down our necks. Smart, hardworking people who care about making actually meaningful products love working here. People like you. We’re busy inventing new ways to simplify family life and help parents raise great kids – and we need your help! Come invent something new with us.

Map and manage global flows (cargo, data, money, etc.) using machine learning -- while preserving data privacy, data sovereignty, and data security.

We empower GTM leaders to build a consistent brand across every customer touchpoint. Our automated language generation and writing suggestions make it possible for teams to accelerate content, align brand, and empower more writers across all types of content and communications. Enterprise-class and simple to roll out, Writer is deployed widely at leading brands like Twitter, Intuit, UiPath, UnitedHealthcare, Accenture, and Spotify.

At Snout, our mission is to ensure no one ever has to make a healthcare decision for their pet based on the money in their bank account. As a modern financing alternative to traditional pet insurance, Snout wellness plans cover 100% of routine veterinary care like vaccinations, unlimited visits, and other valuable member benefits — designed to be used, not forgotten. We help pet owners prioritize care while removing financial risk for veterinary practices.

CROSSK is building Whitebrinjal — an AI-driven decision infrastructure for complex enterprise technology procurement. Enterprises struggle to evaluate emerging technologies because the hardest work happens before procurement: defining the problem, aligning stakeholders, comparing unfamiliar solutions, validating fit, and building the business case. Whitebrinjal structures this fragmented pre-procurement journey into a decision layer—helping enterprises move from complex problems to decision-ready engagement with the right technology providers, while helping providers reach qualified enterprise opportunities with context, intent, and stakeholder alignment. We are solving the gap between “we have a complex problem” and “we know what to buy, why, and from whom.”

Scholarly is a seed-stage startup building a next-generation, AI-powered faculty software platform for higher ed. Higher ed is facing significant challenges related to cost of attendance and is undergoing a generational shift in technology adoption. The Scholarly platform enables customers to make data-driven decisions about their faculty and to automate essential processes like performance reviews and recurring reporting. Scholarly is already working with leading institutions, and the company has a major opportunity to become the leading faculty software provider.

Upbound is the industry’s first platform for building internal cloud platforms. Designed around control planes, Upbound offers a new methodology for building an internal cloud platform, purpose-built for your organization. Customers can quickly build, deploy, manage, secure, and use their platforms all from a single point of control.

nOps is an automated cloud optimization platform that makes it easy to allocate and manage cloud usage, commitments, and spend. Managing $4B+ in annual cloud spend, nOps helps companies of every size, from fast-growing startups to global enterprises, reclaim millions in wasted cloud costs. Cloud waste is one of the fastest growing challenges in tech. nOps tackles it by leveraging proprietary ML modeling and AI-powered automation to guide organizations toward the right commitment strategy. The platform eliminates manual provisioning entirely, delivering maximum cost savings without sacrificing reliability, so teams can focus on building and innovating. Trusted by innovative brands around the world, nOps has been recognized as a G2 Top 50 Security Product and G2 Leader for Winter 2025, is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, and a proud FinOps Foundation Member with our CEO serving on the FinOps Foundation Governing Board.