There’s a new name atop the GeekWire 200.Seattle-area sales enablement company Highspot has taken the No. 1 spot on our ranking of privately held technology companies in Seattle and the rest of the Pacific Northwest.Outreach (No. 7), another Seattle sales software startup, previously held the No. 1 slot, but the company has been trimming its workforce, including a 9% layoff earlier this month. Its longtime CEO also recently stepped down.That opened up opportunity for Bellevue, Wash.-based Highspot, which raised $250 million in 2022 and is growing headcount again after laying off staff last year. Highspot was included in a recent Forrester Research report analyzing top revenue enablement platforms.The GeekWire 200, presented by JPMorganChase, provides a snapshot of the region’s robust startup landscape and highlights companies that are gaining traction.The top-ranked companies have changed quite a bit over the years, reflecting the dynamic nature of the fast-moving tech industry.Some startups fall down the list due to workforce reductions

We’re back with another update to the GeekWire 200, our ranking of the top privately held technology startups in Seattle and the rest of the Pacific Northwest.The list provides a snapshot of the region’s robust startup landscape and highlights companies that are gaining traction on their respective industries.The ranking is grounded in both publicly available data — including LinkedIn employee counts, Facebook followers, and Moz domain authority — as well as editorial judgment from the GeekWire news team, based on factors including recent fundings and layoffs, and our own insights from covering the region’s technology startups.Companies founded 15 years ago and beyond are not included, given that they are no longer “startups” based on our parameters.A number of startups moved up the list with our latest update.Chainguard zoomed up to the No. 18 slot after the cybersecurity company raised $140 million and reached a $1.1 billion valuation last month.zoomed up to the No. 18 slot after the cybersecurity company raised $140 million and reached a $1.1 billion valuation last month. Others that recently raised funding to fuel growth — including cybersecurity startup Protect AI (No. 41); e-commerce delivery software startup Pandion (No. 62); and addiction care company Boulder Care (No

Smartsheet CEO Mark Mader accepts the Next Tech Titan award at the GeekWire Awards in 2016. Eight years later, Smartsheet is a publicly traded company valued at more than $5 billion, recently surpassing $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota)Which company will be the next tech titan to emerge from the Pacific Northwest?GeekWire’s startup coverage seeks to answer this fundamental question every day, at least implicitly. But once a year, we formalize the process through the Next Tech Titan category in the GeekWire Awards, our annual event recognizing the top innovators and companies in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.Continue reading for details on each finalist, and a sampling of past Next Tech Titan winners as evidence of the predictive capabilities of this award. Vote here or below in this GeekWire Awards category, which is presented by Baird.And the finalists for Next Tech Titan are … MotherDuck, a serverless data analytics platform built on the open-source platform DuckDB, an in-process online analytical processing database, or OLAP. Its technology makes it simpler for businesses to run analytics on their data, rather than relying on more expensive services from large cloud vendors