Hot startups hiring in Washington
First on the list in November 2026: Harvey, Socure and Quindar.
Latest to raise: Anthropic, which raised a Debt round in October 2026. Updated , using Saywise's data on startup funding and open roles. See how we rank them.
Find my matchesThe top 25, November 2026
1
Harvey
AI services for legal teams
Raised $550M Series H in September 2026
69 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Diffusion, EQT Growth
206open roles$88k – $450k a year
2
Socure
The leading provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions.
Raised $156M Series E in August 2026
33 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Accel
Investors: Accel, Tiger Global Management, Anthiem Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures
94open roles$80k – $395k a year
3
Quindar
Satellite Mission Management as a Service | streamline & automate design, test, and operations for constellations
Raised $25M Series A in August 2026
11 new roles in 30 days
YC S22
Investors: Y Combinator
37open roles$80k – $275k a year
- 4
K2 Space
Building high powered satellites for a mass abundant future.
Raised $500M Series D in July 2026
31 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Kleiner Perkins
Investors: Kleiner Perkins, ICONIQ
230 open roles$65k – $295k a year
- 5
Whatnot
Whatnot—The Live Shopping Marketplace.
Raised $545M Series G in August 2026
32 new roles in 30 days
YC W20
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Animal Capital
217 open roles$50k – $580k a year
- 6
Neros Technologies
Delivering credible deterrence for America and its allies by mass manufacturing robotic defense systems.
Raised $250M Series C in August 2026
17 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Sequoia Capital
Investors: Sequoia Capital, American Strategic Technology Fund
106 open roles$68k – $384k a year
- 7
Norm AI
Setting the Norms of Agentic Law
Raised $120M Series C in July 2026
12 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Khosla Ventures
Investors: Khosla Ventures
28 open roles$100k – $410k a year
- 8
Neko Health
Ahead of your health.
Raised $700M Series C in July 2026
11 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, O.G. Venture Partners
25 open roles$86k – $480k a year
- 9
Peregrine
The leading data integration platform helping public safety agencies make better decisions in the moments that matter.
Raised $250M Series D in June 2026
10 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Sequoia Capital
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Fifth Down Capital, Godfrey Capital, Goldcrest Capital
64 open roles$84k – $340k a year
- 10
Endurance Energy
Endurance is a Seattle-based start-up building the world’s first commercial subsea geothermal power systems.
Raised $54M Series A in June 2026
9 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Founders Fund
Investors: Founders Fund
22 open roles$100k – $325k a year
- 11
Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company.
Raised a Private Equity round in August 2026
61 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, Tiger Global Management, Coatue
455 open roles$70k – $564k a year
- 12
Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Raised a Debt round in October 2026
118 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Center for Emerging Risk Research, Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt
440 open roles$95k – $850k a year
- 13
Astranis
We build the world's most advanced satellites for high orbits.
Raised a Debt round in September 2026
50 new roles in 30 days
YC W16
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, ACE & Company, ACE Early Stage Partners
369 open roles$70k – $285k a year
- 14
CesiumAstro
Connect.
Raised a Debt round in September 2026
61 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Kleiner Perkins
Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Airbus Ventures, Franklin Templeton Blackhorse Fund, Franklin Templeton Venture Fund
191 open roles$12k – $371k a year
- 15
TRM Labs
Blockchain intelligence solutions to detect, monitor, and investigate fraud and financial crime in digital assets.
Raised a Series C round in September 2026
21 new roles in 30 days
YC S19
Investors: Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Alumni Ventures
65 open roles$86k – $343k a year
- 16
Deepgram
Powering the Voice AI economy—trusted by 200,000+ developers to build low-latency, enterprise-grade Voice AI at scale.
Raised a Series C round in August 2026
9 new roles in 30 days
YC W16
Investors: Y Combinator, Tiger Global Management, Alkeon, AVP
42 open roles$50k – $361k a year
- 17
Anduril
American defense contractor
Raised $5B Series H in May 2026
688 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital
2,352 open roles$11k – $395k a year
- 18
True Anomaly
Delivering decisive capabilities for space superiority.
Raised $650M Series D in April 2026
45 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Accel
Investors: Accel, Champion Hill Ventures, Eclipse, Narya
216 open roles$55k – $380k a year
- 19
Fivetran
Fivetran, the industry leader in data movement, powers real-time analytics, AI workflows, cloud migrations and more.
Raised $257.4M Series D in May 2026
46 new roles in 30 days
YC W13
Investors: Y Combinator, Vista Credit Partners
104 open roles$80k – $315k a year
- 20
Flock Safety
American surveillance technology company
Raised $207.9M Series I in April 2026
18 new roles in 30 days
YC S17
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Founders Fund, Tiger Global Management
25 open roles$40k – $243k a year
- 21
Nominal
Technology partner to the world's fastest hardware teams.
Raised $80M Series B in March 2026
13 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Sequoia Capital
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund
23 open roles$70k – $325k a year
- 22
Odeko
The all-in-one operations partner for local cafés and eateries
Raised a round in August 2026
6 new roles in 30 days
YC S19
Investors: Y Combinator, BoxGroup, Addition Ventures, Balius Partners
16 open roles$60k – $135k a year
- 23
Foundry Robotics
Rebuilding American manufacturing as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use Everything Factory.
Raised $19M Seed in April 2026
10 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Khosla Ventures
Investors: Khosla Ventures, Garuda Ventures
29 open roles$90k – $350k a year
- 24
Hermeus
Building the world's fastest aircraft.
Raised $200M Series C in April 2026
9 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Khosla Ventures
Investors: Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Bling Capital, Canaan Partners
78 open roles$90k – $253k a year
- 25
Shield AI
Autonomy for the world.
Raised $2B in June 2026
158 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Advent International, Hanwha Aerospace, JPMorgan's Security and Resiliency Initiative, L3Harris Technologies
670 open roles$50k – $1000k a year
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