Seattle's $1.5B Q1 2026: Fewer Deals, Bigger Checks, AI Dominates
Seattle's Q1 2026 saw 69 deals for $1.5B — the lowest deal count since mid-2020, reflecting a national AI-led capital concentration trend.
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Seattle's Q1 2026 saw 69 deals for $1.5B — the lowest deal count since mid-2020, reflecting a national AI-led capital concentration trend.
Seattle-based Temporal's Series D shows that orchestration, retries, and state management are becoming core AI infrastructure — not nice-to-haves.
XBOW's Series C shows buyers are willing to pay for AI systems that continuously probe their own attack surface.
Overland AI's large Seattle-area round signals that off-road autonomous ground systems are a credible dual-use market, not a niche.
Stoke's latest round extends Seattle's hard-tech profile and puts second-stage reuse back on the commercial launch roadmap.