List of companies based in Kirkland, Washington explained

This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Currently based in Kirkland

• 343 Industries (moving 2016)
• Acumatica
• ATG Stores
• Appen (company)^[1]
• bgC3
• Bluetooth Special Interest Group
• Cascade Investments (Bill Gates private family investment office)^[2]
• Donuts
• Echodyne
• EvergreenHealth (Kirkland's top employer in 2010)^[3]
• Griptonite Games
• Icom Incorporated
• INRIX
• iSoftStone
• Kenworth
• Lancs Industries
• LTC Financial Partners
• Monolith Productions
• Parabolica Press
• RAD Game Tools
• Tableau Software
• Wave Broadband
• WaveDivision Holdings (parent company of Astound Broadband and Wave Broadband)
• Ziply Fiber

Formerly based in Kirkland

• Bungie (moved to Bellevue)
• Clearwire (moved to Bellevue)
• Costco (moved to Issaquah)
• Hale's Ales (moved to Ballard in Seattle)
• Seattle Seahawks (moved to Renton)
• Terabeam (moved to San Jose)
• Valve (moved to Bellevue)

Defunct

• Amaze Entertainment
• Cranky Pants Games
• Lake Washington Shipyard
• Lamonts
• Onyx Software (acquired by Consona Corporation)
• Teledesic
• Wall Data

Branches based in Kirkland

• GoDaddy
• Google
  • Campus 1: currently expanding to three 60000square feet concrete office buildings over a common parking garage of 170000square feet, located in the Houghton area of Kirkland)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Global leader in high-quality training data for machine learning. Appen. en-US. 2018-12-26.
2. News: Cascade Investment, Bill Gates' wealth manager. Financial Times. 21 October 2015.
3. Web site: Kirkland: We're open for business.
4. {{citation|title=Kirkland’s new "Googleplex" unveiled to the public|date=June 26, 2008|newspaper=The Seattle Times|URL=http://www.seattletimes.com/business/kirklands-new-googleplex-unveiled-to-the-public/}
   • • Campus 2: Google has acquired several buildings in the new Kirkland Urban development
     • Campus 3: In fall 2020, Google acquired the Lee Johnson Chevrolet block to build an additional small third campus within Kirkland
   • IBM (FileNet)
   • Salesforce

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