Binti, a San Francisco-based startup that develops software tools for child welfare agencies, opened a new office on Seattle’s Lake Union.
In the shadow of the Aurora Bridge overlooking a marina full of boats, members of the Binti team rang a gong on an office balcony last week to officially open the 900-square-foot space.
“Opening our first-ever satellite office is an exciting next step for us — and the fact that it’s right on the water doesn’t hurt,” Binti co-founder and CEO Felicia Curcuru wrote in a video post on LinkedIn. “Boat team events are definitely in our future.”
The office is located at 2900 Westlake Ave. N. and is home to eight employees to start. Founded in 2016, Binti has approximately 85 employees and plans to hire about 30 more people this year.
The talk in the Seattle region can sometimes focus on how founders and startups are leaving for Silicon Valley to join an ecosystem that is especially rich in AI talent and companies. Binti is opening its Seattle office just a stone’s throw from the Fremont neighborhood — home to Google, Adobe, Salesforce/Tableau, Brinc Drones, PATH and others — and up the road from South Lake Union — home to Amazon, Meta, Apple and more Google offices.
“We have an incredible group of Bintians based in Seattle who spent time in our SF office and saw the magic of being in-person,” Curcuru wrote in her post. “They wanted to build that same culture in Seattle, and we wanted to be able to tap into the city’s great talent pool.”
Binti’s tools help social workers license foster and adoptive families, manage casework, and connect children with relatives by reducing administrative work and streamlining documentation, approvals, and workflows.
The company says its platform is used by more than 550 agencies across 37 states, serving 49% of the U.S. child welfare systems. Binti AI was launched in partnership with Anthropic to generate case notes and forms from meeting transcripts or handwritten notes.
The startup has raised more than $60 million from investors including Founders Fund, First Round Capital, and Michael Dell.
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