Seattle continues to be a hotbed for innovative startups, and our latest Startup Radar highlights companies tackling key challenges across various industries. From automating email marketing campaigns to digitizing recipes and building AI agents, these ventures are making waves.
CookShelf
Founded in 2024, CookShelf brings cookbook collections into the digital age. The app allows users to search their own books by ingredient or dish, directing them to the correct page. It respects author copyrights and doesn’t reproduce full recipes. The bootstrapped company acquired Eat Your Books last year and launched its app for $39.99/year or $4.99/month. Katie Thacher (formerly at Amazon on Kindle apps and Amazon Music) is CEO, with Jane Kelly (co-founder of Eat Your Books) as COO, and Venkat Ramamurthy (former Amazonian) leading engineering.
Dripwave
Established in 2024, Dripwave provides an AI-powered email campaign generator for e-commerce brands. It helps companies boost open rates and conversions. Danlesh Badlani (previously a product manager at Microsoft), Aidan Rosswood (former Meta engineer), and Chong Sun (former machine learning specialist at Chewy and Amazon) lead the bootstrapped company, currently in private beta with brands and email marketing agencies.
Mayura
Launched in 2025, Mayura is described as ‘your personal AI workforce,’ offering custom-built AI tools, including multi-agent workflows and document analysis. Targeting small businesses, the company works with three entrepreneurs and two startups. Matt Savarino (nearly six years at Microsoft, including roles at Disney) is founder and CEO. Aditi Bendre (director of engineering at Microsoft) is CTO.
Skillsheet
Founded in 2025, Skillsheet is a candidate-sourcing platform using video profiles to surface communication and problem-solving skills, with real-time privacy-preserving identity verification. The bootstrapped company has a handful of paying customers. Aniket Naravanekar (previously at avante and CHEQ, and over 11 years at Microsoft) is CEO, and Aditi Bendre (director of engineering at Microsoft) is CTO.