Binti, a San Francisco-based startup that develops software for child welfare agencies, opened a new office on Seattle’s Lake Union last week.
The 900-square-foot space at 2900 Westlake Ave. N. overlooks a marina and is home to eight employees to start. Binti co-founder and CEO Felicia Curcuru rang a gong on the office balcony to mark the opening. “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,” Curcuru wrote in a video post on LinkedIn.
Founded in 2016, Binti has approximately 85 employees and plans to hire about 30 more people this year. The Seattle office sits near the Fremont neighborhood, home to Google, Adobe, Salesforce/Tableau, Brinc Drones, and PATH, and close to South Lake Union where Amazon, Meta, Apple, and additional Google offices are located.
“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. “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 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.
