Where Seattle startups get built.
Since 2009, SURF Incubator has been the place downtown Seattle founders come to work, ship, and find their people.
A community, not just an office
SURF Incubator started with an observation: downtown Seattle was full of founders and entrepreneurs, tucked into every nook and cranny, but working apart from each other. Back in 2009, Seaton Gras set out to bring them together, starting with a weekly meetup. That meeting grew, and grew, until it needed a room of its own. With very little capital but a lot of perseverance, Seaton found a space to call home and named it SURF, for Startup Really Fast. The idea was simple: give founders a stress-free place to work on hard problems, surrounded by people doing the same, where ideas cross-pollinate.
In the years since, SURF has been the seeding ground where small teams grew into companies you might recognize, like Snapchat and Anker, and a host to others like Avalara, Nutanix, and more, the kind of cross-pollination that only happens when everyone shares the same hallway.
Seventeen years, and counting
Years serving Seattle startups
Members & founders
Companies launched here
What we believe
The next economy is being shaped by the startups launching today, and the people building them benefit far more when they’re together than apart. We host more than 100 events a year and run the place on a simple operating principle: be kind, be generous, and work together.
Come build alongside Seattle’s founders.
Tour the floor, book a room, or join the community, whatever your team needs to keep moving.