Porch Lobby
Inside Porch’s office space in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood.

Porch, the Seattle home improvement data startup, is looking for a new home capable of accommodating its booming staff — planning to vacate its headquarters in the South Lake Union neighborhood later this year, GeekWire has learned.

Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman
Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman

The company — which employs more than 350 people and raised $65 million in venture financing in January— is looking for 50,000 square feet to 70,000 square feet of space in Seattle, according to one real estate source. That would give Porch room for upwards of 450 people.

According to others in the commercial real estate industry, one option Porch may be considering is the former Zulily headquarters in Seattle’s SoDo neighborhood, just south of Safeco Field. Zulily left that space last year, and no longer holds a lease at the property. Prior to Zulily, the brick building — which encompasses 106,000 square feet — was home to The Cobalt Group.

A spokesman for Porch declined to discuss any specifics or comment on any potential location for the fast-growing company. However, the company confirmed that it does plan to move.

“For a little over a year Porch has called 1551 Eastlake home, and the space has treated us well. During our time here, as a team, we have produced countless memories and experienced tremendous growth across every facet of the business,” the spokesman said. “That growth will continue as we ramp operations and hire additional world-class talent. A few months ago to accommodate our momentum we started looking for a new home. We are considering several options and are very excited to enter this next phase.”

In an interview with GeekWire at the time of the company’s latest financing financing, Porch CEO Matt Ehrlichman indicated that the company would continue to hire aggressively. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we were twice the size a year from now,” Ehrlichman said at the time.

Porch is ranked #5 on the GeekWire 200 list of privately-held Pacific Northwest technology companies.

The company is moving out of its current building in part because of the expansion of Adaptive Biotechnologies, a heavily-funded spin out from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that raised $94 million earlier this year.

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