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 Tim Porter
Partner
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“Building a great company takes hard work and enthusiasm, the right mix of conviction and flexibility, the right team, and the courage and discipline to make well-informed strategic bets. Not every entrepreneur can pull all of this together on their own. Madrona can be the catalyst a team needs to take their hard work and vision to the next level.”
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At Madrona: In his role as a Partner, Tim spends his time sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities as well as working closely with a number of portfolio companies. He works with his companies to provide input on a range of strategic and operating priorities including hiring and recruiting, product development decisions, business development roadmaps, annual operating plans, fundraising and M&A.
“I really believe that no other venture firm will roll up their sleeves and work harder than Madrona to help make your company a success.”
While, Tim looks at new companies across all of Madrona’s investment areas, he has an emphasis on the software, infrastructure, and wireless sectors. Of late, he has been particularly focused on the areas of Software-as-a-Service, cloud computing, and emerging mobile platforms.
Madrona companies: Tim serves on the boards of Appature, PetraVM, Schemalogic and Z2Live, and is a board observer for Apptio, ExtraHop Networks, Skytap, Singlepoint, and Smartsheet. Tim is also a member of the three person Investment Committee for the Alliance of Angels Seed Fund.
Past lives: Prior to joining Madrona in 2006, Tim was a key member of Corporate Development at Microsoft, where he shared responsibilities for sourcing, structuring, and negotiating Microsoft’s acquisitions, strategic investments and joint ventures. While at Microsoft, Tim focused on enterprise software, security and wireless and closed 14 transactions for over $850 million. Notable transactions included Microsoft’s acquisitions of Softricity, FrontBridge Technologies, ProClarity, Whale Communications, and Giant Company Software. Earlier in his career, Tim worked nearly five years for broadband satellite start-up Teledesic, spending much of his last year there working for Craig McCaw’s Eagle River Investments.
Education: Tim received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Managing Directors
Tom Alberg
Paul Goodrich
Greg Gottesman
Brian McAndrews
Matt McIlwain
Investment Professionals
John Carpenter
Ayush Agarwal
Scott Jacobson
Tim Porter
Venture Partners
Oren Etzioni
Len Jordan
Dan Weld
Operations & Administration
Jennifer Chambers
Troy Cichos
Elise Hebb
Strategic Directors
Jack Creighton
Gerald Grinstein
Pete Higgins
William Ruckelshaus
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