Madrona + AI: What We Believe

Generative AI Stack - Madrona History

AI and Generative AI are changing the world. This is our thesis on AI — how we think it will evolve, how it will shift the entire industry, and how to position you and your company to be a winner, no matter where you play. Based on over ten years of investing in AI and helping founders and their teams build their ideas into lasting companies, we map out the markets, offer our POV on the opportunities ahead, and talk to the founders who are building now.

Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI NYSE’s Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPO Trends, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets Chroma’s Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production

Market Maps

June 1, 2023
by Palak Goel, Jon Turow and Matt McIlwain
The Generative AI Stack: Making the Future Happen Faster
June 14, 2023
by Maria Gilfoyle and Scott Jacobson
A Wave of Personal Agents is Coming
January 27, 2023
by Jon Turow, Palak Goel and Tim Porter
Our View on the Foundation Model Stack

More Insights

June 26, 2023
by Matt McIlwain
The Question Every CEO is Asking: What is Our Generative AI Strategy?
March 29, 2023
by Jon Turow and Luis Ceze
The Android Moment of AI: Open Source Models are Just Getting Started
March 6, 2023
by S. Somasegar, Aseem Datar and Palak Goel
Foundation Models: How Startups Win With Generative AI
March 20, 2023
by Matt McIlwain
Game On in the Generative AI Stack
July 18, 2023
by Sabrina Wu and Vivek Ramaswami
Snowflake vs. Databricks: Two Cloud Giants Battling in the AI Domain
December 1, 2022
by S. Somasegar
Data Boundaries are Blurring in a Multi-Cloud World

Interested in Intelligent & Generative AI —
Don’t miss the IA Summit on October 10th and 11th

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Voices at the Forefront

In our podcast, Founded & Funded, we explore generative AI with founders, thought leaders, experts, and Madrona investors.

September 5, 2023   |  39:08
Chroma’s Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production
August 22, 2023   |  21:51
Cohere’s Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops
August 8, 2023   |  34:34
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — ‘The Datapreneurs’
July 11, 2023   |  42:07
Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy
April 5, 2023   |  23:03
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences
June 13, 2023   |  35:37
Airtable CEO Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth, Combining AI with No-Code UX

We invest in people and ideas —
for the long run.

We are active, full-stack partners who roll up our sleeves to help founders turn ideas that are conceptual into businesses that are exceptional. If you are a founder building applications, models, tooling, or something else in the space of generative AI/foundation models, we’d love to chat.

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