Madrona + AI: What We Believe

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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.

Market Maps

Voice Is Going Vertical: How Verticalized Voice AI Is Becoming the Next Killer App
The AI Agent Infrastructure Stack — Three Defining Layers: Tools, Data, and Orchestration
The Rise of AI Agent Infrastructure

More Insights

Harnessing the Value of AI
Frontier No More?
From Scarcity To Abundance
AI Building: First Principles Still Work. SaaS Instincts Don’t.
The True Value Capture of the Reasoning Revolution
The Most Important AI Model Is The Business Model

Interested in Intelligent & Generative AI —
Check out the 2025 IA Summit Recordings

Summit Recordings

Voices at the Forefront

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

The Best Infrastructure Moment Since Cloud
AGI Needs Formal Reasoning. Carina Hong is Building it at Axiom.
Palantir Alum Explains How AI is Used and Bought by the Federal Government
Zapier Has More AI Agents Than Employees. Here’s How That Happened
Twitter’s Ex-CEO: The Web Was Built for Humans — Let’s Make it Work for AI Agents
This is How F500 Companies are Buying AI Today
The Infrastructure of Intelligence: Inside Crusoe’s AI Factory in Texas
Can We Trust AI? The Future of Verified Reasoning in High-Stakes Systems
How — and What — to Build in the Age of OpenAI

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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