L-R: Joe Heitzeberg, Wagyu Rancher, Msakii Ishii, a Cow in Gorgeous Setting
We’ve seen some brilliant ideas take off by way of crowdfunding, but crowdfunding the protein you eat is was a new… LEARN MORE >
(Photo Clockwise, Soma, Tony, Scott and Kevin)
In this environment, Sales and Go-to-Market (GTM) for enterprise companies has changed, sometimes drastically. What we do know is that in the work-from-home environment, tight coordination… LEARN MORE >
Photo: Luis Ceze
OctoML on Octomizing/Optimizing ML Models and Helping Chips, Servers and Devices Run Them Faster; Madrona doubles down on the Series A funding
Today OctoML announced the close of their $15 million… LEARN MORE >
What a change we have all experienced in these last few weeks. Everything has been shifting at an incredibly rapid pace and we have all had to adjust both our personal and… LEARN MORE >
These are certainly uncertain times. The only certain thing is that the world has changed. As these CEOs shifted to working from home and managing distributed teams, they got on a conference… LEARN MORE >
This week we are publishing a non-covid related podcast – recorded before Seattle was hit hard. We hope it provides some relief! We are also prepping some great podcasts that deal directly… LEARN MORE >
David Shim, founder of Placed, now CEO of Foursquare has some invaluable advice for founders. He built Placed over six years from an idea incubated at Madrona into the industry standard for… LEARN MORE >
In our third episode of Season Two, Tim Porter connects with serial founder and seasoned fundraiser, Kristen Hamilton. Kristen co-founded early e-commerce highflier, Onvia (so much so that the company received an… LEARN MORE >
Wow I just listened to this episode with Mikaela Kiner, the founder of Reverb and the author of the new book, Female Firebrands and it’s wide ranging and inspiring. We hear the… LEARN MORE >
(Kenny Daniel and Diego Oppenheimer)
Tim Porter opens Season Two of Founded and Funded, with Algorithmia’s founders, Kenny Daniel and Diego Oppenheimer. This duo started Algorithmia in 2014 and teamed up with Madrona,… LEARN MORE >
Madrona funded iSpot.tv in 2013 based on the idea that TV advertising was ripe for disruption. Social network signals measured impact of the ads, and digital technologies enabled LEARN MORE >
(Drew on stage in China at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Dayang Group October 2019)
In this episode, Scott sits down with Drew Green, the CEO of Indochino, a made to… LEARN MORE >
The latest Founded and Funded podcast with with Madrona Venture Group’s Tim Porter
Elissa Fink joined Tableau early in the company’s journey as their marketing lead. Tableau was always a product driven company… LEARN MORE >
Seattle is known for marketplaces, Expedia, Amazon, Zillow, Redfin, Rover.
If you are looking to build a marketplace based company – you inherently have two sides and two potential… LEARN MORE >
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona Managing Director, Len Jordan speaks with the founder of DocuSign and Seven Peaks investor, Tom Gonser. DocuSign is a Seattle success story – and… LEARN MORE >
