The people behind the ideas.
The ideas behind the companies.

Unstructured
Unstructured’s
Brian Raymond
on tackling engineering bottlenecks
Rover
Rover’s
Aaron Easterly
on the love of pets and finding the right partners
OctoAI
OctoAI’s
Luis Ceze
on bringing ML to all platforms
Common Room
Common Room’s
Linda Lian
on integrating community into your company
Spotnana
Spotnana’s
Sarosh Waghmar
on challenging a decades-old industry
Statsig
Statsig’s
Vijaye Raji
on using data to build better products
RelationalAI
RelationalAI’s
Molham Aref
on finding investors who believe in your passion
Highspot
Highspot’s
Robert Wahbe
on customers, AI, and building relationships that last
Crowd Cow
Crowd Cow’s
Elizabeth Liu
on the power of e-commerce to transform an industry
Nautilus Bio
Nautilus Bio’s
Sujal Patel and Parag Mallick
on the proteome
SeekOut
SeekOut’s
Anoop Gupta
on hiring and untapped talent pools
Pendulum
Pendulum’s
Mark Listes
on finding hidden narratives in social media
Flexe
Flexe’s
Karl Siebrecht
on transforming the logistics industry

Company List

  • Accolade
    Accolade is an on-demand healthcare concierge for employers, health plans and health systems. Accolade customers experience industry-leading engagement levels, satisfaction scores unseen in healthcare, better health outcomes, and cost savings of 5%-15%.
    Initial Investment
    2016
    Accolade is an on-demand healthcare concierge for employers, health plans and health systems. Accolade customers experience industry-leading engagement levels, satisfaction scores unseen in healthcare, better health outcomes, and cost savings of 5%-15%.
    CEO
    Rajeev Singh
    Investment Journey
    Public July 2020
    NASDAQ: ACCD
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • Algorithmia
    Algorithmia’s AI Layer managed the machine learning lifecycle and automates the deployment of machine learning models at scale.
    Initial Investment
    2014
    Algorithmia’s AI Layer managed the machine learning lifecycle and automates the deployment of machine learning models at scale.
    Founders
    Kenny Daniel
    Diego Oppenheimer
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Datarobot 2021
    Initial Investment
    2014
  • Ally.io
    Ally was a business and goal management software platform with roots in the OKR (objectives and key results) goal alignment framework that is transforming businesses and employees’ work lives.
    Initial Investment
    2021
    Ally was a business and goal management software platform with roots in the OKR (objectives and key results) goal alignment framework that is transforming businesses and employees’ work lives.
    Founder
    Vetri Vellore
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Microsoft 2021
    Initial Investment
    2021
  • Amazon
    Amazon is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle that seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.
    Initial Investment
    1995
    Amazon is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle that seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.
    CEO
    Andy Jassy
    Investment Journey
    Public May 1997
    NASDAQ: AMZN
    Initial Investment
    1995
  • Animoto
    The founders of Animoto Productions™ share a passion for helping people share their stories and express themselves through online media by innovating technologies in the field of video production.
    Initial Investment
    2009
    The founders of Animoto Productions™ share a passion for helping people share their stories and express themselves through online media by innovating technologies in the field of video production.
    Founders
    Brad Jefferson
    Jason Hsiao
    Stevie Clifton
    Tom Clifton
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Redbrick 2023
    Initial Investment
    2009
  • AnsweriQ
    AnsweriQ applied AI to the challenge of customer support ticket routing and helps human customer support agents answer questions faster.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    AnsweriQ applied AI to the challenge of customer support ticket routing and helps human customer support agents answer questions faster.
    Founders
    Prashant Luthra
    Pradeep Rathinam
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Freshworks 2020
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • AppFog
    AppFog was the leading polyglot and infrastructure agnostic Platform-as-a-Service provider.
    Initial Investment
    2010
    AppFog was the leading polyglot and infrastructure agnostic Platform-as-a-Service provider.
    Founder
    Lucas Carlson
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Savvis, a CenturyLink company 2013
    Initial Investment
    2010
  • Apptio
    Apptio builds advanced data and analytics applications for Technology Business Management.
    Initial Investment
    2007
    Apptio builds advanced data and analytics applications for Technology Business Management.
    Founders
    Sunny Gupta
    Paul McLachlan
    Kurt Shintaffer
    Investment Journey
    Public Sept. 2016
    Acquired by Vista 2018
    Initial Investment
    2007
  • Bizible
    Bizible is a B2B marketing attribution solution that enables hundreds of companies to measure marketing on the basis of revenue.
    Bizible is a B2B marketing attribution solution that enables hundreds of companies to measure marketing on the basis of revenue.
    Initial Investment
    2012
    Bizible is a B2B marketing attribution solution that enables hundreds of companies to measure marketing on the basis of revenue.
    Bizible is a B2B marketing attribution solution that enables hundreds of companies to measure marketing on the basis of revenue.
    Founders
    Aaron Bird
    Andy Turman
    Peter Thompson
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Marketo 2018
    Initial Investment
    2012
  • Bocada
    Bocada automates backup operations oversight, asset protection, and compliance audits via one single pane.
    Initial Investment
    2001
    Bocada automates backup operations oversight, asset protection, and compliance audits via one single pane.
    CEO
    Mark Silverman
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by private strategic purchaser 2016
    Initial Investment
    2001
  • buuteeq
    Buuteeq was an early provider of software for hotels to build and manage websites for marketing and customer reservations.
    Initial Investment
    2012
    Buuteeq was an early provider of software for hotels to build and manage websites for marketing and customer reservations.
    Founders
    Adam Brownstein
    Brian Saab
    Forest Key
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Priceline.com 2014
    Initial Investment
    2012
  • Cedexis
    Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.
    Initial Investment
    2011
    Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.
    Founders
    Julien Coulon
    Marty Kagan
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Citrix 2018
    Initial Investment
    2011
  • Chatitive
    Chatitive provided intelligent messaging experiences for businesses. The company was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Initial Investment
    2016
    Chatitive provided intelligent messaging experiences for businesses. The company was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Founders
    Andy Hollenbeck
    Daniel Pirone
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Mailchimp 2021
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • CloudCoreo
    CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.
    Initial Investment
    2016
    CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.
    Founders
    Jason Needham
    Paul Allan
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by VMWare 2018
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • Datacoral
    DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.
    Initial Investment
    2018
    DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.
    Founder
    Raghotham Murthy
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Cloudera 2021
    Initial Investment
    2018
  • ExtraHop
    ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.
    Initial Investment
    2007
    ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.
    Founders
    Jesse Rothstein
    Raja Mukerji
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Bain/Crosspoint 2021
    Initial Investment
    2007
  • Icebrg
    Icebrg provides next-generation network security.
    Initial Investment
    2014
    Icebrg provides next-generation network security.
    Founders
    William Peteroy
    Josh Carlson
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Gigamon 2018
    Initial Investment
    2014
  • iConclude
    iConclude was a software platform and preconfigured repair packs that empowered frontline IT staff to priortize and resolve data center problems.
    Initial Investment
    2005
    iConclude was a software platform and preconfigured repair packs that empowered frontline IT staff to priortize and resolve data center problems.
    Founders
    Sunny Gupta
    Jeff Gerber
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Opsware 2007
    Initial Investment
    2005
  • Igneous
    As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.
    Initial Investment
    2013
    As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.
    Founders
    Jeff Hughes
    Byron Rakitzis
    Kiran Bhageshpur
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Rubrik 2020
    Initial Investment
    2013
  • Integris
    Integris was a data risk intelligence solution that enables companies to discover, classify and control how they use customer data.
    Initial Investment
    2016
    Integris was a data risk intelligence solution that enables companies to discover, classify and control how they use customer data.
    Founders
    Kristina Bergman
    Uma Raghavan
    Raghuram Gollamudi
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by OneTrust 2020
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • Isilon Systems
    Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.
    Initial Investment
    2001
    Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.
    Founders
    Sujal Patel
    Paul Mikesell
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by EMC 2010
    Initial Investment
    2001
  • Jobalign
    Jobalign was a mobile-first, bilingual jobs marketplace that makes it easy for the more than 75 million hourly workers in the United States to find and apply for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer.
    Initial Investment
    2012
    Jobalign was a mobile-first, bilingual jobs marketplace that makes it easy for the more than 75 million hourly workers in the United States to find and apply for jobs from any mobile phone, tablet or computer.
    Founders
    Miki Mullor
    Bill Davidheiser
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by OneTrust 2020
    Initial Investment
    2012
  • Knock
    Knock is building a modern marketing cloud for the multifamily property market.
    Initial Investment
    2019
    Knock is building a modern marketing cloud for the multifamily property market.
    Founders
    Demetri Themelis
    Thomas Petry
    Jay Zeng
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by RealPage 2022
    Initial Investment
    2019
  • Lattice Data
    Lattice turned dark data such as text and images into actionable, analyzable structured data with human-caliber quality and at machine scale.
    Initial Investment
    2015
    Lattice turned dark data such as text and images into actionable, analyzable structured data with human-caliber quality and at machine scale.
    Founders
    Christopher Ré
    Feng Niu
    Michael Cafarella
    Raphael Hoffmann
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Apple 2017
    Initial Investment
    2015
  • MaxPoint
    MaxPoint provides a leading business intelligence and digital marketing solution that enables national brands to drive local, in-store sales.
    Initial Investment
    2010
    MaxPoint provides a leading business intelligence and digital marketing solution that enables national brands to drive local, in-store sales.
    Founders
    Joe Epperson
    Kurt Carlson
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Valassis 2017
    Initial Investment
    2010
  • MessageYes
    MessageYes offers an ecommerce over mobile messaging solution for brands that personalizes the experience for their most important consumers, those they text with regularly. MessageYes was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Initial Investment
    2015
    MessageYes offers an ecommerce over mobile messaging solution for brands that personalizes the experience for their most important consumers, those they text with regularly. MessageYes was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Founder
    Dave Cotter
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Nordstrom 2018
    Initial Investment
    2015
  • Mighty AI
    Mighty AI delivers the human insights artificial intelligence (AI) engines need to see, hear, talk and “think” like humans. Its Training Data as a ServiceTM platform helps companies get the accurate, high-quality data sets they need to train and scale their computer vision and natural language models. Mighty AI was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Initial Investment
    2014
    Mighty AI delivers the human insights artificial intelligence (AI) engines need to see, hear, talk and “think” like humans. Its Training Data as a ServiceTM platform helps companies get the accurate, high-quality data sets they need to train and scale their computer vision and natural language models. Mighty AI was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Founders
    Matthew Bencke
    Daryn Nakhuda
    Patrick O'Donnell
    Matt Shobe
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Uber 2019
    Initial Investment
    2014
  • Mobilisafe
    Mobilisafe provided a simple yet powerful solution for companies to understand and manage the risk of personal mobile devices coming to their corporate networks.
    Initial Investment
    2011
    Mobilisafe provided a simple yet powerful solution for companies to understand and manage the risk of personal mobile devices coming to their corporate networks.
    Founders
    Dirk Sigurdson
    Giri Sreenivas
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Rapid7 2012
    Initial Investment
    2011
  • PayScale
    PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data. With the world’s largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market.
    Initial Investment
    2004
    PayScale is a market leader in global online compensation data. With the world’s largest database of individual employee compensation profiles, PayScale provides an immediate and precise snapshot of the job market.
    Founder
    Joe Giordano
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Warburg Pincus 2014
    Initial Investment
    2004
  • Performant
    Performant provided software that allowed Fortune 500 companies to analyze and eliminate website performance bottlenecks.
    Initial Investment
    2000
    Performant provided software that allowed Fortune 500 companies to analyze and eliminate website performance bottlenecks.
    Founders
    Ashutosh Tiwary
    Przemyslaw Pardyak
    Hank Levy
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Mercury Interactive 2003
    Initial Investment
    2000
  • Placed
    Placed is the leader in location-driven insights and ad intelligence. Measuring billions of locations across the world’s largest opt-in mobile location panel. Placed provides the most comprehensive understanding of consumers’ offline behaviors.
    Initial Investment
    2011
    Placed is the leader in location-driven insights and ad intelligence. Measuring billions of locations across the world’s largest opt-in mobile location panel. Placed provides the most comprehensive understanding of consumers’ offline behaviors.
    Founder
    David Shim
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Snap 2017
    Initial Investment
    2011
  • Shippable
    Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.
    Initial Investment
    2013
    Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.
    Founders
    Manisha Sahasrabudhe
    Avi Cavale
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by JFrog 2019
    Initial Investment
    2013
  • Smartsheet
    Smartsheet is a leading work management platform designed to empower teams of any size to create custom processes, programs and portfolios that fit the way they work.
    Initial Investment
    2007
    Smartsheet is a leading work management platform designed to empower teams of any size to create custom processes, programs and portfolios that fit the way they work.
    CEO
    Mark Mader
    Investment Journey
    Public April 2018
    NYSE: SMAR
    Initial Investment
    2007
  • Snowflake
    Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.
    CEO
    Frank Slootman
    Investment Journey
    Public Sept. 2020
    NYSE: SNOW
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • Suplari
    Suplari applied AI-automated analytics and insights for procurement and finance teams.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    Suplari applied AI-automated analytics and insights for procurement and finance teams.
    Founders
    Nikesh Parekh
    Jeff Gerber
    Brian White
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Microsoft 2021
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • Tier 3
    Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management company
    Initial Investment
    2011
    Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management company
    Founder
    Jared Wray
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by CenturyLink Savvis 2013
    Initial Investment
    2011
  • UiPath
    UiPath has a vision to deliver the Fully Automated EnterpriseTM, one where companies use automation to unlock their greatest potential. UiPath offers an end-to-end platform for automation, combining the leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to rapidly scale digital business operations.
    Initial Investment
    2018
    UiPath has a vision to deliver the Fully Automated EnterpriseTM, one where companies use automation to unlock their greatest potential. UiPath offers an end-to-end platform for automation, combining the leading Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution with a full suite of capabilities that enable every organization to rapidly scale digital business operations.
    Founders
    Andra Ciorici
    Daniel Dines
    Marius Tirca
    Prabhdeep Singh
    Investment Journey
    Public April 2021
    NYSE: PATH
    Initial Investment
    2018
  • Unearth
    Unearth delivers a cloud-native collaboration and communication platform for building physical infrastructure from scratch or maintaining existing assets.
    Initial Investment
    2018
    Unearth delivers a cloud-native collaboration and communication platform for building physical infrastructure from scratch or maintaining existing assets.
    Founders
    Amy Hutchins
    Brian Saab
    Nate Miller
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Procore 2023
    Initial Investment
    2018
  • Union Bay Networks
    Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.
    Initial Investment
    2013
    Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.
    Founders
    Benn Bollay
    Jason Needham
    Tom Hull
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by in 2015
    Initial Investment
    2013
  • VNDLY
    VNDLY was a cloud-based workforce management system.
    Initial Investment
    2020
    VNDLY was a cloud-based workforce management system.
    Founders
    Shashank Saxena
    Narayan Surabhi
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Workday
    Public Oct. 2021
    NYSE: WDAY
    Initial Investment
    2020
  • Wicket Labs
    Wicket Labs was a video analytics platform that provides customer insights into conversion, engagement and likelihood to churn across traditional and Over-the-Top channels.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    Wicket Labs was a video analytics platform that provides customer insights into conversion, engagement and likelihood to churn across traditional and Over-the-Top channels.
    Founders
    Martin Roberts
    Ian Blaime
    Eric Knutson
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Brightcove 2022
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • World Wide Packets
    World Wide Packets designed high-performance ethernet networking equipment and software that provide total solutions for broadband fiber deployments.
    Initial Investment
    2003
    World Wide Packets designed high-performance ethernet networking equipment and software that provide total solutions for broadband fiber deployments.
    Founders
    Bernard Daines
    Kevin Daines
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Ciena 2008
    Initial Investment
    2003
  • Xnor.ai
    Xnor.ai pioneered a lightweight AI framework that enabled deep learning, machine vision, and speech recognition to be done directly on resource constrained devices such as phones, embedded systems and Raspberry Pi Zero.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    Xnor.ai pioneered a lightweight AI framework that enabled deep learning, machine vision, and speech recognition to be done directly on resource constrained devices such as phones, embedded systems and Raspberry Pi Zero.
    Founders
    Ali Farhadi
    Mohammad Rastegari
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Apple 2020
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • Yieldex
    Yieldex was a market leader in publisher forecasting, pricing, and direct-sales analytics tools.
    Initial Investment
    2009
    Yieldex was a market leader in publisher forecasting, pricing, and direct-sales analytics tools.
    Founders
    Doug Cosman
    Tom Shields
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by AppNexus 2015
    Initial Investment
    2009