When I first met Molham Aref and heard what he and his team at RelationalAI were building, I was blown away by his vision but was skeptical about whether he and the team could pull it off. For over a decade now, I have seen teams struggle to build intelligent applications at scale due to… LEARN MORE >

Madrona’s mission is to help positively transform the world by partnering with incredible entrepreneurs to build lasting and significant companies. Every March at our Annual Meeting, we provide a progress report to our investors – primarily university endowments, foundations, and families who are aligned with our mission. This week, for the first time since 2019,… LEARN MORE >

George Devol created Unimate, the first digitally operated and programmable robot in 1954, and since then, we have been awed by the likes of C-3P0 from “Star Wars,” Tipsy – the cocktail serving robot in Las Vegas, and Scout – Amazon’s delivery robots in Snohomish County. But recent technological advancements mean robotics is now primed… LEARN MORE >

Terray Therapeutics announced today their Series A round of $60 million led by Madrona.  We have been working with the company for over two years through the pandemic and are excited to talk more broadly about the company, their mission and our belief in the power of the Intersections of Innovation.  Interested in hearing from… LEARN MORE >

Prototyping is a critical process for early-stage companies. And how you work and with whom you work in the earliest stages of building, when focus is so crucial to the success of your company, can determine whether or not you end up with a viable product. There is no one way to go about this… LEARN MORE >

We are excited to welcome Leaf Logistics to the Madrona family. Logistics is a growing space, and technology has the power to significantly change the industry, improve customer service, and deliver greater efficiency to everyone from retailers to customers to the people behind the wheel. We were so excited to meet Anshu Prasad and Stefan… LEARN MORE >

I’m sure that when the good people at the Utah Office of Tourism created the State’s “Life Elevated” slogan, they were mindful of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s timeless observation: “life is a journey, not a destination.”  Utah is on an incredible journey of building and innovating.  The home to category creators like Josh James (Domo, Omniture),… LEARN MORE >