News & Views

We are excited to announce today our Series A investment in Shyft.

Since investing in Shyft’s seed round nearly two years ago, we have watched Brett Patrontasch (CEO) and team continue to make impressive progress against their goal of reinventing the way hourly workers manage their shifts and the… READ MORE

The journey from Day One to building a successful customer base, company and market category is exhilarating! As company building partners, we are honored to work with great entrepreneurial teams every day. One of the most special companies and groups of people we have ever worked with is Apptio…. READ MORE

We are thrilled for Heptio’s acquisition by VMware!  This transaction is another resounding reinforcement that Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for infrastructure across clouds.  It is also a tremendous validation of Heptio’s team, vision and execution.

Deciding “when to sell” is one of the toughest decisions faced by… READ MORE

Tim Porter, Madrona, and Hank Levy, Allen School,  bracket the winners of the Madrona Prize and Runners Up

Again this year, it was a fun and inspiring night at UW Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.  Every year we look forward to the day of presentations and then… READ MORE

We are thrilled to announce that Terry Myerson is joining Madrona as a Venture Partner. Terry has a broad set of technical and business leadership experiences and has been a successful entrepreneur. His insights both at a technical and a business level combined with his penchant for action is… READ MORE

Paul Allen is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft which alone is an incredibly important contribution to the world and how we live our lives now.  But he continued to work and arguably put in an entire life’s work after leaving his day to day role at Microsoft. … READ MORE

We have been experiencing the modern era of our digital lives merging with the physical world, what I call Di-Phy, since the first iPhone in 2007.  This blending of the two worlds is all around us, through wearable exercise devices, package or luggage delivery service updates, car sharing and… READ MORE

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of our investment team, Elisa La Cava, who has joined Madrona as Senior Associate. We are fortunate to meet many, many impressive associate candidates, but Elisa really stood out with her mix of start-up, strategy consulting, and venture capital experiences…. READ MORE

I am pleased to announce Madrona’s seed investment in Player Tokens Inc. (PTI) and our partnership with Kush Parikh, the founder and CEO. Kush joined Madrona as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) in late 2017 and explored several ideas with the Madrona team, including a nascent category called… READ MORE

If there is one topic that is on every engineering leader’s mind, regardless of the size of the company, it is how to ship more code more often and how to run that code reliably and efficiently. So, it was a no-brainer that we chose to kick off the… READ MORE