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BtB Marketing - Make it Personal; Podcast with Elissa Fink
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August 4, 2019
Today we are launching a podcast. We looked around at the offerings for startups in Seattle and felt there was room for experienced entrepreneurs to share their moments of truth – where they made mistakes and figured it out, a turning point in the business, their “ah ha” moment,… READ MORE
July 18, 2019
Today, Lexion announced a $4.2 million Series Seed funding round led by Madrona, and we couldn’t be more thrilled.
The business world is filled with and ruled by an ever-increasing mix of complex documents that need to be constantly managed – from customer and vendor contracts to insurance agreements… READ MORE
May 14, 2019
I’m excited to welcome SeekOut to our portfolio. SeekOut is a game-changing solution for recruiters and hiring managers to identify and connect with high performers who have a demonstrated track record of solving problems that are relevant to their needs.
In our capacity as the Talent Team at Madrona,… READ MORE
May 1, 2019
Today we are introducing a new Madrona fund, the $100 million Madrona Acceleration Fund. This new fund expands our ability to work with entrepreneurs around the country as their companies move from product-market fit to accelerating business growth.
Over nearly 25 years, Madrona’s main passion has been working with exceptional… READ MORE
April 11, 2019
Managing Director, Tom Alberg, announced today that after 23 years on the board of Amazon.com he intends to step down in May of 2019. Alberg first invested in Amazon.com in the company’s Series A financing in 1995 and is the longest serving member of the board after CEO and… READ MORE
April 10, 2019
First it was Azure stack, then came AWS/VMWare with AWS Outpost and now there is Google Anthos. Google announced general availability of its Anthos Cloud Services Platform at Google Next this week. Anthos has many elements but the telling one is that it lets you run Google Cloud on-premise… READ MORE
March 22, 2019
(Photo credit: Andrea Starr/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory – Derek Kilmer, Tom Alberg)
At Madrona, we are investigating the potential for quantum startups, taking quantum dives with Craig Mundie and spending off-sites delving into the state of the technology with expert researchers. We are excited about this area and are continuing… READ MORE
March 15, 2019
Pictured Forest, Alan and Len
Last week, Create33 hosted a panel for startups on The Board of Directors – how to manage, form, and think about them in the company building process. Len Jordan, managing director at Madrona, Forest Key, founder and CEO of… READ MORE
March 14, 2019
Pictured l-r S. Somasegar, Ted Kummert, Chris Picardo, Barry Wark (seated) Winston Brasor
We are excited to announce today our investment in Ovation.io, a company that is building the next-generation suite of cloud-based clinical informatics tools for the genomic and molecular testing industry…. READ MORE
March 12, 2019
The Pacific Northwest is a major hub of tech innovation. It is also a hub for life sciences research, biotech and healthcare innovation. The past several years have brought increasing convergence of these disciplines, most notably the nexus of life science, computer science and data science. This combination has… READ MORE