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Building a Team and a Culture at Amperity with Kabir Shahani – Founded and Funded Episode 2
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March 7, 2019
We are excited to announce today our investment in Knock, a company that is building a modern marketing cloud for the multifamily property market. The company was founded by Tom Petry and Demetri Themelis, Seattle natives and University of Washington graduates who moved to New York… READ MORE
February 6, 2019
Enterprise infrastructure has been one of the foundational investment themes here at Madrona since the inception of the firm. From the likes of Isilon to Qumulo, Igneous, Tier 3, and to READ MORE
November 6, 2018
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
July 10, 2018
The progression over the last 20 years from on-premise servers, to virtualization, to containerization, to microservices, to event-driven functions and now to serverless computing is allowing software development… READ MORE
June 14, 2018
Today I am very excited to announce our investment in Pulumi.
Pulumi aims to fundamentally improve the way people build, manage, and interact with cloud-native applications, services, and infrastructure.
There is a massive movement to the cloud among enterprise customers around the world. As that trend continues to gather and… READ MORE
March 22, 2018
Today we are excited to welcome Sudip Chakrabarti to Madrona as a Partner on the Investment Team.
Sudip is the kind of team member we look for – someone who shares our passion for helping entrepreneurs build their companies from day one. When we first met, Sudip was an investor… READ MORE
March 12, 2018
Pictured in photo: From left to right, Nate Miller, S. Somasegar, Brian Saab & Amy Hutchins.
Welcome Unearth to Madrona!
It is always a happy occasion to welcome a family member back into the household.
With Madrona’s investment in Unearth Technologies, we are excited to be working again with Brian Saab (CEO/Co-Founder)… READ MORE
January 25, 2018
Early last year, we invested in Snowflake, which is quickly becoming the leader for data warehousing in the cloud. Now, less than a year later they have raised a substantial round of $263M that underscores their phenomenal success in building a solution that speaks to a real business… READ MORE
January 24, 2018
Ever since the advent of virtualization technology in the early 2000s, software has become increasingly abstracted from its underlying hardware. The ability to “write once, run anywhere” has led to the runaway success of technologies like containers, which package software in a format that can run in isolation on… READ MORE
November 28, 2017
AWS is another year older, bigger and more diverse and so will be the 6th Annual Re:Invent conference. Over 40,000 attendees are expected to attend the event reflecting the success of AWS and the cloud movement that the company kick-started. If AWS was a standalone company, it would be… READ MORE
August 22, 2017
It was the spring of 2006. Professor Hank Levy, incoming Chair of the University of Washington Computer Science Department (now the Paul G. Allen School) and I were catching up. Hank and I had previously worked together on a successful start-up that he and his grad students co-founded… READ MORE
April 5, 2017
Today we are announcing our investment in Snowflake. Snowflake is a cloud native data warehouse. Data warehouses have been used for years to store and analyze, not surprisingly, huge amounts of data. Over the past 5-10 years with the explosion of data and the rise of analytics & insights… READ MORE
March 14, 2017
Every year in March, Madrona wraps up what happened in 2016 and we sit down with our investors to talk about our business – the business of finding and growing the next big Seattle companies. First and foremost, our strategy is to back the best entrepreneurs in the Pacific… READ MORE
December 12, 2016
The momentum continues to build and scale in leaps and bounds. That’s the overwhelming observation and feeling at the end of the 5th annual conference that Amazon hosted in Las Vegas last week for AWS (Amazon Web Services).
Here are some of the key take-aways that we think will have the… READ MORE
November 23, 2016
The 5th Annual AWS re:Invent is a week away and I am expecting big things. At the first ever re: Invent in 2012, plenty of start-ups and developers could be found, but barely any national media or venture capitalists attended. That has all changed and today, re:Invent rivals the… READ MORE
(L-R Jason Needham, CMO; Paul Allen, CTO; S. Somaseagar, Venture Partner; Tom Hull, CEO)
It is a lot of fun for me to announce our investment in CloudCoreo and to welcome the team to our Madrona family. Again.
We have had a great experience working with Tom Hull and… READ MORE
April 22, 2016
Inc.com – Seattle is the world’s cloud capital — and not just because of its overcast winter weather. During a panel at this month’s iCONIC event in Seattle, Julie Sandler, principal at Madrona Venture Group, said that the area was the world’s cloud capital, with two of the industry’s… READ MORE