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Can Your Seed Stage Investors Go the Distance?
- Matt McIlwain
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January 16, 2020
(Kenny Daniel and Diego Oppenheimer)
Tim Porter opens Season Two of Founded and Funded, with Algorithmia’s founders, Kenny Daniel and Diego Oppenheimer. This duo started Algorithmia in 2014 and teamed up with Madrona, working out of our office for a while as they got off the ground. The team has… READ MORE
November 15, 2019
Madrona funded iSpot.tv in 2013 based on the idea that TV advertising was ripe for disruption. Social network signals measured impact of the ads, and digital technologies enabled iSpot.tv to report on which shows ran which ads. Within a year, the company narrowed its focus… READ MORE
October 30, 2019
(Drew on stage in China at the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Dayang Group October 2019)
In this episode, Scott sits down with Drew Green, the CEO of Indochino, a made to measure men’s clothier based in Vancouver, BC. Indochino has 50 storefronts where style experts measure and customers… READ MORE
October 15, 2019
The latest Founded and Funded podcast with with Madrona Venture Group’s Tim Porter
Elissa Fink joined Tableau early in the company’s journey as their marketing lead. Tableau was always a product driven company with an early passionate audience. Elissa saw this and undertook at the start of her Tableau career… READ MORE
October 1, 2019
Seattle is known for marketplaces, Expedia, Amazon, Zillow, Redfin, Rover.
“Building them is REALLY hard.”
If you are looking to build a marketplace based company – you inherently have two sides and two potential customer groups for whom to optimize. In the latest episode of Madrona’s podcast, Founded and Funded, Mark… READ MORE
September 17, 2019
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona Managing Director, Len Jordan speaks with the founder of DocuSign and Seven Peaks investor, Tom Gonser. DocuSign is a Seattle success story – and Len was an investor during his previous role at Frazier Technology Partners.
DocuSign was founded during a time… READ MORE
August 27, 2019
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Tim Porter, speaks with Oliver Sharp, co-founder of Highspot about the journey of building the company. They talk about the inspiration behind Highspot (corporate content you need for your job should be as easy to find as a how to YouTube video),… READ MORE
August 20, 2019
Our second episode of the Founded and Funded podcast features the founder and CEO of Amperity. Amperity works with brands like Starbucks, Alaska Airlines, MGM Resorts, Gap, Planet Fitness, and Brooks Running to help them understand their customers. The company launched in fall of 2017 and from the beginning… READ MORE