Juno, a platform designed to help manage corporate guest travel, raised $2 million in seed funding, the company announced Tuesday. The round was led by Seattle-based Madrona and Bungalow Ventures.… Read More
You might not remember seeing Matt McIlwain or S. “Soma” Somasegar in “Spirited Away,” but the managing directors of Seattle VC firm Madrona are among the latest “characters” to get the… Read More
When four friends got together in 1995 to launch Madrona Investment Group, the internet was just getting started. After three decades and hundreds of investments in budding startups — including… Read More
Spangle wants to shake up digital shopping. The new startup, founded by former Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla, came out of stealth mode Tuesday and announced a seed investment from Seattle… Read More
Gradial, a Seattle startup that uses AI agents to help marketing operations teams increase productivity, raised $13 million in new funding, the company announced Monday. The Series A round was led… Read More
Madrona Venture Labs is being absorbed into Seattle’s Madrona venture firm after operating for more than 10 years as an independent startup studio. The news comes one week after Madrona… Read More
Madrona, the largest venture firm in the Pacific Northwest, raised $770 million for two new funds as the longtime Seattle-based investor looks to back a new batch of tech startups.… Read More
— Pirasenna Thiyagarajan joined Seattle warehousing logistics and shipping startup Flexe as its chief technology and product officer. Thiyagarajan in recent years held multiple CTO roles at Bay Area startups.… Read More
Anna Chen is joining Madrona’s Bay Area office as the longtime Seattle investment firm strengthens its presence in Silicon Valley. Chen is taking the role of investor and focusing on… Read More
Seattle’s venture capital firms, startups, and tech leaders are gearing up for the inaugural Seattle Tech Week — a 4-day marathon scheduled from July 31 to Aug. 4 featuring everything… Read More
There are parallels between the recent tech market downturn and the dot-com bubble. But Seattle venture capitalists remain bullish on the region’s future, inspired by the abundant talent pool and… Read More
Visual Layer on Tuesday announced a $7 million seed round co-led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. The Tel Aviv-based startup helps machine learning developers automatically catch errors in large-scale image… Read More
A new banking software startup spun out of Washington Federal Bank (WaFd) wants to help digitize consumer-facing products used by regional banks across the U.S. Archway has a unique founding… Read More
— Seattle-based firm Madrona Venture Group appointed Wei Gao as venture partner and Anna Baird as operating partner. Gao was most recently chief operating officer at Hopin, a London-based event… Read More
Stack, a Seattle-based startup building a platform that enables teens to invest in and learn about cryptocurrencies, has raised $2.7 million to boost its content production arm. The funding comes… Read More
Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group is doubling down on a recent push to invest beyond the Pacific Northwest, opening its first office outside the region in Silicon Valley. Founded in 1995,… Read More
The news: Tangibly raised $1.3 million, providing the Seattle-based trade secret management startup fresh cash to boost its product development as well as its sales and marketing teams. The team:… Read More
Birkan Uzun, a former software engineer at Amazon who joined Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group last year and was on a quest to summit the seven highest peaks on seven continents,… Read More
It’s a wild time in the venture world. Valuations, deal sizes, and investment funds have blown past records set in 2020. Many startups are raising two rounds within a year;… Read More
It’s unclear if business travel will bounce back to pre-pandemic levels. But that isn’t stopping investors from betting on a startup with a new take on business travel software. New… Read More
The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio associated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $8 million for its fourth fund. The Seattle-based studio also unveiled a new model that… Read More
New funding: PlexTrac, a Boise, Id.-based cybersecurity software startup, raised a $10 million Series A round led by Madrona Venture Group and Noro-Moseley Partners, with participation from StageDot0. Total funding is… Read More
Daniel Li is leaving Seattle venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group to launch a new startup. Li, who joined Madrona in 2015 and was promoted to partner in January, is… Read More
Madrona Venture Group has hired its first investment partner based outside of the Pacific Northwest as the firm broadens its geographical reach. Former Qualtrics executive John Torrey is Madrona’s newest… Read More
Online communities have existed since the dawn of the Internet age. And yet over the past 15 years as massive communities such as Facebook, Pinterest, Reddit and Twitter took root,… Read More
Investors are going all in on Ally. The Seattle startup just landed a $50 million Series C round led by Green Oaks Capital, Tiger Global, and Madrona Venture Group. Total… Read More
Madrona Venture Group has raised more than $500 million in fresh capital that the 25-year-old Seattle venture capital firm will use to bankroll both early and later-stage startups. It marks… Read More
The average U.S. worker spends more than five hours per day checking email. A new startup wants to help people save time with a tool that composes emails automatically using… Read More
— Expedia Group appointed Equifax President of Global Consumer Solutions Beverly Anderson as its newest board member. Prior to Equifax, Anderson was executive vice president of cards and retails services… Read More
Company leaders know they need to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies within their businesses to stay ahead of the competition. But studies show that most organizations aren’t yet… Read More
