Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group is an American venture capital firm, founded in 1995 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Madrona specializes in seed, startup, Series A and early stage investments.[1] Madrona has made 143 investments in 75 companies.[2]

Company

Mandrona has invested in the information technology sector including consumer internet commercial software and services, cloud computing, digital media and advertising, wireless, networking, mobile, and infrastructure sectors. [3] As of 2015, more than 90% of the firms investments were in companies based in the Pacific Northwest.[4]

In 2012, Madrona raised a $300 million fund. [5]

In 2014, Madrona Venture Group launched a startup studio, Madrona Venture Labs, as an in-house startup incubator.[6]

Staff

Madrona's managing partner, Tom Alberg is a director for Amazon.com.[7] William Ruckelshaus, former United States Deputy Attorney General, is a strategic director.[8] John W. Creighton Jr. is a strategic director.[9] Gerald Grinstein is a strategic director.[10] Oren Etzioni, Professor of Computer Science and Executive Director of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, is a venture partner. Dan Weld, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, is a venture partner.[11]

Investments

The companies that Madrona have invested in include:

Notable former employees

References

  1. "Madrona Venture Group". Businessweek. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. "Madrona Venture Group". CrunchBase. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. "Madrona Venture Group: Private Company Information - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  4. "New Madrona $300M fund to be invested in tech companies". 2015-06-04. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  5. "The mighty Madrona: Why one VC firm is so critical to Seattle (and why that's a little scary)". 2015-03-30. Retrieved 2016-07-25.
  6. Wall Street Journal Madrona Venture Group Launches Studio to Build New Startups December 10, 2014
  7. "Officers & Directors". Amazon. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  8. "William D. Ruckelshaus". Madrona. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  9. "Jack Creighton". Madrona. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  10. "Gerald Grinstein". Madrona. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  11. "Dan Weld". Madrona. Retrieved 5 November 2014.

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