OctoML is charging ahead with its machine learning deployment software and on Friday announced a $15 million investment round to help support growth. The Seattle startup spun out of the… Read More
Seattle-area startup Esper today announced a $7.6 million Series A investment round led by Madrona Venture Group. Founded in 2018, Esper is a DevOps platform for customers that manage fleets… Read More
Another Seattle startup is blending technology with logistics to change the way goods move around the country within a $800 billion U.S. trucking industry. This time it’s Freightweb, a new… Read More
Steve Singh wants to find the next Concur. The longtime tech executive is joining Madrona Venture Group as a managing director, where he’ll help lead investments at one of Seattle’s… Read More
How can we help visually-impaired software developers edit webpage designs? What technology enables in-home sound awareness for people who are hard of hearing? How will artificial intelligence help healthcare professionals… Read More
Seattle-area startups are building fintech offerings centered around communities like churches, schools and foreign workers. Church fundraising tech startup Subsplash climbed 29 spots on the GeekWire 200 this month, illustrating… Read More
— Lisa Nelson is leaving her role as managing director of M12, the corporate venture arm of Microsoft. Nelson is a 14-year Microsoft veteran who helped to launch the company’s… Read More
Seattle startup Pulumi is formally launching its technology for programming the underlying infrastructure of the cloud, looking to land new corporate customers in the increasingly competitive field of technology providers… Read More
Hope Cochran knows about managing cash flow. As the former chief financial officer at Candy Crush maker King Digital and telecom company Clearwire, she’s familiar with inefficiencies facing those responsible… Read More
Frank Mycroft and his co-founders started with a simple idea: People don’t like going to the gas station. A mobile fuel delivery service powered by technology could solve that problem.… Read More
One of the biggest names in Seattle tech is a founding member of a new political action committee that wants to see fresh faces on the City Council this fall.… Read More
Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a Seattle-based “startup studio” formed by venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, just landed $11.3 million for its third fund as it aims to launch up… Read More
LinkedIn can be a valuable resource for hiring managers sourcing potential candidates. But oftentimes it isn’t enough — and that’s where SeekOut is stepping in. The Seattle-area startup today announced… Read More
Call it the “ones we missed” fund. Madrona Venture Group has raised $100 million for what it calls an “acceleration fund” — an investment vehicle for later stage companies, including… Read More
More than 23 years after betting on a small startup called Amazon.com, Tom Alberg, the company’s longest-standing board member, is stepping down. Alberg, 79, was one of Amazon’s earliest investors… Read More
M87, a Seattle-area networking startup led by former T-Mobile executive Cole Brodman, was acquired last month by XCOM, a new company led by former Qualcomm CEO and chairman Paul Jacobs.… Read More
Editor’s note: Tom Alberg is a co-founder and managing director at Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group. He is a member of Challenge Seattle and sits on the Amazon… Read More
Seattle startup Igneous has reeled in a $25 million investment round to fuel growth of its software that helps companies manage their unstructured data. WestRiver Group led the Series C… Read More
When it comes to communication with customers, many apartment landlords still rely only on phone and email to connect with potential tenants and existing renters. Knock wants to change that.… Read More
Venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group has hired well-known Seattle entrepreneurs Katie Drucker, the former Sigby CEO and Trilogy Partners partner; and Mark Britton, the founder and former CEO of… Read More
With millions of employees at thousands of companies now getting work done with collaboration software such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, it’s created opportunities for startups to build tools that… Read More
For the first time in its 23-year history, Madrona Venture Group has a female managing director. The Seattle-based venture capital firm today announced the promotion of Hope Cochran, a former… Read More
Seattle-based startup advocate Rebecca Lovell was named chair of the board at the Center for American Entrepreneurship, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates for public policies that are friendly to new businesses.… Read More
Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who co-founded storage giant Isilon Systems in 2001, has left Uber and raised cash for a secretive robotics startup based in… Read More
The Riveter has raised a $15 million Series A investment round as the female-focused co-working space operator prepares for a big expansion across the U.S. Founded last year, The Riveter… Read More
Investors continue putting more cash behind Matcherino, the Seattle startup that helps organize esports tournaments and manage prize pools. The company just reeled in a $2.7 million investment round led… Read More
New York-based UiPath, a startup specializing in Robotic Process Automation, a new arena also known as “software robots,” has reeled in a fresh round of cash from IVP, Madrona Venture… Read More
Invio, a Seattle startup that helps speed up clinical trials for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, announced this week that it is the first company to join the new accelerator created by… Read More
After nearly five years helping drive economic development initiatives at the City of Seattle, Rebecca Lovell is jumping back into the startup world as a director at Create33, the new… Read More
During the last stretch of a 16-year career at Microsoft, Robert Wahbe was responsible for equipping sales teams with necessary information to help craft a perfect pitch to potential customers.… Read More