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Madrona continues to back Ovation.io as Boston startup raises $21.5M for its lab software platform

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group is putting more money behind Boston’s Ovation.io. The startup which makes cloud-based software to help medical… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Salesforce strikes a deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 billion; Amazon Web Services makes some… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: AI that writes your emails; a Seattle tech visionary; trivia challenge returns

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: OthersideAI thinks it can help you be more productive… Read More

How Tom Alberg bet on Seattle and Amazon, shaping the region’s tech industry and building a legacy of understated influence

It was the mid 1990s, and Tom Alberg had a decision to make. Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and… Read More

Snowflake stock soars in largest software IPO ever; Madrona among earlier venture investors

Snowflake came out with a bang in its public debut, raising $3.4 billion in the largest software IPO ever. The… Read More

Madrona leads $9M investment in coffee startup Trade, which connects home brewers to roasters

If you’re home-brewed coffee is one of the less appealing aspects of working from home, perhaps you need a fresh… Read More

Geek of the Week: Anu Sharma left Amazon for Madrona to invest in helping new businesses

As someone who was already interested in investing from a personal standpoint, Anu Sharma said it was always on her… Read More

GeekWire 200 Update: Seattle and Pacific NW startups raise big funding rounds amid pandemic

The leading privately-held companies across the Pacific Northwest are raising giant swaths of cash and increasing their valuations despite the… Read More

Madrona leads $27M round in Twitter vets’ Fauna database startup; Bob Muglia named chairman

Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna, a company founded by two former Twitter engineers… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more

— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced that Anu Sharma is joining its investment team as a principal. Sharma… Read More

Tech Moves: Vulcan’s VP shuffle; new associate at Madrona; Pulumi adds execs; and more

— Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group announced Ishani Ummat as an associate. Ummat was most recently based in… Read More

Madrona Venture Labs spinout Uplevel raises $7.5M to measure engineering teams’ productivity

A new startup has emerged from stealth mode armed with $7.5 million in seed funding to disrupt what it calls… Read More

Tech Moves: Create33’s original executive director departs; new leaders at Ada Developers Academy and TiE Seattle; and more

— Startup founder and advisor Micah Baldwin has left Create33 and Madrona Venture Group. “Together, we built something special,” Baldwin… Read More

TwinStrand raises $16M from Madrona and others for next-gen DNA sequencing, promising early cancer detection and other breakthroughs

TwinStrand Biosciences, a Seattle startup developing next-generation DNA sequencing technology that promises to lead to early cancer detection, rapid identification… Read More

The buzz at AWS re:Invent: What tech leaders are talking about at Amazon’s big cloud confab

LAS VEGAS — S. “Soma” Somasegar has a unique perspective on Amazon Web Services, as the former leader of Microsoft’s… Read More

William Ruckelshaus, Madrona director, former EPA leader and key Watergate figure, dies at 87

William Ruckelshaus, a fixture in the Seattle business community with a storied history of civil service, died Wednesday at his… Read More

Microsoft and Amazon vets raise $2.85M for multicloud management platform MontyCloud

New funding: Seattle-based MontyCloud brought in $2.85 million for its AI-driven software platform that helps companies work across multiple cloud… Read More

Madrona backs revenue software startup Clari in $60M round, its first Acceleration Fund investment

Madrona Venture Group made the first investment out of its Acceleration Fund, launched earlier this year to both expand the… Read More

A-Alpha Bio raises $2.8M for genetically engineered drug discovery platform

A Seattle startup that took root at the University of Washington has closed a $2.8 million seed round for a… Read More

CFO-turned-VC Hope Cochran on music degrees, managing chaos and the reality behind her resume

Sure, you can look at Hope Cochran‘s LinkedIn page and follow her path through Stanford University degrees in economics and… Read More

‘Our biggest competitor is paper’: Mapping startup Unearth lands $7M from Vulcan and Madrona

Unearth Technologies is front-and-center on the map of the Seattle startup scene. The company, which aims to simplify geographic information… Read More

Allen Institute spinout Lexion lands $4.2M to help companies manage legal contracts with AI

Where there are lawyers, there are paper contracts — lots of them. A Seattle startup has come up with a… Read More

Trust vs. innovation: JPMorgan Chase grapples with tough issues at internal tech forum in Seattle

How can banks innovate and take risks without losing the trust of customers or running afoul of regulators? That’s one… Read More

More cash crops up for TerraClear as startup raises $6.1M in bid to change farming with advanced tech

TerraClear’s bid to upend the farming industry by using advanced technology to help farmers clear rocks from fields is producing… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Intellectual Ventures exec joins Madrona; JetClosing names Zillow alum to board; and more

— Investor Patrick Ennis plans to join Madrona Venture Group at the end of May. Ennis worked at Intellectual Ventures… Read More

Stripe for ID verification: Investors bet on new Madrona Venture Labs accelerator startup Vouched

Vouched, a Seattle startup using AI to verify people’s identities online, has joined the Madrona Venture Labs accelerator. The 3-month… Read More

Madrona makes another healthcare bet, leads $5M round in clinical software startup Ovation.io

Ovation.io, which makes cloud-based software for medical testing labs, has raised a $5 million round led by Seattle-based Madrona Venture… Read More

Seattle hybrid cloud security startup ExtraHop touts bookings growth, says it’s on an IPO path

After plunging into the network security market nearly two years ago, Extrahop’s bookings have topped the $100 million mark, and… Read More

Shyft lands $6.5M to help retail and service workers easily swap schedules

Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised… Read More

What’s next for Terry Myerson: Former Microsoft exec takes on dual roles with Madrona and Carlyle

Terry Myerson, the longtime Microsoft executive who most recently led the Windows and Devices Group, is joining Madrona Venture Group… Read More