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Madrona Venture Group

Pulumi raises $15M in Series A funding, launches its SaaS multicloud app deployment service

It didn’t take long for the ex-Microsoft engineers behind Pulumi to prove their software development platform for multicloud computing was… Read More

Tech Moves: Facebook hires away Microsoft smart buildings leader; Nintex adds former Microsoft exec to team; and more

Z. John Manolopoulos, the global program manager of Microsoft’s internet of things and smart buildings efforts, is leaving the company… Read More

David vs. Goliath in the cloud: Do investors see an opening for startups to take on AWS and Azure?

Cloud computing is big business dominated by the world’s largest tech companies. Three of the four most valuable tech companies… Read More

‘Intersections of innovation:’ Madrona director Matt McIlwain named Fred Hutch chair as more tech execs join board

In Seattle’s South Lake Union — a short walk from Amazon’s headquarters and the offices of Facebook and countless other technology… Read More

Crowd Cow

Crowd Cow raises $8M from Ashton Kutcher, Joe Montana, Madrona and others to grow digital marketplace for craft meats

Three years after getting started with a plan to change how people shop for quality beef products, Seattle-based Crowd Cow… Read More

Meet the winners of Microsoft Ventures’ first global AI startup competition

Microsoft’s venture arm on Tuesday announced new startup investments as part of its inaugural Innovate.AI competition. Announced this past October… Read More

Tech Moves: Liz Pearce joins Streem as CRO; Madrona appoints new strategic director; and more

Seattle tech executive Liz Pearce has joined Portland, Ore.-based augmented reality startup Streem as its chief revenue officer, her first… Read More

Alliance of Angels still helping entrepreneurs take flight, 20 years after initial spark from Tom Alberg, Bill Gates Sr. and Tom Cable

Two decades ago, Bill Gates Sr., Tom Alberg and Tom Cable jointly sent a letter to friends and colleagues with… Read More

Construction software startup Unearth lands $3M, uses drones and aerial images to create interactive site maps

It’s startup déjà vu for Brian Saab and Madrona Venture Group. The Seattle venture capital firm today led a $3… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Seattle tech vet Peter Wilson to lead Blockchain engineering team; Madrona adds Ignition Partners vet

Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona adds new entrepreneur in residence; Amplero appoints CRO; and more

Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group just named its newest entrepreneur in residence: former PayByPhone CEO Kush Parikh. Parikh has been… Read More

Educational robot maker Wonder Workshop raises $41M from Tencent, Madrona and others

Wonder Workshop, which makes robots that teach children computer science concepts, said it has raised $41 million in a Series… Read More

Apptio taps Theo Beack as new engineering leader; Ted Kummert returns to Madrona

Apptio has a new engineering leader. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company, which makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments,… Read More

Tech leaders differ over Amazon’s future in Seattle and the logic behind ‘HQ2’

Amazon’s splashy announcement that it plans to build a second North American headquarters has stirred debate across the nation, and that… Read More

Heptio raises $25M Series B funding round as Kubernetes takes over the world

The founders of Heptio knew they were onto something big when they developed Kubernetes, the open-source container-orchestration product based on… Read More

Tandem bikers

63 days, 3,523 miles: How a Seattle techie and his teen daughter feel after tandem biking across U.S.

Olivia Carpenter turned 15 on Friday, and to celebrate she happily got off the tandem bike that she rode across… Read More

IOpipe raises $2.5M from Madrona, NEA, and Underscore to build monitoring tools for serverless computing

One common thread among emerging enterprise technologies is that early adopters can quickly find themselves flying blind, stuck with monitoring… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Tandem bikers

Whale of a ride: Why this techie and his teen daughter are traversing the U.S. on a tandem bike

A Seattle girl with a love and concern for endangered orca whales hopped on a tandem bicycle with her tech-savvy… Read More

Seattle’s Highspot raises $15M from Shasta Ventures and Salesforce Ventures to build out AI-powered sales tools

Highspot thinks its artificial intelligence models are making sales organizations much more efficient, and it has raised $15 million in… Read More

Pluto VR raises $13.9M to build out virtual reality communication platform

Pluto VR, the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey, has raised $13.9 million in a… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

Tech Moves: Amplero names AWS vet as CTO; Allen Institute hires CFO from RealNetworks; and more

Amplero, a marketing platform fueled by artificial intelligence, announced the addition of Microsoft and Amazon vet Andrew Toner as the company’s CTO… Read More

Cloud exits: How the M&A and IPO markets are changing expectations for cloud tech companies

Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors… Read More

Economist: Washington state can’t succeed without income tax, tech investor disagrees

Washington state’s lack of income tax is either one of its greatest assets or one of the main issues holding… Read More

Madrona adds ex-King Digital CFO as partner; promotes ‘Soma’ Somasegar to managing director

Madrona Venture Group today announced three internal promotions and the hiring of a new venture partner. Hope Cochran, a long-time… Read More

Madrona Labs hires startup vet Jay Bartot as VC incubator focuses on ‘deeper’ technical ideas

Madrona Labs, the “startup studio” housed inside of Madrona Venture Group, wants to focus on deeper, more technical startups —… Read More

Qualcomm, Madrona, Trilogy invest $5M in mobile networking startup M87; T-Mobile vet Cole Brodman named CEO

Cole Brodman is taking on another leadership role in the telecom industry. The former T-Mobile executive, who spent 17 years at… Read More

Tech Moves: Recruiting vet Kerry Van Voris leaves Madrona; Chef adds three executive positions; etc.

Seattle tech vet and talent expert Kerry Van Voris has left her position as director of talent at Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Matt McIlwain

Tech investor Matt McIlwain: Seattle will shape the future with a ‘three-layer cake’ of innovation

The tumultuous election has put a cloud of uncertainty over the tech industry. But Matt McIlwain is optimistic, especially when it comes… Read More

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