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Madrona Venture Group

Intelligent messaging company Essential spins out of Madrona Labs startup studio

Madrona Venture Labs has spun out its third company: A startup called Essential that helps businesses communicate with customers via text… Read More

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A driverless Interstate 5 in 15 years? These tech investors think it can — and should — be done

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we come to you on location from Madrona Venture Group, speaking… Read More

Wrench

Seattle startup Wrench ready to crank on its expansion plan as on-site car repair proves a big hit

Wrench, the on-site car repair startup, serviced more than 1,000 vehicles during a test run this summer in Seattle and… Read More

Madrona traffic report

No drivers on I-5? Maybe someday, as Madrona report calls for self-driving vehicles between Seattle and Vancouver

The congested and time-consuming Interstate-5 route between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., provided the inspiration for an ambitious new report from Madrona Venture… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs spinout LumaTax raises $2M from Madrona, Greycroft

LumaTax, which aims to automate sales tax reporting for small businesses, has raised $2 million from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and… Read More

Will Amazon’s part-time tech teams succeed? Former AWS recruiting leader weighs in

Amazon isn’t known for being a laid-back employer. In fact, the tech giant is famous, and in some cases infamous, for its hard-driving work… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Uber tests flat rates, Microsoft’s Xbox Onesie, and inside the tech talent wars

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Uber announced a beta test of a new flat rate program this week, designed… Read More

Rover hits $100M run rate, releases new features to track Fido’s walk route and bathroom breaks

Seattle-based online pet-sitting marketplace Rover has introduced new features for its app that allow puppy parents to see exactly what their… Read More

Rajeev Singh

Healthcare company Accolade, helmed by Concur co-founders, lands $70M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona

Accolade, a healthcare company led by Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton that helps people and companies navigate the… Read More

Wonder Workshop raises $20M from Madrona and others for educational robot platform

Wonder Workshop is raising more cash for its robots that teach children computer science concepts. The San Mateo, Calif.-based startup,… Read More

Shyft lands $1.5M from Madrona and top athletes to help employees easily swap shifts

Shyft Technologies, a Seattle-based startup that helps people trade shifts with co-workers, today announced it has received $1.5 million in seed… Read More

Wrench

Wrench brings car mechanics to the consumer, raises $1.2M in funding

Self-described serial startup guy Ed Petersen knows first-hand how much of a pain car maintenance can be. His dealer was in… Read More

Sujal Patel, Matt McIlwain

Top tech investors with a taste for restaurants bankroll Circadia, a fine dining space planned near Amazon

A new restaurant is coming to Seattle with a location near the heart of Amazon’s corporate campus and a concept aimed… Read More

Custom menswear company Indochino sews up $30M deal with Chinese apparel manufacturer Dayang

Indochino, an online menswear company that specializes in made-to-measure shirts and suits, today announced a $30 million strategic investment by… Read More

Has Microsoft finally figured out how to make successful acquisitions? Kurt DelBene explains the Acompli deal on ‘Acquired’ podcast

Microsoft has more than its share of experience with multi-billion-dollar, blockbuster acquisitions that didn’t turn out as planned. Its purchase… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Secrets of successful tech acquisitions, with Pioneer Square Labs co-founder and ‘Acquired’ co-host Ben Gilbert

Ben Gilbert knows startups and he knows tech acquisitions. This week on the GeekWire podcast, we asked him about both,… Read More

Tech Moves: VC Julie Sandler chosen as Presidential Leadership Scholar; Flowroute hires former Amazon Local Commerce head; Shippable bolsters team

—Madrona Venture Group‘s Julie Sandler has been chosen as a presidential leadership scholar. Over the next six months, she’ll spend time… Read More

Geek of the Week: serial entrepreneur Brian Fioca has studied the art of the startup for 10 years

Brian Fioca has been bouncing around from one startup to another since he founded his first company, a job posting… Read More

Eventbase raises $6M from Madrona to build apps for event and conference organizers

It started out as a small group of entrepreneurs building an app for the 2010 Olympic Games. Now, Eventbase is… Read More

Former Microsoft exec ‘Soma’ Somasegar joins Madrona Venture Group as venture partner

S. “Soma” Somasegar, who recently left his job at the helm of Microsoft’s Developer Division, is joining Seattle-based Madrona Venture… Read More

Envelop VR raises $4M as Madrona backs its first virtual reality startup

Envelop VR announced on Tuesday it has raised $4 million in series A funding as the virtual reality startup gets… Read More

Longtime exec Kurt DelBene returns to Microsoft, reporting to CEO Satya Nadella

Kurt DelBene, the former Microsoft Office Division president, is returning to the Redmond company. Microsoft just announced the news. DelBene will… Read More

F5 CEO John McAdam; Isilon co-founder Sujal Patel and Concur CEO Steve Singh join Madrona as strategic directors

Madrona Venture Group is adding some serious horsepower. The Seattle venture capital firm today is announcing the addition of three… Read More

Madrona-backed advertising startup MaxPoint files for $75M IPO

MaxPoint Interactive, a hyperlocal advertising startup backed by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, has filed for an initial public offering. Madrona, though… Read More

Algorithmia raises $2.4M from Madrona and others to create marketplace for algorithms

Algorithmia, a Seattle-based startup that wants to build a marketplace for algorithms, has raised $2.4 million in a round of… Read More

Play-i raises $8M to teach the iPad generation how to code one pint-sized robot at a time

Kids know how to unlock a touchscreen before they can walk. But will they learn how to code? Vikas Gupta,… Read More

Madrona’s Matt McIlwain: Seattle is the cloud capital of the world

There’s a renaissance of sorts occurring in Seattle right now, from the chart-busting hits of Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to… Read More

Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW

OK, so maybe this isn’t the greatest invention for society, but purely as a technological trick, it’s pretty neat. A… Read More

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