Articles about Madrona – Page 13 of 14

Mixpo to help online publishers run ‘smarter’ video ads

As more dollars shift to online advertising, Mixpo wants to welcome those newcomers with open arms. To do that, the… Read More

Like Turntable.fm for video, FlickMob gathers friends to watch YouTube clips

At a Startup Weekend event in Seattle four months ago, a group of geeks built a service called Shubz.tv that… Read More

Tech Moves: Ayush Agarwal lands at Google; JJ McKay’s board role

Ayush Agarwal made a name for himself in the Seattle area helping startups as a venture associate at Madrona Venture… Read More

Ignition, Founder’s Co-op and Madrona join forces to back AppFog

Three Seattle area venture capital firms are allying to back Portland’s AppFog, which has created new technologies that allow developers… Read More

Portland’s Cedexis scores cash from Madrona and ATV, looks to help Web sites boost performance

In the late 1990s, Len Jordan was working on content distribution networking technologies at RealNetworks when some of the folks… Read More

Why startups fail: Lack of focus

At the Lean Startup Seattle meetup last week, Madrona Venture Group’s Greg Gottesman explained the importance of entrepreneurial focus. After… Read More

Tech Moves: Kindle veteran Julie Sandler joins Madrona

Madrona Venture Group has long mined Amazon.com for talent, not only backing entrepreneurs with ties to the online retailer but… Read More

Avelle reverts to Bag Borrow or Steal name, raises $4M

Avelle, the luxury handbag rental service, said today that it plans to reinstitute the name Bag Borrow or Steal. The… Read More

PayScale lands $7 million for online salary service

PayScale, the Seattle online salary comparison site, has scored an additional $7 million in venture capital financing in a deal led… Read More

Off & Away unfurls daily deal service for hotel rooms

Off & Away has quietly rolled out a new private sale service that allows its users to sign up for… Read More

Bellevue high school grads raise $25 million for online slideshow maker Animoto

Animoto may be based in New York. But the startup, which is announcing $25 million in venture capital today, certainly… Read More

Madrona, Rob Glaser and others pump $3.5M into mobile app Zapd

PressPlane, a Seattle startup which incubated the mobile application Zapd, has raised a little more than $3 million from Madrona… Read More

Redfin cuts home buyer’s refund to 33 percent in Boston

Redfin’s Boston customers won’t be walking away with as much cash in their pockets thanks to a new pricing model… Read More

Decide unveils predictive shopping service to make sure gadget lovers don’t get burned

More than five years ago, Mike Fridgen, Oren Etzioni and others transformed the way people purchased airline tickets on the Web… Read More

An Airbnb for your pet? A Place for Rover wins best in show at Startup Weekend

Airbnb is transforming how travelers find places to stay. Now, Seattle venture capitalist Greg Gottesman wants to bring that… Read More

Quantcast co-founder Paul Sutter joins advisory board of mobile analytics startup Sewichi

Sewichi, the mobile analytics startup backed by Madrona, has named Quantcast co-founder Paul Sutter to its advisory board. Sutter, who… Read More

Mercent plans HQ move to Amazon.com’s backyard, introduces retail paid search

After more than two years in development, Mercent today released a new search engine marketing platform designed to help retailers… Read More

MetalStorm iPhone game takes off, approaches five million downloads

Z2Live’s new air combat game, MetalStorm, is turning on the after burners. Since its release in Apple’s App Store on… Read More

An inside look at Startup Weekend: ‘High energy startup fever’

Not everyone can afford to devote 54 hours of their life to Startup Weekend. But, if you’ve got 13 minutes… Read More

Cheezburger’s latest hire: A data scientist with a love of numbers

It’s not just laughs, giggles and videos of failure at the Cheezburger Network. Fresh off its recent $30 million venture… Read More

Trilogy, Madrona back stealthy mobile security startup Mobilisafe

Two of Seattle’s top venture capital firms are tossing their support behind Mobilisafe, a stealthy Bellevue startup led by former… Read More

ShopIgniter lands $8 million to help retailers establish storefronts on Facebook

ShopIgniter has helped Nike, CafePress and more than 100 other customers establish retail outposts on Facebook. Now, the Portland startup… Read More

Venture capitalists upbeat about Microsoft’s massive $8.5 billion buyout of Skype

Microsoft has been fairly quiet on the M&A front over the past 18 months, a fact that has not been… Read More

ExtraHop Networks scores $14 million in ‘oversubscribed’ round

ExtraHop Networks didn’t have to raise cash. But the fast-growing company has reeled in $14 million in a hot, oversubscribed… Read More

Madrona incubates new mobile analytics startup Sewichi

Smartphones are now outselling personal computers. And that little factoid from IDC is creating an interesting opportunity to measure, track… Read More

Impinj files for $100 million IPO

For the second time this week, a Seattle technology company has filed to go public. This time it is Impinj,… Read More

Maveron, Ram Shriram, Hugh Crean and others invest $6 million in Decide.com

Some of the top venture capital firms and angel investors in Seattle and Silicon Valley are tossing their financial muscle… Read More

ExtraHop names Palvi Mehta as CFO, continues hiring spree

ExtraHop Networks is adding some horsepower in the executives offices, tapping former RadioFrame and Newpath Networks executive Palvi Mehta as… Read More

Apple plans huge storage buy from Isilon: Could this be the backbone of its ‘media locker?’

Holy, Toledo. That was my reaction after reading a report in The Register that Apple has agreed to buy as… Read More

Matt McIlwain has the Midas Touch, but no one else does in Seattle

Is Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain a modern day Midas? Some people think so. The Seattle venture capitalist — an… Read More