Madrona Venture Group is in the money. Again. The Seattle venture capital firm, a backer of Seattle area companies such as Redfin, Apptio, iSpot.TV and others, today announced a new… Read More
Nielsen may be the top name in TV measurement — an industry juggernaut for 92 years with annual revenues of more than $6 billion and a market value of nearly… Read More
We’re back with an update to the GeekWire 200, our list of the hottest up-and-coming privately-held technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. This month — sparked by an interesting comment… Read More
Julep, the heavily-funded Seattle cosmetics startup led by Jane Park, laid off eight percent of its staff or 17 employees earlier this month, GeekWire has learned. “This decision did not… Read More
Look across Seattle’s startup landscape, and you’ll see a commonality. Like the tree it takes its name from, Madrona Venture Group’s roots are everywhere. Partners teach entrepreneurial classes at the… Read More
Algorithms are essential for many app developers, but they tend to be dispersed across obscure academic journals and are difficult to access for engineers in the private sector. That’s a pain point… Read More
Battle Nations meet Candy Crush. Z2, the Seattle mobile gaming company known for titles such as Battle Nations and Metalstorm, is being acquired for up to $150 million in cash… Read More
—Madrona Venture Group named Kerry Van Voris its new Director of Talent. She joins Madrona from Amazon, where she led executive recruiting for Amazon Web Services. In her new role, Van Voris… Read More
Skytap is flying high. The Seattle cloud computing startup today is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding in a deal led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation… Read More
Coming up with a legitimate startup idea on a cocktail napkin is hard enough. But actually taking that sketch, quitting your day job, hiring the right people, accepting no salary for the next year,… Read More
As a veteran entrepreneur and managing director of Madrona Venture Group, Greg Gottesman has seen his share of successful — and not so successful — startups come out of Seattle. So… Read More
Icebrg.io, a Seattle-based security startup, has raised $2.5 million in a round of seed funding led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Formation 8 and other investors. The company… Read More
Highspot, the marketing engagement startup founded by former Microsoft execs, has landed a $9.6 million Series A round of funding. The round was led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Highspot… Read More
SlideShare — which is kind of like the YouTube of online presentations — has formed a new partnership with Seattle startup Haiku Deck. As part of the deal, Haiku Deck’s… Read More
Shippable founder Avi Cavale wasn’t looking for cash. But investors just kept calling, especially after they learned how quickly the company’s user base was growing. Those calls have resulted in new… Read More
Rover is getting a little bit of Hollywood sizzle. The Seattle-based online dog-sitting marketplace announced today that actor Ashton Kutcher — yes, the guy behind films such as Dude, Where’s My Car?… Read More
Computer science students at the University of Washington shared research projects — science fair-style — during an annual meeting of industry representatives on Wednesday. Nearly 100 research projects were on… Read More
2nd Watch, which helps companies move applications onto Amazon Web Services, has raised $10 million in fresh funding from Top Tier Capital, Madrona Venture Group and Columbia Capital. It also… Read More
Pro.com, the Seattle startup that’s looking to make it easier to find home improvement specialists, from plumbers and electricians to roofers and landscapers, has attracted $14 million in fresh funding… Read More
Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene spent the past several months helping to fix President Obama’s Healthcare.gov Web site, a hot-button issue which drew fire from both sides of the political spectrum.… Read More
Amazon has tripled in size over the past three years. Food delivery services are raking in the cash from investors. Zillow is rivaling the market value of some of real estate’s biggest… Read More
Microsoft’s Kinect sensor isn’t just for playing games — it’s also being used to help physical therapy patients recover from injuries in more efficient ways than ever. One company making… Read More
Boomerang Commerce, a Santa Clara, Calif. startup led by former Amazon.com engineers Guru Hariharan and Madhusudhan Rao, has raised $8.5 million in series A financing from Trinity Ventures and Madrona… Read More
—David Rosenthal is returning to Madrona Venture Group. Rosenthal, a former investment banker at UBS and a member of The Wall Street Journal’s venture and corporate development group, left the firm… Read More
A new startup in Seattle just raised $2.75 million from some of the region’s top venture capital firms to do something rather simple: Deliver lunch. Peachd is one of many… Read More
The Pacific Northwest may be home to Microsoft, Expedia and Amazon.com. But the region’s startup ecosystem is growing in size, according to a report released today by CB Insights. “Over… Read More
Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler inspired a crowd of 15,000 high school students earlier this year with her talk at We Day, imploring the teenagers to approach entrepreneurial ideas with… Read More
Smartphones today certainly can do more than just make a call or send a text — they also double as personal GPS devices that can monitor our precise movements. The ability to… Read More
The chart above tells quite a story. That blue line — the one that looks like a hockey stick — shows how interest in computer science from freshmen at the University of Washington in Seattle… Read More
ExtraHop CEO Jesse Rothstein doesn’t think his business analytics startup is simply creating a great product. The pony-tailed entrepreneur — who prior to co-founding ExtraHop worked as a senior architect… Read More