Articles about Matt McIlwain

Madrona’s annual IA40 list shows an AI industry splitting in two

Madrona’s sixth annual Intelligent Applications 40 names 45 private AI companies that have raised $410 billion combined, with Anthropic, OpenAI and Databricks accounting for 92% of that total. Rising round sizes forced the firm to raise its own funding thresholds for what counts as an early-stage company. Read More

Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona

Apptio co-founders Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer launched Thira, a Bellevue-based enterprise AI startup, with $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona. Thira is building AI agents to autonomously handle IT support tickets and other back-office work at large companies. Read More

Etzioni on AI: Ten Commandments for AI Startups

AI researcher, entrepreneur, and investor Oren Etzioni lays out 10 commandments for AI startups — covering business models, distribution, inference costs, and avoiding dependence on any single frontier model — preceded by 10 classics that apply to startups in general. Read More

Matt McIlwain

Madrona’s annual IA40 list shows an AI industry splitting in two

Apptio co-founders reunite to launch enterprise AI startup Thira with $21M in funding led by Madrona

Etzioni on AI: Ten Commandments for AI Startups

Inside OpenAI’s new Bellevue office: A swanky statement about AI’s impact on the Seattle region

Opinion: The narratives and realities of an income tax in Washington

Can Seattle own the AI era? We asked 20 investors and founders to weigh the city’s startup potential

Madrona’s Matt McIlwain called it: A year later, Microsoft and Amazon are outpacing Apple

The ‘triangle’ model that Madrona’s Matt McIlwain uses to assess founders and startup pitches

Amazon Web Services AI leader on the future of large language models and autonomous agents

Fluid apps, open models, and free markets: Inside the AI-focused Intelligent Applications Summit

Is Seattle an AI hub? City is missing from national conversation about the new tech economy

Shift AI Podcast: Madrona’s Matt McIlwain on Seattle’s place at the center of the AI universe

IBM’s $4.6B Apptio deal marks another new era for Seattle-area cloud and IT management company

Fred Hutch and Amazon collaborating on clinical trial to test vaccines against cancer

‘Intersection of innovation’: Why top tech VC firms are betting big on life science startups

New list highlights 40 top startups solving business problems with artificial intelligence

University of Washington spinout A-Alpha Bio snags $20M for protein-discovery platform

These biotech and life sciences CEOs made the leap from software startups — here’s how they did it

VC family: Madison McIlwain follows her father’s footsteps, and carves out her own tech interests

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

Fred Hutch President Gary Gilliland to step down as leader of cancer research powerhouse

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

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

Judge blocks Seattle’s new income tax on the rich

Seattle investor questions city plan to spend up to $250K defending income tax on the rich

Seattle venture capitalist Matt McIlwain’s non-profit sues city over income tax on high earners

Madrona Venture Group director launches nonprofit to challenge Seattle income tax in court

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

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

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