The Best of 2024: Top Insights on AI, AI, and More AI — Plus Some Travel & GTM

December 12, 2024

Breaking Conventional Wisdom: Jama Software’s Blueprint for Profitable Growth

December 04, 2024

AI Memory: Revolutionizing Individual and Organizational Productivity

December 03, 2024

Investing in Aizen Therapeutics: Unlocking New Therapeutic Frontiers with AI-Driven Peptide Design

November 21, 2024

AI Agents Are Stuck in First Gear, but 2025 Will Change That

November 19, 2024

Archon’s Jamie Lazarovits on Unlocking the Full Power of Antibodies With AI

November 13, 2024

Unlocking AI’s Business Potential: Highlights From the 2024 CIO Summit

November 07, 2024

IA Summit 2024: Navigating the Model Landscape

November 06, 2024

Madrona Prize Awarded to AI Assisted Team Communication Research

October 31, 2024

Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured’s Brian Raymond

October 31, 2024

Investing in Archon: Pioneering Next-Gen Antibody Therapies with AI & Computational Protein Design

October 30, 2024

How AI is Rewriting the SaaS Playbook

October 29, 2024

IA Summit 2024: Models Are NOT All You Need

October 28, 2024

IA Summit 2024: CIO Enterprise AI Strategy

October 24, 2024

Aligning Your GTM Strategy for FY 2025 Success: 5 Lessons for Founders

October 24, 2024

IA Summit 2024: Searching for Answers — The New Era of Enterprise Productivity

October 22, 2024

IA Summit 2024: Transforming Al Foundations & the Enterprise

October 17, 2024

IA Summit 2024: Market Perspective on AI With Brad Gerstner

October 14, 2024

IA Summit 2024 Fireside Chat: From SaaS to Agents With Mustafa Suleyman

October 10, 2024

Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj’s Chris Diorio

October 09, 2024

IA Summit 2024: Fakes, Deepfakes, and the search for True

October 07, 2024

Highlights From the 2024 IA Summit

October 04, 2024

Welcome New Investor Anna Chen

September 23, 2024

Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM

September 16, 2024

Thank You, Big Tech: Fueling Next Tech’s AI Innovation

September 11, 2024

Introducing the 2024 Intelligent Applications 40

September 09, 2024

From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deegpram Founder Scott Stephenson

August 28, 2024

Meet Otto: The AI Agent Redefining Business Travel

August 22, 2024

Seattle Tech Week 2024: Thank You to All Who Made It a Success

August 16, 2024

Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Build Invincible Applications

August 14, 2024

Seattle Tech Week 2024: Where Innovation Meets Community

July 22, 2024

Investing in EdgeRunner: Empowering AI at the Edge

July 19, 2024

Our Partnership with Shaped: The Future of Personalization, Recommendations, and Next-Gen Search

July 17, 2024

Hiring Sales Leaders is Hard — Here’s How To Make It Easier

July 15, 2024

Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot’s Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming

July 10, 2024

Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair

June 11, 2024

Building & Launching a Great Product: Insights From Operating Partner Anna Baird

June 10, 2024

Welcome Rasik Parikh and Rolanda Fu

June 06, 2024

Investing in Tektonic AI: GenAI Agents for Business Operations

June 06, 2024

The Rise of AI Agent Infrastructure

June 05, 2024

Finding Goldilocks Peptides: Investing in Vilya

June 04, 2024

Read AI’s David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents

May 29, 2024

Welcome to Jeff Mills — Our Investor Relations Partner

May 22, 2024

Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont

May 15, 2024

Creating Community — Madrona’s 2nd Annual General Counsel Summit

May 01, 2024

Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond

April 18, 2024

Nvidia’s Investment Strategy is Fueling Tomorrow’s AI Winners

April 15, 2024

Transforming Corporate Travel: An Open Roadmap to Fixing a Broken System

April 03, 2024

TEST TEST TEST

April 02, 2024

How Madrona Supports Founders From Day One for the Long Run

March 28, 2024

Disrupting the Observability Market: Madrona Doubles Down on Observe

March 27, 2024

How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing

March 21, 2024

How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise

March 06, 2024

Investing in Gradial: Enterprise Marketing Workflows Reimagined

February 28, 2024

Our Investment in Codified: Enabling Seamless and Secure Access to Data

February 27, 2024

Celebrating the Rover Journey

February 27, 2024

The Most Important AI Model Is The Business Model

February 23, 2024

Our Investment in Finpilot: Reimagining the Financial Analyst’s Journey With AI

February 22, 2024

Investing in Cohesity: A Journey of Conviction and Vision

February 08, 2024

Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work

February 07, 2024

From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie

January 24, 2024

The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain

January 10, 2024

Lassen Peak: Revolutionizing Public Safety with a Handheld Scanner to Detect Concealed Weapons

December 14, 2023

GenAI in 2024 – Another Decade in One Year?

December 13, 2023

Rhythms: The AI-Powered Operating System for High-Performance Teams

December 07, 2023

How To Not End Up In A Board Governance Situation Like OpenAI

November 29, 2023

AWS re:Invent — It’s All About Applied AI

November 17, 2023

QLoRA Wins 2023 Madrona Prize for LLM Fine-Tuning With Limited GPUs

November 16, 2023

Karan Mehandru and Anna Baird on Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership

November 15, 2023

Madrona’s Ongoing Partnership with Snowflake: Empowering Startups for a Data-Driven Future

November 01, 2023

Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni on Commercializing an Open-Source Project

October 31, 2023

Moving to Production: The Playbook for Personalizing GenAI Apps

October 20, 2023

IA Summit 2023 Keynote: The State of Open-Source Models & Importance of an Open AI Ecosystem

October 18, 2023

IA Summit 2023: Public & Private Market Perspectives in Evolving GenAI Ecosystem

October 18, 2023

5 Takeaways From 2023 Intelligent Applications Summit

October 17, 2023

Troop Travel Founders on Identifying a Problem to Solve, Launching a Startup, Hiring for Scale, and Investor Relationships

October 03, 2023

Madrona Fuels Growth in Cloud-Native Infrastructure as Code With Pulumi

October 03, 2023

Introducing the 2023 Intelligent Applications 40

September 28, 2023

Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI

September 19, 2023

NYSE’s Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPO Trends, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets

September 13, 2023

Chroma’s Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production

September 05, 2023

Cohere’s Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops

August 22, 2023

Do You Really Need a CRO? How to Grow Your Sales Organization

August 18, 2023

Seattle Tech Week: Thank You to All Who Made It a Success

August 14, 2023

Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — ‘The Datapreneurs’

August 08, 2023

Google’s James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on Product-Led Growth and Scaling

July 26, 2023

Announcing the Second Annual Intelligent Applications Summit

July 20, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Unstructured Data

July 19, 2023

Snowflake vs. Databricks: Two cloud giants battling in the AI domain

July 18, 2023

Protecting the Future – Our Investment in Tangibly

July 13, 2023

Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy

July 11, 2023

Typeface Unleashes Generative AI for Personalized Enterprise Content Creation

June 29, 2023

Welcome Venture Partners Loren Alhadeff, Mark Nelson, and Ted Kummert

June 28, 2023

The Question Every CEO is Asking: What is Our Generative AI Strategy?

June 26, 2023

A Wave of Personal Agents is Coming

June 14, 2023

Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth and Embedding a “Little LLM Brain” in Every Airtable Cell

June 13, 2023

The Generative AI Stack: Making the Future Happen Faster

June 01, 2023

Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling

May 31, 2023

Angel Investing in AI — Join our Angel Investor Meetup on June 1st 

May 18, 2023

Our Investment in Stacklok: Developer Security Posture Management Using Sigstore

May 17, 2023

Our Investment in Visual Layer

May 16, 2023

Startup Series – Great Leaders Change Company Trajectory

May 12, 2023

Our Investment in AI2 Incubator: Investing in AI Innovation for the Long Run

May 10, 2023

Panther Labs Founder Jack Naglieri on Cloud-Native SIEM and Self-Growth

May 03, 2023

Our Investment in Bobsled: Revolutionizing Data Sharing Across Platforms

April 25, 2023

MotherDuck’s Jordan Tigani, DuckDB’s Hannes Mühleisen Commercializing Open-source Projects

April 20, 2023

Envisioning the Future: Why We’re Investing in Groundlight

April 19, 2023

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences

April 05, 2023

Agents of Change: Investing in Fixie

March 30, 2023

Credo AI Founder Navrina Singh on Responsible AI and Her Passion for an ‘AI-First, Ethics Forward’ Approach

March 29, 2023

The Android Moment of AI: Open Source Models are Just Getting Started

March 29, 2023

Acquired Hosts Ben and David on Getting Started at Madrona and Tom Alberg’s Legacy

March 28, 2023

Our Partnership with Clerk: The Future of Modern Authentication and User Management 

March 22, 2023

Game On in the Generative AI Stack 

March 20, 2023

Data Transformation With Foundation Models: Why We Are Investing in Numbers Station

March 20, 2023

Common Room’s Viraj Mody on Building Community, Foundation Models, Being Relentless

March 16, 2023

Foundation Models: How Startups Can Win With Generative AI

March 07, 2023

The Archway to Modern Banking

February 28, 2023

Leaf Logistics CEO Anshu Prasad on Applying AI to Freight and Transportation

February 16, 2023

Who’s Making the Elephant Dance: Microsoft and OpenAI Get a Leg Up on Google 

February 07, 2023

Lexion’s Gaurav Oberoi on Applying AI to Change an Industry

February 02, 2023

Lexion’s Guarav Oberoi on Applying AI to Change an Industry

February 02, 2023

Foundation Models: The future (still) isn’t happening fast enough

January 27, 2023

Welcome Babak Parviz — Our Newest Venture Partner

January 26, 2023

Why We Invested in DevZero

January 24, 2023

Generative AI — Overhyped or Underhyped?

January 24, 2023

Magnify’s Josh Crossman on Incubating a Startup and Bringing AI to the Customer Lifecycle

January 19, 2023

Our investment in XetHub – The developer’s answer to working with data

January 09, 2023

A-Alpha Bio’s David Younger on machine learning in biotech, building cross-functional teams

January 05, 2023

Putting the Tech in Biotech: Why Now is the Time to Build Tech-Enabled Life Science Companies

December 14, 2022

Three Secrets to Statsig’s Developer Velocity

December 07, 2022

Why We Invested in Runway: The Next-Generation Content Creation Suite

December 05, 2022

Charles Lamanna: The Future of Foundation Models

December 02, 2022

Data Boundaries are Blurring in a Multi-Cloud World

December 02, 2022

Unlocking Conversational Intelligence with Deepgram

November 29, 2022

And the Madrona Prize goes to . . . VOCAL

November 16, 2022

Why Madrona invested in MotherDuck

November 15, 2022

5 reasons startups need a product manager  

November 11, 2022

dbt Labs Founder Tristan Handy on the modern data stack, partnerships, and creating community

November 02, 2022

Introducing the 2022 Intelligent Applications Top 40

October 26, 2022

Welcome to Wei Gao and Anna Baird, New Venture and Operating Partners

October 24, 2022

Data Visionary Bob Muglia on the Modern Data Stack and Lessons from Snowflake

October 20, 2022

Welcome to New Partner — Vivek Ramaswami

October 12, 2022

Foundation Models: The future isn’t happening fast enough — Better tooling will make it happen faster  

October 12, 2022

Fivetran CEO George Fraser on Data Integration and Connectors

October 06, 2022

Join us for the Intelligent Application Summit

September 30, 2022

Stack Co-Founder Will Rush on Teen Crypto Investing

September 22, 2022

Our Investment in TrovaTrip and the Future of the Creator Economy

September 20, 2022

Announcing our New Funds – Madrona Fund 9, Acceleration Fund 2

September 13, 2022

Teens are Crypto-Curious: Our Investment in TryStack.io

September 08, 2022

Battlesnake Founder Brad Van Vugt on Creating Community Through Programming Competitions

September 08, 2022

Spice AI – Delivering Infrastructure for Building Intelligent Apps in Web3 

September 07, 2022

Karan Mehandru Joins Madrona as a Managing Director

August 30, 2022

The Full-Stack VC

August 29, 2022

IA40 Spotlight: Tesorio Co-founders Carlos Vega and Fabio Fleitas on Automating Accounts Receivable

August 25, 2022

IA40 Spotlight: Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam on Using AI to Empower People to be More Productive

August 11, 2022

Our Founder and Friend, Tom Alberg

August 06, 2022

Madrona Ups Commitment to Startup Leadership Talent With Addition of Audra Aulabaugh 

August 05, 2022

CommerceIQ’s Guru Hariharan on Pivoting When You’re in the Wrong Market

July 28, 2022

Founded and Funded: Top Tier’s David York on Limited Partners, Market Conditions

July 13, 2022

Founded and Funded: Sila Co-founder and CEO Shamir Karkal on Crypto and Web3

June 29, 2022

MLOps: Emerging Trends in Data, Code, and Infrastructure

June 28, 2022

5 things entrepreneurs need to consider (and probably haven’t, yet) when expanding their distributed workforce

June 21, 2022

Why Madrona is Investing in Web3 and Why Startups Should Care

June 17, 2022

Welcome New Investor — Palak Goel

June 16, 2022

Founded and Funded IA40 Winner Spotlight: Snorkel Co-founder Alex Ratner on data-centric AI, culture, and ‘one of the most historic opportunities for growth in AI’

June 15, 2022

Announcing an Open Directory of PNW Angel Investors + Survey Shows 75% of Angels are Interested in Web3

June 07, 2022

Founded and Funded: Robotics Expert Sidd Srinivasa on Trends and What’s Ripe for Innovation

June 02, 2022

Advice From 5 IA40 Leaders

May 31, 2022

On Risk Taking – Booster

May 25, 2022

Clozd – Delivering the Power of Why through Win/Loss Analysis

May 25, 2022

Madrona Partners with PitchBook to Bring Machine Intelligence to the #IA40

May 24, 2022

Founded and Funded IA40 Winner Spotlight: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen on AI-powered talent solutions, developing talent, and maintaining culture

May 19, 2022

Founded and Funded IA40 Winner Spotlight: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and OctoML CEO Luis Ceze on foundation models, open source, and transparency

May 05, 2022

The Progress of Low-Code/No-Code and an Update to our Thesis

May 04, 2022

Why RelationalAI Will Revolutionize Next-Generation Data-Driven Intelligent Applications

April 26, 2022

Founded and Funded IA40 Winner Spotlight: Starburst CEO Justin Borgman on entrepreneurship, open source, cloud partnerships and enabling intelligent applications

April 20, 2022

Founded and Funded IA40 Winner Spotlight: RunwayML Co-Founder Cristobal Valenzuela on the Intersection of Art and Technology

April 06, 2022

The Power of Why – Madrona 2022

March 25, 2022

Founded and Funded: Founder Voices from Madrona’s Annual Meeting

March 25, 2022

The Time is Now for Enterprise Robotics

March 22, 2022

Founded and Funded – Qumulo CEO Bill Richter on the Benefits of Enterprise Partnerships

March 03, 2022

Founded and Funded – How SpiceAI is Tackling the AI Tooling Gap with Luke Kim

February 25, 2022

Founded and Funded – Terray Therapeutics Building an Intersection of Innovation Company

February 17, 2022

Intersections of Innovation – Our Investment in Terray Therapeutics

February 15, 2022

The Principles of Prototyping

February 14, 2022

Our Investment in Leaf Logistics

February 10, 2022

Our Investment in Route – and Utah!

January 24, 2022

Welcome to James Phillips – Tech Entrepreneur, Product & Business Leader Joins Madrona

January 19, 2022

Founded and Funded: Trevor Thompson of TerraClear on Leadership, AgTech and Building for Farmers

January 18, 2022

Welcome to New Partner – Jon Turow

January 11, 2022

Detecting Narratives in Social Media – Introducing Pendulum

January 07, 2022

Birkan Uzun – Our Friend

January 01, 2022

Venture Capital Investing for the Long Run – Madrona Fund VII Extended by $120 Million

December 16, 2021

Madrona Appoints Sunny Gupta, Charlotte Hubbert, and Mark Nelson as Strategic Directors

December 16, 2021

Announcing the Intelligent Applications Top 40 #IA40

November 29, 2021

Meet the Investor: Aseem Datar

November 19, 2021

TaskHuman | A Wellness and Whole Person Coaching Solution

November 17, 2021

FLYWHEELS – Tom Alberg’s Vision for Integrating Technology, Opportunity, and Community

November 02, 2021

Ready for some Spice in your Apps? – Our Investment in Spice AI

October 14, 2021

Terrified of Public Speaking? Finally, There’s An App For That.

October 07, 2021

Creating The Perfect Trip – Spotnana

October 04, 2021

Game Jolt | A Growing Community Platform for Gamers and Creators

October 01, 2021

Intern Reflection: My Summer at Voodle – the Three C’s and my Definition of Success

September 27, 2021

Intern Reflection: A Summer of Growth at Clari

September 20, 2021

A-Alpha Bio and the Intersections of Innovation

September 08, 2021

Our Investment in A-Alpha Bio

September 08, 2021

Founded and Funded: Building a Company at the Intersection of Innovation with Dr. Ali Ansary of Ozette

September 07, 2021

Founded and Funded: Conversation with Entrepreneur and Author, Shirish Nadkarni

August 23, 2021

Our Investment in TaxBit

August 12, 2021

Madrona’s 25+1 years – Building Companies From Day One For The Long Run

August 05, 2021

Statsig – Revolutionizing Product Development

August 05, 2021

The Rise of Intelligent Applications

July 28, 2021

Founded and Funded: Linda Lian of Common Room on Building a Team of Co-founders

July 20, 2021

Our Investment in Paro – Building a Marketplace for Finance Professionals

July 20, 2021

Seed Pitch Deck Guide

June 18, 2021

This Week – Four Big Themes For the Long Run Come Together

June 10, 2021

The State of Angel Investing in Seattle – Survey Data

June 09, 2021

Observe’s Unique Approach to Observability (O11y) and Why We Invested

June 09, 2021

Prepping Your Seed Pitch

May 15, 2021

Madrona Inaugural AI Impact Prize Goes to Researchers who Uncovered Environmental Costs

May 13, 2021

Madrona Venture Labs – New Funding, New Partners

May 11, 2021

Rajeev Singh of Accolade on Resilience and the Expectations of Leaders

May 10, 2021

To SPAC or not to SPAC?

April 29, 2021

A Memorable Milestone in our PATH!!

April 21, 2021

Our Investment In Doorstead And The Digital Future of Property Management

April 15, 2021

PlexTrac, On A Mission To Help Security Professionals Work Smarter And Better

April 14, 2021

Building a Healthy Open Source Community with Jeremiah Lowin, Founder and CEO of Prefect

April 09, 2021

Why We Are Incredibly Excited About Common Room

March 31, 2021