Founded & Funded
Episodes
How — and What — to Build in the Age of OpenAI
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where is OpenAI going, and what does it mean for the broader AI and tech ecosystem? Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami sits down with Jason Kwon, Chief S...
The Analyst Mindset in Venture: Madrona Investor Rasik Parikh's story
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Digital Editor Coral Garnick Ducken sits down with Investor Rasik Parikh to unpack his journey from publi...
Redefining Communication: Yoodli Founders on AI Roleplays, Confidence & Building in Seattle
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Venture Partner Patrick Ennis sits down with Varun Puri and Esha Joshi, co-founders of Yoodli, an AI-powe...
From Google and Amazon to NewDays: Why These Tech Vets Bet on AI for Dementia
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter sits down with Babak Parviz and Daniel Kelly, co-founders of NewDays, a plat...
The Future of Biology Is Generative: Inside Synthesize Bio's RNA AI Model
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Investor Joe Horsman sits down with Jeff Leek and Rob Bradley, co-founders of Synthesize Bio, a foundatio...
From $1M to $10M ARR in 6 Months: How Fyxer is Winning AI Productivity
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fyxer.ai is an AI-powered assistant that helps users reclaim hours of their day by managing their inboxes, writing replies, and taking meeting notes. ...
Autonomous CRM: How Clarify Is Reinventing a $100B Category
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thompson and Austin Hay, co-founders of Clarify, the startup that's pioneering the idea of autonomous CRM. Their vision? A CRM that actually does the ...
Bridging Strategy and Startups: Madrona Investor Rolanda Fu's Story
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Investor Spotlight episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona's Coral Ducken sits down with Investor Rolanda Fu to explore her journey to VC — fro...
V0's Creator on What's Next for AI Dev Tools
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami sits down with Jared Palmer — designer, developer, and founder of Turborepo (ac...
Engineering in the AI Era: Qodo Founder on the AI-Powered SDLC
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Investor Rolanda Fu is joined by Dedy Kredo, the co-founder and chief product officer of QodoAI — forme...
Breaking into Enterprise: How Anagram Landed Disney with Cold Outbound
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami sits down with Harley Sugarman, founder and CEO of Anagram, to unpack how o...
Building Biotech in Seattle: Madrona Investor Spotlight with Joe Horsman
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when a scientist becomes a VC? We sat down with Madrona's Joe Horsman to find out. In this episode, Joe shares his journey from late nigh...
The End of Biz Apps? AI, Agility, and The Agent-Native Enterprise from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this Founded & Funded episode, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar sits down with Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, to u...
Building AI That Sells: Scaling Smarter with Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneurs often ask: When do I know it's time to scale? Or, how do I lead when I wasn't the original founder? In this week's Founded & Funded, Mad...
Customer Obsession & Agentic AI Power Ravenna's Reinvention of Internal Ops
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Most startups bolt AI onto old products. @ravennahq reimagined the entire workflow. When we first met Kevin Coleman and Taylor Halliday, i...
Reinventing Recruiting: SeekOut's Anoop Gupta on the Rise of Agentic AI
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar sits down with Anoop Gupta, co-founder and CEO of @SeekOut — an...
Unscripted: What Happened After the Mic Went Off with Douwe Kiela
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This bonus episode of Founded & Funded is a follow-up to Madrona Partner Jon Turow's conversation with Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI and co-invent...
AI, Ambition, and a $3 Trillion Vision: Satya Nadella on Microsoft's Bold Bet
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft Chairman & CEO Satya Nadella sat down with Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar at Madrona's 2025 Annual Meeting to discuss the key i...
RAG Inventor Talks Agents, Grounded AI, and Enterprise Impact
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to invent a foundational AI paradigm — and then build a company to bring it to the enterprise? In this episode of Founded & Funded...
Dropzone's Edward Wu on Solving Security's Biggest Bottleneck
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The security industry has a math problem: 12 million job postings, only 7 million qualified professionals. The solution? AI. Edward Wu spent nearly a ...
AI+Data in the Enterprise: Lessons from Mosaic to Databricks
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The biggest AI breakthroughs won't come from Ph.D. labs — they'll come from people solving real-world problems. So how do AI founders actually turn ...
Scaling, AI, and Leadership after Big Tech: Lessons from Highspot's Bhrighu Sareen
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking about leaving Big Tech for a startup? In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter sits down with Bhrighu Sareen...
Serial Entrepreneur Mohit Aron on Founding, Scaling, and Leading Category-Leading Companies
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to go from engineer to founder, from startup CEO to scale CEO? In this special live episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Di...
Terray's Jacob Berlin on The AI-Powered Future of Medicine
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Terray Therapeutics CEO Jacob Berlin returns to Founded & Funded after three years to share how the company has scaled from an ambitious startup to an...
Curt Medeiros on Revolutionizing Precision Medicine and Scaling Ovation
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a future where healthcare isn't just reactive but deeply personalized — where every patient gets the right treatment at the right time based...
Breaking Conventional Wisdom: Jama Software's Blueprint for Profitable Growth
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter and Jama Software CEO Marc Osofsky discuss the intentional strategies that f...
Archon's Jamie Lazarovits on Unlocking the Full Power of Antibodies With AI
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to move from cutting-edge academic research to launching a biotech company that could transform medicine? In this week's episode of ...
Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured's Brian Raymond
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru hosts Brian Raymond, founder and CEO of 2024 IA40 winner Unstructured. U...
Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj's Chris Diorio
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter and Venture Partner Patrick Ennis host Chris Diorio, co-founder and CEO of I...
Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter hosts Pradeep Rathinam, a seasoned software executive with over three ...
From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today Madrona Managing Director Karan Mahandru and Scott Stephenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Deepgram, a foundational AI company building a voice AI pla...
Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar hosts Temporal Co-Founders Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev in studio. Temporal was founded in 2019 based on an o...
Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, host Coral Garnick Ducken interviews Madrona Partner Chris Picardo for the latest Investor Spotlight. With degree...
Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot's Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Venture Partner Len Jordan sits down with Sean Muller, Founder and CEO of iSpot, to talk about the compan...
Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, host Coral Garnick Ducken interviews Madrona Investor Sabrina Wu for the latest Investor Spotlight. These two di...
Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts Dev Rishi and Travis Addair, co-founders of 2023 IA40 Rising Star, Predibase. Predibase is a platform for develo...
Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts David Shim, founder and CEO of Read AI. These two have known each other for over two de...
Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Steve Singh and Christal Bemont, CEO of Direct Travel, Madrona's newest portfolio compa...
Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Investor Paul Goel and Neon Co-founder & CEO Nikita Shamgunov dive into the database market and the impor...
How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investor Sabrina Wu hosts Bobsled Co-founder and CEO Jake Graham for the latest episode of Founded & Funded. Jake is revolutionizing data sharing acro...
How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami hosts May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer, a 2023 IA40 winner. Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform for t...
Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona's Soma Somasegar
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar as he discusses his path to venture capital by way of 27 years at Microsoft. He shares invaluable i...
Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Partner Jon Turow hosts Gabriel Hubert and Stan Polu, the co-founders of a 2023 IA40 winner, Dust, which enables information workers to create...
From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter talks to Craig McLuckie, who's most known as one of the creators of Kubernet...
The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Investor Palak Goel talks with Arvind Jain, founder and CEO of Glean, which has raised about $155M since launching in 2019 and was named a 202...
Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona's Tim Porter
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hear from Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter as he discusses his path to venture capital by way of mechanical engineering and Microsoft. He shares i...
Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Madrona Managing Director S. Somasegar and General Counsel Joanna Black discuss the fundamental role of a board in a startup's growth...
Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru hosts Madrona Operating Partner Anna Baird. The operating partner role is a new one for Madrona, a...
Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Partner Aseem Datar hosts Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni. Tigera is in the business of preventing and detecting security breaches in cloud-native ...
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know Madrona Investor Maria Gilfoyle. Learn how she pivoted from wanting to become an artist into venture capital, her design-first mindset foc...
Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, managing director Steve Singh sits down with Troop Travel Co-founders Dennis Vilovic and Leonard Cremer. Madrona invested in Troop and its corp...
Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders,...
Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Madrona Managing Director S. Somasegar talks with Statsig founder and CEO Vijaye Raji, who spent 20 years at Microsoft and Facebook before laun...
NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain hosts NYSE Group President Lynn Martin ahead of our Intelligent Ap...
Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Vivek Ramaswami talks with Chroma Co-founder and CEO Jeff Huber. Chroma is an open-source vector database, and vector databases have taken ...
Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Madrona Partner Jon Turow and Cohere CTO and Co-founder Ivan Zhang dive into the world of foundation models for the enterprise. Coher...
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs'
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have the pleasure of having former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia on the show again. Bob is an active investor and sits on the boards of many n...
Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, investor Aseem Datar is possibly making app dev and product development history with his guests. We've got former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson a...
Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar talks with Typeface Founder and CEO Abhay Parasnis. Typeface combines generative AI platf...
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Vivek Ramaswami
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders, where he...
Airtable's Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth & Embedding a 'Little LLM Brain' in Every Cell
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's IA40 spotlight episode of Founded & Funded, Investor Sabrina Wu talks with Airtable Co-founder and CEO Howie Liu. Airtable is a low-cod...
Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter talks to Numbers Station Co-founders Chris Aberger and Ines Chami. We announced our investment in Numb...
Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know Madrona Partner Jon Turow. Learn why he got into VC, what he looks for in founders, where the opportunities lay for founders when it comes...
Panther Labs Founder Jack Naglieri on Cloud-Native SIEM and Self-Growth
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami talks to Jack Naglieri, Founder and CEO of 2022 IA40 winner Panther Labs. Jack founded ...
MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani and DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen on partnerships and commercializing open-source projects
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Madrona Partner Jon Turow brings us a story about a great partnership forming between two people, who had never even met, when they each f...
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we have the pleasure of hosting GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke! He and Madrona Partner Aseem Datar talk about how Thomas got into working with compute...
IA40 Spotlight: Credo AI's Navrina Singh on 'AI-First, Ethics Forward' Responsible AI
30 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's IA40 Spotlight Episode, Madrona Investor Sabrina Wu talks with Credo AI Founder and CEO Navrina Singh. Founded in 2020, Credo's intelli...
Acquired Hosts Ben and David on Getting Started at Madrona and Tom Alberg's Legacy
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're excited to release a special live episode recorded during the community event portion of the Madrona 2023 annual meeting. Managing Di...
Common Room's Viraj Mody on Building Community, Foundation Models and Being Relentless
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Managing Director Soma dives into the world of intelligent applications and generative AI with Common Room Co-founder and CTO Viraj Mody. Mad...
Investor Spotlight with Matt McIlwain
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know Madrona Managing Partner Matt McIlwain. Learn where he gets his spark to work with entrepreneurs, what he looks for in founders, where the...
Leaf Logistics CEO Anshu Prasad on Applying AI to Freight and Transportation Logistics
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded & Funded, partner Aseem Datar talks with Leaf Logistics Co-founder and CEO Anshu Prasad. Leaf is applying AI to the complex...
Lexion's Gaurav Oberoi on Applying AI to Change an Industry
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's IA40 Spotlight Episode of Founded & Funded, Investor Elisa La Cava talks to Lexion Co-founder and CEO Gaurav Oberoi. Lexion was one of ...
Magnify's Josh Crossman on Incubating a Startup and Bringing AI to the Customer Experience
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, investor Elisa La Cava talks with Josh Crossman, CEO of Magnify, which was incubated at Madrona Venture Labs. Josh was actually recru...
IA40 Spotlight: A-Alpha Bio's David Younger on machine learning in biotech, building cross-functional teams
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Founded & Funded, Partner Chris Picardo is talking with A-Alpha Bio Co-founder and CEO David Younger for our first Intelligent Applicatio...
IA40 Spotlight: dbt Labs Founder Tristan Handy on the modern data stack, partnerships, and creating community
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's IA40 Spotlight episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona partner Jon Turow talks with dbt Labs Founder and CEO Tristan Handy. Here at Madron...
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on the Modern Data Stack and Lessons from Snowflake
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode which is leading up to our Intelligent Applications Summit on November 2nd, Soma speaks with Bob Muglia. Bob has thought deeply...
IA40 Spotlight: Fivetran CEO George Fraser on Data Replication and Connectors
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week Madrona Investor Sabrina Wu talks with Fivetran Co-founder and CEO George Fraser. Fivetran is fundamentally a data replication company — t...
Stack Co-Founder and CEO Will Rush on Teen Crypto Investing
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Investor Aseem Datar is talking with Will Rush, co-founder and CEO of Stack, a teen crypto platform to educate a young crypto-curious gener...
Battlesnake Founder Brad Van Vugt on Creating Community Through Programming Competitions
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Investor Maria Gilfoyle talks to Brad Van Vugt, founder and CEO of Battlesnake, a multiplayer programming game for experienced web develope...
IA40 Spotlight: Tesorio Co-founders Carlos Vega and Fabio Fleitas on Automating Accounts Receivable
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this IA40 spotlight episode, Managing Director Hope Cochran talks with Tesorio Co-founders Carlos Vega and Fabio Fleitas about getting finance team...
IA40 Spotlight: Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam on Using AI to Empower People to be More Productive
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We've all struggled with call center experiences. Madrona's Ishani Ummat talks with Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam about the unique angle Cresta ...
CommerceIQ's Guru Hariharan on Pivoting When You're in the Wrong Market
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Managing Director Scott Jacobson is talking with CommerceIQ CEO Guru Hariharan. CommerceIQ is a retail e-comme...
Top Tier's David York on Limited Partners, Market Conditions
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, we stray a little from our typical format to answer some questions that often come up in discussions between fo...
Sila Co-founder and CEO Shamir Karkal on Crypto and Web3
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona Partner Chris Picardo dives into the world of crypto and Web3 with Sila Co-Founder and CEO Shamir Karka...
IA40 Winner Spotlight: Snorkel Co-founder Alex Ratner on data-centric AI, culture, and 'one of the most historic opportunities for growth in AI'
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, we spotlight IIA40 winner Snorkel AI. Managing Director Tim Porter not only talks with Snorkel Co-founder and C...
Robotics Expert Sidd Srinivasa on Trends and What's Ripe for Innovation
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded Madrona Investors Aseem Datar and Sabrina Wu sit down with robotics expert and University of Washington Professo...
IA40 Spotlight - Madrona and PitchBook Partner for IA40
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona investor, Ishani Ummat, speaks with PitchBook Data leader, Daniel Cook, about bringing machine intelligence to the IA40 list. Their new algo...
IA40 Spotlight: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen on AI-powered talent solutions, developing talent, and maintaining culture
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Founded and Funded, we spotlight our next IA40 winner – SeekOut. Investor Ishani Ummat talks to SeekOut Co-founder and CEO Anoop Gupta ...
IA40 Spotlight: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and OctoML CEO Luis Ceze on foundation models, open source, and transparency
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Founded and Funded, we spotlight our next IA40 winners – Hugging Face and OctoML. Managing Director Matt McIlwain talks to Hugging Face...
IA40 Spotlight: Starburst CEO Justin Borgman on entrepreneurship, cloud partnerships and enabling intelligent applications
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Founded and Funded, we spotlight our next IA40 winner – Starburst Data. Managing Director Matt McIlwain talks to co-founder and CEO Jus...
IA40 Spotlight: RunwayML Co-Founder Cristobal Valenzuela on the Intersection of Art and Technology
07 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona is launching a special series to highlight some of its IA40 winners, starting with RunwayML, which offe...
Founder Voices from Madrona's Annual Meeting
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona just wrapped our annual meeting, which we were able to have in person for the first time in three years. The meeting, with about 150 attende...
Qumulo CEO Bill Richter on the Benefits of Enterprise Partnerships
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona Managing Director Matt McIlwain and Partner Aseem Datar sit down with Qumulo CEO Bill Richter to talk a...
How SpiceAI is Tackling the AI Tooling Gap with Luke Kim
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Founded and Funded, partner Aseem Datar sits down with co-founder of Spiceai.io, Luke Kim, to talk about the power of building to...
Building Terray Therapeutics – Bridging the Gap Between Drug Discovery and Treatment
17 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Partner, Chris Picardo, sits down with Terray Therapeutics founders (and brothers), Jacob and Eli Berlin as well as data scientist, Narbe Mard...
Trevor Thompson of TerraClear on Leadership, AgTech and Building for Farmers
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do you join a company and lead from the day one? And how do you do that when you come from a completely different work experience than your startu...
What is the IA40?
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Matt McIlwain and Ishani Ummat discuss the vision, methodology and top level insights from the first IA40 list.
Meet the Investor: Aseem Datar of Madrona
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Aseem talks about growing up in Mumbai with "jugaad" all around him - the Hindi word for 'Hustle', how he made his way to Seattle, to Microsoft and to...
Building a company at the intersection of life and computer sciences with Dr. Ali Ansary of Ozette
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Partner, Chris Picardo, sits down with Dr. Ali Ansary, founder & CEO of Ozette Technologies. Chris and Ali talk about Ozette's mission to un...
From Startup to Exit with founder Shirish Nadkarni and Ishani Ummat
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Madrona Investor, Ishani Ummat, sits down with Shirish Nadkarni, serial entrepreneur, now angel investor and author of FROM STARTUP TO EXIT, out from ...