Madrona

Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1995. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, focusing primarily on the information technology sector, which includes areas such as consumer internet, software, digital media, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Madrona typically invests between $2 million and $10 million in companies located in the Pacific Northwest and aims to be a lead investor, often seeking board membership in its portfolio companies. The firm is dedicated to supporting technology entrepreneurs and companies that are shaping the future of work and utilizing low-code/no-code solutions.

Loren Alhadeff

Venture Partner

Jennifer Chambers

Administrative Partner

Troy Cichos

COO and Partner

Hope Cochran

Managing Director

Jack Creighton

Strategic Director

Aseem Datar

Partner

Patrick J Ennis

Venture Partner

Maggie Finch

Partner

Maria Gilfoyle

Investor

Palak Goel

Investor

Paul Goodrich

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Joseph Horsman

Investor

Len Jordan

Managing Director

Matthew McIlwain

Managing Director

Mark Nelson

Venture Partner

Chris Picardo

Partner

Tim Porter

Managing Director

Bill Richter

Venture Partner

William Ruckelshaus

Strategic Director

Siddharth Shenai

Venture Partner

Steven Singh

Managing Director

Soma Somasegar

Managing Director

Jon Turow

Partner

Jonathan Turow

Partner

Ishani Ummat

Investor

Dan Weld

Venture Partner

Past deals in Data Visualization

Visual Layer

Seed Round in 2023
Visual Layer is a developer of a visual data management platform that enables the efficient management and curation of image and video datasets. The platform utilizes a proprietary graph engine to automatically identify data quality issues, such as corrupted images and incorrect labels, while also detecting outliers. By providing suggestions for correction, Visual Layer helps clients maintain high-quality datasets, thereby enhancing data performance and accuracy. This approach allows organizations to handle visual data at scale, ensuring that their datasets are reliable and effective for various applications.

Observe

Series A in 2022
Observe Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an online platform for log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance management. Founded in 2017 and based in San Mateo, California, the company offers a versatile observability platform designed to manage and analyze business data effectively. This platform enables users to identify and address system issues, monitor overall health, and investigate service incidents through various tools and structured data ingestion. By utilizing an elastic cloud architecture, Observe aims to reduce outages and enhance customer experience, allowing engineers to focus on coding rather than troubleshooting. The company is positioned within a growing market segment, which seeks to transform traditional data management practices.

WhyLabs

Series A in 2021
WhyLabs is an AI observability company focused on creating a seamless interface between humans and AI applications. It has developed a platform designed to analyze both structured and unstructured data from AI models, enabling comprehensive monitoring and analysis. The platform can process terabytes of data efficiently while continuously tracking data in real-time at various levels of detail. It monitors model accuracy, detects concept drift, and investigates model behavior across key segments. This functionality allows data scientists to identify and address potential issues proactively, ultimately saving time and preventing disruptions for businesses and their customers.

Observe

Venture Round in 2021
Observe Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an online platform for log analytics, infrastructure monitoring, and application performance management. Founded in 2017 and based in San Mateo, California, the company offers a versatile observability platform designed to manage and analyze business data effectively. This platform enables users to identify and address system issues, monitor overall health, and investigate service incidents through various tools and structured data ingestion. By utilizing an elastic cloud architecture, Observe aims to reduce outages and enhance customer experience, allowing engineers to focus on coding rather than troubleshooting. The company is positioned within a growing market segment, which seeks to transform traditional data management practices.

Lattice

Seed Round in 2020
Lattice Data, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Menlo Park, California, specializes in data analytics solutions that focus on processing unstructured data, including text and images. Originating from a Stanford research project known as DeepDive, the company leverages this framework for statistical inference to develop products aimed at addressing critical real-world challenges. As a subsidiary of Apple Inc. since May 2017, Lattice is dedicated to unlocking the value of "dark data" for various industries and government sectors.

Pixel8earth

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Pixel8earth is building a crowdsourced and perpetually updating 3D map of the world for machines+humans. We fuse computer vision and geomatics to enable commodity video and photos to generate georeferenced 3D point clouds and meshes. This allows multiple high volume data source to be utilized to generate and perpetually update 3D maps of the globe. Accuracy of the 3D maps to a survey baseline is 25-50 cm RMSE absolute accuracy. Visual Positioning Systems (VPS) operating from feature databases generated by the 3D maps have ~2m location accuracy and within 6.25 degree rotational accuracy.

WhyLabs

Seed Round in 2020
WhyLabs is an AI observability company focused on creating a seamless interface between humans and AI applications. It has developed a platform designed to analyze both structured and unstructured data from AI models, enabling comprehensive monitoring and analysis. The platform can process terabytes of data efficiently while continuously tracking data in real-time at various levels of detail. It monitors model accuracy, detects concept drift, and investigates model behavior across key segments. This functionality allows data scientists to identify and address potential issues proactively, ultimately saving time and preventing disruptions for businesses and their customers.

WhyLabs

Seed Round in 2020
WhyLabs is an AI observability company focused on creating a seamless interface between humans and AI applications. It has developed a platform designed to analyze both structured and unstructured data from AI models, enabling comprehensive monitoring and analysis. The platform can process terabytes of data efficiently while continuously tracking data in real-time at various levels of detail. It monitors model accuracy, detects concept drift, and investigates model behavior across key segments. This functionality allows data scientists to identify and address potential issues proactively, ultimately saving time and preventing disruptions for businesses and their customers.

Turi

Series B in 2015
Turi is a machine learning platform that creates big data analytics products for its users. This open source project was initially intended for applying large scale machine learning to graph analysis. The functionality of its product has since been greatly expanded to include tables, text, as well as images and is now in broad use to make recommendations, detect fraud, conduct customer sentiment analysis, and generally build predictive apps at many notable e-tailers, service providers, and Fortune 5000 firms, including Zillow, ExxonMobil, StumbleUpon, Adobe, Pandora, and Bosch. Turi was launched as Dato in 2013 by Danny Bickson, Haijie Gu, Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, and Carlos Guestrin. It is based in Seattle, W.A.

Turi

Series A in 2013
Turi is a machine learning platform that creates big data analytics products for its users. This open source project was initially intended for applying large scale machine learning to graph analysis. The functionality of its product has since been greatly expanded to include tables, text, as well as images and is now in broad use to make recommendations, detect fraud, conduct customer sentiment analysis, and generally build predictive apps at many notable e-tailers, service providers, and Fortune 5000 firms, including Zillow, ExxonMobil, StumbleUpon, Adobe, Pandora, and Bosch. Turi was launched as Dato in 2013 by Danny Bickson, Haijie Gu, Yucheng Low, Joseph Gonzalez, and Carlos Guestrin. It is based in Seattle, W.A.

Haiku Deck

Series A in 2013
Haiku Deck is the fastest, easiest way to create stunning presentations on iOS or Web – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. “A smart app that makes beautiful slide shows in no time and makes your iPad a more productive tool” -- Wall Street Journal “Makes creating beautiful presentations a cinch and a joy, whether you have design skills or not” -- Lifehacker "The easiest-to-use presentation tool out there" -- Robert Scoble “Insanely cool” -- Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons Founder Headquartered in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Haiku Deck is a privately held company with the backing of prominent investors including Trilogy Partnership, Madrona Venture Group, Founder’s Co-op, and Techstars. The Seattle-based startup was founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway.

Haiku Deck

Seed Round in 2012
Haiku Deck is the fastest, easiest way to create stunning presentations on iOS or Web – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. “A smart app that makes beautiful slide shows in no time and makes your iPad a more productive tool” -- Wall Street Journal “Makes creating beautiful presentations a cinch and a joy, whether you have design skills or not” -- Lifehacker "The easiest-to-use presentation tool out there" -- Robert Scoble “Insanely cool” -- Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons Founder Headquartered in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Haiku Deck is a privately held company with the backing of prominent investors including Trilogy Partnership, Madrona Venture Group, Founder’s Co-op, and Techstars. The Seattle-based startup was founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway.

Haiku Deck

Seed Round in 2011
Haiku Deck is the fastest, easiest way to create stunning presentations on iOS or Web – whether you are pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement. “A smart app that makes beautiful slide shows in no time and makes your iPad a more productive tool” -- Wall Street Journal “Makes creating beautiful presentations a cinch and a joy, whether you have design skills or not” -- Lifehacker "The easiest-to-use presentation tool out there" -- Robert Scoble “Insanely cool” -- Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons Founder Headquartered in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, Haiku Deck is a privately held company with the backing of prominent investors including Trilogy Partnership, Madrona Venture Group, Founder’s Co-op, and Techstars. The Seattle-based startup was founded by Adam Tratt and Kevin Leneway.
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