Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology and consumer startups from seed through growth stages. It focuses on information technology, software, digital media and advertising, e-commerce, data analytics, fintech, cloud, mobile, and AI, as well as related infrastructure, hardware, and robotics. The firm primarily targets companies in the Pacific Northwest and the broader West Coast, and often leads investments with a goal of taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale from early development to market leadership.

Tom Alberg

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Loren Alhadeff

Venture Partner

Jennifer Chambers

Administrative Partner

Troy Cichos JD

Partner

Hope Cochran

Venture Partner

Jack Creighton

Strategic Director

Aseem Datar

Partner

Patrick J. Ennis

Venture Partner

Maggie Finch

Partner

Maria Gilfoyle

Investor

Palak Goel

Investor

Paul Goodrich

Managing Director

Gerald Grinstein

Co-Founder and Strategic Director

Joseph Horsman

Investor

Scott Jacobson

Managing Director

Len Jordan

Managing Director

Ted Kummert

Venture Partner

Daniel Li

Venture Partner

Matthew McIlwain

Managing Director

Karan Mehandru

Managing Director

Mark T. Nelson

Venture Partner

Babak Parviz

Venture Partner

James Phillips

Strategic Director

Chris Picardo

Partner

Tim Porter

Managing Director

Vivek Ramaswami

Partner

Bill Richter

Venture Partner

William Ruckelshaus

Strategic Director

Siddharth Shenai JD

Venture Partner

Steve Singh

Managing Director

Soma Somasegar

Managing Director

John Torrey

Venture Partner

Jon Turow

Partner

Ishani Ummat

Investor

Dan Weld

Venture Partner

Past deals in CMS

Gradial

Series A in 2025
Gradial develops a generative AI platform for enterprises. This platform integrates with content management systems to automate routine marketing tasks, allowing creative teams to focus on strategic work. It enables businesses to make data-driven decisions and supports omnichannel content distribution.

Gradial

Seed Round in 2023
Gradial develops a generative AI platform for enterprises. This platform integrates with content management systems to automate routine marketing tasks, allowing creative teams to focus on strategic work. It enables businesses to make data-driven decisions and supports omnichannel content distribution.

buuteeq

Series B in 2012
buuteeq is a Digital Marketing System (DMS) that enables hotels to create and manage high-performing websites, mobile phone content, a Facebook presence, and direct-to-hotel online reservations. The system combines content management, branded digital marketing materials, integrated online reservations, and reporting tools that together offer independent hotels a complete solution to manage their digital marketing efforts. The company launched its buuteeq DMS service in January 2011
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