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 Speech Recognition

Deepgram

Series B in 2022
Deepgram designs and develops artificial intelligence-based automatic speech recognition solutions. Its platform enables enterprises to label, train, and deploy speech recognition models for converting audio data into insights and automating actions. Deepgram serves individual developers and Fortune 500 companies.

Yoodli

Seed Round in 2022
Yoodli is a platform that uses AI to provide real-time feedback on users' communication skills. It helps individuals improve their public speaking abilities by recording video presentations, identifying areas for improvement in word selection, eye contact, and gestures.

Yoodli

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Yoodli is a platform that uses AI to provide real-time feedback on users' communication skills. It helps individuals improve their public speaking abilities by recording video presentations, identifying areas for improvement in word selection, eye contact, and gestures.

Kitt.ai

Venture Round in 2020
Kitt.ai is a technology company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in natural language understanding technologies. The company develops solutions that enable conversational understanding, focusing on multi-turn dialogue and offering a range of applications such as enterprise intelligence and home automation. Kitt.ai's product portfolio includes Parsetron, which parses natural language commands into executable API calls; Semantic Lighting, for controlling smart lighting systems; Answertron, a technology for answering factual questions to enhance web and knowledge base searches; and Snowboy, a real-time hot word detection system. These technologies facilitate the integration of natural language processing capabilities into various hardware and software platforms, making it easier for developers to implement advanced speech and language functionalities. As of 2017, Kitt.ai operates as a subsidiary of Baidu, Inc.

Saykara

Seed Round in 2018
Saykara, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2015. It addresses physician burnout and enhances productivity through its innovative ambient and autonomous AI assistant, known as Kara. This voice-enabled mobile application significantly reduces the time physicians spend on charting by 70% and completely eliminates after-hours charting, while also improving the quality and completeness of clinical notes by 25%. By minimizing reliance on keyboards and computer screens, Kara allows physicians to focus more on patient interactions, resulting in more personalized and less rushed visits. The technology is specialty agnostic, scalable for enterprise use, and offered through a software-as-a-service subscription model. Saykara's solutions leverage advanced voice recognition and machine learning to streamline clinical workflows, ultimately improving patient care and the overall quality of life for healthcare providers.

Saykara

Seed Round in 2016
Saykara, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2015. It addresses physician burnout and enhances productivity through its innovative ambient and autonomous AI assistant, known as Kara. This voice-enabled mobile application significantly reduces the time physicians spend on charting by 70% and completely eliminates after-hours charting, while also improving the quality and completeness of clinical notes by 25%. By minimizing reliance on keyboards and computer screens, Kara allows physicians to focus more on patient interactions, resulting in more personalized and less rushed visits. The technology is specialty agnostic, scalable for enterprise use, and offered through a software-as-a-service subscription model. Saykara's solutions leverage advanced voice recognition and machine learning to streamline clinical workflows, ultimately improving patient care and the overall quality of life for healthcare providers.

Yoodli

Yoodli is a platform that uses AI to provide real-time feedback on users' communication skills. It helps individuals improve their public speaking abilities by recording video presentations, identifying areas for improvement in word selection, eye contact, and gestures.
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