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Madrona Venture Group

Madrona leads $60M investment into AI-powered drug discovery company Terray Therapeutics

Pasadena, Calif.-based Terray Therapeutics, which combines nanotechnology with artificial intelligence, has raised $60 million in a Series A funding round… Read More

Tech Moves: Indeed hires Zillow economist; Impinj names COO; Amazon vet joins Fabric; more

— Former Zillow Chief Economist Svenja Gudell is now chief economist at Indeed, leading the job search engine’s research team.… Read More

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Microsoft’s Candy Crush: Madrona’s Hope Cochran, former King CFO, on $68.7B Activision deal

Why would Microsoft pay $68.7 billion for video-game giant Activision Blizzard? Hope Cochran, managing director at venture capital firm Madrona… Read More

Tech Moves: Washington STEM names new CEO; Conversica and Iterable hire marketing vets

— Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. He has a doctorate in higher education administration… Read More

Tech Moves: Life Science Washington names new CEO; AWS exec departs; Vizio CTO retires

— Life Science Washington announced Marc Cummings as its new CEO and president. He was most recently the trade association’s… Read More

New list highlights 40 top startups solving business problems with artificial intelligence

Four Seattle-area companies made a list of top private companies building business applications with artificial intelligence and machine learning. The… Read More

Tech Moves: Payscale CEO steps down; a16z adds Seattle-based partner; Madrona hires investor

— Scott Torrey stepped down as CEO of compensation data company Payscale. A SAP Concur veteran, Torrey took over as… Read More

Amazon vets land $10M for WhyLabs, a Seattle startup that monitors machine learning models

The news: WhyLabs, a spinout from the Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), raised $10 million and released a new… Read More

Tech Moves: Leafly hires general counsel; Skilljar and LevelTen add execs; and more

— Seattle cannabis marketplace Leafly announced New York-based lawyer Kimberly Boler as its new general counsel. She joins the 11-year… Read More

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Want to improve your public speaking? This startup’s AI tool aims to give you a silver tongue

If you’re intimidated by the prospect of giving a speech, going through a job interview or doing a wedding toast,… Read More

Seattle investors back Battlesnake, makers of a growing game that turns coding into competition

Programmers looking to experiment or get better at the tools and technology that they use for their day jobs are… Read More

These biotech and life sciences CEOs made the leap from software startups — here’s how they did it

In the past several years the barriers between tech and the life sciences have begun to dissolve. AI and machine… Read More

Tech Moves: Azure GM joins Madrona; Microsoft promotes chief scientist; Esper adds exec; more

— Microsoft Azure General Manager and COO Aseem Datar is joining Madrona Venture Group as a partner. The Seattle investment… Read More

Tech Moves: Ex-Tableau sales chief Kelly Breslin Wright joins Gong; Slalom expands board; more

— Former Tableau executive Kelly Breslin Wright was named president and COO of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Gong, an AI sales… Read More

Modulus, a cell therapy biotech incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, raises $3.5M

Modulus Therapeutics, a Seattle-based cellular therapy company spun out of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2), announced $3.5 million… Read More

TerraClear raises $25M for its rock-picking farm tech as it sees fully autonomous version on horizon

New funding: TerraClear, the ag tech startup that’s using artificial intelligence and robotics to help farmers deal with costly and… Read More

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Madrona Venture Group’s Steve Singh on key trends to watch coming out of the pandemic

The 2021 virtual GeekWire Awards were held this week, recognizing the top companies, innovators, entrepreneurs and technologies in the Pacific… Read More

VC family: Madison McIlwain follows her father’s footsteps, and carves out her own tech interests

An elevator pitch, quick coffee, lunch or Zoom chat might be how some investors get a feel for a particular… Read More

Madrona teams up with Advancing Women in Product to boost female tech leadership

Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), a nonprofit organization with more than 16,000 members internationally, is partnering with Seattle’s Madrona Venture… Read More

Madrona puts Create33 on pause as pandemic upends startup community and co-working space

Create33, the Seattle-based “founder center” established by Madrona Venture Group, is no longer operating a co-working space and is revamping… Read More

Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

— George “Skip” Battle, the former CEO of AskJeeves, has resigned from Expedia Group’s board of directors. He originally joined… Read More

Madrona continues to back Ovation.io as Boston startup raises $21.5M for its lab software platform

Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group is putting more money behind Boston’s Ovation.io. The startup which makes cloud-based software to help medical… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways

This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Salesforce strikes a deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 billion; Amazon Web Services makes some… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: AI that writes your emails; a Seattle tech visionary; trivia challenge returns

Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: OthersideAI thinks it can help you be more productive… Read More

How Tom Alberg bet on Seattle and Amazon, shaping the region’s tech industry and building a legacy of understated influence

It was the mid 1990s, and Tom Alberg had a decision to make. Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and… Read More

Snowflake stock soars in largest software IPO ever; Madrona among earlier venture investors

Snowflake came out with a bang in its public debut, raising $3.4 billion in the largest software IPO ever. The… Read More

Madrona leads $9M investment in coffee startup Trade, which connects home brewers to roasters

If you’re home-brewed coffee is one of the less appealing aspects of working from home, perhaps you need a fresh… Read More

Geek of the Week: Anu Sharma left Amazon for Madrona to invest in helping new businesses

As someone who was already interested in investing from a personal standpoint, Anu Sharma said it was always on her… Read More

GeekWire 200 Update: Seattle and Pacific NW startups raise big funding rounds amid pandemic

The leading privately-held companies across the Pacific Northwest are raising giant swaths of cash and increasing their valuations despite the… Read More

Madrona leads $27M round in Twitter vets’ Fauna database startup; Bob Muglia named chairman

Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group is leading a $27 million investment in Fauna, a company founded by two former Twitter engineers… Read More

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