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Madrona Venture Group

Tech Moves: Longtime Seattle tech vet Peter Wilson to lead Blockchain engineering team; Madrona adds Ignition Partners vet

Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London… Read More

Tech Moves: Madrona adds new entrepreneur in residence; Amplero appoints CRO; and more

Seattle-based venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group just named its newest entrepreneur in residence: former PayByPhone CEO Kush Parikh. Parikh has been… Read More

Educational robot maker Wonder Workshop raises $41M from Tencent, Madrona and others

Wonder Workshop, which makes robots that teach children computer science concepts, said it has raised $41 million in a Series… Read More

Apptio taps Theo Beack as new engineering leader; Ted Kummert returns to Madrona

Apptio has a new engineering leader. The Bellevue, Wash.-based company, which makes software to help CIOs better understand spending in IT departments,… Read More

Tech leaders differ over Amazon’s future in Seattle and the logic behind ‘HQ2’

Amazon’s splashy announcement that it plans to build a second North American headquarters has stirred debate across the nation, and that… Read More

Heptio raises $25M Series B funding round as Kubernetes takes over the world

The founders of Heptio knew they were onto something big when they developed Kubernetes, the open-source container-orchestration product based on… Read More

Tandem bikers

63 days, 3,523 miles: How a Seattle techie and his teen daughter feel after tandem biking across U.S.

Olivia Carpenter turned 15 on Friday, and to celebrate she happily got off the tandem bike that she rode across… Read More

IOpipe raises $2.5M from Madrona, NEA, and Underscore to build monitoring tools for serverless computing

One common thread among emerging enterprise technologies is that early adopters can quickly find themselves flying blind, stuck with monitoring… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Tandem bikers

Whale of a ride: Why this techie and his teen daughter are traversing the U.S. on a tandem bike

A Seattle girl with a love and concern for endangered orca whales hopped on a tandem bicycle with her tech-savvy… Read More

Seattle’s Highspot raises $15M from Shasta Ventures and Salesforce Ventures to build out AI-powered sales tools

Highspot thinks its artificial intelligence models are making sales organizations much more efficient, and it has raised $15 million in… Read More

Pluto VR raises $13.9M to build out virtual reality communication platform

Pluto VR, the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey, has raised $13.9 million in a… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

Tech Moves: Amplero names AWS vet as CTO; Allen Institute hires CFO from RealNetworks; and more

Amplero, a marketing platform fueled by artificial intelligence, announced the addition of Microsoft and Amazon vet Andrew Toner as the company’s CTO… Read More

Cloud exits: How the M&A and IPO markets are changing expectations for cloud tech companies

Cloud technology companies have increasingly become acquisition targets rather than IPO candidates, according to a new research report. But investors… Read More

Economist: Washington state can’t succeed without income tax, tech investor disagrees

Washington state’s lack of income tax is either one of its greatest assets or one of the main issues holding… Read More

Madrona adds ex-King Digital CFO as partner; promotes ‘Soma’ Somasegar to managing director

Madrona Venture Group today announced three internal promotions and the hiring of a new venture partner. Hope Cochran, a long-time… Read More

Madrona Labs hires startup vet Jay Bartot as VC incubator focuses on ‘deeper’ technical ideas

Madrona Labs, the “startup studio” housed inside of Madrona Venture Group, wants to focus on deeper, more technical startups —… Read More

Qualcomm, Madrona, Trilogy invest $5M in mobile networking startup M87; T-Mobile vet Cole Brodman named CEO

Cole Brodman is taking on another leadership role in the telecom industry. The former T-Mobile executive, who spent 17 years at… Read More

Tech Moves: Recruiting vet Kerry Van Voris leaves Madrona; Chef adds three executive positions; etc.

Seattle tech vet and talent expert Kerry Van Voris has left her position as director of talent at Madrona Venture Group,… Read More

Matt McIlwain

Tech investor Matt McIlwain: Seattle will shape the future with a ‘three-layer cake’ of innovation

The tumultuous election has put a cloud of uncertainty over the tech industry. But Matt McIlwain is optimistic, especially when it comes… Read More

Intelligent messaging company Essential spins out of Madrona Labs startup studio

Madrona Venture Labs has spun out its third company: A startup called Essential that helps businesses communicate with customers via text… Read More

Podcast

A driverless Interstate 5 in 15 years? These tech investors think it can — and should — be done

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we come to you on location from Madrona Venture Group, speaking… Read More

Wrench

Seattle startup Wrench ready to crank on its expansion plan as on-site car repair proves a big hit

Wrench, the on-site car repair startup, serviced more than 1,000 vehicles during a test run this summer in Seattle and… Read More

Madrona traffic report

No drivers on I-5? Maybe someday, as Madrona report calls for self-driving vehicles between Seattle and Vancouver

The congested and time-consuming Interstate-5 route between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., provided the inspiration for an ambitious new report from Madrona Venture… Read More

Pioneer Square Labs spinout LumaTax raises $2M from Madrona, Greycroft

LumaTax, which aims to automate sales tax reporting for small businesses, has raised $2 million from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners and… Read More

Will Amazon’s part-time tech teams succeed? Former AWS recruiting leader weighs in

Amazon isn’t known for being a laid-back employer. In fact, the tech giant is famous, and in some cases infamous, for its hard-driving work… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Uber tests flat rates, Microsoft’s Xbox Onesie, and inside the tech talent wars

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Uber announced a beta test of a new flat rate program this week, designed… Read More

Rover hits $100M run rate, releases new features to track Fido’s walk route and bathroom breaks

Seattle-based online pet-sitting marketplace Rover has introduced new features for its app that allow puppy parents to see exactly what their… Read More

Rajeev Singh

Healthcare company Accolade, helmed by Concur co-founders, lands $70M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Madrona

Accolade, a healthcare company led by Concur co-founders Raj Singh and Mike Hilton that helps people and companies navigate the… Read More

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