Listen in to conversations between Madrona Venture Group Investors and Growth Team members with entrepreneurs, founders and startup personalities who will talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned. These conversations are informal and informative. Based in Seattle, Madrona Venture Group invests mainly in early stage information technology based companies. These conversations also highlight why building a company in the Seattle region is so appealing to many founders.
Madrona Partner, Chris Picardo, sits down with Dr. Ali Ansary, founder & CEO of Ozette Technologies. Chris and Ali talk about Ozette’s mission to unc...
Madrona Investor, Ishani Ummat, sits down with Shirish Nadkarni, serial entrepreneur, now angel investor and author of FROM STARTUP TO EXIT, out from ...
Starting a company is a lonely business. Finding co-founders can be the solution to this – but what if you don’t know anyone who fits the bill? Linda...
Investor Matt McIlwain speaks with CEO of Accolade, Rajeev Singh. Rajeev is the CEO of Accolade, a healthcare advocacy company, but this is not his f...
In this episode of Founded and Funded, Anu Sharma continues her deep dive into commercial open source projects and talks to Jeremiah Lowin, the found...
Going back to the archives to bring forward one of our most popular episodes which is a deep dive on Hope Cochran’s journey to investor, public board ...
Knock was on the verge of raising their B round and then Covid hit. Co-founder and CEO Demetri talks with Madrona investor, Scott Jacobson, about how...
Building a company on open-source software is not easy. As one of the creators of Kubernetes, and a founder of Heptio, Joe Beda has experience buildi...
Strike Graph, a company started by two white tech guys, and funded in mid 2020 with just an intern, is now growing and serving customers. It is also ...
The path to building a company (and getting venture funding) can be varied. Two of the paths available are Startup Studios or Accelerators. They eac...