Founded & Funded

By Madrona Ventures

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Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who 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. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their company for the long run. We invest in seed and Series A companies in the Pacific Northwest building across the information technology spectrum and in Acceleration (B and beyond) stage companies building with AI, regardless of geography.

Episode Date
The Future of Biology Is Generative: Inside Synthesize Bio’s RNA AI Model
Sep 24, 2025
From $1M to $10M ARR in 6 Months: How Fyxer is Winning AI Productivity
Sep 10, 2025
Autonomous CRM: How Clarify Is Reinventing a $100B Category
Aug 21, 2025
Bridging Strategy and Startups: Madrona Investor Rolanda Fu’s Story
Aug 07, 2025
V0's Creator on What's Next for AI Dev Tools
Jul 23, 2025
Engineering in the AI Era: Qodo Founder on the AI-Powered SDLC
Jul 10, 2025
Breaking into Enterprise: How Anagram Landed Disney with Cold Outbound
Jun 26, 2025
Building Biotech in Seattle: Madrona Investor Spotlight with Joe Horsman
Jun 11, 2025
The End of Biz Apps? AI, Agility, and The Agent-Native Enterprise from Microsoft CVP Charles Lamanna
May 29, 2025
Building AI That Sells: Scaling Smarter with Luminance CEO Eleanor Lightbody
May 15, 2025
Customer Obsession & Agentic AI Power Ravenna’s Reinvention of Internal Ops
May 01, 2025
Reinventing Recruiting: SeekOut’s Anoop Gupta on the Rise of Agentic AI
Apr 24, 2025
Unscripted: What Happened After the Mic Went Off with Douwe Kiela
Apr 18, 2025
AI, Ambition, and a $3 Trillion Vision: Satya Nadella on Microsoft’s Bold Bet
Apr 10, 2025
RAG Inventor Talks Agents, Grounded AI, and Enterprise Impact
Mar 27, 2025
Dropzone’s Edward Wu on Solving Security’s Biggest Bottleneck
Mar 12, 2025
AI+Data in the Enterprise: Lessons from Mosaic to Databricks
Feb 26, 2025
Scaling, AI, and Leadership after Big Tech: Lessons from Highspot's Bhrighu Sareen
Feb 12, 2025
Serial Entrepreneur Mohit Aron on Founding, Scaling, and Leading Category-Leading Companies
Jan 29, 2025
Terray’s Jacob Berlin on The AI-Powered Future of Medicine
Jan 08, 2025
Curt Medeiros on Revolutionizing Precision Medicine and Scaling Ovation
Jan 02, 2025
Breaking Conventional Wisdom: Jama Software's Blueprint for Profitable Growth
Dec 04, 2024
Archon's Jamie Lazarovits on Unlocking the Full Power of Antibodies With AI
Nov 13, 2024
Beyond the Model: Taking AI From Prototype to Production with Unstructured’s Brian Raymond
Oct 31, 2024
Perseverance Over Speed: Creating a New Category with Impinj's Chris Diorio
Oct 09, 2024
Startup to Scale: A Mini Masterclass in Efficient Growth and GTM
Sep 16, 2024
From Dark Matter to Voice AI with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson
Aug 28, 2024
Temporal Founders Bet on Open Source and Developers to Enable Invincible Applications
Aug 15, 2024
Investor Spotlight: Chris Picardo on Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and Finding Unique Founders
Jul 25, 2024
Transforming TV Advertising: iSpot’s Sean Muller on the Role of AI and the Future of Streaming
Jul 10, 2024
Investor Spotlight: Sabrina Wu on Founder Grit, Authenticity, and Building Intelligent Applications
Jun 26, 2024
Building Predibase: AI, Open-Source, and Commercialization with Dev Rishi and Travis Addair
Jun 12, 2024
Read AI's David Shim on Making Meetings More Efficient With Intelligent Agents
May 29, 2024
Transforming Corporate Travel: A Conversation With Steve Singh and Christal Bemont
May 15, 2024
Building a Modern Database: Nikita Shamgunov on Postgres and Beyond
Apr 18, 2024
How Bobsled is Revolutionizing Cross-Cloud Data Sharing
Mar 20, 2024
How Writer CEO May Habib Is Making GenAI Work For the Enterprise
Mar 06, 2024
Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Soma Somasegar
Feb 21, 2024
Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work
Feb 07, 2024
From Creating Kubernetes to Founding Stacklok: Open-Source and Security with Craig McLuckie
Jan 24, 2024
The Evolution of Enterprise AI: A Conversation with Arvind Jain
Jan 10, 2024
Investor Spotlight: A Conversation with Madrona’s Tim Porter
Dec 13, 2023
Navigating the Dynamics of Startup Boards: Managing Disagreements & Effective Governance
Nov 29, 2023
Karan Mehandru & Anna Baird on Go-To-Market Strategy, and Navigating Sales, Growth, and Leadership
Nov 15, 2023
Tigera CEO Ratan Tipirneni On Commercializing Open Source
Nov 01, 2023
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Maria Gilfoyle
Oct 18, 2023
Troop Travel Founders on the Startup Journey and Relationships That Matter
Oct 04, 2023
Investor Spotlight with Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru
Sep 27, 2023
Statsig Founder Vijaye Raji on Product Building, Launching a Startup, and AI
Sep 20, 2023
NYSE's Lynn Martin on Capital Markets, IPOs, and the Role AI Is Playing in the Markets
Sep 12, 2023
Chroma's Jeff Huber on Vector Databases and Getting AI into Production
Sep 06, 2023
Cohere's Ivan Zhang on Foundation Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and Feedback Loops
Aug 23, 2023
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on Data, AI, and New Book — 'The Datapreneurs'
Aug 09, 2023
Google's James Phillips and Former Tableau CEO Mark Nelson on PLG and Scaling in the Face of Stiff Competition
Jul 26, 2023
Typeface Founder Abhay Parasnis on Shaping Enterprise GenAI Strategy
Jul 12, 2023
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Vivek Ramaswami
Jun 28, 2023
Airtable's Howie Liu on Product-Led Growth & Embedding a 'Little LLM Brain' in Every Cell
Jun 14, 2023
Numbers Station Founders on Applying Foundation Models to Data Wrangling
May 31, 2023
Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow
May 18, 2023
Panther Labs Founder Jack Naglieri on Cloud-Native SIEM and Self-Growth
May 03, 2023
MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani and DuckDB's Hannes Mühleisen on partnerships and commercializing open-source projects
Apr 20, 2023
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke on Generative AI-powered Developer Experiences
Apr 06, 2023
IA40 Spotlight: Credo AI's Navrina Singh on ‘AI-First, Ethics Forward’ Responsible AI
Mar 30, 2023
Acquired Hosts Ben and David on Getting Started at Madrona and Tom Alberg’s Legacy
Mar 28, 2023
Common Room's Viraj Mody on Building Community, Foundation Models and Being Relentless
Mar 17, 2023
Investor Spotlight with Matt McIlwain
Mar 01, 2023
Leaf Logistics CEO Anshu Prasad on Applying AI to Freight and Transportation Logistics
Feb 16, 2023
Lexion's Gaurav Oberoi on Applying AI to Change an Industry
Feb 02, 2023
Magnify's Josh Crossman on Incubating a Startup and Bringing AI to the Customer Experience
Jan 19, 2023
IA40 Spotlight: A-Alpha Bio's David Younger on machine learning in biotech, building cross-functional teams
Jan 05, 2023
IA40 Spotlight: dbt Labs Founder Tristan Handy on the modern data stack, partnerships, and creating community
Nov 03, 2022
Data Visionary Bob Muglia on the Modern Data Stack and Lessons from Snowflake
Oct 20, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: Fivetran CEO George Fraser on Data Replication and Connectors
Oct 06, 2022
Stack Co-Founder and CEO Will Rush on Teen Crypto Investing
Sep 22, 2022
Battlesnake Founder Brad Van Vugt on Creating Community Through Programming Competitions
Sep 08, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: Tesorio Co-founders Carlos Vega and Fabio Fleitas on Automating Accounts Receivable
Aug 25, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: Cresta Co-founder and CEO Zayd Enam on Using AI to Empower People to be More Productive
Aug 11, 2022
CommerceIQ's Guru Hariharan on Pivoting When You're in the Wrong Market
Jul 28, 2022
Top Tier's David York on Limited Partners, Market Conditions
Jul 14, 2022
Sila Co-founder and CEO Shamir Karkal on Crypto and Web3
Jun 30, 2022
IA40 Winner Spotlight: Snorkel Co-founder Alex Ratner on data-centric AI, culture, and 'one of the most historic opportunities for growth in AI'
Jun 16, 2022
Robotics Expert Sidd Srinivasa on Trends and What's Ripe for Innovation
Jun 02, 2022
IA40 Spotlight - Madrona and PitchBook Partner for IA40
May 24, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen on AI-powered talent solutions, developing talent, and maintaining culture
May 19, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue and OctoML CEO Luis Ceze on foundation models, open source, and transparency
May 05, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: Starburst CEO Justin Borgman on entrepreneurship, cloud partnerships and enabling intelligent applications
Apr 21, 2022
IA40 Spotlight: RunwayML Co-Founder Cristobal Valenzuela on the Intersection of Art and Technology
Apr 07, 2022
Founder Voices from Madrona's Annual Meeting
Mar 25, 2022
Qumulo CEO Bill Richter on the Benefits of Enterprise Partnerships
Mar 03, 2022
How SpiceAI is Tackling the AI Tooling Gap with Luke Kim
Feb 25, 2022
Building Terray Therapeutics – Bridging the Gap Between Drug Discovery and Treatment
Feb 17, 2022
Trevor Thompson of TerraClear on Leadership, AgTech and Building for Farmers
Jan 14, 2022
What is the IA40?
Nov 22, 2021
Meet the Investor: Aseem Datar of Madrona
Nov 19, 2021
Building a company at the intersection of life and computer sciences with Dr. Ali Ansary of Ozette
Sep 07, 2021
From Startup to Exit with founder Shirish Nadkarni and Ishani Ummat
Aug 23, 2021
Linda Lian of Common Room on Building a Team of Co-Founders One by One
Jul 20, 2021
Rajeev Singh of Accolade on Resilience, the Expectations of Leaders and Building a Healthcare Company
May 11, 2021
Building a Healthy Open Source Community with Jeremiah Lowin, Founder and CEO of Prefect
Apr 09, 2021
The Entrepreneurial Journey with Hope Cochran
Mar 31, 2021