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WebsiteMadrona.com
Blogblog.madrona.com
Twitter@madronaventures
Phone206.674.3000
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Employees25
Founded1/95
DescriptionSeattle-based VC focused on early-stage

Funds

Unknown, 6/08 $250M

Offices

Seattle, USA
1000 Second Avenue Suite 3700
Seattle, WA, 98104
USA

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Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group has been investing in early-stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest since 1995 and has been privileged to play a role in some of the region’s most successful technology ventures. The firm invests across the information technology spectrum, including consumer Internet, commercial software and services, digital media and advertising, networking and infrastructure, and wireless. Madrona currently manages nearly $700 million and was an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Farecast, Isilon Systems, iConclude, and World Wide Packets to name a few.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Redfin 10/11Unattributed$14.8M5
Cedexis 8/11Series A$6M2
AppFog 8/11Series B$8M4
PayScale 7/11Unattributed$7M4
Animoto 6/11Series C$25M3
Pressplane 6/11Series B$3.5M5
Nimbic (formerly Physware) 6/11Series B$6.9M3
ShopIgniter 5/11Series B$8M2
ExtraHop Networks 5/11Series B$14M2
Mobilisafe 5/11Unattributed$1.2M2
Sewichi 4/11Seed1
Decide 4/11Series B$6M4
Giant Thinkwell 4/11Seed$625k3
IndoChino 3/11Series A$4M2
Z2Live 3/11Series B2
Tier-3 3/11Series A$8.5M2
MaxPoint Interactive 3/11Series B$8M2
Cheezburger 1/11Unattributed$30M4
Rover.com 1/11Seed$250k1
Cheezburger Network 1/11Seed$30M4
AppFog 1/11Series A$1.8M4
Skytap 12/10Series C$10M4
Off & Away 10/10Unattributed$2M1
Optify 10/10Series B$6.1M6
Smartsheet 9/10Series C$1.5M1
Apptio 8/10Series C$16.5M4
Off & Away 5/10Series A$1.25M1
AdReady 4/10Series C$5.3M3
Searchandise Commerce 4/10Unattributed$7M7
ShopIgniter 3/10Series A$3M1
Decide 1/10Series A$2.5M2
Appature 12/09Series A$3.5M3
Appature Technologies 12/09Series A$3.5M2
Redfin 11/09Series D$10M5
Apptio 8/09Series B$14M4
Jambool 8/09Series B$5M2
Z2Live 8/09Series B$3M1
Animoto 6/09Series B$4.4M4
TeachStreet 5/09Series A$1.2M4
ExtraHop Networks 4/09Series A$5.1M3
Skytap 3/09Series B$7M3
Yieldex 2/09Series B$8.5M4
Mixpo 2/09Series B$4M3
Corensic 1/09Series A$1.5M3
Smartsheet 1/09Series B$1.25M1
Optify 10/08Series A$2.75M7
Z2Live 10/08Series A$1M1
Local Marketers 7/08Unattributed$4.1M1
BuddyTV 4/08Series B$6M1
TeachStreet 3/08Series A$2.25M10
Nimbic (formerly Physware) 2/08Series A$2.5M2
Mercent Corporation 1/08Series B$6.5M3
AdReady 12/07Series B$10M3
Apptio 11/07Series A$7M2
SchemaLogic 10/07Series C$12.8M4
Bevy 10/07Seed$1.2M2
Skytap 8/07Series A$6M4
PayScale 7/07Series C$10.3M7
AdReady 7/07Series A$2M1
Redfin 7/07Series C$12M5
Bag Borrow or Steal 6/07Series A$15M2
Impinj 3/07Series E$19M10
Mercent Corporation 1/07Unattributed$4M2
Farecast 1/07Series C$12.1M6
SourceLabs 10/06Unattributed$7M3
Bocada 7/06Unattributed$4M5
Redfin 5/06Series B$8M4
iConclude 4/06Series B$9M3
Redfin 1/06Unattributed$1.25M1
Mixpo 1/06Series A$6.5M3
Impinj 12/05Unattributed$26.5M9
World Wide Packets 12/05Series D$25.5M6
PayScale 10/05Series B$7M4
Redfin 9/05Series A$770k1
iConclude 8/05Series A$3M2
ePartners 8/05Unattributed$25M8
Farecast 7/05Series B$7M3
iConclude 2/05Unattributed$500k2
Mercent Corporation 1/05Series A1
SchemaLogic 1/05Unattributed$4.6M2
Bocada 1/05Series C$9.5M5
SeaDragon Software 1/05Series B$2M2
PayScale 10/04Series A$3.2M3
Farecast 10/04Series A$1.5M2
WildTangent 3/00Series B$17M3

Videos

Sources

  1. Seattle P-I (seattlepi.com) [edit]
  2. Madrona Venture Group loads up $250M more for Pacific Northwest investment (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  3. Redfin Raises Another $14.8 Million To Reinvent The Real Estate Market (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Cedexis lands $6M in new capital (bizjournals.com) [edit]
  5. AppFog lands $8M for PHP Cloud (gigaom.com) [edit]
  6. PayScale Secures $7M (finsmes.com) [edit]
  7. Animoto In It To Win It, Takes $25 Million In Third Venture Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Nimbic Secures $6.9M Series B Financing (nimbic.com) [edit]
  10. ShopIgniter Raises $8M in Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
  11. ExtraHop Networks Secures $14 Million Series B Financing Led By Late-Stage Venture Capital Firm Meritech Capital Partners (extrahop.com) [edit]
  12. Trilogy, Madrona back stealthy mobile security startup Mobilisafe (geekwire.com) [edit]
  13. SEWICHI ANNOUNCES SEED ROUND LED BY MADRONA VENTURE GROUP (sewichi.com) [edit]
  14. Consumer Electronics Shopping Service Decide Raises $6 Million Pre-Launch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  15. Posse on Facebook? Sir Mix-A-Lot debuts social media game with Seattle’s Giant Thinkwell (geekwire.com) [edit]
  16. Indochino Raises $4M Series A (pehub.com) [edit]
  17. Z2Live Secures Venture Funding To Expand Distribution of its Mobile Social Games (z2live.com) [edit]
  18. Tier 3 Lands $8.5 Million For Its ‘Enterprise Platform As A Service’ (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
  19. MaxPoint Interactive Lands $8M For Neighborhood-level Targeting Technology (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  20. I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  21. Dog boarding venture Rover.com bounds onto startup scene (seattletimes.nwsource.com) [edit]
  22. mashable.com [edit]
  23. PHP Fog Raises $1.8 Million To Be The Heroku Of PHP (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  24. Skytap Raises $10 Million For Cloud Automation Solutions (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
  25. Off & Away Books Additional $2M For Hotel-Room Auctions (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
  26. Real-Time Marketing Service Optify Raises $6.1 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  27. Better productivity through spreadsheets: SmartSheet raises $1.5M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  28. Apptio Raises $16.5 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock And Others (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
  29. Secretive Seattle travel startup Off & Away nearing launch (techflash.com) [edit]
  30. AdReady Raises $5.3M From Madrona, Bain And Khosla, Strengthens Board (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  31. Searchandise Commerce Raises $7 Million From Madrona Venture Group And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  32. ShopIgniter lands $3 million in venture backing, plus a new CEO (blog.oregonlive.com) [edit]
  33. Citation Needed [add]
  34. Appature Raises $3.5M, Led by Ignition and Madrona, to Expand Healthcare Customer Base (xconomy.com) [edit]
  35. Appature announces $3.5M investment, led by Ignition Partners and Madrona Venture Group (appatureinc.com) [edit]
  36. Citation Needed [add]
  37. Apptio raises $14 million from Andreessen fund (seattletimes.nwsource.com) [edit]
  38. Jambool Raises $5 Million For Its Social Gold Micropayments Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. techcrunch.com [edit]
  40. Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11 (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  41. TeachStreet Takes In $1.2M (seattlepi.com) [edit]
  42. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  43. Skytap Raises $7 Million (techflash.com) [edit]
  44. Amazon Invests In Online Ad Optimization Firm Yieldex (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  45. Mixpo Raises $4 Million More For Video Advertising Tech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  46. Parallel Computing Start-up PetraVM Secures Series A Funding [edit]
  47. Smartsheet.com raises $1.25M (seattle.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  48. Optify Announces Series A Funding (optify.net) [edit]
  49. Madrona's mystery startup Zero260 creates iPhone app studio (techflash.com) [edit]
  50. Local Marketers raises $4.1 million for online advertising (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  51. BuddyTV Raises $6 Million From Madrona Venture Group (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  52. TeachStreet Emerges To Help You Find The Best Yoga and Cooking Classes (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  53. Physware launches with $2.5 Mn Series A Funding (siliconindia.com) [edit]
  54. Mercent raises $6.5M (mercent.com) [edit]
  55. blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com [edit]
  56. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  57. Chevron Technology Ventures Invests in SchemaLogic (schemalogic.com) [edit]
  58. Bevy Inc Press Release (bevyinc.com) [edit]
  59. Seattle Times (seattletimes.nwsource.com) [edit]
  60. mashable.com [edit]
  61. Stealthy AdReady raises more money (blog.seattlepi.com) [edit]
  62. techcrunch.com [edit]
  63. Bag Borrow or Steal raises $15M to rent out high-end handbags, jewelry (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  64. IMPINJ RAISES $19 MILLION IN PRIVATE FUNDING ROUND; PREPARES FOR INCREASED DEMAND FOR ITEM-LEVEL RFID TECHNOLOGY (impinj.com) [edit]
  65. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  66. Farecast Raises An Oversubscribed $12M Financing Led By Sutter Hill Ventures (farecast.com) [edit]
  67. EMC Acquires SourceLabs, And With It Open Source Documentation Project SWiK (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  68. Cap Funding Report [edit]
  69. redfin.com [edit]
  70. iConclude Raises $9 Million in Series B Financing with Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures; Tom Bogan, Greylock Partners, and Ravi Mohan, Shasta Ventures, Join iConclude's Board of Directors (findarticles.com) [edit]
  71. Redfin Gets $1.25 Million (360digest.com) [edit]
  72. TechFlash (techflash.com) [edit]
  73. IMPINJ RAISES $26.5M, CEMENTS RFID LEADERSHIP ROLE (impinj.com) [edit]
  74. WWP Raises Another $25.5M (lightreading.com) [edit]
  75. findarticles.com [edit]
  76. Citation Needed [add]
  77. iConclude Announces Series A Funding. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
  78. ePartners Closes $25 Million Equity Financing (epartnersolutions.com) [edit]
  79. Farecast Closes $7 Million In Series B Funding (farecast.com) [edit]
  80. Cap funding Report [edit]
  81. Mercent lands early-stage funding from Madrona (seattle.bizjournals.com) [edit]
  82. SchemaLogic Raises $4.6 Million Growth Capital To Meet Rapidly Growing Demand; Madrona Venture... (allbusiness.com) [edit]
  83. Bocada Nets $9.5M In Third Round VentureWire, January 13, 2005 (bocada.com) [edit]
  84. Seadragon, Microsoft close acquisition deal (seattletimes.nwsource.com) [edit]
  85. Citation Needed [add]
  86. farecast.com [edit]
  87. about.wildtangent.com [edit]
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