| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.08.2024 | Otto: The Future of Business Travel in the Age of AI | In the bustling world of business travel, time is money. Professionals are constantly on the move, juggling meetings, flights, and accommodations. Enter Otto, a new player in the travel tech arena, poised to revolutionize how business trips... |
| 22.08.2024 | Concur Founder, Former Expedia Execs Back Business Travel AI Startup: Otto | Steve Singh and a group of industry veterans are rolling out a new AI trip planner and booking agent for business travel.
It’s called Otto, and the startup shared its plans on Thursday along with news of a $6 million seed round.
The founder... |
| 09.10.2023 | Seattle data analysis startup lands $250K after winning Madrona Venture Labs competition | NoxuData co-founders Dae Kim, left, and David Lee. (LinkedIn Photos)
A startup that helps data teams at consumer packaged goods companies (CPG) analyze and visualize their data through an artificial intelligence platform won a Madrona Ventu... |
| 22.06.2023 | Madrona Venture Labs Raises $11M for Fifth Fund | Madrona Venture Labs, a Seattle, WA-based startup studio, raised $11m for its fifth fund.
New investors joining the fund include Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub; Joe Beda, co-founder & former CTO of Heptio; Brent Frei, co-founder of Smarts... |
| 21.06.2023 | Madrona Venture Labs announces $11M round to fund pre-seed AI founders | Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success. Learn More
Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a pre-seed startup incubator-of-sorts based in Seattle, Washington tha... |
| 13.04.2023 | This generative AI startup wants to help content creators in the storyboarding process | “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is a 2021 animated film. Storia AI’s tech put the little character in Balenciaga shoes in a demonstration of how creators can easily experiment during pre-production. (Storia AI screenshot)
What would Marcel... |
| 13.12.2022 | Tech Moves: Qumulo co-founder returns; Allen Institute adds execs; and more | Arden Yang (left) and Helen Protheroe. (Allen Institute Image)
— The Allen Institute named two new executives: Helen Protheroe as executive director of global partnerships and philanthropy, and Arden Yang as vice president of innovation.
Pr... |
| 27.09.2022 | Madrona Venture Labs spinout aims to take the pain out of insurance claims | Outbound AI founders. clockwise from top left: Stead Burwell, Jonathan Wiggs, Kshitij Moghe and Justin Ith. (Outbound AI Photos)
Outbound AI has a prescription for one of the biggest headaches of the medical system: interacting with insuran... |
| 18.05.2022 | Ex-Goldman Sachs banker leads new startup that wants to help brands grow Web3 communities | Spencer Cheng. (Metastich Photo)
The possibilities created by Web3, hailed as the next iteration of the internet, are attracting various early stage companies such as Metastitch, a new Seattle startup led by a former investment banker.
Spen... |
| 21.03.2022 | Seattle startup Stack wins $100K top prize in Madrona Venture Labs’ Launchable Web3 event | (Madrona Venture Labs Image)
Stack, a Seattle startup intent on making cryptocurrency and modern finance accessible for Gen Z, took the top prize at Madrona Venture Labs’ recent Launchable event aimed at Web3 startups.
For its winning pitch... |
| 01.07.2021 | Marchex co-founder’s latest startup uses artificial intelligence to rethink and improve meetings | Xembly founder and CEO Pete Christothoulou. (LinkedIn Photo)
Nobody really likes work meetings. Pete Christothoulou thinks they’re such a problem that he’s launching a new startup to rethink the whole endeavor.
Christothoulou, the former fo... |
| 12.05.2021 | MVL Raises $8M and Announces Startup Studio Innovation; Assembles Who’s Who of Successful Operators as Investors & Co-Builders | Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.
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Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a Seattle-based startup studio, lands $8M in fresh funding and innovates on venture studio model–a... |
| 12.05.2021 | MVL Raises $8M and Announces Startup Studio Innovation; Assembles Who’s Who of Successful Operators as Investors & Co-Builders | SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 12, 2021–
Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a Seattle-based startup studio, lands $8M in fresh funding and innovates on venture studio model–adding successful operators as investors and co-founders of their spinout com... |
| 12.05.2021 | Madrona Venture Labs raises $8M, unveils plan to turn its investors into co-founders of spinouts | The Madrona Venture Labs team, clockwise from left: Flora Ku, Keith Rosema, Maria Hess, Henry Huang, Mike Fridgen, Jay Bartot, Jason Flateboe. (Madrona Venture Labs Photo)
The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio associated with M... |
| 10.12.2020 | Vouched raises $3M as pandemic drives demand for its ID verification tech | Vouched CEO John Baird. (Vouched Photo)
The pandemic is driving more business for Vouched, a Seattle startup that just raised $3 million to fuel growth.
Vouched uses artificial intelligence to help companies verify the identity of their cus... |
| 25.08.2020 | Madrona leads $4.9M round for Stratify, a new fintech startup that aims to automate budgeting | Stratify CEO Brian Camposano. (Madrona Venture Labs Photo)
Stratify came out of stealth mode and announced a $4.9 million seed investment round led by Madrona Venture Group.
The company, which started in Seattle but is now fully remote, spu... |
| 06.08.2020 | Startup-assisted microschools ease remote schooling pain, but could widen academic divides | Weekdays helps parents connect with caregivers and teachers to provide for small groups of kids. (Weekdays Photo)
With K-12 schools reopening now and over the coming weeks, parents are facing a COVID-driven misery they’d hoped was behind th... |
| 29.05.2020 | Childcare crisis: Tech startups look to help working parents manage the messy new realities of life | Like many working parents, Maria Hess has felt the stress of taking care of her three kids at home while also performing at work amid the COVID-19 crisis. (Photo courtesy of Maria Hess)
Crying in the closet, breaking up sibling fights, Zoom... |
| 20.05.2020 | Cybersecurity compliance startup StrikeGraph is the latest Madrona Venture Labs spinout | StrikeGraph co-founders Brian Bero (left) and Justin Beals. (StrikeGraph Photos)
Madrona Venture Labs is churning out startups.
The Seattle startup studio created by venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group helps incubate ideas and recrui... |
| 15.05.2020 | Ex-Docker CFO heads up new Seattle finance startup Stratify, with Concur founder as chairman | Stratify CEO Brian Camposano. (Madrona Venture Labs Photo)
Former Docker executives Brian Camposano and Steve Singh are behind a stealthy new Seattle-based fintech startup called Stratify.
The company just spun out of Seattle startup studio... |
| 07.05.2020 | Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market | Hartley Riedner, new head of operations at Seattle-area startup Docugami, with CEO Jean Paoli on a video call this week. Riedner interviewed for the role and has been working at the company without yet meeting Paoli or other members of the ... |
| 13.04.2020 | Madrona Venture Labs launches ‘Founders Unite’ community group to help company leaders | Building a startup is never easy, but doing so during a global pandemic and economic crisis makes it even harder.
Seattle-based Madrona Venture Labs (MVL) wants to lend a helping hand in the form of Founders Unite, a new community group it ... |
| 18.10.2019 | Analysis: Seattle startup ecosystem poised for unprecedented acceleration of company creation | The downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
[Editor’s note: This guest post was co-written by Oren Etzioni and Jacob Colker of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.]
We’ve reached a tipping poin... |
| 25.06.2019 | Uber acquires Seattle startup Mighty AI to fuel its push into self-driving cars | One of Uber’s self-driving vehicles outside the company’s facility in Pittsburgh. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
Uber just made its first acquisition of a Seattle startup, swooping up Mighty AI, which develops training data for computer vi... |
| 19.06.2019 | Uber reportedly wants to acquire Seattle computer vision startup Mighty AI to bolster self-driving tech | (Mighty AI Photo)
Uber is reportedly eyeing Seattle startup Mighty AI as an acquisition target. Mighty AI CEO Daryn Nakhuda. (Mighty AI Photo)
Three anonymous sources tell The Information that Uber held “recent talks” to buy Mighty AI, whic... |
| 15.05.2019 | Madrona Venture Labs raises $11M fund to launch a new group of AI-focused startups | The Madrona Venture Labs team. (MVL Photo)
Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a Seattle-based “startup studio” formed by venture capital firm Madrona Venture Group, just landed $11.3 million for its third fund as it aims to launch up to a dozen ne... |
| 12.04.2019 | Stripe for ID verification: Investors bet on new Madrona Venture Labs accelerator startup Vouched | Vouched CEO John Baird. (Vouched Photo)
Vouched, a Seattle startup using AI to verify people’s identities online, has joined the Madrona Venture Labs accelerator.
The 3-month accelerator program launched last year in a bid by VC firm Madron... |
| 07.11.2018 | Madrona Venture Labs picks clinical management startup Invio as first company in new accelerator | Invio’s co-founders: Brian Caruso, CTO; Cassie Wallender, CPO; and Dema Poppa, CEO. (Invio Photos)
Invio, a Seattle startup that helps speed up clinical trials for biotech and pharmaceutical companies, announced this week that it is the fir... |
| 25.07.2018 | Marketing vet Shauna Causey joins Madrona Venture Labs, heads up new kids clothing startup | Shauna Causey.
Long-time Seattle marketing veteran Shauna Causey has joined Madrona Venture Labs.
Causey will become a partner at the startup studio backed by Madrona Venture Group. She previously worked at Galvanize, Decide.com, Nordstrom,... |
| 25.07.2018 | An inside look at Create33: Madrona’s new ‘founder center’ attempts to spark Seattle entrepreneurs | Madrona Venture Group Managing Director Scott Jacobson, left, and Create33 Executive Director Micah Baldwin. (GeekWire photos / Taylor Soper)
Micah Baldwin answers quickly when asked about the vision for Create33, a new “founder center” ope... |
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| 07.06.2018 | Blue Nile and Wetpaint founder Ben Elowitz joins Madrona Venture Labs as co-managing director | Madrona Venture Labs CTO Jay Bartot; Managing Director Ben Elowitz; and Managing Director Mike Fridgen. (Photo via Madrona)
Madrona Venture Labs is adding some entrepreneurial firepower to its leadership team.
The “startup studio” housed in... |
| 08.05.2018 | Food safety monitoring tech startup wins first place at Madrona machine learning hackathon | The HyperAI team, from left to right: Benji Barash, Yves Albers, Dave Matthews, and Elizabeth Nelson, with TiE Seattle board member Shirish Nadkarni and Madrona Venture Labs CTO Jay Bartot. (Not pictured, from the Hyper AI team: Ritesh Desa... |
| 16.03.2018 | What’s wrong with Seattle’s startup scene? Despite top talent, a lack of venture capital stunts growth | Image via the Greater Seattle Technology Ecosystem report.
After nine years of building a robust cloud services business with thousands of customers, Geeman Yip was ready to raise venture capital. But when the BitTitan founder began knockin... |
| 08.03.2018 | Seattle’s top venture capital firm hopes to lure talent from tech giants with new startup accelerator | A group photo from Madrona’s first “Go Vertical” startup ideation workshop. The firm ended up investing in the winning idea. (Photo via Madrona)
Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook, Google, Uber, Salesforce and others have helped expan... |
| 01.03.2018 | Taking on WeWork? Madrona Venture Group doubles Seattle office space for new co-working operation | The Essential team working out of Madrona Venture Labs in Seattle. Photo via Madrona Venture Labs.
Madrona Venture Group is expanding its physical footprint in Seattle with a new innovation space for founders and startups.
The venture capit... |
| 09.11.2017 | Sports jersey rental startup Rep the Squad expands to NBA, raises another $1M from athletes and VCs | A Steph Curry jersey sits inside Rep the Squad’s Seattle office. (GeekWire photo / Taylor Soper)
Rep the Squad is growing.
The Seattle startup, which launched its sports jersey rental service three months ago, today added NBA jerseys to its... |
| 17.10.2017 | I rented an authentic NFL jersey for $20/month: Is this the future of sports fandom? | Reppin’ the Seahawks in LA.
Love repping your favorite NFL players and teams, but can’t afford the authentic jerseys? Don’t worry, sports fans — a new Seattle startup is here to help with a unique rental service, and I’ve been testing it ou... |
| 30.08.2017 | E-commerce vets raise $1.5M from top VCs and NFL players for sports jersey rental startup | Rep The Squad CEO Brian Watkins (far left) and his team. Photo via Rep the Squad.
A new Seattle startup backed by top venture capital investors and NFL stars is looking to change the way sports fans pay for jerseys with an e-commerce rental... |
| 13.07.2017 | Every Major Seattle Accelerator and Incubator, Listed | TechCo has compared accelerators to band camp in the past: You're stuck in a location with a bunch of your peers whether you like them or not, work hard, play hard, and take snack breaks. And by the time it ends, you've built a lasting netw... |
| 29.06.2017 | Pioneer Square Labs hires Madrona Venture Group’s Julie Sandler as new managing director | Julie Sandler accepts the award for Geek of the Year at the 2014 GeekWire Awards. She is now moving from Madrona to Pioneer Square Labs. (GeekWire Photo)
For the past five years, Julie Sandler has immersed herself in the startup world as an... |
| 14.12.2016 | Madrona Labs hires startup vet Jay Bartot as VC incubator focuses on ‘deeper’ technical ideas | Jay Bartot. Photo via Madrona Labs.
Madrona Labs, the “startup studio” housed inside of Madrona Venture Group, wants to focus on deeper, more technical startups — and now it’s getting some help from Jay Bartot to do so.
The veteran entrepre... |
| 20.10.2016 | Where did you go to school? | Note: As part of The Road Map Project’s DiscoverU Campaign to get high school students to think about higher education, Madrona hosted more than 30 students from Renton High School to learn about jobs in the startup world. Tom Alberg shares... |
| 26.09.2016 | Intelligent messaging company Essential spins out of Madrona Labs startup studio | The Essential team working out of Madrona Venture Labs in Seattle. Credit: Madrona Venture Labs.
Madrona Venture Labs has spun out its third company: A startup called Essential that helps businesses communicate with customers via text messa... |
| 14.04.2016 | Chat commerce platform ReplyYes raises $2.5M, has already sold $1M in vinyl records via text | ReplyYes just launched a second channel, Origin Bound, selling graphic novels via text message.
A new Seattle company called ReplyYes, a Madrona Venture Labs spinoff specializing in technology for buying products via text message, is emergi... |
| 10.03.2016 | Madrona Venture Labs adds entrepreneurial horsepower with formation of new advisory board | Mike Fridgen, the former CEO of Decide.com, now leads Madrona Venture Labs
Madrona Venture Labs, the startup incubator operated by Seattle venture capital firm Madrona VentureGroup, has bolstered its slate of advisors who’ll assist entrepre... |
| 10.03.2016 | Madrona Venture Labs Announces Advisory Board | Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a Seattle, WA-based startup studio housed at Madrona Venture Group, announced an advisory board of ten distinguished inventors, entrepreneurs, founders and angel investors.
The “Friends of Labs” include:
– Spence... |
| - | Office Hours: Virtual Reality Pioneer Philip Rosedale on the Future of the Metaverse | This talk was originally broadcast as a live online discussion on Zoom that took place as part of Madrona Venture Labs' “Launchable: Web3 Startups” event on March 18, 2022.
Over 20 years ago, Philip Rosedale created what could be considered... |
