Madrona Venture Labs

11/29/2022

Madrona Venture Labs and Madrona Venture Group are thrilled to present Launchable: Foundation Models, an event focused on tooling and applications ideas that leverage foundation models in new and creative ways, January 23-29. Pitch or join an idea with an opportunity for $250k in pre-seed funding! Apply by January 9.

Build and pitch your generative AI startup idea with the opportunity to win $250k in pre-seed funding!

03/01/2022

📢 DEADLINE TODAY, March 1 (apply by 11:59p PT)! Last chance to be part of Launchable: Web3 Startups with exceptional speakers, mentors, judges & these special guests: Vendia, Dapper Labs, Protocol Labs, Solana Labs, Polygon Technology, Ava Labs

Apply now: bit.ly/3sNg3Vb

02/28/2022

🚨 LAST CALL! Web3 founders, we’ve got an incredible group of mentors confirmed for Launchable: Web3 Startups! This is your chance to meet them and win $100K in pre-seed funding. The deadline to apply is tomorrow, March 1. https://bit.ly/3sNg3Vb

Mentors:
Aakash Mandhar, Immutable
Aaron Bird, Inflection.io
Chris Picardo, Madrona Venture Group
Elisa La Cava, Madrona Venture Group
Farah Ali, Electronic Arts (EA)
Jay Bartot, Zeitworks
Joseph Cutler, Perkins Coie
John Sechrest, Seattle Angel Conference
John Thimsen, Qualtrics
Jon Turow, Madrona Venture Group
Kelci Zile, Amazon Web Services
Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington
Maria Gilfoyle, Madrona Venture Group
Martina Welkhoff, WXR Fund
Shane Mac, XMTP
Shirish Nadkarni, TiE Seattle
Sreeram Kannan, University of Washington
Stephen Mauri, Pluto VR

02/17/2022

Drumroll please! Announcing our lineup of incredible speakers for Launchable: Web3 Startups! 🚀 Aspiring web3 founders, apply by March 1 to learn from these industry experts!

Speakers:
- Philip Rosedale, Founder and Strategic Advisor: Linden Lab/Second Life
- Spencer Rascoff, Co-founder & Chair at Pacaso, recon Food, dot.LA, Supernova
- Julie Larson-Green, CTO, Magic Leap
- Ed Fries, General Partner at 1Up Ventures
- Rahul Sood, CEO and Co-Founder of Irreverent Labs
- Elie Seidman, Metaverse Investor, former Tinder CEO

More details: https://bit.ly/3sNg3Vb

02/02/2022

MVL is thrilled to present Launchable: web3 Startups, an event series designed to facilitate the creation of innovative, venture-scalable startups, March 14-20. Pitch or join an idea with an opportunity for $100k in pre-seed funding! Apply by March 1.

Build and pitch your web3 startup idea with the opportunity to win $100k in pre-seed funding! Applications are due March 1.

01/07/2022

Congratulations to MVL spinout Pendulum Intelligence on closing their $5.9M round, led by Madrona Venture Group, to help companies and government organizations predict, track, and combat harmful narratives.

Pendulum helps companies, governments and other organizations track harmful narratives on social media platforms and elsewhere on the web. The company today announced that it has raised a $5.9 million seed round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from Cercano Management and others. Th....

11/01/2021

Big congrats to the entire Magnify team on closing a $6M seed round with Madrona Venture Group and Decibel to transform the customer experience through post-sales orchestration. We’re proud to have co-built this company with Josh Crossman from Day 1!

New funding: Magnify, an enterprise software startup which will have operations in Seattle and Bend, Ore., has come out of stealth mode with $6 million in funding. The company is developing tools to…

10/12/2021

Great insights from our CEO Mike Fridgen, along with Idealab and High Alpha Innovation, on how startup studios can de-risk and fast track founders in their first 100 Days of Building a Startup.

Watch the panel from here:

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09/15/2021

Join our team! We’re hiring for an exciting new role: Talent Manager. You’ll play a critical role in sourcing, evaluating, and recruiting founding CEOs and CTOs to join us in building venture-scale companies from scratch. Apply here:

09/14/2021

Big congrats to Strike Graph, an MVL spinout, for raising an $8M Series A to grow internationally and expand the team. In less than a year, 4x customer growth and 100% audit success 🚀

Seattle compliance automation startup Strike Graph has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round, the company announced Tuesday. Launched in 2020 and spun out of Madrona Venture Labs…

09/08/2021

GoVertical Startup Creation Workshop is back! Calling all for this virtual event.

Pitch your idea or join a team.Co-hosted by TiE Seattle and Advancing Women in Tech

Apply by September 30:

Go Vertical Startup Creation Workshop hosted by Madrona Venture Labs, TiE Seattle & AWIT

08/17/2021

Ready for your next high-impact role with a venture-backed startup? Our spinouts are solving meaningful, ambitious problems and are actively hiring for leadership, engineering and product roles. Check out our open positions:

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