Madrona

Madrona Venture Group, LLC is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 1995. The firm specializes in seed and early-stage investments, primarily focusing on the information technology sector. Its investment portfolio includes companies involved in e-commerce, digital media, advertising, software, gaming, data analytics, mobile technologies, and infrastructure. Madrona actively seeks to invest between $2 million and $10 million, often as a lead investor, and aims to take board positions in its portfolio companies. The firm is particularly interested in businesses that are aligned with the Future of Work and the low-code/no-code development areas, primarily targeting opportunities within the Pacific Northwest region.

Tom Alberg

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Elisa La Cava

Senior Associate

Jennifer Chambers

Administrative Partner

Troy Cichos

COO and Partner

Jack Creighton

Strategic Director

Aseem Datar

Partner

Patrick J. Ennis

Venture Partner

Mike Fridgen

CEO, Madrona Labs

Paul Goodrich

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Gerald Grinstein

Co-Founder and Strategic Director

Scott Jacobson

Managing Director

Len Jordan

Managing Director

Matthew McIlwain

Managing Director

Chris Picardo

Senior Associate

Tim Porter

Managing Director

Bill Richter

Venture Partner

William Ruckelshaus

Strategic Director

Siddharth Shenai

Venture Partner

Steven Singh

Managing Director

Soma Somasegar

Managing Director

Jon Turow

Partner

Dan Weld

Venture Partner

Past deals in CMS

Gradial

Series A in 2025
Gradial is a developer of an enterprise generative artificial intelligence platform that enables organizations to create efficient native and cross-application workflows while enhancing customer support. The platform integrates with content management systems to optimize routine marketing tasks such as content updates, allowing creative teams to concentrate on content strategy. By facilitating the orchestration of the entire content supply chain, Gradial supports new page design, brand-aligned content creation, and omnichannel distribution. Additionally, the platform provides improved experimentation and analytics throughout customer journeys, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions and allowing creative teams to dedicate their efforts to core brand strategy.

Gradial

Seed Round in 2023
Gradial is a developer of an enterprise generative artificial intelligence platform that enables organizations to create efficient native and cross-application workflows while enhancing customer support. The platform integrates with content management systems to optimize routine marketing tasks such as content updates, allowing creative teams to concentrate on content strategy. By facilitating the orchestration of the entire content supply chain, Gradial supports new page design, brand-aligned content creation, and omnichannel distribution. Additionally, the platform provides improved experimentation and analytics throughout customer journeys, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions and allowing creative teams to dedicate their efforts to core brand strategy.

buuteeq

Series B in 2012
buuteeq is a Digital Marketing System (DMS) that enables hotels to create and manage high-performing websites, mobile phone content, a Facebook presence, and direct-to-hotel online reservations. The system combines content management, branded digital marketing materials, integrated online reservations, and reporting tools that together offer independent hotels a complete solution to manage their digital marketing efforts. The company launched its buuteeq DMS service in January 2011
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