Madrona Venture Group

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 that backs technology and consumer startups from seed through growth stages. It focuses on information technology, software, digital media and advertising, e-commerce, data analytics, fintech, cloud, mobile, and AI, as well as related infrastructure, hardware, and robotics. The firm primarily targets companies in the Pacific Northwest and the broader West Coast, and often leads investments with a goal of taking board seats to help portfolio companies scale from early development to market leadership.

Tom Alberg

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Loren Alhadeff

Venture Partner

Jennifer Chambers

Administrative Partner

Troy Cichos JD

Partner

Hope Cochran

Venture Partner

Jack Creighton

Strategic Director

Aseem Datar

Partner

Patrick J. Ennis

Venture Partner

Maggie Finch

Partner

Maria Gilfoyle

Investor

Palak Goel

Investor

Paul Goodrich

Managing Director

Gerald Grinstein

Co-Founder and Strategic Director

Joseph Horsman

Investor

Scott Jacobson

Managing Director

Len Jordan

Managing Director

Ted Kummert

Venture Partner

Daniel Li

Venture Partner

Matthew McIlwain

Managing Director

Karan Mehandru

Managing Director

Mark T. Nelson

Venture Partner

Babak Parviz

Venture Partner

James Phillips

Strategic Director

Chris Picardo

Partner

Tim Porter

Managing Director

Vivek Ramaswami

Partner

Bill Richter

Venture Partner

William Ruckelshaus

Strategic Director

Siddharth Shenai JD

Venture Partner

Steve Singh

Managing Director

Soma Somasegar

Managing Director

John Torrey

Venture Partner

Jon Turow

Partner

Ishani Ummat

Investor

Dan Weld

Venture Partner

Past deals in Ticketing

Ravenna

Seed Round in 2025
Ravenna specializes in an AI-driven internal help desk platform, primarily serving IT and operations teams. The platform integrates with Slack, transforming any message into support tickets, automating service requests, and streamlining workflows. It also generates AI-powered knowledge and provides analytics to help teams measure and improve their performance over time.

AnswerIQ

Series A in 2017
AnswerIQ is an AI‑driven customer support platform that automates ticket triage, classification, and response, integrating with existing CXMs such as Zendesk and Salesforce. It offers self‑assist deflection, chatbot, agent assist, and analytics tools to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, the company originated as a spin‑out from GE and is now a subsidiary of Freshworks.

Ticketure

Series A in 2015
Ticketure is an innovative ticketing system that enables flexibility in constructing timed admission and membership experience for staff. The system providing stellar customer service its easy-to-use mobile solution comes complete with the tools to eliminate barriers and usher your visitors straight into the adventure efficiently. With a combination of one-off events, repeating and timed entry events, managing event schedules can often be a complex process. Ticketure includes a complete Business Intelligence (BI) suite which allows you to slice and segment data for macro and micro understanding of sales, operation, and customers. In addition, the APIs allow for information sharing with other systems and reporting environments, allowing Ticketure to push information directly into an organization's existing BI solutions.
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