Developer Platforms & Tools
Why we invest
As infrastructure, data, and AI transform how developers build software and applications, the tools to apply and deploy these technologies must evolve to meet new demands. With the right tools, developers can unlock the next wave of applications with AI at their core and user experience as an equal citizen to core functionality. The evolution of the proprietary and open-source developer infrastructure stack, and the assist by AI, has resulted in a 100X increase in the total addressable market and developer productivity while delivering value to customers in hours and days versus months. The ultimate winners in this space are still emerging, and we believe most organizations will continue to arm and empower developers to own larger portions of budget to build the applications of the future. Madrona works with founders developing open-source and proprietary solutions to help them build and capture the hearts and minds of the next generation of developers.
Deepgram’s
Scott Stephenson
on revolutionizing voice AI and building a developer tool 
Pulumi’s
Joe Duffy
on bringing more power to developers 
Statsig’s
Vijaye Raji
on using data to build better products Developer Platforms & Tools
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Algorithmia’s AI Layer managed the machine learning lifecycle and automates the deployment of machine learning models at scale.Initial Investment2014Algorithmia’s AI Layer managed the machine learning lifecycle and automates the deployment of machine learning models at scale.FoundersKenny Daniel
Diego OppenheimerInvestment JourneyAcquired by Datarobot 2021Initial Investment2014 -
AppFog was the leading polyglot and infrastructure agnostic Platform-as-a-Service provider.Initial Investment2010AppFog was the leading polyglot and infrastructure agnostic Platform-as-a-Service provider.FounderLucas CarlsonInvestment JourneyAcquired by Savvis, a CenturyLink company 2013Initial Investment2010 -
Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game for experienced web developers where your code is the controller. We build games for programmers that encourage self-directed learning, are challenging to master, and are fun to share with friends and family.Initial Investment2021Battlesnake is a multi-player programming game for experienced web developers where your code is the controller. We build games for programmers that encourage self-directed learning, are challenging to master, and are fun to share with friends and family.FoundersBrad Van Vugt
Noah Warder
Chris HoefgenInvestment JourneyAcquired by DevCycle in 2023.Initial Investment2021 -
Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js.Initial Investment2023Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js. -
Deepgram is an enterprise automated speech recognition and understanding company that enables companies to build foundational and specialized language models for a range of applications.Initial Investment2022Deepgram is an enterprise automated speech recognition and understanding company that enables companies to build foundational and specialized language models for a range of applications. -
DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises.Initial Investment2021DevZero makes developers more productive by providing a platform for cloud-based software development environments that work with all IDEs, existing dev tooling, and enterprise integrations. Their mission is to be the de facto dev platform for modern enterprises. -
Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for dedicated devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly- growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more.Initial Investment2020Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for dedicated devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market organizations, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly- growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education and more. -
Fixie is a platform that makes it easy to build applications that integrate LLMs in any software system — databases, APIs, websites, documents, and more — to enable entirely new products and experiences.Initial Investment2023Fixie is a platform that makes it easy to build applications that integrate LLMs in any software system — databases, APIs, websites, documents, and more — to enable entirely new products and experiences. -
iConclude was a software platform and preconfigured repair packs that empowered frontline IT staff to priortize and resolve data center problems.Initial Investment2005iConclude was a software platform and preconfigured repair packs that empowered frontline IT staff to priortize and resolve data center problems.FoundersSunny Gupta
Jeff GerberInvestment JourneyAcquired by Opsware 2007Initial Investment2005 -
OctoAI's mission is to build easy and efficient AI systems that enable customers to turn AI models into production applications people value.Initial Investment2019 -
Performant provided software that allowed Fortune 500 companies to analyze and eliminate website performance bottlenecks.Initial Investment2000Performant provided software that allowed Fortune 500 companies to analyze and eliminate website performance bottlenecks.FoundersAshutosh Tiwary
Przemyslaw Pardyak
Hank LevyInvestment JourneyAcquired by Mercury Interactive 2003Initial Investment2000 -
Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach.Initial Investment2017Pulumi is a platform for cloud software development. It is designed for developers and DevOps teams to build and manage cloud native software, from containers, serverless functions, APIs, to infrastructure, using one consistent approach. -
Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.Initial Investment2013Shippable is a cloud-based continuous integration and delivery platform (CI/CD) that developers use to ship code and deliver app and microservices updates and plans to integrate it into its enterprise+ platform.FoundersManisha Sahasrabudhe
Avi CavaleInvestment JourneyAcquired by JFrog 2019Initial Investment2013 -
Statsig is a Modern Product Experimentation platform that, unlike other A/B testing tools, tracks the impact of every single feature release thereby quantifying impact of all efforts. The “observability” nature of Statsig lets teams catch metric drops within hours of launching features, divest quickly on features that aren’t working, and invest more on the ones that do. The team behind Statsig comes from Facebook and is rebuilding the entire set of data tools infrastructure that powered all of Facebook’s growth in the last decade.Companies like Notion, Flipkart, Ancestry, Whatnot and OpenSea use Statsig to power their modern stack and have shown marked increase in product velocity since adoption.Initial Investment2021Statsig is a Modern Product Experimentation platform that, unlike other A/B testing tools, tracks the impact of every single feature release thereby quantifying impact of all efforts. The “observability” nature of Statsig lets teams catch metric drops within hours of launching features, divest quickly on features that aren’t working, and invest more on the ones that do. The team behind Statsig comes from Facebook and is rebuilding the entire set of data tools infrastructure that powered all of Facebook’s growth in the last decade.Companies like Notion, Flipkart, Ancestry, Whatnot and OpenSea use Statsig to power their modern stack and have shown marked increase in product velocity since adoption. -
Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale.Initial Investment2020Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale.