Data & Infrastructure
Why we invest
Data and infrastructure that help create, manage, label, and store data are crucial to building applications and making better business decisions. With the rise in Generative AI, applications are being built in new ways that impose new requirements on the underlying infrastructure. Madrona strongly believes that as data proliferates and gets more complex, new requirements will emerge to efficiently store, process, protect, and make decisions with that data. With our extensive experience in this domain, Madrona helps companies find product-market fit, develop go-to-market strategies, and build robust teams to drive sustainable long-term growth.
MotherDuck’s
Joran Tigani
on shaping serverless data with DuckDB 
Unstructured’s
Brian Raymond
on tackling engineering bottlenecks 
Fauna’s
Eric Berg
on building an infrastructure business to scale 
RelationalAI’s
Molham Aref
on finding investors who believe in your passion Data & Infrastructure
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Amazon is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle that seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.Initial Investment1995Amazon is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle that seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. -
Bobsled provides a data sharing platform that helps data providers, SaaS companies and other providers of valuable analytics share data products into the platforms where their customers and partners work.Initial Investment2022Bobsled provides a data sharing platform that helps data providers, SaaS companies and other providers of valuable analytics share data products into the platforms where their customers and partners work. -
Bocada automates backup operations oversight, asset protection, and compliance audits via one single pane.Initial Investment2001Bocada automates backup operations oversight, asset protection, and compliance audits via one single pane.CEOMark SilvermanInvestment JourneyAcquired by private strategic purchaser 2016Initial Investment2001 -
Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.Initial Investment2011Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.FoundersJulien Coulon
Marty KaganInvestment JourneyAcquired by Citrix 2018Initial Investment2011 -
DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.Initial Investment2018DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.FounderRaghotham MurthyInvestment JourneyAcquired by Cloudera 2021Initial Investment2018 -
ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.Initial Investment2007ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.FoundersJesse Rothstein
Raja MukerjiInvestment JourneyAcquired by Bain/Crosspoint 2021Initial Investment2007 -
Fauna is a global, serverless database that gives ubiquitous, low latency access to application data.Initial Investment2020Fauna is a global, serverless database that gives ubiquitous, low latency access to application data. -
Founded by the creators of Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes, Heptio brought Kubernetes to enterprises to help accelerate software development, increase infrastructure efficiency and reduce the complexity of managing software at scale.Initial Investment2016Founded by the creators of Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes, Heptio brought Kubernetes to enterprises to help accelerate software development, increase infrastructure efficiency and reduce the complexity of managing software at scale.FoundersCriag McLuckie
Joe BedaInvestment JourneyAcquired by VMware 2018Initial Investment2016 -
As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.Initial Investment2013As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.FoundersJeff Hughes
Byron Rakitzis
Kiran BhageshpurInvestment JourneyAcquired by Rubrik 2020Initial Investment2013 -
Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.Initial Investment2001Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.FoundersSujal Patel
Paul MikesellInvestment JourneyAcquired by EMC 2010Initial Investment2001 -
Lattice turned dark data such as text and images into actionable, analyzable structured data with human-caliber quality and at machine scale.Initial Investment2015Lattice turned dark data such as text and images into actionable, analyzable structured data with human-caliber quality and at machine scale.FoundersChristopher Ré
Feng Niu
Michael Cafarella
Raphael HoffmannInvestment JourneyAcquired by Apple 2017Initial Investment2015 -
Mobilewalla provides innovative AI solutions that give data scientists flexible tools and highly predictive data to improve the feature engineering process, increasing efficiency, and creating high performing machine learning models.Initial Investment2013Mobilewalla provides innovative AI solutions that give data scientists flexible tools and highly predictive data to improve the feature engineering process, increasing efficiency, and creating high performing machine learning models. -
Numbers Station is Automating the Data Stack starting with AI Powered Data Transformation.Initial Investment2023Numbers Station is Automating the Data Stack starting with AI Powered Data Transformation. -
Observe is an observability platform that enables finding issues faster, fixing them faster and at a lower cost.Initial Investment2021Observe is an observability platform that enables finding issues faster, fixing them faster and at a lower cost. -
PlayFab offers the most complete backend and operations platform built exclusively for live games.Initial Investment2015PlayFab offers the most complete backend and operations platform built exclusively for live games.FoundersJames Gwertzman
Matt AugustineInvestment JourneyAcquired by Microsoft 2018Initial Investment2015 -
Qumulo fundamentally changes how enterprises store and manage enormous numbers of digital assets. By creating the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS software, Qumulo enables customers to answer critical questions about their data footprint in real-time and at incredible scale.Initial Investment2012Qumulo fundamentally changes how enterprises store and manage enormous numbers of digital assets. By creating the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS software, Qumulo enables customers to answer critical questions about their data footprint in real-time and at incredible scale. -
RelationalAI is building a groundbreaking relational knowledge graph system for developing intelligent data apps. Knowledge graphs are databases that model business concepts, the relationships between them, and the associated application logic. RelationalAI complements the modern data stack to accelerate the development of intelligent data applications. RelationalAI brings together a team of industry experts and researchers across the globe with an extensive list of innovations and awards. The RelationalAI knowledge graph system is available for early deployments with enterprise customers.Initial Investment2021RelationalAI is building a groundbreaking relational knowledge graph system for developing intelligent data apps. Knowledge graphs are databases that model business concepts, the relationships between them, and the associated application logic. RelationalAI complements the modern data stack to accelerate the development of intelligent data applications. RelationalAI brings together a team of industry experts and researchers across the globe with an extensive list of innovations and awards. The RelationalAI knowledge graph system is available for early deployments with enterprise customers. -
Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.Initial Investment2006Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. -
Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management companyInitial Investment2011Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management companyFounderJared WrayInvestment JourneyAcquired by Savvis, a CenturyLink company 2013Initial Investment2011 -
Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.Initial Investment2013Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.FoundersBenn Bollay
Jason Needham
Tom HullInvestment JourneyAcquired in 2015Initial Investment2013 -
Unstructured is the leader in data transformation for enterprise AI.Initial Investment2023Unstructured is the leader in data transformation for enterprise AI. -
World Wide Packets designed high-performance ethernet networking equipment and software that provide total solutions for broadband fiber deployments.Initial Investment2003World Wide Packets designed high-performance ethernet networking equipment and software that provide total solutions for broadband fiber deployments.FoundersBernard Daines
Kevin DainesInvestment JourneyAcquired by Ciena 2008Initial Investment2003