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.

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  • Amazon
    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 Investment
    1995
    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.
    CEO
    Andy Jassy
    Investment Journey
    Public May 1997
    NASDAQ: AMZN
    Initial Investment
    1995
  • Bocada
    Bocada automates backup operations oversight, asset protection, and compliance audits via one single pane.
    Initial Investment
    2001
    Bocada automates backup operations oversight, asset protection, and compliance audits via one single pane.
    CEO
    Mark Silverman
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by private strategic purchaser 2016
    Initial Investment
    2001
  • Cedexis
    Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.
    Initial Investment
    2011
    Cedexis was a real-time, data-driven service for dynamically optimizing the flow of traffic across public clouds, data centers, CDNs, and ISPs.
    Founders
    Julien Coulon
    Marty Kagan
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Citrix 2018
    Initial Investment
    2011
  • CloudCoreo
    CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.
    Initial Investment
    2016
    CloudCoreo was a next-generation cloud management platform that enabled DevOps and SecOps teams to scale efficiently within and across cloud providers.
    Founders
    Jason Needham
    Paul Allan
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by VMware 2018
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • Datacoral
    DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.
    Initial Investment
    2018
    DataCoral provided a fully managed, cloud-native end-to- end data infrastructure as-a-service solution to data driven enterprises.
    Founder
    Raghotham Murthy
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Cloudera 2021
    Initial Investment
    2018
  • ExtraHop
    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 Investment
    2007
    ExtraHop provides cloud-native network detection and response that helps you quickly investigate threats, deliver critical applications, and secure your investment in the cloud.
    Founders
    Jesse Rothstein
    Raja Mukerji
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Bain/Crosspoint 2021
    Initial Investment
    2007
  • Heptio
    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 Investment
    2016
    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.
    Founders
    Criag McLuckie
    Joe Beda
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by VMware 2018
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • Igneous
    As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.
    Initial Investment
    2013
    As cloud infrastructure continues to change the enterprise landscape, Igneous is excited to bring a modern approach to the data center.
    Founders
    Jeff Hughes
    Byron Rakitzis
    Kiran Bhageshpur
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Rubrik 2020
    Initial Investment
    2013
  • Integris
    Integris was a data risk intelligence solution that enables companies to discover, classify and control how they use customer data.
    Initial Investment
    2016
    Integris was a data risk intelligence solution that enables companies to discover, classify and control how they use customer data.
    Founders
    Kristina Bergman
    Uma Raghavan
    Raghuram Gollamudi
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by OneTrust 2020
    Initial Investment
    2016
  • Isilon Systems
    Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.
    Initial Investment
    2001
    Isilon pioneered clustered storage systems and software for digital content and unstructured data.
    Founders
    Sujal Patel
    Paul Mikesell
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by EMC 2010
    Initial Investment
    2001
  • Lattice Data
    Lattice turned dark data such as text and images into actionable, analyzable structured data with human-caliber quality and at machine scale.
    Initial Investment
    2015
    Lattice turned dark data such as text and images into actionable, analyzable structured data with human-caliber quality and at machine scale.
    Founders
    Christopher Ré
    Feng Niu
    Michael Cafarella
    Raphael Hoffmann
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Apple 2017
    Initial Investment
    2015
  • Mighty AI
    Mighty AI delivers the human insights artificial intelligence (AI) engines need to see, hear, talk and “think” like humans. Its Training Data as a ServiceTM platform helps companies get the accurate, high-quality data sets they need to train and scale their computer vision and natural language models. Mighty AI was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Initial Investment
    2014
    Mighty AI delivers the human insights artificial intelligence (AI) engines need to see, hear, talk and “think” like humans. Its Training Data as a ServiceTM platform helps companies get the accurate, high-quality data sets they need to train and scale their computer vision and natural language models. Mighty AI was incubated with Madrona Venture Labs.
    Founders
    Matthew Bencke
    Daryn Nakhuda
    Patrick O'Donnell
    Matt Shobe
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Uber 2019
    Initial Investment
    2014
  • PlayFab
    PlayFab offers the most complete backend and operations platform built exclusively for live games.
    Initial Investment
    2015
    PlayFab offers the most complete backend and operations platform built exclusively for live games.
    Founders
    James Gwertzman
    Matt Augustine
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Microsoft 2018
    Initial Investment
    2015
  • Skytap
    Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.
    Initial Investment
    2006
    Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.
    CEO
    Brad Schick
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Kyndryl 2024
    Initial Investment
    2006
  • Snowflake
    Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Customers use the Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Thousands of customers across many industries use Snowflake Data Cloud to power their businesses.
    CEO
    Frank Slootman
    Investment Journey
    Public Sept. 2020
    NYSE: SNOW
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • Tier 3
    Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management company
    Initial Investment
    2011
    Tier 3 was a Seattle-based infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform and advanced cloud management company
    Founder
    Jared Wray
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Savvis, a CenturyLink company 2013
    Initial Investment
    2011
  • Union Bay Networks
    Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.
    Initial Investment
    2013
    Union Bay Networks worked to change the way applications and data can be accessed across public and private cloud infrastructure.
    Founders
    Benn Bollay
    Jason Needham
    Tom Hull
    Investment Journey
    Acquired in 2015
    Initial Investment
    2013
  • World Wide Packets
    World Wide Packets designed high-performance ethernet networking equipment and software that provide total solutions for broadband fiber deployments.
    Initial Investment
    2003
    World Wide Packets designed high-performance ethernet networking equipment and software that provide total solutions for broadband fiber deployments.
    Founders
    Bernard Daines
    Kevin Daines
    Investment Journey
    Acquired by Ciena 2008
    Initial Investment
    2003