Security

Why we invest

The rise of the cloud, DevOps, and AI has ushered in a wave of innovation and productivity but also massively widened the attack surface and created entirely new threat vectors. Security remains a stalwart top-budget item for enterprises of all sizes as savvy attackers continue to find ways to expose vulnerabilities. Assisted by a CISO Advisory Group composed of security leaders from top public and private companies, Madrona partners with founders developing next-generation solutions to combat these threats and protect users and organizations across all environments and modalities.
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  • Clerk
    Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js.
    Initial Investment
    2023
    Clerk is the drop-in authentication and user management solution for the modern web, tuned for React and Next.js.
    Founder/s or CEO
    Colin Sidoti
    Braden Sidoti
    Initial Investment
    2023
  • Codified

    Codified provides a simple, fast experience for tools and humans to request access to data, delivering customers the ability to access data in accordance with all the rules of the company.

    Initial Investment
    2023

    Codified provides a simple, fast experience for tools and humans to request access to data, delivering customers the ability to access data in accordance with all the rules of the company.

    Founder
    Yatharth Gupta
    Initial Investment
    2023
  • Cohesity
    Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.
    Initial Investment
    2024
    Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. Cohesity solutions can be delivered as a service, self-managed, or provided by a Cohesity-powered partner.
    CEO
    Sanjay Poonen
    Initial Investment
    2024
  • Eclypsium
    Eclypsium’s cloud-based platform identifies, verifies, and fortifies firmware in laptops, servers, network gear, and connected devices. The Eclypsium platform secures your device supply chain by monitoring devices for threats, critical risks, and patching firmware across the entire device fleet.
    Initial Investment
    2018
    Eclypsium’s cloud-based platform identifies, verifies, and fortifies firmware in laptops, servers, network gear, and connected devices. The Eclypsium platform secures your device supply chain by monitoring devices for threats, critical risks, and patching firmware across the entire device fleet.
    Founders
    Yuriy Bulygin
    Alex Bazhaniuk
    Initial Investment
    2018
  • PlexTrac
    PlexTrac is a modern collaboration and workflow automation platform for cybersecurity teams.
    Initial Investment
    2021
    PlexTrac is a modern collaboration and workflow automation platform for cybersecurity teams.
    Founder
    Daniel DeCloss
    Initial Investment
    2021
  • Stacklok
    Stacklok builds products that help developers securely develop and deploy software. Trusty is a free-to-use service that helps developers vet the safety and trustworthiness of open-source packages as they're importing them into their code. Minder is an open-source platform that helps software project owners automate their security posture by applying and continuously enforcing security policies and best practices across groups of repos.
    Initial Investment
    2023
    Stacklok builds products that help developers securely develop and deploy software. Trusty is a free-to-use service that helps developers vet the safety and trustworthiness of open-source packages as they're importing them into their code. Minder is an open-source platform that helps software project owners automate their security posture by applying and continuously enforcing security policies and best practices across groups of repos.
    Founders
    Craig McLuckie
    Luke Hinds
    Initial Investment
    2023
  • Tigera
    Tigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud- Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. The company’s platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates exposure risks of security issues in build, deploy, and runtime stages. Tigera delivers its platform as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise). Its open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Tigera’s platform specifies security and observability as code to ensure consistent enforcement of security policies, which enables DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time. Powering more than 100M containers across 2M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage, L3Harris, and Mindbody.
    Initial Investment
    2017
    Tigera provides the industry’s only active Cloud- Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) with full-stack observability for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud. The company’s platform prevents, detects, troubleshoots, and automatically mitigates exposure risks of security issues in build, deploy, and runtime stages. Tigera delivers its platform as a fully managed SaaS (Calico Cloud) or a self-managed service (Calico Enterprise). Its open-source offering, Calico Open Source, is the most widely adopted container networking and security solution. Tigera’s platform specifies security and observability as code to ensure consistent enforcement of security policies, which enables DevOps, platform, and security teams to protect workloads, detect threats, achieve continuous compliance, and troubleshoot service issues in real time. Powering more than 100M containers across 2M+ nodes in 166 countries, Calico software is supported across all major cloud providers and Kubernetes distributions, and is used by leading companies including AT&T, Discover, Merck, ServiceNow, HanseMerkur, RealPage, L3Harris, and Mindbody.
    CEO
    Ratan Tipirmeni
    Initial Investment
    2017
  • WhyLabs
    As teams across industries adopt AI, WhyLabs enables them to operate with certainty by providing model monitoring, preventing costly model failures, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, WhyLabs is a privately-held, venture-funded company based in Seattle.
    Initial Investment
    2020
    As teams across industries adopt AI, WhyLabs enables them to operate with certainty by providing model monitoring, preventing costly model failures, and facilitating cross-functional collaboration. Incubated at the Allen Institute for AI, WhyLabs is a privately-held, venture-funded company based in Seattle.
    Founders
    Alessya Visnjic
    Sam Gracie
    Andy Dang
    Maria Karaivanova
    Initial Investment
    2020