The Madrona Venture Labs team, clockwise from left: Flora Ku, Keith Rosema, Maria Hess, Henry Huang, Mike Fridgen, Jay Bartot, Jason Flateboe. (Madrona Venture Labs photo) The news: Madrona Venture Labs, the startup studio affiliated with Madrona Venture Group, has raised $ 8 million for its fourth fund. The Seattle-based studio also unveiled a new … Read more
Bobby Goodlatte ist erst seit etwa einem Jahrzehnt ein Investor, aber er scheint bereits zig Millionen Dollar verdient zu haben, entgegen den Erwartungen einiger traditioneller VCs, die privat und öffentlich festgestellt haben, dass zu viele unerfahrene Investoren in die USA geflutet sind Industrie. „Ich erinnere mich an einen sehr prominenten Investor, der damals sagte:‚ All … Read more
Venture Out executives Sean Sternbach (left) and Ken Horenstein. (Venture out photo) Venture Out expanded: The Seattle-based organization that aims to help technicians quit businesses and create their own startups has added a new program called Moonlighter Lab. What it does: The lab charges $ 1,499 for an 8-week program of validating startup ideas from … Read more
When Xuezhao Lan founded Basis Set Ventures, the goal was to use the technology to enable venture capital investments. From the earliest days when Lan hired former TechCrunch reporter John Mannes and then built the team with data scientist Rachel Wong, former Upfront Ventures partner Chang Xu, and former Vice President of Growth Sheila Vashee, … Read more
Iterative CEO Patrick Thompson. (Iterative photo) The Seattle startup iteratively raised a $ 5.4 million round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund. Founded in 2019 by veterans of Atlassian and Microsoft, the company iteratively sells software to data and product teams to track customer analytics. The idea is to avoid data quality problems … Read more