Meet the Venture Capitalists · Firm Profile
Madrona
The Pacific Northwest anchor of this directory. States it invests in people and ideas for the long run, and describes itself as an active, full-stack partner that rolls up its sleeves to help founders turn visionary ideas into transformational businesses.
Criteria: Backs founding teams at seed, early and acceleration stages, across named areas including AI and intelligent apps, AI-enabled biotech, consumer and marketplace, data and infrastructure, deep tech, developer platforms and tools, enterprise apps, and security. Publishes no check sizes and no fund sizes.
What this means for your pitchIf you are building in Seattle this is the first serious call, and they will still see you from Palo Alto. The acceleration-stage language matters: they state they stay past the first check, so ask directly what staying with a company at your stage has actually looked like.
Check sizes and fund sizes are not published by the firm.
MadronaChecked 18 August 2026
From Madrona's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Madrona led a $21 million seed round in Thira, founded by Sunny Gupta and Kurt Shintaffer, founders Madrona has backed before. The firm states Thira is building an agentic and secure system of execution to help CIOs implement AI in the enterprise.
Madrona and NEA co-led a $7M seed round in Golden Analytics, which is building an AI-native platform for the full cycle of data exploration and analysis, from locating and preparing data through surfacing insights.
Madrona announced its participation in the $60 million seed round of Entire, led by Felicis with participation from Microsoft's M12 and Basis Set. Founded by former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Entire is building a developer platform for workflows in which AI agents and humans produce and review code together, including Git-compatible version control and a semantic reasoning layer.