# Jon Turow

> Jon Turow is a seed investor at Madrona (Seattle) backing Database and Internet. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Madrona](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/madrona-venture-group)
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jturow

Jon Turow is a seed investor at Madrona in Seattle focused on Database and Internet. Jon Turow is the Partner at Madrona Venture Group.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Database | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Analytics | 1 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 20% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 80% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Israel | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nekuda.ai | Nekuda.ai is a secure payments SDK that enables AI and software agents to autonomously make real online payments on behalf of users or businesses. It provides secure storage and injection of payment credentials, instant user authorization through transparent agentic mandates, and built-in compliance and trust guardrails. This infrastructure bridgesthe gap between human oversight and autonomous agent-driven commerce, allowing seamless, user-approved transactions in consumer and business use cases | $5M | Seed | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Yutori | Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own. | $15M | Seed | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| MotherDuck | In stealth mode: data infrastructure and analytics. | $52.5M | Series B | Sep 20, 2023 |  |
| Visual Layer | Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos. | $7M | Seed | May 16, 2023 |  |
| MotherDuck | In stealth mode: data infrastructure and analytics. | $12.5M | Seed | Nov 15, 2022 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Amplify Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amplify-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zero Prime Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-community-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Felicis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/felicis-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Altimeter](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Amex Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/american-express-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Madrona

VC Fund · Seattle, United States

Madrona Venture Group is a Seattle-based venture capital firm. The firm prefers to invest in businesses that are involved in information technology, e-commerce, digital media, advertising, software, gaming, data, analytics, mobile, and infrastructure.

5 contacts available at Madrona.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Picardo | Senior Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-picardo |
| Hope Cochran | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hope-f-cochran |
| John Torrey | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-torrey |
| Jon Turow | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-turow |
| Len Jordan | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/len-jordan |

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## FAQ

### What does Jon Turow invest in?

Jon Turow invests primarily in Database, Internet and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jon Turow last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jon Turow closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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