# Madrona

> Madrona is a VC fund in Seattle backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 504 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, United States
- Total investments: 504
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 37%
- Fund size: $260M
- Last fund: Sep 2022
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/madrona-venture-group
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/madronaventures
- Website: http://Madrona.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Madrona-Venture-Group/21621734279

Madrona is a VC fund in Seattle focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$14M |
| Series A | $2.7M–$25M |
| Series B | $6.1M–$75M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 102 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 50 | 10% |
| SaaS | 39 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 38 | 8% |
| Enterprise Software | 30 | 6% |

246 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 126 | 25% |
| Series B | 94 | 19% |
| Seed | 90 | 18% |
| Series C | 44 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 30 | 6% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 233 | 46% |
| Canada | 4 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 0% |
| Israel | 1 | 0% |
| Australia | 1 | 0% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Picardo | Senior Associate | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-picardo |
| Hope Cochran | Managing Director | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hope-f-cochran |
| John Torrey | Venture Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-torrey |
| Jon Turow | Partner | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jon-turow |
| Len Jordan | Managing Director | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/len-jordan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Faye | Faye provides whole-trip travel coverage and care that brings out the best in each journey with industry-leading technology that enables smarter, faster, smoother assistance and claims resolutions. Our robust travel insurance covers your health, your trip, your stuff, and even your pet, via an app that provides real-time proactive solutions,quick reimbursements and 24/7 customer experience specialists who turn travel mishaps into laugh-about-it-later memories. Join our team of travel and insurance experts as we set a new standard by overdelivering in an industry oftentimes synonymous with doing the opposite. | $50M | Series C | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Faye | Faye provides whole-trip travel coverage and care that brings out the best in each journey with industry-leading technology that enables smarter, faster, smoother assistance and claims resolutions. Our robust travel insurance covers your health, your trip, your stuff, and even your pet, via an app that provides real-time proactive solutions,quick reimbursements and 24/7 customer experience specialists who turn travel mishaps into laugh-about-it-later memories. Join our team of travel and insurance experts as we set a new standard by overdelivering in an industry oftentimes synonymous with doing the opposite. | $50M | Series C | Aug 05, 2026 |  |
| Polar | Recursive Intelligence, Inc. is an applied AI engineering company that develops Polar, an AI native browser designed to automate complex, hours long tasks like market research, recruiting pipelines, and sales outreach directly inside existing user accounts. The browser operates autonomously on a Chromium architecture, utilizing built-in securityguardrails to safely manage repetitive operations and reduce professional context switching. | $5.7M | Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| Thira | Thira is developing secure, self-governing AI that controls the technology that businesses now use. | $21M | Seed | Jul 14, 2026 |  |
| Gradial | Marketing & sales ops at the speed of thought | $65M | Series C | Jun 17, 2026 |  |
| Golden Analytics | Golden Analytics develops an AI-native business intelligence platform that automates analytics workflows from data connection through insight delivery. The product provides a Discover experience that summarizes connected datasets, highlights patterns, and suggests questions to explore. It combines manual analysis with configurable AI assistance fordata cleaning, anomaly detection, calculations, and dashboard creation. Users can control how much autonomy to give the AI, review generated outputs, and adapt them for interactive data stories. The platform targets organizations that want to reduce friction in analytics and enable more people to work directly with data. | $14M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Gray Swan | Gray Swan AI is an AI security company that develops tools for evaluating and protecting large language model deployments. Its platform focuses on identifying vulnerabilities such as jailbreaks, prompt injections, harmful outputs, and other adversarial attacks that can affect AI systems in production. The company offers products including Shade, anautomated red-teaming and vulnerability assessment tool, and Cygnal, a runtime protection layer that monitors and filters AI interactions in real time. Gray Swan’s technology is designed to work with multiple AI providers and is used to test the security and reliability of AI applications, agents, and workflows. The company also operates adversarial testing programs and collaborates with AI researchers and enterprises to study emerging threats and improve AI safety practices. | $40M | Series A | May 28, 2026 |  |
| Golden Analytics | Golden Analytics develops an AI-native business intelligence platform that automates analytics workflows from data connection through insight delivery. The product provides a Discover experience that summarizes connected datasets, highlights patterns, and suggests questions to explore. It combines manual analysis with configurable AI assistance fordata cleaning, anomaly detection, calculations, and dashboard creation. Users can control how much autonomy to give the AI, review generated outputs, and adapt them for interactive data stories. The platform targets organizations that want to reduce friction in analytics and enable more people to work directly with data. | $7M | Seed | Apr 07, 2026 |  |
| Ridge AI | Ridge AI develops data infrastructure and artificial intelligence solutions that support data processing, analysis, and model deployment. The company provides tools for managing data pipelines, integrating machine learning models, and enabling scalable analytics workflows. Its platform is designed to help organizations organize, transform, andutilize data across different systems.The organization combines software engineering and data science to support use cases such as predictive analytics, automation, and operational insights. It also offers interfaces and integrations that allow teams to build, test, and deploy AI models within existing environments. Ridge AI works with clients to streamline data operations and improve the use of machine learning in business processes. | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Apr 06, 2026 |  |
| Doss | Doss provides an adaptive resource platform (ARP) that integrates core business functions such as inventory management, procurement, sales orders and billing, accounting, warehousing, and production planning into a unified system. The platform includes a workflow editor, allowing users to automate processes and configure workflows tailored to theiroperations. Doss also offers DataStudio, a feature that enables users to create dashboards and monitor sales analytics, production metrics, and operational KPIs without the need for separate business intelligence tools. The system supports integration with digital tools, facilitating the aggregation of orders across point-of-sale systems and synchronization of data from third-party sources and warehouses. Doss serves various industries, including industrials, consumer goods, food and beverage, construction, distribution, and cosmetics, providing a centralized solution for managing complex operations. | $55M | Series B | Mar 24, 2026 |  |

10 of 504 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Vulcan Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vulcan-capital) — VC Fund, 34 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 25 deals together
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- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 22 deals together
- [Founders' Co-op](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-co-op) — VC Fund, 19 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Madrona invest in?

Madrona invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 504 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Madrona's check size?

Madrona typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$14M at Seed, $2.7M–$25M at Series A and $6.1M–$75M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Madrona participates in.

### How do I contact Madrona?

Public channels for Madrona include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Madrona?

The team at Madrona includes Chris Picardo (Senior Associate), Hope Cochran (Managing Director) and John Torrey (Venture Partner), among 30 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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