Ted Kummert
Chief Product Officer in Residence and Venture Partner @ Madrona
Seattle, United States
Ted Kummert is a seed investor at Madrona in Seattle focused on CRM and Big Data. Ted joined Madrona in 2013 and brings his years of technical and operational leadership in enterprise technology to Madrona and the portfolio companies. As Venture Partner, Ted identifies new investments and provides strategic counsel and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies. Prior to Madrona, Ted drove major product and businessinitiatives for Microsoft for more than two decades. At Microsoft, Kummert led teams across a broad set of technologies, including operating systems, consumer online services, enterprise security and enterprise application platform. As Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform Group, Kummert led the development of several key Microsoft enterprise products including SQL Server, SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse, Windows Azure Data Services and Microsoft's business intelligence and big data offerings. Widely known as the "data chief" of Microsoft, he led the data platform business through a period of significant growth and drove the cloud and big data strategy for the platform. Ted began his career at Apple and HP.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 50%
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Industries Ted Kummert invests in
Stages Ted Kummert invests in
Countries Ted Kummert invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- CRM 1 (50%)
- Big Data 1 (50%)
- Software 1 (50%)
- Life Science 1 (50%)
- Machine Learning 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Series A 1 (50%)
Country
- Switzerland 1 (50%)
- United States 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Veezoo creates a self-service analytics solution that allows users to quickly obtain business insights from cloud databases by asking natural-language questions. Veezoo's NLP technology decodes the complex structure and content of a cloud database and then responds instantly with insightful answers to complex questions. Veezoo'scloud-based analytics approach substitutes an intuitive, conversational interface for the ineffective drag-and-drop interfaces of conventional business intelligence solutions. | $6M / Series A / Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Tektonic AI provides GenAI agents for business operations meant to automate complicated and dynamic tasks. | $10M / Seed / Jun 06, 2024 |
Co-Investors
About Madrona
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.
Madrona Contacts
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Len Jordan
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What does Ted Kummert invest in?
Ted Kummert invests primarily in CRM, Big Data and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Ted Kummert closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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