11 posts and columns on Madrona Venture Group

Woof! Rover.com Fetches $3.4 Million to Be Airbnb for Dogs.

in Commerce on April 9 at 6:00 am PT

But at a very un-Airbnb-like valuation.
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Animoto Raises $25M for Video Slideshow Creation

in Social on June 29, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

Animoto, the video slideshow creation tool that has been cash flow positive since late 2009, raised $25 million in funding after building its business on $5 million in the last five years.
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Hey Bing, Here’s Another Decision Engine You Can Buy!

in Commerce on June 20, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Ever wonder if you should buy a new digital camera or wait for a better one just around the corner? Even worse, did you buy the brand-new HDTV right before 3-D came out?
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ShopIgniter Also Gets Funded to Pursue Social Commerce

in Commerce on May 25, 2011 at 9:47 am PT

ShopIgniter has raised $8 million in capital to go after the social commerce market, making it the second company today to announce funding for such a cause.
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News Byte

Sewichi Raises a Seed Round to Track Mobile Analytics

in Commerce on April 26, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

Seattle-based Sewichi has closed a round of seed funding that will be used to discover a new way to measure analytics in the mobile space. Investors in the undisclosed round include Madrona Venture Group and the company’s founder, David Shim. Shim is still being secretive about his three-month-old company, but hinted that mobile has more interesting data points than a PC to track, including location, time of day and information from sensors, such as Wi-Fi and NFC. Shim worked previously at Quantcast and Farecast.

Decide.com Raises Funding for Stealthy E-Commerce Company

in Commerce on April 19, 2011 at 8:43 am PT

Seattle-based Decide.com has raised $6 million in a second round led by some e-commerce legends. The company’s goal? Something about helping electronics purchasers avoid buyer’s remorse.

Indochino Stitches Up $4 Million Round to Fund Men's Custom Apparel Site

in Commerce on March 29, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Indochino has raised $4 million in venture capital to continue making custom-tailored suits over the Internet.

Seven Questions for Sunny Gupta, CEO of Apptio, the CIO's New Best Friend

in Enterprise on January 28, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

All CIOs struggle to get a true understanding of the costs associated with IT infrastructure and also of the value it provides their companies. Apptio is a cloud-based service that tracks those costs every month and helps you get the most out of an IT budget.

I Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business

in Social on January 17, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT

Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud?

Softie Ad Exec Siebrecht to Join AdReady Start-Up

in News on September 12, 2009 at 1:04 pm PT

Apparently, not everyone leaves Yahoo to join Microsoft. On Friday, sources said, it was announced internally at Microsoft that Karl Siebrecht, the former president of Atlas at aQuantive, is joining AdReady at the end of the month as president and COO. AdReady, based in Seattle, bills itself as an “advertising technology company focused on making online display advertising accessible and effective for advertisers of all sizes.”
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A Techtastically Busy Week: A Grab Bag of Digital Stuff to Consider

in News, May 11, 2009 at 6:31 am PT