May 15, 2022

#20 Mike Fridgen: Seattle based Startup Incubator Madrona Venture Labs

32 minutes

In this Episode of Startup Project, Nataraj talked to Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs a Seattle based tech startup incubator. Some of the companies incubated include Style Genome (Acq by Wayfair), Chatitive (Acq by MailChimp), Message Yes (Acq by Nordstrom) & more. Before joining Madrona Venture Labs Mike was part of founding teams at Farecast (Acq by Microsoft) & Decide (Acq by Ebay) where he led product and growth strategies.

Full Conversation includes:

Farecast.com (Predicting prices) - Acquired by Microsoft

Decide.com (next gen consumer reports) - Acquired by Ebay

Through line across being part of multiple acquisitions

Incubating companies at Madrona Venture Labs

Relationship with Madrona Venture Group

Thematic focus behind companies incubated at Madrona Venture Labs

Nataraj is a PM at Azure, partner at NVC & hosts thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/natarajsindam. You can also subscribe to his newsletter at getrevue.co/profile/StartupProject

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