Founded & Funded

Madrona investors, Soma and Elisa,  sit down with the co-founder of Coda, Shishir Mehrotra. They discuss the foundational questions that Mehrotra had to ask himself before leaving Google to take the entrepreneurial leap for the second time, what to do when your family and friends don’t entirely see it your way, and a surprising first funding story.  They also discuss the importance of treating employees like investors.  Shishir is a great story teller so be sure to check this episode out! 

The run down on the DL with Dan Li and Chris Picardo from Madrona.  Recording SNAFU last week meant we missed a great Tic Tok discussion ( we expect that will happen again) but we are back!  The DL is a weekly newsletter that covers startup news and other fun stuff from Madrona Venture Group investor, Dan Li. August 10 edition - https://bit.ly/3kx4o8e 

In this quick run down we discuss the concept of Amazon spinning off AWS (ala Tim Bray's piece on Github), what a SPAC is and why they are gaining steam right now, and GPT-3 - some very cool technology from OpenAI - that and more in the week's DL. http://thedl.danielxli.com/issues/the-dl-a-cloud-s-prfaq-geekwire-awards-spacs-gpt-3-demos-261053 

In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona managing director Tim Porter sits down with Saykara Founder, Harjinder Sandhu, and  President Dr. Graham Hughes. They talk about how new technologies are changing the physician’s office  and why now is the time  for AI, NPL and Speech recognition to make the physican’s life easier by dramatically reducing their time devoted to charting. They also speak about the benefits and challenges that come with scaling a startup successfully. 

A quick dive into the DL this week with Daniel Li and Elisa La Cava of Madrona.  Here is this week's newsletter with links. https://bit.ly/32I5wzh. We also hear from Harjinder Sandhu and Graham Hughes of Saykara.  SayKara is a health startup and the two leaders share some advice here for other startup entrepreneurs.  

Daniel Li, Ishani Ummat and Erika Shaffer from Madrona talk about the news of the day, how Accolade is the first Seattle IPO of the year and how we all appreciate Raj SIngh's Linked In profile and then wax poetical on how well DIsney + will be doing in 20 years.  Not to mention, Slack vs Teams, care of Stratechery.  Join us this Friday for our first 25th anniversary virtual even with John Stanton and Hope Cochran - sign up here.  

In this episode of Founded and Funded, Madrona managing director, Scott Jacobson sits down with serial founder and CEO of Crowd Cow, Joe Heitzeberg. They discuss how Crowd Cow was able to build their own supply chain to elevate a culture of transparent and conscious protein consumption. The two also talk about how, through a global pandemic that has rocked the meat industry, the company was able to build resilience. Give it a listen! Joe’s retelling of how Crowd Cow came to be will not disappoint.

In this episode , we’re switching things up! Madrona's Daniel Li @danielxli and Ishani Ummat explore if Amazon might be headed to Day Two and how new companies are kicking old ones off the big stock indices. And then hear from @jorisaeger from  @uplevelteam, to learn more about deep work.  Which we all aspire to especially in this WFH environment.  Jori talks about how companies and managers can help create that for their teams.  https://uplevelteam.com/innovation-managing-remote-team/ 

Founded and Funded is back for Season 3, hosted by Erika Shaffer, and we start with a conversation about the current news about startups in the Pacific Northwest.  This conversation between Madrona investors, Dan Li and Ishani Ummat covers a high flying tech IPO that no one in Silicon Valley seemed to notice until it doubled in price, what could be the future of virtual road shows as well as a call out to a memorable piece by Glenn Kelman on Redfin’s iPO that is a classic.  You also learn what PJ means to the PE folks.  And it’s not your jammies. All this and more  - and you can read along with Dan’s weekly newsletter, The DL,

In this environment, Sales and Go to Market for enterprise companies has changed, sometimes drastically. We sat down with sales leaders from early, mid and later stage venture funded enterprise SaaS companies to talk about how they are addressing the challenge of sales and GTM in the COVID19 time. Tune into hear some creative ideas for building team work, strengthening customer relationships and continuing to grow your business. Hear from Snowflake, Clari and Seekout.io