Founded & Funded

Thompson and Austin Hay, co-founders of Clarify, the startup that’s pioneering the idea of autonomous CRM.

Their vision? A CRM that actually does the work for sellers of driving outreach, managing pi…

In this Investor Spotlight episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona’s Coral Ducken sits down with Investor Rolanda Fu to explore her journey to VC — from playing violin at weddings to advising startups i…

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami sits down with Jared Palmer — designer, developer, and founder of Turborepo (acquired by Vercel), and former VP of AI at Vercel.

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In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Investor Rolanda Fu is joined by Dedy Kredo, the co-founder and chief product officer of QodoAI — formerly CodiumAI, a 2024 IA40 winner and one of the mos…

In the latest episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Vivek Ramaswami sits down with Harley Sugarman, founder and CEO of Anagram, to unpack how one pivot, a flood of cold outreach, and relentles…

What happens when a scientist becomes a VC? We sat down with Madrona’s Joe Horsman to find out. In this episode, Joe shares his journey from late nights in the lab to helping biotech founders bring l…

In this Founded & Funded episode, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar sits down with Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, to unpack his journey from startup founder to corpora…

Entrepreneurs often ask: When do I know it’s time to scale? Or, how do I lead when I wasn’t the original founder?

In this week’s Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Chris Picardo sits down with Eleanor…

Most startups bolt AI onto old products.  ⁨@ravennahq⁩  reimagined the entire workflow. 

When we first met Kevin Coleman and Taylor Halliday, it was clear they weren’t just chasing the hype cycle. Th…

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar sits down with Anoop Gupta, co-founder and CEO of  @SeekOut    — an AI-first company transforming how organizations disco…

This bonus episode of Founded & Funded is a follow-up to Madrona Partner Jon Turow's conversation with Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI and co-inventor of RAG.

In this quick chat, they dive into:

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​Microsoft Chairman & CEO Satya Nadella sat down with Madrona Managing Director Soma Somasegar at Madrona’s 2025 Annual Meeting to discuss the key inflection points in his leadership journey, Microso…

What does it take to invent a foundational AI paradigm — and then build a company to bring it to the enterprise?

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Partner Jon Turow sits down with Douwe Ki…

The security industry has a math problem: 12 million job postings, only 7 million qualified professionals. The solution? AI.

Edward Wu spent nearly a decade at ExtraHop, pioneering AI-driven security…

The biggest AI breakthroughs won’t come from Ph.D. labs — they’ll come from people solving real-world problems. So how do AI founders actually turn cutting-edge research into real products and scale …

Thinking about leaving Big Tech for a startup? In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter sits down with Bhrighu Sareen, who took the leap from Microsoft to Highspot an…

What does it take to go from engineer to founder, from startup CEO to scale CEO? In this special live episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Karan Mehandru sits down with Mohit Aron, …

Terray Therapeutics CEO Jacob Berlin returns to Founded & Funded after three years to share how the company has scaled from an ambitious startup to an industry leader in AI-driven biotech. Learn how …

Imagine a future where healthcare isn’t just reactive but deeply personalized — where every patient gets the right treatment at the right time based on a precise understanding of their biology. This …

In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona Managing Director Tim Porter and Jama Software CEO Marc Osofsky discuss the intentional strategies that fueled Jama’s transformation from $20M ARR to a $1…