Catch the latest from Founded & Funded — Madrona's Karan Mehandru has a great conversation with Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson that anyone building in #AI should listen to. The Aspiring for Intelligence team dropped their latest issue Friday, diving into the evolution and future of the sales tech stack. We also announced some confirmed speakers for our #IASummit, which is just over a month out! You can also hear from some portfolio company leaders in this week's portfolio roundup. #IA40 #sales #salesstack #VoiceAI
Madrona
Financial Services
Seattle, WA 24,274 followers
We help technology entrepreneurs launch and grow world-class companies.
About us
Seed, early stage and acceleration stage investor and partner for founders. Investing for over 25 years in startups in the Pacific NW, now investing here and across the US in machine learning, AI, marketplaces, devops, biotech and across the technology spectrum.
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http://www.madrona.com
External link for Madrona
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Seattle, WA
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1995
- Specialties
- Early-stage, Seed, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, Consumer Internet, Enterprise Software, Digital Media & Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Acceleration Stage, DevOpps, Open Source, BioTech, venture capital, and startup journey
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999 3rd Avenue
Suite 3400
Seattle, WA 98104, US
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524 Hamilton Avenue
201
Palo Alto, CA 94301, US
Employees at Madrona
Updates
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Madrona reposted this
Our #AI conversational assistant, Cohesity Gaia, brings retrieval augmented generation (RAG) AI and LLMs to customers’ high quality #backup data to unlock data insights. But what is RAG, anyway? 🤔
What is retrieval augmented generation? (And why does it matter?)
Cohesity on LinkedIn
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Founders - pick one thing and then put the blinders on! That’s some advice from Deepgram Founder Scott Stephenson! Listen or watch his full conversation with Madrona’s Karan Mehandru for more advice and a great AI discussion! YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gRxXnEgg Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gRGeW4kA
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The sales tech and buyers journey has become significantly more complex, disparate, and crowded over the last 10 years. After the success of Salesforce in the early days of the cloud, funding for “sales tech” companies ballooned. Every stage of the sales journey — from prospecting to closing — became littered with new solutions that were fairly undifferentiated and didn’t move the needle. But things are changing — a new wave of AI-first products has emerged to help modern sales teams meet their goals. This week in Aspiring for Intelligence, Vivek Ramaswami and Sabrina Wu dive into the macro trends they've observed within the sales stack, what they're excited about, and what they expect will change over the next 5 years. Read and subscribe to their Substack for bimonthly insights into the world of AI and Intelligent applications: https://lnkd.in/gF2mYUeV
The Sales Stack of the Future
aspiringforintelligence.substack.com
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The 3rd annual Intelligent Application Summit on Oct. 2 in Seattle promises to be the best yet!! Intelligent and generative applications are defining the next generation of innovation. New GenAI, agentic, and infrastructure stacks are emerging. Foundation models and GenAI are taking the world by storm. As these technologies mature, the potential they have when deployed in business applications becomes more apparent by the day. It is these applications that will define the future of software and the next generation of computing. We are thrilled to bring together leaders driving #AI agendas, strategies, and products for this invite-only Summit. Don't miss this unique opportunity to network and gain insights from the leading voices in AI. Some of this year's speakers include Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of AI at Microsoft, Aidan Gomez of Cohere, Brad Gerstner of Altimeter, Marco Argenti of Goldman Sachs, Oren Etzioni of TrueMedia.org ... and many more that will be announced in the coming weeks. You can request an invite to the IA Summit and learn more about the IA40 here: https://ia40.com/summit We look forward to seeing you there! Thank you to our partners at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Delta Air Lines, NYSE, Morgan Stanley, & McKinsey & Company! Madrona #IASummit
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The conversation between Managing Director Karan Mehandru and Scott Stephenson, Co-Founder and CEO of Deepgram, on this week's Founded & Funded is a must-listen for anyone building in AI. Scott and Karan dive into the realities of building a foundational AI company. They discuss the challenges of moving from prototype to production, how startups need to out-fox the hyperscalers while also partnering with them, the importance of keeping the blinders on, and, of course, how Scott went from being a particle physicist working on detecting dark matter to building large language models for speech recognition. Listen or Watch wherever you get your podcasts! Like what you hear? Subscribe to tune into these conversations every other week! YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Z3TpJX Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3XmrEew Apple: https://apple.co/4cI3iQY Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cDV500 Podcast Addicts: https://bit.ly/3yYkKTu Madrona Site (Full Transcript): https://bit.ly/3XkhYBk
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Madrona reposted this
Successfully navigating a CEO transition is no small feat. It’s a pivotal moment that tests a startup's resilience and vision. Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Temporal Technologies Co-founders Maxim Fateev and Samar Abbas, who shared some of the insights from their recent role swap. We talked about that and so much more. You can listen or watch the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts: YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g-8ue5SS Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4cqkqdJ Apple: https://apple.co/4fKmgZS Amazon: https://amzn.to/4cIxcEN Madrona (Transcript): https://bit.ly/4csd4WY
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Great night for a Madrona Seattle Mariners team event!! Spending time with great coworkers and a M’s win - couldn’t ask for a better night!
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