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S. Somasegar is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, where he focuses on investment areas including machine learning and artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent applications. Before joining Madrona in November 2015, he spent nearly 27 years at Microsoft, most recently leading the Developer Division responsible for the Visual Studio and .NET product families and overseeing R&D labs in Boston, China, India, and Israel. He holds a master's degree in computer engineering from Louisiana State University and a bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from Guindy Engineering College, Anna University, which also awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Scott Jacobson is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, which he joined in 2007. Before entering venture capital, he worked at Amazon.com, holding senior product and business management positions in the Amazon Kindle and Amazon Marketplace groups, where he led initiatives including the international rollout of Amazon's Merchants@ platform. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Consultant in Accenture's strategy consulting practice, working with clients in enterprise software, retail, and energy sectors. As an investor, he focuses on consumer web and apps, e-commerce, digital media, and mobile technologies that can disrupt large established markets. He has served on the boards of several portfolio companies and as a board observer for others. He also served on the board of Jambool prior to its acquisition by Google in 2010.