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Madrona Venture Group — 2020 Investments

18 investments dated 2020 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Auth0auth0.comin𝕏Jul 2020SEC filingmedium confidence

Auth0 is an authentication and authorization platform that secures applications, AI agents, and internal tools by providing identity management, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and fine-grained access control capabilities.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareBellevue, US

Carlos Eugenio Pace(Executive Officer, Director)Matias Woloski(Founder)inEugenio P.(Founder)inJonathan I. Gelsey(Executive Officer, Director)Eugenio Pace(Founder)

BoardSunil Nagaraj(Director)in

Board seatKaran Mehandru· per SEC Form D · $120.5M raise · filed Jul 2020

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersDraper CygnusEndeavor CatalystFounders Circle CapitalFUSEK9 Ventures+13 more

Qumulo enterprise-saasqumulo.cominSep 2020

Qumulo develops unstructured data management and storage infrastructure serving organizations managing petabyte-scale data workloads in AI, media, genomics, and financial services.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US

Aaron Passey(Founder)Neal Fachan(Founder)Peter Godman(Founder)

Board seatMatthew S. McIlwain· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsAmity VenturesDCVC (Data Collective)Kleiner PerkinsNorthern Light Venture CapitalSGH CapitalTyche Partners+3 more

Alluxioalluxio.ioSeries B · Apr 2020 · $7M

Alluxio provides an AI acceleration platform that optimizes data access and GPU utilization for AI and data platform teams across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & Infrastructure

Haoyuan (H.Y.) Li(Founder)

Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzSeven Seas Partners

centercenter.app𝕏Series A · Apr 2020 · $8M

Center was a crypto developer-tools business that provided APIs (including an NFT rendering API) aggregating on-chain data from EVM blockchains, marketed via a consumer website at center.app.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Co-investorsLattice CapitalTop Tier Capital PartnersVOLT CAPITAL

Faunafauna.comJul 2020Defunct

Fauna built FaunaDB, a serverless document-relational cloud database, and shut down the service in May 2025.

San Francisco, US

Evan Weaver(Founder)Matt Freels(Founder)

Co-investorsAlumni VenturesConversion CapitalDCVC (Data Collective)Mango CapitalPoint72 VenturesQuest Venture Partners+11 more

Go1go1.comin𝕏Series C · May 2020 · $40M

Go1 is an online learning platform that aggregates training content from over 250 providers into a single subscription for learning and development leaders.

EdTechEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSSan Francisco, US

Andrew Barnes(Founder)inChris Eigeland(CEO)inVu Tran(Founder)Chris Hood(CTO)inAndrew(Founder)Chris E(Founder)

Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesAirTree VenturesBlack Sheep CapitalEndeavor CatalystFive SigmaFull Circle Venture Capital+19 more

Hyperwriteaihyperwriteai.comin𝕏Nov 2020

HyperWrite is an AI writing assistant delivered as a Chrome extension and web app, offering predictive autocomplete, web search, citations, and hundreds of tools to create, edit, and refine text.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of WorkSaaSMelville, US

Matt Shumer(Founder)inJason Kuperberg(Founder)inJosh BickettinMiles Feldstein(Director)

Co-investorsChapter OneCortical VenturesFoundersNew York Venture PartnersActive CapitalIncisive Ventures

Makewondermakewonder.com𝕏Mar 2020 · $41MAcquired

Wonder Workshop provides educational robots, curriculum, and professional development services to school districts for K-8 STEM initiatives.

EdTechHardwareRoboticsSan Mateo, US

Vikas Gupta(Founder)Kent Bates(Chief Financial Officer)inMikal Greaves(Founder)Saurabh Gupta(Founder)in

BoardScott Jacobson(Director)inJimmy Lu(Director)

Co-investorsWI Harper GroupBright Success CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)GV (Google Ventures)Maven VenturesStartX+1 more

MikMakmikmak.cominJan 2020Acquired

MikMak provides an AI-driven commerce intelligence platform that helps consumer brands measure, plan, and optimize sales and media across the full funnel, drawing on shopper and retailer data.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceMarketing TechRetail Tech

Rachel Tipograph(Founder)in

Co-investorsMiroma VenturesUTA VenturesWaverley CapitalLuminari CapitalLunch PartnersWavecrest Growth Partners

Pulumipulumi.comin𝕏Oct 2020

Pulumi provides Infrastructure as Code tools using general-purpose languages to help engineers build and manage cloud infrastructure faster.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSeattle, US

John Joseph Duffy(Executive Officer, Director)Eric Rudder(Founder)inJoe Duffy(Founder)inLuke Hoban(Founder)

BoardSheila Gulati(Director)in"S. ""Soma""" Somasegar(Director)

Co-investorsFirebolt Ventures Management Company, LlcNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Tola CapitalStrike Capital

Silasilamoney.comin𝕏Apr 2020

Sila provides a money API and banking-as-service platform offering payment APIs and digital wallets for fintech businesses and financial products.

FintechSaaS

Shamir Karkal(Founder)inAlex Lipton(Founder)Angela Angelovska-Wilson(Founder)Carl Huang(Founder)inIsaac Hines(Founder)Mith Paresh Patel(Founder)in

Co-investorsArdent VentureGaingelsMucker CapitalPlug and Play VenturesRevolutionNeu Venture Capital+4 more

Trade Coffeetrade.coffeeSep 2020 · $9M

Coffee marketplace connecting independent roasters to customers nationwide.

Hugh Hunter(Founder)Mike Lackman(Founder)

WhyLabs AIwhylabs.aiinSeed · Sep 2020 · $4MAcquired

WhyLabs provided AI observability and monitoring tools for responsible AI adoption, including platforms for data logging, privacy-preserving monitoring, and large language model oversight.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Alessya Visnjic(Founder)Andy Dang(Founder)Maria Karaivanova(Founder)Sam Gracie(Founder)

Co-investorsAI FundAllen Institute for AI (AI2) IncubatorAscend Venture CapitalDefy PartnersBezos Expeditions

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

2ND WATCH HOLDING COMPANY, INC.Seed Leafattention labsStratify TechnologiesZeitworks

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.