Fundraising Fox

S. Somasegar

Investor

Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group · Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group at Mela Ventures · Board director at Observe

Greater Seattle Area

Find your path to S. Somasegar

366 people in our graph share verified history with S. Somasegar — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Scott JacobsonunlockedS. Somasegar: together at Madrona (2015–2026)
×5S. Somasegar: together at Madrona
S. Somasegar: together at UiPath
×5S. Somasegar: together at Madrona Venture Group

About

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.

Contact· self-published, not guessed

Board director at Observe

Intro paths

→

In turn, S. can intro founders to Observe's investors below.

Observe's investors · 12

Alumni VenturesManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025Artisanal VenturesTiburon · since 2025Basecamp FundManchester · $100K – $10M checks · since 2025Evolution Equity PartnersNew York · $20M – $150M checks · since 2025Human CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $200M checks · since 2025MADRONA ACCELERATIONSeattle · since 2025Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M checks · since 2025Menlo VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $20M checks · since 2022Nexus Venture PartnersPort Louis, Port Louis · $500K – $10M checks · since 2022Scale Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $5M – $25M checks · since 2022SoftBank Vision FundLondon · since 2025Sutter Hill VenturesPalo Alto · $100K – $5M checks · since 2025

Experience

  1. MadronaManaging Directorcurrent2015 — presentGreater Seattle Area
  2. UiPathMember Board of Directorscurrent2024 — presentNew York, United States
  3. MicrosoftCorporate Vice President1989 — 2015Greater Seattle Area

Skills & more

ManagementSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSoftware Engineering.NETProduct ManagementVisual StudioCloud ComputingTransformational OutsourcingLeadershipSoftware DevelopmentAgile Methodologies
+2 moreProgram ManagementSoftware Project Management

From S.'s professional profile.

Colleagues at Madrona Venture Group

Alexandra Estep
Controller at Madrona Venture Group
Alison McCulloch
Executive Assistant at Madrona Venture Group
Alli Sherwin
Executive Assistant at Madrona Venture Group
An Cayas
Executive Assistant at Madrona Venture Group
Andrew Leary
IT Support Engineer at Madrona Venture Group
Anna Baird
Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Group
Anna Chen
Investor at Madrona Venture Group
Anna Schmitz
Receptionist at Madrona Venture Group

Network1

Chris ScogginsScout
Partner at SignalFire

Investors connected to S. in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is S. Somasegar?
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.
Where does S. Somasegar work?
S. Somasegar is Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group and Board director at Observe.
Where did S. Somasegar go to school?
S. Somasegar studied at University at Buffalo (Computer Engineering); Louisiana State University (Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering); College of Engineering, Guindy (Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering).

Same school

Also attended University at Buffalo119

Ariel LebowitsCFO at FJ LabsRyan ScottInvestor at Khosla VenturesMichael TaylorOperating Partner at Mission BiocapitalLinda SinghInvestor at Golden SeedsBrian KangCo-Founder & Managing Director at Nautilus Ventures Management Company (Us), LlcKenneth K ThomasPrincipal at Backfuture Ventures, Llc

+ 113 more

Also attended Louisiana State University87

William P. CrowellInvestor at Alsop Louie PartnersMarkInvestor at Yu GalaxyJohn CaseyCEO, Ormoni & Venture Partner at Pillar VCQiang XuPartner at Decheng CapitalSara KangaspeskaInvestment Director, Innovestor Life Science at Innovestor VenturesTalmadge SingerManaging Director at Advantage Capital Partners

+ 81 more

Also attended College of Engineering, Guindy28

Karthee MadasamyManaging Partner at MFV PartnersLak AnanthGlobal Managing Partner at Next47Hariharan PremkumarManaging Director & Head of India at DSG Consumer PartnersRam NagappanVenture Partner at SixThirty VenturesChinnu SenthilkumarManaging Partner at Exfinity VenturesHowieManaging Director at Ranch Ventures

+ 22 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Madrona69

Scott JacobsonManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupKaran MehandruManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupTim PorterManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupSteve SinghManaging Director at Madrona Venture GroupChris PicardoPartner at Madrona investing at the intersection of life science and computer science, plus consumer tech and Web3Sabrina Albert (Wu)Partner at Madrona Venture Group

+ 63 more

Also worked at UiPath45

Luciana LixandruPartner at Sequoia CapitalDaniel DinesCo-founder, CEO & Chairman of UiPathSangeen ZebInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Ted KummertVenture partner at Madrona focused on enterprise infrastructure, data, and intelligent applicationsKulpreet SinghOperating Advisor at OpenOceanRadu BozgaPrincipal at Notion Capital

+ 39 more

Also worked at Microsoft1,978

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorNat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGKai-Fu LeeChairman of Sinovation Ventures and CEO of 01.AIBill GatesCo-founder of Microsoft; Chair of the Gates FoundationMike KriegerCo-founder of Instagram; Chief Product Officer at Anthropic

+ 1,972 more