Ishani Ummat
Madrona doubles down on MotherDuck in Series A to commercialize DuckDB-based serverless analytics
Madrona announces a follow-on Series A investment in MotherDuck, a team building a serverless, enterprise-focused analytics platform that extends the open-source DuckDB to provide scalable, fast, cost-effective, and collaborative cloud analytics for businesses.
IA40 Spotlight: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen on AI-powered talent solutions, developing talent, and maintaining culture
This week on Founded and Funded, we spotlight our next IA40 winner – SeekOut. Investor Ishani Ummat talks to SeekOut Co-founder and CEO Anoop Gupta and VP of People Jenny Armstrong-Owen about their AI-powered intelligence platform, the importance of not only finding and recruiting new hires but also developing and retaining employees within a company, and maintaining SeekOut's own culture while seeing significant growth over the last year.
Investor Announces Funding for Yoodli, an AI App Delivering Real-Time Feedback to Cure Public-Speaking Fear
The author announces their investment in Yoodli, an AI-powered app that gives real-time verbal and nonverbal feedback, progress tracking, peer review, and coach connections to help users overcome fear of public speaking.
Investor Announces Funding for Game Jolt, a Gen‑Z Focused Community Platform Founded by Yaprak and David DeCarmine
The author announces an investment in Game Jolt, a game-agnostic social platform led by founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine that serves Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha gamers and creators with community features for over 3 million monthly users and 40,000+ games.
