Jon Turow
Jon Turow joined Madrona as a partner in 2022 and moved to a venture partner role in 2026; he is now a member of the technical team at Anthropic. He previously spent more than a decade at AWS, leading product for computer vision AI services such as Amazon Textract and Amazon Rekognition and writing the original plans for AWS IoT and Greengrass. Before Amazon he co-founded a cloud telephony startup.
Axiom Math Raises $200M to Build Scalable Formal Verification for AI-Generated Code, Founder Carina Hong Leads Push
Axiom Math, founded by Carina Hong, raised $200 million to build scalable AI code verification using formal mathematical proofs and tools like Lean to ensure provable correctness of AI-generated code.
Amazon Leo VP Steve Rabuchin Retires; Madrona Partner Jon Turow Joins Anthropic; Meta's Hrvoje Benko Exits Amid Layoffs
Steve Rabuchin retired after over 20 years at Amazon, including leading Project Kuiper, while Jon Turow left Madrona to join Anthropic's technical team. Additionally, Hrvoje Benko departed Meta Reality Labs amid layoffs affecting 331 employees in Washington state.
Madrona Leads $15M Round in Ravenna to Build AI-Native Service Management for Mid-Market Companies
Madrona led a $15M investment in Ravenna, which builds an AI-native service management platform that automates internal operations inside collaboration tools like Slack to replace slow, portal-based workflows for mid-market and growth companies.
Tech Veterans Joseph Sirosh and Oren Etzioni Advocate Daily AI Experimentation at PAN-IIT Seattle 2024, Spotlighting Generative AI’s Transformative Impact
Tech veterans Joseph Sirosh and Oren Etzioni urge daily experimentation and learning with AI to stay current amid a pivotal shift driven by generative AI innovations. Sirosh's new startup, CreatorsAGI, focuses on empowering creators to build conversational AI agents, highlighting AI's transformative potential despite existing limitations.
Madrona, Point72 and Madrona Venture Labs make day-one investment in Tektonic to build GenAI agents for sales and revenue operations
Madrona announces a day-one investment in Tektonic alongside Point72 and Madrona Venture Labs; Tektonic builds GenAI agents to automate business operations, initially targeting sales and revenue tasks like quoting, renewals, services, and data quality.
Dust Founders Bet Foundation Models Will Change How Companies Work
Madrona Partner Jon Turow hosts Gabriel Hubert and Stan Polu, the co-founders of a 2023 IA40 winner, Dust, which enables information workers to create LLM-based agents that help them do their own work more efficiently. They discuss the broader AI/LLM ecosystem, the merits and potential of horizontal vs vertical solutions, limitations of AI assistants, and the influence of Stripe on their business. The founders dive into the future use cases and adoption of AI in businesses and also touch on keeping humans in the loop of AI and software development. Transcript: https://www.madrona.com/dust-bets-foundation-models-change-how-companies-work/ (00:00) Introduction and Overview (01:31) The Trade-off Between…
Seattle Startup NoxuData Wins $250K from Madrona Venture Labs to Expand AI Data Platform for CPG Companies
Seattle-based startup NoxuData, which provides an AI platform to help consumer packaged goods companies analyze fragmented data, won $250,000 in pre-seed funding after winning the Madrona Venture Labs competition. Led by co-founders Dae Kim and David Lee, the company offers a conversational dashboard that delivers context-driven insights beyond financial metrics to improve decision-making.
Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow
Get to know Madrona Partner Jon Turow. Learn why he got into VC, what he looks for in founders, where the opportunities lay for founders when it comes to generative AI, and what he enjoys doing outside the office. (00:00:00) Introduction (00:00:39) Jon Turow's background (00:01:19) Why venture capital (00:02:27) Why Madrona (00:03:20) Opportunities in generative AI (00:05:35) What Jon looks for in founders (00:07:02) Jon's book recommendations (00:08:58) What Jon does for fun
Founded & Funded Investor Spotlight with Jon Turow
Get to know Madrona Partner Jon Turow. Learn what drew him to venture capital and working with founders, what he looks for in founders, where he sees opportunities for founders when it comes to generative AI, and what he enjoys doing outside the office. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:39 Jon's background 00:01:19 Why venture capital 00:02:27 Why Madrona 00:03:20 Opportunities in generative AI 00:05:35 What Jon looks for in founders 00:07:02 Jon's book recommendations 00:08:58 What Jon does for fun
MotherDuck’s Jordan Tigani and DuckDB’s Hannes Mühleisen describe partnering to commercialize DuckDB into MotherDuck
This article presents a conversation with DuckDB creator Hannes Mühleisen and MotherDuck founder Jordan Tigani about their partnership that commercializes the DuckDB open-source project into a serverless analytics company, MotherDuck. It traces their meeting, collaboration strategy, and how they balance building a scalable business while supporting the open-source community.
IA40 Spotlight: dbt Labs Founder Tristan Handy on the modern data stack, partnerships, and creating community
In this week's IA40 Spotlight episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona partner Jon Turow talks with dbt Labs Founder and CEO Tristan Handy. Here at Madrona, we just announced our 2022 IA40, and dbt Labs is one of our two-time winners. The company has positioned itself as the industry standard for data transformation in the cloud, and it raised $222 million at the beginning of the year, which was led by Altimeter, but Databricks and Snowflakes both participated in the round, further solidifying dbt's place and the modern data stack. Jon and Tristan dive into the concept of epistemic truth…
Organizations
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Anthropic Technical Staff · current
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Madrona Venture Partner · current
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Substack Newsletter Author · current
Education
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The Wharton School BS, Finance, Strategic Management
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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management MBA, Strategy, Entrepreneurship
