S. "Soma" Somasegar
S. 'Soma' Somasegar is Managing Director and Board Member at Madrona Venture Group. He previously held executive roles at Microsoft.
UiPath raises $225M Series E led by Alkeon, valued at $10.2B as RPA demand rises
UiPath raised $225 million in a Series E round led by Alkeon Capital, valuing the robotic process automation company at $10.2 billion; the firm reports over $400 million in annual recurring revenue and says COVID-19 increased demand for automation.
Madrona leads $27M round in Fauna; Bob Muglia named executive chairman, Eric Berg becomes CEO
Madrona Venture Group led a $27 million investment in Fauna, the San Francisco-based database startup founded by two former Twitter engineers, bringing total funding to $57 million and appointing Bob Muglia as executive chairman and Eric Berg as CEO. Fauna focuses on cloud-native, serverless-accessible databases (FaunaDB) and will add Madrona’s S. Somasegar to its board.
Madrona, Microsoft Ventures and Salesforce Ventures lead $40M Series C for online training platform GO1
Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft’s and Salesforce’s venture arms joined a $40 million Series C for online training platform GO1, which serves 3,000+ organizations and has seen engagement triple amid the COVID-19 remote-learning surge.
Steve Singh Joins Madrona Venture Group as Managing Director to Back Next-Gen Entrepreneurs
Steve Singh has joined Madrona Venture Group as a managing director, transitioning from a long entrepreneurial career to venture investing to support and mentor the next generation of entrepreneurs. He emphasizes Madrona's focus on backing people, thematic investing in next-phase computing—especially Intelligent Applications—and helping founders build lasting companies.
Madrona Ventures Invests in Ovation.io to Build Cloud Clinical Informatics for Genomic and Molecular Testing
Madrona announced its investment in Ovation.io, a cloud-based clinical informatics company founded by Barry Wark and Winston Brasor that builds tools to automate molecular testing lab workflows and unlock genomic and clinical data value.
Madrona Venture Labs names entrepreneur Jay Bartot as CTO, joining May 2017 to lead ML and big-data initiatives
Madrona Venture Labs has hired Jay Bartot as Chief Technology Officer; Bartot is a four-time cofounder with expertise in big data, machine learning, and computer vision, and his startups include Farecast, AdRelevance, Medify, and Vhoto.
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Madrona Managing Director and Board Member, Former Microsoft Executive · current -
Madrona Venture Labs Managing Director · current
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Microsoft and Madrona Venture Group Leader · current
