Tim Porter
Tim Porter manages this profileTim Porter is Managing Director at Madrona. He was Director, Corporate Development at Microsoft and Director of Finance at Eagle River Investments and Teledesic.
Yifan Zhang announces AI House Demo Day: 25 teams pitched in Seattle with 42 investors attending
AI House held its first AI House Demo Day in Seattle where 25 teams (half portfolio companies) presented to an audience that included 42 investors; founders, investors, and organizers connected through pitches, meetings, and events around the day.
Jacob Colker announces Seattle startup gathering at Showbox Market thanking J.P. Morgan, Google, Fenwick & West and Pilot.com
Jacob Colker thanks sponsors, Seattle founders, and the AI House team after a gathering at the historic Showbox Market, expressing enthusiasm for the local startup community.
Impinj CEO Chris Diorio rings Nasdaq bell as RFID chipmaker marks 10th IPO anniversary after growing to $4.2B market cap
Impinj, maker of tiny battery-free RFID chips embedded in over 160 billion items, celebrated the 10th anniversary of its IPO as CEO Chris Diorio rang the Nasdaq bell; the Seattle company commands about two-thirds of its market, grew from a $250 million IPO valuation to a $4.2 billion market cap, but has reported only one profitable year and carries a $400 million accumulated deficit.
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The Best Infrastructure Moment Since Cloud
Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie co-created Kubernetes, the infrastructure standard that became the default for cloud native computing. Now running Stacklok, they're watching enterprises hit the same identity, permissions, and security problems with AI agents that took the container ecosystem years to resolve, and they're building tools to compress that timeline. In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona's Tim Porter sits down with Joe and Craig to talk through what AI adoption actually requires: why MCP is the Docker moment for AI-native applications, how the LLM gateway is becoming a strategic chokepoint for cost, safety, and model flexibility, and…
Tim Porter: Madrona leads $2.6M pre-seed investment in Ridge AI, founded by Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer
Tim Porter announces Madrona is leading a $2.6M pre-seed round in Ridge AI, founded by Ellie Fields and Jeffrey Heer, praising their complementary partnership, Seattle roots, and deep domain expertise from UW and Tableau backgrounds.
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Education
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA · 2001–2003
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology BS, Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Economics · 1992–1996
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Racine Lutheran High School 1988–1992
