Tim Porter
Tim Porter is Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group and serves as Director at NewDays, Inc. He has previously held leadership roles in finance and corporate development at Eagle River Investments, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Teledesic, and Integris Software Inc.
Madrona Ventures Announces Investment in Rec Room, Citing 10M Players and 1M Creators
Madrona announced its investment in Rec Room, an online social gaming universe with over 10 million players and 1 million creators that offers easy cross-platform play and low-code content creation tools. The firm praised Rec Room’s founders, community-first approach, and alignment with trends in online communities and maker-focused development.
Voodle raises $6M from Madrona and Vulcan to sell TikTok-style workplace video for remote teams
Seattle startup Voodle raised $6 million in a round led by Madrona Venture Group and Vulcan Capital to offer a TikTok-like, bite-sized video communication app for workplaces aimed at reducing Zoom fatigue and Slack overload. The app — launched earlier in 2020 by former Pixvana execs and available on iOS, Android and web — includes searchable clips with transcriptions and integrations with workplace tools.
WhyLabs, AI2 Spinout Led by Ex-Amazon Engineers, Raises $4M from Madrona, Bezos Expeditions and Others
WhyLabs, an AI monitoring startup spun out of the Allen Institute for AI, emerged from stealth after raising $4 million from investors including Madrona, Defy Partners, Bezos Expeditions and Ascend VC to commercialize a platform for monitoring ML data and models. The company is led by CEO Alessya Visnjic, joined by former Amazon ML engineers Andy Dang and Sam Gracie plus ex-Madrona principal Maria Karaivanova.
Anu Sharma leaves AWS to join Madrona Venture Group as investor after eight years at Amazon
Anu Sharma left an eight-year product management role at Amazon/AWS to join Madrona Venture Group’s investment team, turning a long-standing personal interest in investing into a full-time career where she plans to apply engineering rigor to evaluating and growing startups.
U.S. VC Investments Total $34.2B in Q1 2020 as COVID-19 Threatens Decade-Long Growth
U.S. venture capitalists invested $34.2 billion across 2,298 deals in Q1 2020, slightly down from the prior year, but analysts expect investment pace and valuations to slow as COVID-19 disrupts the startup ecosystem and deal pipelines.
Tim Porter
Tim Porter, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, discusses how the venture capital firm operates, what a day in the life of a VC looks like, what he looks for in a founder, and funding female founders. Prior to joining Madrona in 2006, Tim attended MIT and Stanford Business School and worked at Teledesic and Microsoft. His passion about very early stage companies makes him a perfect fit for his current role, where he focuses on investing in B2B software companies in the Pacific Northwest. Some of Tim’s companies include Heptio, Highspot, Algorithmia and Lattice Data. Beyond talking about his…
Lexion Raises $4.2M Series Seed Led by Madrona to Apply AI/NLP for Contract Management
Lexion, an AI/NLP contract-management startup spun from AI2 technology, announced a $4.2 million Series Seed round led by Madrona to help mid-market businesses extract and track key details from complex documents.
Madrona promotes Troy Cichos to COO and Partner; Jennifer Chambers named Administrative Partner; Tasha Tieu joins as Controller; Ted Kummert becomes Chief Product Officer in Residence
Madrona announced administrative team changes: Troy Cichos promoted to COO and Partner, Jennifer Chambers promoted to Administrative Partner, Tasha Tieu hired as Controller, Ted Kummert’s role expanded to Chief Product Officer in Residence, and Hope Cochran named Managing Director. The moves support operations as Madrona manages nearly $1.6 billion across five active funds with a 35-person staff.
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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
