Strategic Director, Madrona Venture Group at Qumulo, Inc.

Madrona is an active manager which seeks to invest in seed and early-stage companies that leverage technology to create or disrupt huge markets. Their geographical focus is Pacific Northwest in US.The sectors in which they invest are advertising technology, applications, networking/Storage, tech-enabled services, analytics, marketing, Saas/cloud, gaming, digital media, ecommerce, marketplace, social.They act as strategic board members and advisors on everything from helping to define business strategy, hiring the best team, to connecting you with the right customers and partners, to advising on key financial decisions and, ultimately, on the IPO and M&A processes.

TCMI focuses exclusively on investments in the information technology sector. The firm is particularly interested in the following industries within the information technology sector: (1) the Internet (2) financial technology (3) infrastructure and communications (4) software and services and (5) business services and (6) healthcare technology. Companies should have exceptional management teams, address large market opportunities and have significant revenue traction.TCMI provides growth capital to technology companies including later-stage public and private companies. The firm participates in minority growth equity investments and provides capital for shareholder liquidity, acquisition financings, buyouts and other majority transactions, PIPEs and other public market transactions and full or partial recapitalizations. Investments range from $20 million to over $200 million. For larger transactions, TCMI may leverage their base of limited partners, many of whom have the ability to make sizeable co-investments alongside the firm. The firm invests across North America and in select international transactions.