Madrona Venture Group announced the closing of $ 300 million fund

Seattle, WA (PRWEB) 5 June 2012

Madrona Venture Group (http://www.madrona.com) today announced that its $ 300 million Fund V, with the goal of building the second generation of the type of technology. The company has a long history of backing vocals on a very successful technology companies such as Amazon.com, Isilon and other major technology companies such as Apptio, Decide.com, Impinj, EHN, and ShopIgniter Z2Live.

of early-stage venture capital is a local business and Madrona has extensive experience in successfully helping entrepreneurs build large sustainable companies in the seed and a series of stepping forward, said Matt McIlwain, Madrona Venture Group , a seven presidents. The new fund focuses on support for entrepreneurs and ideas that are driving the next revolution in technology and innovation to expand our team to have to promote the eco-system on a daily basis. We also believe that the private equity fund with targeted strategies, and capital between $ 200 million and $ 400 million to create the strongest alignment between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and institutional investors.

Madronas new fund was oversubscribed its $ 250 million with the aim of most of the obligations arising from existing investors, including several great talents, and foundations. Fund V investors and a network of entrepreneurs and managers, strategic insights and help, and Madrona portfolio companies offer.

Very few companies can project recognizes the strong historical returns again to resist the temptation to fund large, the increase in size, to be successful, says Harold Bradley, chief investment officer of the Kauffman Foundation, gives the investor Madrona. The investment team at Kauffman Foundation believes in only a small amount of Madrona Venture capital companies are helping to identify and manage early-stage companies and to make the right ?cloud?. We look forward excited about our support and Madronas five funds.

By focusing on early-stage investments, and create long-term value, offering Madrona a comprehensive value-added services for businesses at every stage of growth, including recruitment, talent management, product development, customer and partner presentations, the formulation a strategy, strategic communications and corporate finance advice. In addition to these services, companies have access to large businesses internal and external experts, as well as other executives, the target company at the forefront of innovation in their respective areas.

team Madrona is one of the hardest work of all the project, said Glenn Kelman, Redfin CEO. I work in a number of private equity investors and Madrona strikes the perfect balance of strong support and constructive advice. If you are thinking of starting a business, you should definitely be considered by Madrona as a partner in an early stage.

In 1995, Seattle, Madrona one of the most experienced and successful early-stage venture capital firms and companies of the consumer Internet business software and services, digital media and advertising, networking and cloud computing and mobile communications. The company manages nearly $ 33 1000000000 all funds and brings a positive effect on initial public offerings / acquisitions, such as Amazon.com, aQuantive, Classmates.com, Farecast.com, and ShareBuilder Isilon Systems World Wide Packets.

Madrona Venture Fund V will continue to invest primarily in business strategy, seed and Series-stage companies, primarily based in the Pacific Northwest. For more information, visit http://www.madrona.com. Presidents Fund V, Tom Alberg, Paul Goodrich, Greg Gottesman, Scott Jacobson, Len Jordan, Matt McIlwain and Tim Porter.

About Madrona Venture Group

Madrona (http://www.madrona.com) is to invest in early stage technology companies in the Pacific Northwest since 1995, and had the privilege of being involved in some of the most successful technology ventures. The company invests primarily in seed and Series, the entire spectrum of information technology rounds, including consumer Internet, commercial software and services for digital media and advertising, networking and cloud computing and mobile devices. Madrona manages nearly $ 1 billion, was an early investor in companies such as Amazon.com, Farecast.com, Isilon Systems, ShareBuilder, and the World Wide Packets.

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