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...Set up in 2015, Snowflake was able to steal a march by being able to handle high volumes of simultaneous queries and hitting levels of performance and speed, said Soma Somasegar, managing director of Madrona...
...The company was spun out of the AI Institute founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, with $14m in financing from investors including local venture capital firm Madrona Partners....
...Turi’s investors included venture capital groups Madrona Venture Group and New Enterprise Associates. Turi did not respond to a request for comment....
...Venture capitalists like Tim Porter of Seattle-based Madrona Partners argue that these more specialised markets represent the best opportunity for start-ups....
...Techniques such as deep learning could help companies make smarter inferences about their customers, says Matt McIlwain, a partner at Madrona, a venture capital firm in Seattle....
...Brian McAndrews left his role at Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group, once a seed investor in Amazon.com, to join the internet radio service as it braces for new competition from Apple’s iTunes Radio....
...Brian McAndrew, who has worked in Microsoft’s advertising technology business as well as for Madrona Venture Group, will lead the company, which faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple’s iTunes...
...The other director, Brian McAndrews, is a former chief executive of aQuantive, the digital marketing company bought by Microsoft in 2007, and a partner with Madrona Ventre Group, a venture capital firm focusing...
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