Jason joined Maveron in 2007 and is a partner focused on investing in emotionally resonant consumer brands. His focus areas are eCommerce, real estate and consumer healthcare. Active investments include Everlane, Common, Dolls Kill, Flywire, Imperfect Produce, Thirty Madison, The Guild and Dolly.  He previously served on the Board of both zulily and General Assembly (acquired by Adecco). Prior to joining Maveron, Jason co- founded IADT Online, an online design school. He has also served as an associate at Spinnaker Ventures. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in economics from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), and has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kellan Carter is a founding partner of Fuse where he focuses on early-stage investments in intelligent software in both horizontal and vertical categories.  At Fuse, Kellan has led investments in Owl and Pave.  Previously, Kellan spent seven years at Ignition Partners, a leading early-stage venture capital firm. He joined Ignition in 2013 and was made partner by 2018. At Ignition, Kellan led investments in Botkeeper, Symend, Icertis, KenSci, and Azuqua, and served on the boards of both Botkeeper and Symend.

Prior to Ignition, Kellan spent two years in investment banking at Mooreland Partners in San Francisco. There, he helped execute M&A transactions for technology companies in a variety of sectors, including mobile, enterprise software, systems, and infrastructure. Prior to Mooreland Partners, Kellan was an associate in KPMG’s advisory practice in Orange County, CA, where he helped structure asset-backed securities collateralized by student loans, auto loans, and residential and commercial mortgages.

Kellan holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula, where he graduated summa cum laude.  After college, Kellan founded an online, business-networking platform to connect current students and faculty to UM alumni.

Ben is the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early-stage venture capital firm in Seattle. He is a technology investor and entrepreneur. He has a background in product management from Microsoft where he shipped the first version of Office for iPad and ran The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program. Ben also co-founded Madrona Venture Labs.

Dharmesh is leading Fullcast.io, a service dedicated to transforming sales operations to growth operations by automating planning, process, and operations of running sales. Prior to fullcast,io Dharmesh spent time at Salesforce and Microsoft leading teams across sales, engineering, and Operations.

Tim is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 with $103 billion under management that invests in early-stage technology companies.  Tim is focused on investing in business-to-business software companies in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in the areas of cloud computing, software-as-a-service, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He is a board member of numerous Madrona portfolio companies including Anomaly Insights, Echodyne, Eclypsium, Esper, Highspot, Jama Software, Outfit.ai, Spice.ai, Uplevel, Voodle, and WhyLabs.

Madhu K. Singh is the founder and chief legal officer at Foundry Law Group. Madhu and the President at TiE Seattle.  Madhu and her team enjoy serving as trusted counsel to startups and emerging companies, support corporate governance and acquisitions, and advise on protecting and leverage their proprietary assets. Madhu believes in building strong relationships with her clients as a resource and active within the local business community. She volunteers regularly with Wayfind Legal by speaking at CLEs, providing pro bono legal support, and supervising a cohort of attorneys new to advising nonprofits. She received the 2018 Volunteer of the year award by this prestigious organization. In 2014 she was named the Woman Business Owner of the year by the Small Business Administration and has been named a 'rising star' by Super lawyers for the past five years. In addition to her practice, she is in her eighth year as an Adjunct Faculty at the Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinic at Seattle University School of Law. She holds a JD and MBA from the University of Kansas.

Nikesh (Niki) Parekh is the co-founder and CEO of Suplari, an enterprise software start-up focused on leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to help enterprises make better purchasing and financial decisions.  Nikesh was most recently VP of New Ventures at the real estate company Trulia (acquired byfa Zillow) and was responsible for Trulia’s emerging growth businesses in rentals, mortgage and new construction. Previously, Nikesh was the EVP of Product & Strategy at a SaaS sales & marketing platform called Market Leader, CEO of the B2B blogging and social network ActiveRain, and CEO of a cleantech biotech company that was spun out of the University of Washington, focused on converting seaweed into low cost biofuels and renewable chemicals. Nikesh has also worked in the venture capital, private equity and investment banking industries earlier in his career.  Nikesh earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College. When not watching his kids’ soccer games, Nikesh enjoys riding his electric bike into work in the Seattle rain.

Joshua Gebhardt is the CEO and co-founder of Metricstory. Joshua leads the company’s mission to transform data into insights and the true story of their customers. Joshua believes this can also have an effect on internal teams within a company, and thereby the quality of life at work. Freeing teams to do what they are best at: to build relationships that serve and delight their customers, invariably bringing growth. Prior to Metricstory, he led strategy and sales for the #1 Google Analytics consultancy in the world, where he worked alongside CMOs and VPs at Fortune 500 companies. Raised in Hawaii, Joshua gave up surfing for the beautiful NW where he now lives with his wife and 2 children in Seattle, WA.

In his work life, Mark Meuleman’s adrenaline flows into roles demanding new thinking, and redefining boundaries. This ability to learn, adapt and deliver in wildly varied businesses and verticals became clear in successive executive sales and business development roles at Nortel, NewBay and BlackBerry. Happily, at Altus this is an everyday occurrence where this way of working allows him to help clients across almost any vertical, startup through Fortune 500, whether building for the first time, or adjusting for a future of solid revenue growth.   

Mark holds an MBA from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business with a focus on entrepreneurship and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering focusing on telecommunications from the University of Victoria. He’s also part of Grow50, a group of premier Pacific Northwest services firms providing their time to help entrepreneurs determine how best to succeed with their business dreams. Mark’s 25-year marriage and strong family bonds deeply inspire his work and life. You’ll often find Mark competing locally in Cat 2 road bike races.

Mikaela has an MS in Human Resources Management, is a certified executive coach, and experienced consultant. In 2015, Mikaela founded Reverb, helping companies in the Pacific Northwest create healthy, inclusive culture. An HR professional for nearly twenty years, Mikaela enjoys coaching leaders at all levels and supporting women and girls in tech. She's been quoted in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The Muse, and is a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council and Puget Sound Business Journal Leadership Trust. She’s the author of Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace (Greenleaf Press, January 2020). Mikaela is married to Henry, a musician, artist, and teacher. Their two children Simon and Sidonie are good at challenging the status quo and are a constant source of learning and laughter. She lives with her family in Seattle.

Vetri Vellore is a mission-driven, serial entrepreneur with two successful exits (Ally.io acquired by Microsoft and Chronus acquired by private equity). Passionate about building world-class products and teams, to bring purpose, happiness and enable everyone to achieve more.

Launched Ally.io, an OKR-based, Business Execution Platform in 2018. In under 3 years, grew to 1,000 customers in over 80 countries and a team of 250+ amazing people. Raised $76m in funding including 3 rounds in just one year, from top-tier VCs including Accel, Addition, GreenOaks, Tiger Global, and Vulcan Capital.

Previous to Ally.io, bootstrapped Chronus and built a highly successful B2B SaaS Mentoring solution that is used enterprises including GE, Amazon and Coca Cola. Chronus was acquired by a private equity firm and continue to grow strongly.

Before Chronus and Ally.io, Vetri turned around $200M+ Systems Management enterprise software business at Microsoft. Lead the Visual Studio platform team and managed the partner ecosystem. Shipped several v1 and award-winning products over the 14-year tenure at Microsoft

Greg Gottesman is Managing Director of PSL Studio and PSL Ventures.  Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for 20 years.  He is also the co-founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.
Greg serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Washington where he teaches entrepreneurship.  He is the author of three books.
Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, with honors and distinction from Harvard Business School, and with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Andrew is an experienced entrepreneur and angel investor. Andrew graduated in mechanical engineering from Queens University in Ontario Canada and spent his early career as a software developer and then product manager working for leading Canadian companies Canadian Pacific and Lavalin Engineering as well as Apple Computer. Andrew then joined Alias Research in Toronto (since acquired by Autodesk) where he led the development of a category defining line of 3D graphics products for the PC and Macintosh. Andrew then moved to Seattle in the mid 1990’s with Microsoft where he served as a product unit manager for a line of consumer imaging and publishing products growing the business from $10 M to 50 M over a 3 year period. Andrew’s next chapter was with Real Networks where he conceived of and built RealArcade into the leading global digital distribution and publishing platform for casual games. Andrew then went on to start Smilebox, a multimedia personal expressions service that connects people around special moments in their lives. Smilebox was acquired by Perion Networks in 2012. Since 2012 Andrew has been primarily focused on angel investing through Wright Ventures. Wright Ventures is a seed stage angel fund which has invested in 31 companies since inception across consumer and BTB segments. The fund is primarily focused in Seattle but also has investments in New York City, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. Wright Ventures partners with founders during the very early stages of their scaling efforts and helps founders with financing, product management , customer acquisition, branding, research and recruiting

James has worked with high-growth technology companies as an adviser and investor since 2005 and focuses on early-stage and seed investments in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves on the boards of Voyager portfolio companies Kaskada, Sofy. and WellSaid Labs.  He previously served as a board member or observer at Casper, DoubleVerify, General Assembly, Sauce Labs and Zerto, among others.

Prior to joining Voyager, James worked for Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a later-stage VC based in Menlo Park.  While with IVP, James worked on investments in AlienVault, Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), Casper (NYSE: CSPR), Checkr, DoubleVerify, General Assembly, Kayak (Acquired: PCLN), LegalZoom, Prosper, Sauce Labs, SoFi and Zerto.

James earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Washington, where he was a first team Pac-10 All-Academic football player at free safety. He has also earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in entrepreneurial management.