MF

Mike Fridgen

Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs

Seattle, Washington

Investor
Angel
Founder
Former CEO

Invests in

Stages:

Pre-seed
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $500,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $250,000.00

Skills

E-commerce
Product Management
Strategic Partnerships
Analytics
Start-ups
Strategy
Entrepreneurship
Business Strategy
Go-to-market Strategy
Leadership
Advertising
Online Advertising
User Experience
Management
Mergers & Acquisitions
Marketing
Product Development
Team Leadership
Venture Capital
Competitive Analysis

Education

Investments

Finpilot

Seed

Total Funding: $4.5M

Stack

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $9M

Work Experience

Madrona Venture Labs

2015

  • Managing Director & CEO

    2015

    Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio that co-builds and invests in enterprise AI companies. Founding Managing Director of Madrona Venture Labs II, III, IV, and V. Board member or advisor to: Uplevel, Style Genome (acquired by Wayfair), Domicile (acquired by NCH), Vouched, Chatitive (acquired by Mailchimp), Strike Graph, Stratify, Outbound AI, Pendulum, Xembly, Muir.ai, Magnify, Storia AI, FinPilot, Charmed, Codified, heyLibby, Augmend (acquired by DataDog), Tektonic, and Otto the Agent.

University of Washington

2014

  • Advisory Board Member for Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship

    2014

    Mission: The Buerk Center integrates entrepreneurship into the fabric of the University of Washington and empowers students to shape the future.

eBay Inc

2013 - 2015

  • General Manager

    2013 - 2015

    Joined eBay as part of their Decide.com acquisition. General Manager of eBay's Seattle office of approximately 400 people and it's big data hub. Product leader for Seller Hub and professional selling experiences for eBay’s worldwide sites.

Decide

2010 - 2013

  • President & CEO

    2010 - 2013

    Founding CEO of Decide.com which was acquired by eBay in September 2013. Decide was a shopping service that helped consumers purchase with “no regrets”. Utilizing propriety data and predictive algorithms, Decide.com helped shoppers know what to buy and when to buy it. Decide raised $17M from Madrona Venture Group, Maveron and Vulcan Capital, and several angel investors.

Microsoft

2008 - 2010

  • Director, Product Management

    2008 - 2010

    Joined Microsoft's Bing search as part of their Farecast.com acquisition. Leader of global shopping and travel search businesses for Bing.

Farecast.com

2005 - 2008

  • VP Marketing & Product

    2005 - 2008

    Member of the founding team responsible for leading product development and marketing from pre-product/launch through acquisition by Microsoft in April of 2008. Farecast raised $20M from Madrona Venture Group, Greylock, Sutter Hill and angel investors.

Alaska Airlines

2004 - 2005

  • Director, Interactive Marketing

    2004 - 2005

    Online marketing strategy and team leadership for over $1B ecommerce site alaskaair.com.

TripHub

1996 - 2000

  • CEO & co-founder

    1996 - 2000

    TripHub/ISTOURS was acquired by USA Student Travel in summer of 2000. TripHub.com was a Madrona Venture Group backed student travel startup.