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Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs, has a strong investment thesis focusing on building founder value and a commitment to co-found spinout companies. His investment areas include enterprise infrastructure, applications, future of work, cloud infrastructure, e-commerce, AI, and FinTech. He typically invests in the pre-seed and seed stages, with a check size ranging from $100K to $500K, with a sweet spot at $250K. Geographically, he operates in Seattle and Portland. His partnership and collaboration styles involve co-creating and investing in companies, with a track record of over 30 successful companies collectively valued at over $700m in the enterprise AI sector.
Location: Seattle, Washington
Country: United States of America
Industries: Not available
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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed
Website: https://www.madronavl.com/team
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Status: very-active
AI Reasoning: Madrona Venture Labs (and Mike Fridgen as Managing Director/Venture Partner) has public investment activity around Jan 2025 when MVL was absorbed into Madrona and announced Fund V and recent company investments. Specifically MVL announced investments/co-creation activity including companies such as Clarify (Series A June 24, 2025 per CB Insights) and MVL announced Fund V in 2025. Mike Fridgen is credited with co-creating and investing in companies through MVL and joined Madrona in 2025; evidence shows investment activity within the past 6 months (less than 6 months ago relative to the required reference). Therefore classify as very-active.
Angel activity thresholds:
Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.
Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.
Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.
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