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title: 'What is Madrona Venture Group — which regularly invests in Portland startups — looking for in 2020?'
date: '2020-07-20T09:09:09-07:00'
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  - investors
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  - investing
  - madrona
  - Portland
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# What is Madrona Venture Group — which regularly invests in Portland startups — looking for in 2020?

There are any number of venture capital firms outside of Oregon that regularly invest in the Portland startup community. One of those firms — which also boasts a few Portland exits — is [Madrona Venture Group](https://www.madrona.com/) out of Seattle. Since they’ve already exhibited a willingness to invest in Portland, I thought it might be valuable for Portland startups to have a better understanding of [Madrona’s investment themes for 2020](https://www.madrona.com/madronas-investment-themes-for-2020-and-beyond/).

> In this post we offer a preview of the themes and will follow this up with deeper dives on the areas outlined in the image above. We work as a team to fully investigate and build our investment themes and you will see many from the Madrona team as authors – please reach out to us with ideas and your thoughts!

*tl;dr* Topics include:

- Intelligent applications
- Future of work
- Intersection of innovation
- Software infrastructure
- Low code or no code
- Digital transformation of consumer experiences

So if you’re pursuing venture funding and your company falls into one of those buckets, [you might consider reaching out to Madrona](https://www.madrona.com/madronas-investment-themes-for-2020-and-beyond/).

*\[[Hat tip to Dan Li](http://thedl.danielxli.com/issues/the-dl-madrona-s-investment-themes-seattle-s-newest-unicorn-the-first-2t-company-and-covid-predictions-from-the-superforecasters-261051)\]*