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Sabrina Albert

Partner
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Investor Seattle
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Background
  • Joined Madrona in 2021, promoted to Partner in July 2025
  • Previously Associate at Vector Capital (tech-focused PE firm) — sourced and executed B2B SaaS deals
  • Co-authors the biweekly "Aspiring for Intelligence" newsletter on agentic systems
  • Education: UC Berkeley (Political Economics, Development Studies)
  • Invests Seed through Series C with ~$5M sweet spot
Companies
Madrona
Seattle · Seed, Series A
VC
Investment Focus
  • Intelligent applications (applied AI/ML)
  • Enterprise software and agentic systems
  • AI agents embedded in business workflows
  • Browser-based agents, agent-driven P&L transformation
  • Enterprise AI adoption and transformation
Notable Investments
  • Shaped (AI-powered recommendations)
  • Finpilot (AI for financial analysis)
  • Clarify (AI-native CRM)
  • Typeface (enterprise generative AI)
  • Pulumi (infrastructure-as-code)
  • SeekOut (AI talent intelligence)
  • Broader Madrona AI agent portfolio: Nekuda (agentic payments), Axiom (observability), MotherDuck (analytics), Ultravox (voice AI)
AI Agent Relevance
  • Most relevant active partner at Madrona for AI agent infrastructure
  • Has explicitly shaped the firm's thesis around agentic systems
  • "Aspiring for Intelligence" newsletter covers agent infrastructure, browser agents, and agent-driven business transformation weekly
  • Madrona published the most detailed public framework on AI agent infrastructure of any VC (three-layer stack: tools, data, orchestration)
  • Recent investments in Nekuda (agentic payments), Clarify (agentic CRM) demonstrate active deployment into the agent stack
  • Note: Jon Turow, who authored Madrona's original AI agent infrastructure posts, transitioned to Venture Partner in 2026 and joined Anthropic
Colleagues · 11
Hope Cochran
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Paul Goodrich
Co-Founder & Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Scott Jacobson
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Matt McIlwain
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Karan Mehandru
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Tim Porter
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Steve Singh
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
S. Somasegar
Managing Director at Madrona · Madrona
Chris Picardo
Partner at Madrona · Madrona
Vivek Ramaswami
Partner at Madrona · Madrona
Jon Turow
Partner at Madrona · Madrona
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