Profile
Bio
Aseem joined Madrona in 2021 after spending almost twenty years as an operating executive. He works alongside founders building the future of next-generation infrastructure (core, security, DevOps), intelligent applications, robotics, and automation. Aseem brings a specialized mindset to the broadest of goals: achieving scale. He focuses on helping founders identify, maneuver and systematize their growth levers. Before Madrona, Aseem’s career was marked by an interest and growing expertise in enterprise markets, product engineering, and scaling teams for hyper growth. He spent two decades at Microsoft in a wide variety of roles, from a developer writing deep installer-level code to building and developing business models for Office 365. Aseem also earned global sales experience, led growth for infrastructure, SaaS, and hardware businesses, and was most recently the GM/COO for Microsoft Cloud, where he led growth and scale initiatives that grew the business from its early days to over $20 billion of ARR. His background in cloud, AI/ML, intelligent SaaS, commerce & payments, devices & OS means he is interested in a broad range of startup businesses. While at Microsoft, Aseem was also active with smaller companies, building a small investment fund and serving as an adviser to very early-stage companies.
Career
Madrona Venture Group LLCSeattle-based venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in information technology companies. |