Soma Somasegar, Angel Investor

Soma Somasegar is a Managing Director of a venture capital group that invests in technology startups. After a nearly 27-year-long career at Microsoft and most recently heading the Developer Division at Microsoft, Soma joined Madrona in November 2015. As a Managing Director at Madrona, Soma focuses on key investment areas including Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, next-generation cloud infrastructure, and intelligent applications. During his long and successful career at Microsoft, Soma led the company’s Developer Division and was responsible for the Visual Studio and .NET family of products that enable tens of millions of developers to build applications and services for client, server, mobile, and cloud platforms. Soma has been an active angel and seed investor both in the U.S. and globally. With investments spanning across both enterprise and consumer segments, Soma has focused on early-stage investments across a wide range of technology areas.