Anna Chen
Investor
Madrona
Madrona investor focused on acceleration-stage intelligent apps, enterprise software, and consumer tech.
Bio
Professional summary
Soma joined Madrona in 2015 and invests in B2B and enterprise technology companies. His areas include machine learning and AI, next-generation cloud infrastructure, intelligent applications, developer and DevOps platforms, robotic process automation, and life science/data science intersections. Before becoming an investor, he spent nearly 27 years at Microsoft and led the Developer Division, including Visual Studio and .NET products. His notable investments include Snowflake, Statsig, and UiPath, and he is also on the board of UiPath.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Day Zero / early-stageLong-term early-stage partnership
Sector
Enterprise softwareDeveloper toolsDevOps platformsCloud infrastructureAI / machine learning
Thesis
B2B and enterprise startupsDeveloper platforms and toolsAI-native software and infrastructureRobotic process automation
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
SnowflakeStatsigUiPathPulumiTemporalCommon RoomSeekOutTypefaceOpenHandsOpenAI
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with a technically deep enterprise or developer-platform narrative: why the product solves an important problem, how it can become a durable platform, and how the team can compound over a decade. He is especially relevant for founders building AI-native developer infrastructure, cloud platforms, or enterprise workflow software.
Personalization hooks
- 1Reference his Microsoft Developer Division background when pitching developer tools or platform shifts.
- 2Tie AI-native developer infrastructure to his writings on the software-to-agent factory shift.
- 3Mention Statsig/OpenAI or UiPath only if there is a credible connection to experimentation, automation, or enterprise AI adoption.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Wrote LinkedIn articles in 2025 and 2026 on AI software development, observability, Statsig joining OpenAI, and developer infrastructure.
Madrona profile lists Statsig as acquired by OpenAI and OpenAI as a current portfolio exposure via the Statsig acquisition.
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