AoA Fireside Chat with Aseem Datar

Join us for an interactive workshop with Aseem Datar. He will discuss trends in startup financing, angel investing and venture capital, as well as answer any questions you may have.

Aseem joined Madrona in 2021. As part of the investment team, Aseem identifies and evaluates new investment opportunities as well as working closely with existing companies on business and product strategies for hypergrowth.

Aseem scales businesses and is a seasoned operator. Prior to Madrona, Aseem spent over 17 years at Microsoft, working in a wide variety of roles from a developer writing deep installer level code to building and creating business models for Office 365. Aseem also has global sales experience, led growth for SaaS and hardware businesses, and was most recently the GM/COO for Microsoft Cloud. At Azure, he led growth and scale initiatives that grew the business from early days to over $20B ARR. Aseem brings deep experience creating cutting edge services and platforms and bringing them to market. His background in Cloud, AI/ML, SaaS, Commerce & Payments, Devices & OS means he is interested in a broad set of startup businesses. While at Microsoft, Aseem was also active with smaller companies, building a small investment fund and serving as advisor to very early stage companies.