Keith Rosema
Partner at Madrona Venture Labs
Mazama, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Start up pre-seed funding and incubation. Focus on AI/GenAI applications, edge computing, and a wide range of vertical applications. Portfolio companies include: Vouched, Outbound AI, Pendulum, Magnify, Codified, and Liminary.
Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio that builds companies from scratch.
Raised $30,300,000.00 from Elie Seidman, Madrona, Ralph Pascualy, Mike McSherry, Chad Cohen, Jon Gelsey, Elissa Fink, Court Lorenzini, Erik Blachford and WestRiver Group.
Board Observer
2021
Board Of Directors
2017 - 2020
The LCM honors the history of computing with the worlds largest collection of fully restored and usable supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers. Visitors engage in direct experiences with robotics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, self driving cars, big data, the Internet of Things, video-game making, digital art and more.
Executive Director of Innovation
2014 - 2019
Led technology for Paul Allen. Responsibilities included the Vulcan incubation program, internal technology, and interfacing with the Allen institutions: the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, the Allen Brain Institute, Stratolaunch, and more. Programs included: a blockchain company, autonomous fixed-wing drones, augmented reality, clean energy, satellite image machine learning, disease outbreak prediction, and sports technology. Oversight and investment review of space launch and nuclear energy programs.
Director of Research
2008 - 2014
Directed research programs supporting commercialization of intellectual property investments. Grew development programs from 6 to 40 million dollars. Programs spanned physics-based hardware to health tech and advanced computing. Managed relationships between investors, corporations, non-profit organizations and other stakeholder groups.
Intellectual Ventures is an invention and investment business firm.
CTO
2007 - 2008
Motenet created a mobile social networking and crowd-sourcing application suite. Responsible for product, team and acquisition of venture capital. U.S. patent No. 7,822,808 granted October 26, 2010.
Member Technical Staff
2001 - 2006
One of the five original Blue Origin employees. Helped to create and lead one of the first private space launch companies. Delivered R&D, vehicle and propulsion design, facilities development and launch operations.
Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system.
Raised $185,350,000.00 from E1 Ventures.
Co-Founder and Sr. Vice President Technology
1998 - 2001
Disappearing Inc. provided cryptographic information protection services. Responsible for product, technology and fundraising. Inventor on US patent nos. 6,625,734, 7,096,355 and 7,246,378 for the application of cryptographic protocols. Raised venture capital funding from KPCB, Fujitsu and others. Awarded the 2001 SIIA Codie award for software product innovation. Acquired by Liquid Computing.
Sr. Computer Scientist
1989 - 1997
Using communication antennas in the Deep Space Network, detected, tracked and imaged Earth-approaching asteroids, planets and rocky satellites. NASA achievement award. Numerous discoveries.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA.
Sr. Engineer
1991 - 1993
On leave from JPL, Lead Engineer for Worlds Inc.'s flagship product: a custom networked 3D virtual world built for Stephen Spielberg and his Starbright Project.