Soma is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, focusing on B2B and enterprise-related start-ups. Soma invests across a wide variety of technology areas, including machine learning / artificial intelligence, intelligent applications, next-generation cloud infrastructure, multi-sense user interfaces, and robotic process automation. Soma’s investments at Madrona include Branch, Clari, Pulumi, SeekOut, Snowflake, Tigera, UiPath and Statsig. Prior to joining Madrona in 2015, Soma had a successful twenty-seven-year-long career with Microsoft, where he was most recently Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division. Soma has long been an angel investor in a wide range of technology start-ups, both in the U.S. and internationally.