Henry Huang
Partner at Madrona Venture Labs
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Madrona Venture Labs is the innovation arm and startup studio of Madrona Venture Group, the leading PNW venture capital firm. Through partnerships with founders, we build innovative companies from scratch. Tektonic.ai, Codified.io, Archway, Pendulum, Magnify.io, Stratify, Strike Graph, Simplata, UpLevel
Entrepreneur In Residence
2018 - 2019
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.
Mentor
2018 - 2021
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
EVP Product & Operations
2016 - 2017
Mighty is an early-stage legal tech company that is helping ordinary people get a better deal from the justice system. By applying data science and ML to decades of rich case records, Mighty is changing the way we access and finance civil law. Led Product Management and Operations, and in the process built-up our data science and ML capabilities to predict the timing and settlement outcomes of lawsuits. With our underlying models and technology, we successfully raised over $100M to help plaintiffs secure faster and larger settlements from insurers and offenders.
Mighty is building a portal to help law firms, lienholders, and other parties manage their interests in personal injury lawsuits.
Raised $14,250,000.00 from IA Ventures and Tribeca Venture Partners.
VP Product Development, Data & Customer Success
2012 - 2016
Axial is an online platform helping private companies connect with advisors, investors, and acquirers. I was Axial’s first VP of Product responsible for the roadmap, and recruiting, training, and scaling a team of technologists and designers. Our products helped Axial achieve 100%+ top-line revenue growth for 3 consecutive years and close 2 successful capital raises from top-tier venture firms. Additionally: • Built our data science team comprised of data engineers and data scientists, to better understand customer behaviors and success factors on the Axial platform • Led and re-structured the Customer Success team, responsible for retaining customer and growing accounts
Axial is a provider of technology-enabled applications used to discreetly connect the participants in the private capital markets.
Raised $33,500,000.00 from LionTree.
Director, Product Management
2011 - 2012
Viggle was an award winning mobile and web-based entertainment platform that connected digital devices with tradition media such as TV, movies, games, and music. Our goal was to incentivize entertainment consumption by augmenting media with real-time content, viewer connectedness, and rewards. As Director of Product, I led feature definition and launch of our mobile rewards platform, and partnership integrations.
A mobile and web-based entertainment marketing platform that uses incentives to make content consumption and discovery more rewarding.
Raised $2,000,000.00.
Co-Founder
2010 - 2011
Connectively was a mobile promotions platform for local and multi-store retailers. Our goal was to help small businesses drive foot traffic through location-based and on-prem promotions delivered within a customizable mobile experience.
Director, Product Development
2010 - 2011
GLG is the world’s largest platform for professional learning, comprising more than 600,000 thought leaders and practitioners, and the foremost subject matter specialists in nearly every sector. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, and the leading professional services firms and financial institutions. Accomplishments as Product Director and PM: •Spec’d, managed development of, and launched company’s first mobile application •Oversaw content creation platform that enabled thought leaders to promote their expertise through written articles. 2x authorship and content for 2 consecutive years •Helped to extend GLG’s expert platform to allow professionals to manage consulting engagements online, and self-serve new and recommended opportunities •Assisted EVP of Product and Marketing with annual budgeting process and board reviews
Senior Product Manager
2010 - 2010
Product Manager
2008 - 2010
Product Manager
2006 - 2008
Return Path is the pioneer and market leader in email marketing deliverability, helping marketers drive more consumer response and increase revenue generating opportunities. Early PM at Return Path, responsible for marketer (customer) activation. Key product: embedding real-time data and statistics directly into email campaigns
Return Path is the expert in deliverability, helping marketers drive revenue through email.
Raised $126,364,712.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund.
Senior Associate
2004 - 2006