Source: Ravenna Funding and Team Announcement
What It Covers
Ravenna’s own April 22–23, 2025 funding announcement across multiple primary surfaces:
- Ravenna blog post — “Ravenna Raises $15M to Build the Future of Internal Support” (author: Taylor Halliday)
- Ravenna LinkedIn post — corporate account, “Ravenna raises $15M to revolutionize ESM with AI and Slack” (Apr 22, 2025)
- Kevin Coleman LinkedIn post — personal account announcing the round (Apr 22, 2025)
- GeekWire coverage — “Khosla and Madrona back a Seattle startup reimagining internal help desk support” (Apr 2025)
- FinSMES PR coverage — “Ravenna Raises $15M in Pre-Seed and Seed Funding” (returned 403 in this pass; cited via search aggregation only) ^[ambiguous]
Key Claims
Funding
- $15M total across pre-seed and seed rounds. ^[extracted]
- Lead: Madrona. ^[extracted]
- Participating institutional: Khosla Ventures and Founders’ Co-op. ^[extracted]
- Pre-seed vs seed split: Not disclosed in primary sources. Tracxn shows two distinct rounds (a 2024 round + Apr 2025 seed); press treats them as one announcement. ^[ambiguous]
Design partners (named customers)
Three named:
- Zapier — Halliday’s prior employer
- Homebase — CEO is also angel; Khosla also institutional
- Futureverse — no public detail beyond the name
Named angel investors
| Angel | Role / Company |
|---|---|
| Wade Foster | CEO, Zapier |
| Mike Knoop | Co-founder, Head of AI, Zapier |
| Bryan Helmig | CTO/Co-founder, Zapier |
| Andrew Berman | Director of AI, Zapier (advisor) |
| Guillermo Rauch | CEO, Vercel |
| John Waldmann | Founder/CEO, Homebase |
| Linda Lian | CEO/Co-founder, Common Room |
| Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti | CCO, OpenAI |
| Brett Kaluza | CCO, PitchBook |
| Chris Bakke | Serial entrepreneur (sold Laskie to X) |
Madrona deal partners
- Tim Porter — Managing Director (deal lead)
- Rasik Parikh — Investor (co-byline on investment post)
- Matt McIlwain — Managing Director (provided Slack introduction; not bylined on post) ^[inferred from podcast]
Khosla deal partner
- Adina Tecklu — Partner
Founders’ Co-op deal partners
- Aviel Ginzburg — General Partner; primary public quote: “Taylor and Kevin embody everything that we look for at Founders’ Co-op: technical founders who are obsessed with building the best product possible and unafraid of gnarly challenges.”
- Chris DeVore — Managing Partner
Founder backgrounds (per GeekWire)
- Taylor Halliday — Co-founder & CEO. Most recently Director of AI Engineering at Zapier.
- Kevin Coleman — Co-founder. Spent four years leading GTM teams at AWS.
- The duo previously launched Seattle-based software consultancy Mesh Studio and went through Y Combinator in 2016 (per GeekWire — likely YC Fellowship). ^[ambiguous — Fellowship not full batch]
Aviel Ginzburg quote (per GeekWire)
“Taylor and Kevin embody everything that we look for at Founders’ Co-op: technical founders who are obsessed with building the best product possible and unafraid of gnarly challenges.”
Headcount signal
Self-identifying employees in Coleman’s LinkedIn comment thread: John Patrick Sese, Srishti Sehgal, Avinash Sharma V, Camden Clark, Omkar Patil, Paulo Nascimento, Kailash Reddy, Nikolozi Tskhvedadze, Zurab Siprashvili, Matthew P., Reeshma Rahman, Summer Logan, Taylor Halliday — ~13 names suggesting ~15–25 FTE at Apr 2025 announcement. ^[inferred — not a primary headcount disclosure]
Limitations
- FinSMES post returned 403 in this research pass; cross-validated via TechCrunch/GeekWire/Madrona/Ravenna sources only.
- GeekWire returned 403 in direct WebFetch attempts; cited via Google search summaries.
- No CEO/VP-Engineering hires or exec announcements beyond founders.