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Ignition Partners

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Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets.

Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition’s partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world’s most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.

Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.

Milestones

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  Ignition Partners invested in Spoken Communications. (2/7/12)
  Posted 2/7/12 at 7:23pm via finsmes.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Continuuity. (1/25/12)
  Posted 1/25/12 at 5:37am via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Symplified. (1/18/12)
  Posted 1/18/12 at 5:12am via freshnews.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in WhipTail. (1/17/12)
  Posted 1/17/12 at 7:50pm via finsmes.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Flotype. (1/5/12)
  Posted 1/6/12 at 3:44am via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Keas. (12/20/11)
  Posted 12/20/11 at 7:49pm via stockmarketsreview.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Xeround. (12/14/11)
  Posted 12/14/11 at 6:21pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Iron.io. (12/7/11)
  Posted 12/5/11 at 4:41pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in ServiceMesh. (11/16/11)
  Posted 11/16/11 at 7:23am via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in MinoMonsters. (11/10/11)
  Posted 11/10/11 at 9:39am via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Parse. (11/9/11)
  Posted 11/9/11 at 8:43pm via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Cloudera. (11/7/11)
  Posted 2/4/11 at 8:10am via techcrunch.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Zenprise. (10/11/11)
  Posted 10/11/11 at 6:26pm via finsmes.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Visible Technologies. (9/22/11)
  Posted 9/22/11 at 8:56pm via visibletechnologies.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Mashape. (8/15/11)
  Posted 9/6/11 at 7:06pm via gigaom.com
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  Ignition Partners invested in Connected. (6/29/11)
  Posted 6/29/11 at 10:27am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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1. TechFlash (blog.seattlepi.com) [edit]
2. Ignition Partners (ignitionpartners.com) [edit]
3. Spoken Communications Completes $11.5M Series B Financing (finsmes.com) [edit]
4. Big VCs Invest In Big Data Startup Continuuity (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. Symplified Closes $20M Venture Capital Round (freshnews.com) [edit]
6. WhipTail Secured Series B Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
7. Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure Startup Flotype (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Keas Scores $6.5 Million Series B Financing From Atlas Venture, Ignition Partners (stockmarketsreview.com) [edit]
9. Cloud Database Startup Xeround Raises $9.3M From Benchmark And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
10. Cloud Application Services Company Iron.io Raises $1.4 Million Seed Round From Baseline (techcrunch.com) [edit]
11. Enterprise Cloud Platform ServiceMesh Raises $15 Million From Ignition Partners (techcrunch.com) [edit]
12. MinoMonsters Nabs $1 Million From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, And More For Mobile Monster Battles (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Parse, The ‘Heroku For Mobile’, Raises $5.5 Million Series A (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Ignition, Accel, Greylock Put $40M In Apache Hadoop Distribution Platform Cloudera (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. Zenprise Closes $30M Strategic Financing Round (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. Visible Technologies Receives $4 Million in Funding; Reports Record Results with New Strategic Partnerships and Strong Customer Wins (visibletechnologies.com) [edit]
17. API market Mashape raises $1.5M seed from mega investors (gigaom.com) [edit]
18. AppFog lands $8M for PHP Cloud (gigaom.com) [edit]
19. NoSQL, Yes Funding! Couchbase Raises $14 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
20. Apprenda Secures $10 Million Series B (apprenda.com) [edit]
21. Former Microsoft Exec Raises $20 Million For Motif, An Investment Vehicle For Ideas (techcrunch.com) [edit]
22. Android Keyboard Maker Swype Closes $6 Million C Round (businessinsider.com) [edit]
23. Connected Raises $500K For Contact Management Application (techcrunch.com) [edit]
24. StorSimple Closes $10.5M Series C Funding (finsmes.com) [edit]
25. Virtualization And Cloud Security Startup Bromium Raises $9.2M From Andreessen Horowitz And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
26. Glympse Raises $7.5 Million To Help You Share Your Location, A Few Hours At A Time (techcrunch.com) [edit]
27. ScaleXtreme Raises $11 Million For Cloud-based Systems Management Software (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
28. Stealth Startup Inporia Raises $1.25 Million From Ron Conway, 500 Startups And More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
29. Updated: Zencoder Raises $2M for Video Encoding in the Cloud (gigaom.com) [edit]
30. Crowd-Sourced Design Startup Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
31. Social Media Monitoring Company Visible Technologies Lands $6 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
32. Report: Ignition Adds $3.5M to Swype (xconomy.com) [edit]
33. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
34. Tier 3 Lands $8.5 Million For Its ‘Enterprise Platform As A Service’ (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
35. techcrunch.com [edit]
36. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
37. Korrio Secures $3.3M Series A Led By Ignition Partners (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
38. Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts (techcrunch.com) [edit]
39. Skytap Raises $10 Million For Cloud Automation Solutions (techcrunchit.com) [edit]
40. E-Signature Company DocuSign Lands $27 Million, Expands Management Team (techcrunch.com) [edit]
41. StorSimple raises $13M in 2nd round (bizjournals.com) [edit]
42. Zenprise raises $9M to manage company smartphones (mobile.venturebeat.com) [edit]
43. Former Microsoft Execs Lead $10 Million Round In Ruby On Rails Startup Heroku (techcrunch.com) [edit]
44. Bonanzle Raises $1M from Angel Investors, Plus Three VC Firms, to Expand Its Online Marketplace (xconomy.com) [edit]
45. Virtualization Infrastructure Software Company VM6 Raises $4 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
46. Online attorney rating service Avvo scores $10 million (techflash.com) [edit]
47. Messaging Security Company Cloudmark Raises $23 Million From Nokia, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. Visible Technologies Raises A Whopping $22 Million For Social Media Monitoring Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Appature announces $3.5M investment, led by Ignition Partners and Madrona Venture Group (appatureinc.com) [edit]
50. Appature Raises $3.5M, Led by Ignition and Madrona, to Expand Healthcare Customer Base (xconomy.com) [edit]
51. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. Xconomy San Diego (xconomy.com) [edit]
53. PRWeb (prweb.com) [edit]
54. Modiv Media rings up $1.2M in new funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
55. TechCrunch [edit]
56. Visible Technologies raises $6M to help companies track buzz (venturebeat.com) [edit]
57. DocuSign Scores $5M More (seattlepi.com) [edit]
58. Likewise Secures $10 Million in Funding; Sets Sights on New Users and Product Development (ostatic.com) [edit]
59. Skytap Raises $7 Million (techflash.com) [edit]
60. Enclarity Secures Series C Funding from Bain Capital Ventures and Ignition Partners (msnbc.msn.com) [edit]
61. Zenprise nabs $10M for automated mobile troubleshooting (venturebeat.com) [edit]
62. Citation Needed [add]
63. Topsy Bets On Real-Time Twitter Search With $15M Backing (blogs.wsj.com) [edit]
64. FiREapps Raises $8.75 Million in New Funding, Announces New Customer Acquisitions (reuters.com) [edit]
65. RadioFrame Networks raises another $28 million in financing (bizjournals.com) [edit]
66. Virtualization startup InstallFree raises $8.5M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
67. Investors Circle Xeround. (dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com) [edit]
68. Widgetbucks Pockets $10 Million in Series B Funding (techcrunch.com) [edit]
69. paidcontent.org [edit]
70. GlobalScholar Raises $27M (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
71. Cap Funding Report [edit]
72. Fat Spaniel Energy Monitoring Specialist Secures $4.6M (cleantechbrief.com) [edit]
73. Earth Class raises $13.3 million (blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com) [edit]
74. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
75. company [edit]
76. Airbiquity raises $25M for vehicle telematics (venturebeat.com) [edit]
77. Modiv Media Inc. Receives $8,000,000 Series A Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
78. Azaleos Raises $10M in Series C Funding (nwinnovation.com) [edit]
79. Citation Needed [add]
80. MFoundry, mobile financial services company, raises $15M more. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
81. Melodeo Announces $7.9 Million in New Funding to Drive Growth of Online and Mobile Music (public.nutsie.com) [edit]
82. pehub.com [edit]
83. techcrunch.com [edit]
84. DocuSign raises $12.4M (seattle.bizjournals.com) [edit]
85. techcrunch.com [edit]
86. venturebeat.com [edit]
87. Seattle Times (seattletimes.nwsource.com) [edit]
88. Venture Beat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
89. seattlepi.nwsource.com [edit]
90. Citation Needed [add]
91. Chinese Entertainment Site Yeelion Gets $5.5 Million Funding (paidcontent.org) [edit]
92. company [edit]
93. Industry Veteran Joins as CEO; $42M in Expansion Capital (seven.com) [edit]
94. Talyst gets investment of $20 million in drug system (seattlepi.com) [edit]
95. EMC Acquires SourceLabs, And With It Open Source Documentation Project SWiK (techcrunch.com) [edit]
96. Twisted Pair Solutions Secures $9 Million Series A Funding from Ignition Partners, Core Capital Partners, Chart Venture Partners (twistpair.com) [edit]
97. Full Capture Solutions, Inc. Secures $7 Million in Series B Funding; Rapid Product and Market Expansion Slated to Commence. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
98. prnewswire.co.uk [edit]
99. Cap Funding Report [edit]
100. docusign.com [edit]
101. Cap Funding Report [edit]
102. mFoundry Receives $7.3 Million in Series B Financing; GRP Partners Leads Round and Ignition (allbusiness.com) [edit]
103. MobileLime Closes $10 Million Series A Funding Round Led by Oak Investment Partners. (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
104. Cap Funding Report [edit]
105. $40 million for RadioFrame (blog.seattlepi.com) [edit]
106. Pure Networks Raises $12.5 Million in Funding (purenetworks.com) [edit]
107. Cap Funding Report [edit]
108. Centeris Corp, a new systems management company focused on managing Linux within Microsoft Corp Windows-based networks, has announced its official launch with $5m in Series A funding. (cdrinfo.com) [edit]
109. Teranode Corporation Raises $9.5 Million In Series B Funding (biospace.com) [edit]
110. Yeelion Gets $0.8 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
111. goliath.ecnext.com [edit]
112. Article: Klir Technologies Closes $8.7 Million Series A Financing Co-Led by Ignition Venture Partners and MK Capital. (highbeam.com) [edit]
113. Nexcom Signs Global OEM Agreement With RLX to Resell RLX Control Tower to Customer Base (compactpci-systems.com) [edit]
114. Lockdown seizes $5.5M to capture network security market (seattle.bizjournals.com) [edit]
115. angelscorner.com [edit]
116. company [edit]
117. CLOUDMARK SECURES $11 MILLION INVESTMENT; NOW BACKED BY DOZENS OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND ONE OF JAPAN'S LARGEST CONGLOMERATES (cloudmark.com) [edit]
118. asack.typepad.com [edit]
119. CLOUDMARK RAISES $4.5 MILLION FROM IGNITION PARTNERS TO EXTEND ITS ALREADY SIGNIFICANT LEAD IN THE ANTI-SPAM SPACE (cloudmark.com) [edit]