Articles about Ignition

Ignition Partners investors spin out new Seattle firm Fuse with Seahawks football star Bobby Wagner

Seattle-area venture capital firm Ignition Partners is going through another transformation — and this time it includes a Super Bowl… Read More

Secretive robotic farming startup led by Islion founder raises $8.9M from Ignition and Bolt

More details are emerging about a secretive Seattle startup led by Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who… Read More

Global commodity trade logistics management software startup Intelage raises $2.3M

After running his own commodities trade and marketing firm for 15 years, John Han knew all about the inefficiencies that… Read More

Digital signature giant DocuSign files for IPO, seeks $100M in tech industry’s latest public offering

Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded… Read More

Tech Moves: Longtime Seattle tech vet Peter Wilson to lead Blockchain engineering team; Madrona adds Ignition Partners vet

Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London… Read More

Cloud-based enterprise contract management company Icertis scores $25M

Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million… Read More

Tech Moves: Startup vet Eric Best joins Amperity; Getty Images hires Comedy Central exec; etc.

– Amperity, a Seattle-based machine-learning marketing startup, named tech veteran Eric Best as their new chief customer officer today. The startup has remained in stealth mode since being… Read More

Five venture capitalists share feelings on Donald Trump, Peter Thiel and the state of the country amid a charged political season

The country is at a crossroads. Some see the political landscape as soiled, unsalvageable with two presidential candidates who are… Read More

Icertis raises $15M from Ignition Partners and others for cloud-based contract management platform

Icertis, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company specializing in contract management services in the cloud, has raised $15 million in new venture… Read More

Ignition participates in $35M investment in ‘data wrangling’ company Trifacta

Ignition Partners, the Seattle-based venture capital firm known for its enterprise technology investments, rejoined Accel Partners and Greylock Partners and new investor Cathay Innovation… Read More

Spoken Communications lands $28M to bring cloud technologies to call centers

Fast-growing Spoken Communications has reeled in $28 million in fresh funding, money that the maker of cloud technologies for customer… Read More

Ignition raising new venture fund to support existing portfolio companies

Ignition Partners, the backer of companies such as Chef, Couchbase, Heroku and others, is raising a new annex fund to… Read More

Ignition raises $200 million venture fund in pursuit of top enterprise software startups

Ignition Partners has more fuel in the tank. The Bellevue venture capital firm — an early-stage backer of companies such… Read More

GeekWire 200 update: Where Seattle VC firms are placing their bets

We’re back with an update to the GeekWire 200, our list of the hottest up-and-coming privately-held technology companies in the… Read More

Ignition looking to raise $200 million venture capital fund

Ignition, the Bellevue venture capital firm led by former Microsoft executives Frank Artale and John Connors as well as Silicon… Read More

Tempered Networks raises $15M to help protect power plants and refineries from cyberattacks

Cyberattacks are causing havoc across a number of industries, with hackers exposing vulnerabilities everywhere they go. One of the worst… Read More

Cloud lovers: Here’s why two Seattle VCs are so bullish on the future of IT

The technology industry is in constant motion occasionally undergoing tectonic shifts, altering the landscape and crowning new winners and losers.… Read More

Ignition’s John Connors: Here’s what Seattle can learn from Silicon Valley

You may be sick and tired by now of hearing about the rivalry between Seattle and Silicon Valley — with… Read More

Azuqua raises $5M from Ignition for cloud connectivity platform

Azuqua, a Seattle-based startup that helps businesses connect external cloud services with each other, today announced a $5 million Series… Read More

This Microsoft vet just scored $4 million to radically change the way you use email on mobile devices

Let’s face it. Managing email on a mobile device kind of sucks. It’s nearly impossible to find archived messages, let… Read More

Early stakeholders in Scout Analytics claim venture capitalists engaged in ‘self dealing, corporate waste’ prior to $32M acquisition

Not everyone is happy about today’s $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource. A group of series A preferred stockholders… Read More

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