Articles about Ignition Partners

Cigna-owned Express Scripts buys Seattle-area health tech startup Verity Solutions

Verity Solutions, a Kirkland, Wash.-based startup that sells drug pricing software, was snapped up by Express Scripts, a large pharmacy… Read More

Tech Moves: Auth0 adds two senior leaders; Nordstrom names COO; Amperity taps sales exec

— Identity management startup Auth0 hired Barry Plaga as chief financial officer and Shiven Ramji as chief product officer. Plaga… Read More

Shyft lands $6.5M to help retail and service workers easily swap schedules

Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised… Read More

Making a lot of money won’t make you more happy, secure, and centered — according to this VC

It’s not all about the money. That’s what John Connors wishes he would have known before starting his career, one… Read More

Ignition’s John Connors: Seattle is becoming the most important tech market behind Silicon Valley

Seattle’s tech scene has a lot of mojo going on right now. That’s the word from John Connors, managing partner… Read More

From stay-at-home dad to DocuSign CEO: How Dan Springer guided digital signature giant to IPO

A little more than a year ago, Dan Springer was a stay-at-home dad. Today he is the CEO of a… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Microsoft CIO joins Ignition Partners; Amazon voice VP lands at Uber

Ignition Partners added two high-profile names to its roster, including former Microsoft chief information officer Jim DuBois. DuBois and Datasphere CEO Satbir… Read More

Tech Moves: Curious Capital co-founder moves to Ignition Partners; Vacasa adds former Expedia exec to board; and more

Cameron Borumand, a Seattle venture capitalist and co-founder of the new venture fund Curious Capital, has joined Ignition Partners as… Read More

Connecting the cloud: Azuqua raises $10.8M to help companies integrate and manage cloud apps

We’re at the point where a lot companies need a cloud service to manage all their cloud services, and Seattle’s… Read More

(L to R): Charles Fitzgerald, Platformonomics; Frank Artale, Ignition Partners; Shelia Gulati, Tola Capital; S. "Soma" Somasegar, Madrona Venture Group

Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services,… Read More

Ignition leads $20M funding round for Accompany, an app that acts as a virtual chief of staff

Ignition Partners, the Bellevue, Wash.-based venture capital firm, has led the way on a new $20 million round of funding… Read More

Tech Moves: Accolade appoints Dr. Ivor Horn as chief medical officer; Getty Images names two new EVPs; and more

Accolade, the Philadelphia-based healthcare company with an office in Seattle, has appointed Dr. Ivor Horn as its new chief medical… Read More

News Brief

Ignition Partners invests in Docker’s Series D round, which valued company at $1B

The Wall Street Journal reported today that Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has invested in Docker, the San Francisco-based company that helps developers… Read More

Ignition Partners backs a new cloud startup, while IBM acquires one already in its portfolio

Ignition Partners announced some changes to its investment portfolio on Thursday, as the Bellevue-based venture capital firm saw IBM scoop up… Read More

Ignition-backed MTN to be acquired by Emerging Market Communications

MTN Communications, a provider of wireless communications technologies to the maritime industry, is being acquired by another company with expertise… Read More

Xamarin raises $54M in funding to bring Microsoft’s programming language to other platforms

Xamarin, the San Francisco-based company that allows developers to code applications for a variety of different platforms using Microsoft’s C#… Read More

Ignition-backed travel startup Hipmunk raises $20 million

Travel planning site Hipmunk announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series C financing. The round was led… Read More

Corporate wellness company Keas snags $8M from Ignition and Atlas Venture

Keas, a corporate wellness program based out of San Francisco, has just received $8 million in funding from Ignition Partners… Read More

‘Big data’ company Splunk, backed by Ignition, soars in IPO

Shares of business intelligence company Splunk are up more than 80 percent in their first day of trading today —… Read More

SEOMoz considers $20M to $30M VC round, but Rand Fishkin says no ‘done deal’ yet

SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million.… Read More

Seattle’s AdXpose sells out to comScore for $22 million

Seattle startup AdXpose, which has had more lives than a cat since it was founded in 2005, is getting ready… Read More

Liberty Dialysis to sell for $1.7B

Liberty Dialysis Holdings, a Mercer Island company that operates 260 dialysis clinics across the country, has entered into an agreement… Read More

Ignition backs Motif, ex-Microsoftie’s startup for ‘investing in ideas’

Bellevue-based Ignition Partners led a $20 million financing round in Motif Investing, a San Mateo, Calif.- based company founded by former… Read More

California dreaming: Ignition backs another startup with ties outside the region

One of the interesting trends in the venture capital business around these parts over the past few months has been… Read More

Ignition backs Topsy, a real-time search engine

Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit… Read More