Bezos, Schmidt, Ignition and others toss support behind API marketplace Mashape Some heavy hitters in the technology industry are tossing their support behind Mashape, a San Francisco startup that’s building a… Read More
The nitty-gritty details of how SEOMoz’s $24 million venture capital deal blew up How do venture capital deals fall apart? Those who want the inside scoop should look no further than Rand Fishkin’s… Read More
Q&A: Ignition’s Frank Artale is one very busy VC Frank Artale is new to the venture capital business, so maybe he didn’t get the memo. After all, most VCs… Read More
Morning Radar: Web site wants your Amazon rants; Connors on Cook; and more Amazon.com is starting to get a bit of a PR black eye when it comes to the sales tax issue,… Read More
Jason Goldberg reflects on the ups and downs at Jobster and why it missed becoming LinkedIn Jason Goldberg, who co-founded the online recruiting startup Jobster in 2003, was one of the more colorful characters in Seattle’s… Read More
Ignition, Founder’s Co-op and Madrona join forces to back AppFog Three Seattle area venture capital firms are allying to back Portland’s AppFog, which has created new technologies that allow developers… Read More
Ignition continues blistering pace, leads $14 million round for Couchbase Another day, another investment by Ignition Partners. The Bellevue venture capital firm today announced that it has led a $14… Read More
Ignition leads $10 million round in New York’s Apprenda We’ve been writing a lot lately about how Ignition Partners is transforming itself into a national firm, doing deals wherever… Read More
Airbiquity lands $4M as company sees growth in ‘connected car’ services Another Seattle area company that’s building some of the underlying technologies for the “connected car” has scored a new round… Read More
Swype raises more cash, looks to top 100 million installs Swype, which allows mobile device owners to input text with the swipe of a finger rather than the traditional tap,… Read More
Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise… Read More
Ex-Microsofties raise $500,000 for Connected, a rival to Seattle’s Gist A San Francisco upstart by the name of Connected — led by two former Microsoft employees — has raised $500,000… Read More
Ignition continues blistering pace, backs stealthy Bromium Ignition Partners certainly is busy these days. For the third time this week, the Bellevue venture capital firm has invested… Read More
Running late for a meeting? Glympse attracts $7.5M to help mobile phone users share locations with friends There’s no shortage of applications that help mobile phone users share their physical locations. Even so, Glympse — a Redmond… Read More
Ignition, Accel pump $11M into cloud startup ScaleXtreme Ignition Partners and Accel Partners have invested $11 million in ScaleXtreme, a Palo Alto, California-based cloud computing startup. As a… Read More
Adam Bosworth unveils Keas, a social game that uses peer pressure to make co-workers healthier It has been two years since Ignition Partners backed Adam Bosworth’s stealthy consumer health startup Keas. But the London-born entrepreneur,… Read More
BlueStacks brings Android apps to Windows, raises cash from ex-Microsofties Have you ever wanted to take your favorite Android games, news or travel apps to your Windows PC? A new… Read More
SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin on Google’s Panda update: It’s been ‘great for our business’ At the Seattle 2.0 Awards last week, Team GeekWire had the chance to chat with SEOMoz founder Rand Fishkin about… Read More
Ignition joins with Ron Conway, Dave McClure and others to back stealthy Inporia Ignition Partners has joined with angel investors Ron Conway, Dave McClure and others to back Inporia, a stealthy e-commerce startup… Read More
Growth spurt continues at DataSphere; hyperlocal blog platform to hire 220 in Ariz. DataSphere Technologies may specialize in hyperlocal advertising. But the Bellevue company is undergoing what can only be described as …… Read More
Exclusive: Fast-growing Swype scores cash from Ignition, hints at Apple iOS integration One of Seattle’s hottest startup companies has scored cash from one of the region’s biggest venture capital firms. Swype, which… Read More
Ignition Partners, Madrona back Tier 3 with $8.5 million Two of the Seattle area’s best-known venture capital firms have joined forces to back Tier 3, a five-year-old Seattle company… Read More
