| Date | Title | Description |
| 15.05.2025 | Lumen Technologies Appoints Michelle J. Goldberg and Steve McMillan to Board, Strengthening Company’s AI and Digital Strategy | Lumen Technologies today announced the election of Michelle J. Goldberg and Steve McMillan to its Board of Directors, effective as of the company’s 2025 annual meeting of shareholders, which was held on May 15, 2025.
Also Read: The Evolutio... |
| 22.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics Secures $70M to Revolutionize Farming with AI | In the world of agriculture, weeds are the silent thieves. They rob crops of nutrients, water, and sunlight. But a new player is stepping into the field, armed with lasers and artificial intelligence. Carbon Robotics, based in Seattle, has ... |
| 22.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics: AI-Based Farming Company Raises $70 Million (Series D) | Carbon Robotics, a leader in AI-based farming, announced that it has raised $70 million in Series D financing. The funding was led by new investor BOND with participation from existing investors NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), Ant... |
| 21.10.2024 | Carbon Robotics Raises $70M in Series D Funding | Carbon Robotics, a Seattle, WA-based company which specializes in AI-powered farming, raised $70M in Series D funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $157M, was led by BOND with participation from existing investors NVentures ... |
| 07.05.2020 | Canadian startup lands $52M to grow Denver-based team | Canada's Symend, a customer engagement platform for debt recovery, announced a $52 million raise Thursday that will help grow its Denver-based team.
The round was led by global technology venture firm Inovia Capital, with participation from... |
| 27.09.2019 | Secretive robotic farming startup led by Islion founder raises $8.9M from Ignition and Bolt | Paul Mikesell (LinkedIn Photo)
More details are emerging about a secretive Seattle startup led by Paul Mikesell, a University of Washington trained computer scientist who co-founded storage giant Isilon Systems in 2001.
The company, called ... |
| 11.10.2018 | Making a lot of money won’t make you more happy, secure, and centered — according to this VC | Ignition Partners’ John Connors and Bay Partners’ Neal Dempsey. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper)
It’s not all about the money.
That’s what John Connors wishes he would have known before starting his career, one that took him from the Montana... |
| 25.07.2018 | Ignition’s John Connors: Seattle is becoming the most important tech market behind Silicon Valley | Ignition Managing Partner John Connors. (Photos via Ignition)
Seattle’s tech scene has a lot of mojo going on right now.
That’s the word from John Connors, managing partner at Ignition Partners who was previously Microsoft’s chief financial... |
| 25.07.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, July 25 | 5 Qs WITH A DEALMAKER
Fifth Wall Ventures has a pretty narrow investment thesis. It invests exclusively in startups focused on real estate technology across sectors such as hospitality, retail, and construction.
Paid Content Securing the en... |
| 07.11.2017 | Amplero 1 of Seattle's 10 Hottest Startups | It’s time to meet The Seattle 10, our annual list of 10 of the most exciting and groundbreaking startups from the Seattle region. These cutting-edge companies cross a range of industries — from cloud computing to artificial intelligence to ... |
| 29.08.2017 | Amplero raises $17.5 million to help humans and machines analyze vast expanses of marketing data | Amplero CTO Andrew Toner, CBO Lisa Clarke, CEO Olly Downs and SVP Mike Zell. (Chris Beckman Photo)
Amplero, a Seattle startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered marketing technology, has picked up $17.5 million in a new round of fun... |
| 12.07.2017 | Artale Forced Out of VC Firm Ignition Partners After Misconduct Complaints | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/13/17, 3:05 p.m. See below.] Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm based in Bellevue, WA, with offices in Los Altos, CA, announced the resignation of managing p... |
| 11.07.2017 | Ignition Partners Managing Partner Frank Artale resigns after ‘misconduct’ allegations | Ignition Partners’ Frank Artale. (GeekWire photo/Kevin Lisota)
Frank Artale, a managing partner at Bellevue, Wash.-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners, has resigned at the firm’s request after allegations of “misconduct” against hi... |
| 12.02.2017 | Before you build another machine-learning startup, read this | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The hype around artificial intelligence/machine l... |
| 12.02.2017 | Before you build another machine-learning startup, read this | The hype around artificial intelligence/machine learning has reached mythic proportions. Some commentators are calling AI the fourth industrial revolution. Others are calling it the new electricity. And I’m a believer. An incredible amount ... |
| 25.01.2017 | Give them data or give them death: Startup KenSci raises $8.5M | KenSci has a bold purpose that doubles as a catchy slogan. “We are on a mission to fight death with data science,” CEO and Cofounder Samir Manjure told MedCity News.
The company conducts prescriptive and predictive analytics to assess the r... |
| 29.10.2016 | The more tech advances, the more vital your human team becomes | I was honored to deliver a keynote address at this year’s Velocity Conference in New York. My assignment was to talk about what “serverless” meant for teams. As I reflected on that question, and as I continue to reflect on my experience at ... |
| 29.10.2016 | The more tech advances, the more vital your human team becomes | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I was honored to deliver a keynote address at thi... |
| 27.10.2016 | Ignition Partners Adds Bob Kelly as Managing Partner in Seattle | Ignition Partners, an early stage, business software venture capital firm, ass added Bob Kelly as a managing partner in the Seattle office.
Kelly – an investor and a mentor both in Seattle and San Francisco – will be one of the firm’s four ... |
| 27.10.2016 | Term Sheet — Thursday, October 27 | ALL DEAL EVERYTHING
Some very brief notes today, as I spent a chunk of the morning on Twitter’s unusually early earnings call. In case you’ve been following the reported sale talks on that turnaround story, CEO Jack Dorsey kicked off the sa... |
| 27.10.2016 | Cloud exec Bob Kelly leaves 21-year ‘accidental’ Microsoft career, joins Ignition Partners to grow modern business apps | Bob Kelly is joining venture capital firm Ignition after a long Microsoft career
Imagine a millennial — raised with always-on fast internet, smartphones and the cloud — reporting to work, sitting down at a desktop computer and staring at an... |
| 20.10.2016 | Ignition Partners Appoints Scott Coleman as Business Dev Partner in Los Altos Office | Ignition Partners, an early stage, business software venture capital firm, appointed Scott Coleman as a business development partner in the firm’s new Los Altos office.
Coleman will identify technical and go-to-market opportunities, as well... |
| 30.09.2016 | Ignition Partners Appoints Preeti Rathi as Principal | Ignition Partners, a Bellevue, Wash. and Los Altos, Calif.-based early stage, business software venture capital firm, appointed Preeti Rathi as Principal.
Based in Los Altos, Rathi will bring her extensive technical background in early stag... |
| 17.08.2016 | Tech Moves: Startup vet Eric Best joins Amperity; Getty Images hires Comedy Central exec; etc. | Eric Best was just named as Amperity’s Chief Customer Officer.
– 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 ... |
| 10.08.2016 | Ignition Partners Adds Nick Triantos as Venture Partner | Ignition Partners, a Bellevue, Wash. and Palo Alto, Calif.-based early stage, business software venture capital firm, today added Nick Triantos as a venture partner in the new Los Altos office.
Triantos will utilize his background in ventur... |
| 28.05.2016 | 8 Entrepreneurs Weigh in on the Importance of Funding | The Startup Grind Global Conference in Redwood City, California is a Google-powered gathering of entrepreneurs and innovators from around the world. With a bevy of knowledge to be found in the speakers and attendees alike, I felt it necessa... |
| 25.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 25, 2016 | June raised new funding; LifeBeam scored $16M; RevUp Software received $5M Seed Investment
OneRent, a end-to-end residential rental and property management service, closed a $4 million Series A round of funding from Renren, Inc. The financi... |
| 15.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 15, 2016 | Couchbase secured $30M; Next Insurance landed $13M; Skyport Systems raised $30M
Skyport Systems, provider of secure server systems, raised a $30 million Series C funding round led by GV (Google Ventures) with participation from Cisco Invest... |
| 10.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 10, 2016 | Icertis closed $15M Series B; Khosla Ventures invested in Avametric; Constant Therapy raised $2M
On-demand massage service, Soothe closed a $35 million Series B round of funding, led by the company's previous investor, The Riverside Company... |
| 10.03.2016 | Icertis Closes $15M Series B Funding | Icertis, a Bellevue, WA-based provider of contract lifecycle management in the cloud, closed $15m Series B funding.
The round was led by Ignition Partners, with participation from existing investors Greycroft Partners and Fidelity Growth Pa... |
| 24.02.2016 | Mobile Development Startup Xamarin Bought by Microsoft | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
File this under least-surprising acquisition of 2016: Microsoft said today it is buying Xamarin, a San Francisco- and Boston-based company that builds tools for mobile-app dev... |
| 09.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 9, 2016 | Fuze raised $112M; Trifacta received $35M funding; Digital Shadows snagged $14M funding
Stash, an investment app for millennials, raised $3 million in seed funding to continue the company’s growth. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based ... |
| 12.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 12, 2015 | TigerText raised $50M; Eyefluence secured $14M; Flexe landed $4.4M
Flexe, provider of on-demand warehousing, today announced that it has raised $4.4 million in seed funding, which added to $1.9 million in previous investments brings the sta... |
| 08.11.2015 | Your Data Blind Side | Kristina Kerr Bergman Contributor
Kristina Kerr Bergman is a principal at Ignition Partners.
You might be about to see companies like Facebook, Google and many others whose business models depend on using their customers’ data, scramble in ... |
| 05.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 5, 2015 | Coveo raised $35M; Macat secured $30M; Semantics3 launched $1.55M funding
doDOC, a Boston, MA- and Coimbra, Portugal-based web-based platform that allows pharmaceutical companies to accelerate regulatory and compliance processes, recently r... |
| 29.10.2015 | SignalSense Closes $4.5M Seed Funding Round | SignalSense, a Seattle, WA-based developer of an enterprise security platform, closed a seed funding round of $4.5m.
The round was led by Trilogy Equity Partners with participation from Ignition Partners and Tola Capital.
The company intend... |
| 24.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 24, 2015 | Premise bagged $50M; Replimune closed $30M Series A financing; DriverUp raised $20M
Crowdway, a Milan, Italy-based smart platform that generates news and analysis about financial markets, raised €150,000 ($167,400) in seed funding. Backers ... |
| 16.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 16, 2015 | Sunlight Financial bagged $300M; Lightspeed secured $61M; Omada Health raised $48M
We don't talk about it much in this country for some reason, but diabetes and heart disease are huge problems. So big that three out of four Americans now ha... |
| 11.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 11, 2015 | EverStream Solutions received $50M; Unified secured $30M; Abra raised $10M
European data science-as-a-service provider Big Data For Humans has secured a $1.2 million seed funding round led by EC1 Capital with further investment from Firesta... |
| 09.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 9, 2015 | Didi Kuaidi scored $1B; Chef bagged $40M; Primus Power raised $25M
The battle for supremacy among e-hailing services in China is heating up, and fast. In the same week that Uber revealed that it has raised an additional $1.2 billion to expa... |
| 25.08.2015 | Daily funding roundup - August 25, 2015 | Coursera raised $49.5M; BlueData Landed $20M; Simility secured $3.45M
As we have seen so many times in recent years, with hacks on Target, Sony and the U.S. government, and now most recently on Ashley Madison, Internet security is more impo... |
| 21.07.2015 | Apprenda, Interview with CEO Sinclair Schuller | Today, Troy-based Apprenda said it raised a $24m funding round. In conjunction with the announcement, we asked CEO and co-founder Sinclair Schuller some questions about the company, the product, and investors.
FinSMEs: Hi Sinclair, can you ... |
| 21.07.2015 | Daily funding roundup - July 21, 2015 | Bright.md raises $3.5M; Medallia bagged $150M; BrightBytes landed $33M
Bright.md, which makes software that enables communication between doctors and patients, closed a $3.5 million Series A funding round. Oregon Angel Fund led the round, w... |
| 10.07.2015 | Ignition Partners Raising “Annex” Fund to Reinvest in “Top Prospects” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ignition Venture Partners is raising a so-called annex fund to double-down on investments made from its fourth fund, which already has some gems in it.
The firm, which earlier... |
| 22.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/22/15 | Oradian, WePay, MuleSoft, Videopixie, OnboardIQ, Mobcrush, Taboola, Lookup, Metabiota, Centro, Fuze
Seed stage
Oradian, a developer of technology platforms for microfinance institutions, raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Cre... |
| 21.05.2015 | Ignition Partners raises $200M fund to back more enterprise software startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ignition Partners, an enterprise-focused venture ... |
| 21.05.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Ignition Partners raises $200M fund to back more enterprise software startups
Ignition Partners, a enterprise-focused ventur... |
| 21.05.2015 | Ignition Partners raises $200M fund to back more enterprise software startups | Ignition Partners, an enterprise-focused venture capital firm with several Microsoft veterans on staff, announced today a $200 million fund earmarked for enterprise software investments.
News of Fund VI comes a couple months after an SEC fi... |
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Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 21.05.2015 | Ignition Partners Plans to Stay the Course with $200M Sixth Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The headline on venture capital firm Ignition Partners‘ pitch deck to investors in its new $200 million fund was “No Change.”
Ignition, based in based in Bellevue, WA, and Pal... |
| 21.05.2015 | Ignition Partners Closes Sixth VC Fund at $200M | Palo Alto, CA and Bellevue, WA-based venture capital firm Ignition Partners closed its sixth fund at $200m.
Led by managing partners Frank Artale, John Connors, and Nick Sturiale, Ignition Venture Partners VI focuses on investing in the Ser... |
| 27.03.2015 | Seattle Roundup: Ignition Fund, Lighter Capital, WISErg, HBO, and More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The big news this week is that Ignition Partners, an active investor in business-focused startups, is gearing up for another venture fund that could come in at $200 million. W... |
| 12.12.2014 | Ignition’s John Connors: Here’s what Seattle can learn from Silicon Valley | Ignition’s John Connors, left, and Bill Bryant at the Chef grand opening. Photo: Taylor Soper
You may be sick and tired by now of hearing about the rivalry between Seattle and Silicon Valley — with Concur co-founder Raj Singh recently notin... |
| 12.12.2014 | Cloud lovers: Here’s why two Seattle VCs are so bullish on the future of IT | Chef CEO Barry Crist, left, interviews John Connors of Ignition and Bill Bryant of DFJ
The technology industry is in constant motion occasionally undergoing tectonic shifts, altering the landscape and crowning new winners and losers.
The in... |
| 08.10.2014 | Azuqua Raises $5M for Business Process Creation in the Cloud | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
With cloud services proliferating, Seattle startup Azuqua has raised $5 million from Ignition Partners to help businesses create processes that integrate multiple software-as-... |
| 12.09.2014 | Keas raises $7.4 million to support employer wellness programs | Among the requirements Keas asks of corporate customers are: All employees have to participate and companies must offer online access to the program. A partnership with LabCorp lets Keas users measure and track specific health indicators an... |
| 31.07.2014 | Fotopedia Will Shut Down Its Apps And Website On August 10 | About six years ago, former Apple Application Division CTO Jean-Marie Hullot founded Fotopedia, a startup that in its early days tried to bring the coffee table book experience to the iPad (and later iPhone). It focused on travel-related ap... |
| 23.04.2014 | New Ignition Partners Happy Betting on Business Computing Renaissance | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A little more than a year after raising its fifth fund and tightening its investing focus to enterprise and business-to-business startups, Ignition Partners sees the past as p... |
| 12.03.2014 | Tipbit Raises $4M from Ignition for Personal Search in E-mail | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Tipbit is going after a wicked problem that seems to get worse as each new cloud service spreads our digital work farther afield, making key information at once more accessibl... |
| 04.02.2014 | With Nadella, Microsoft Avoids Drastic Change at CEO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The announcement of longtime Microsoftie Satya Nadella as the company’s new CEO was no surprise when it finally, officially came Tuesday. Last week’s early reports of the choi... |
| 06.11.2013 | Big Insight from CEOs of Context Relevant, Seeq at Upcoming Forum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two Seattle-based big data startups illustrate the range of opportunities for companies helping people extract valuable insight from their data.
We’re happy to announce that C... |
| 05.11.2013 | Storage startup Coho Data raises $25M from Ignition, Andreessen Horowitz | Coho Data, an integrated storage startup with offices in Vancouver, B.C. and Sunnyvale, Calif., has raised a $25 million venture round from Ignition Partners and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. The company was started by veterans of ... |
| 17.09.2013 | Roundup: UW Tech Policy, Deals for F5, WaveDivison, Enclarity, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The new University of Washington Tech Policy Lab promises to be a great resource for lawmakers and others trying to keep up with the implications of fast-evolving technology o... |
| 10.09.2013 | Cisco buys Ignition-backed flash storage startup Whiptail for $415M | Cisco today paid $415 million to acquire New Jersey-based Whiptail, an all-flash enterprise class storage startup bankrolled in part by Bellevue venture capital firm Ignition Partners.
WhipTail describes itself as an all-flash enterprise cl... |
| 29.05.2013 | Meeting the Wizard of Moz: Culture Breeds Community | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You can pay lip-service to corporate culture, or you can build a culture so deep that employees think about it when disciplining their kids.
SEOmoz, the Seattle Internet marke... |
| 08.05.2013 | Former Microsoft CFO John Connors named to Midas List for top investors | John Connors
John Connors, a venture capitalist at Bellevue-based Ignition Partners who previously served as CFO of Microsoft, was named to Forbes’ 2013 Midas List that honors tech’s top investors.
Connors has made a number of good investme... |
| 05.04.2013 | Ignition Partners Closes Fifth Fund at $150M | Bellevue, Wash.-based early-stage venture-capital firm Ignition Partners closed its fifth fund, at $150m.
Investors in the new vehicle, which was oversubscribed and raised in less than three months, include returning and new university endo... |
| 03.04.2013 | Ignition Partners raises $150M fund, opens new Silicon Valley office | It’s a new era for Ignition Partners.
The Bellevue venture capital firm has a new fund, new offices and a new direction as it celebrates its 13th year. Today, the firm — an investor in companies such as Glympse, DocuSign and Splunk — is ann... |
| 03.04.2013 | Funding daily: Money, money, money, as no fewer than 13 companies get funded or acquired | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Femtocells, human organs, and space: Funding dail... |
| 03.04.2013 | Ignition Partners Raises $150M, Expands to Silicon Valley | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners has raised a $150 million fund to make early-stage investments in enterprise technology companies, mainly on the West Coast, and is openin... |
| 03.04.2013 | Funding daily: Money, money, money, as no fewer than 13 companies get funded or acquired | Femtocells, human organs, and space: Funding daily for April 3 is full as 13 companies raised money, financing, or were sold.
Here’s a quick overview:
Femtocells sell
Cisco bought femtocell and small cell manufacturer Ubiquisys for $310 mil... |
| 07.02.2013 | Roundup: Ignition Raising Fund As Northwest Deals Abound | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ignition Venture Partners is going forward with a $150 million fund, while Northwest startups Rover.com, Urban Airship, and Rivet & Sway, recently raised venture capital. ... |
| 31.01.2013 | Ignition’s Cam Myhrvold: The problem in Seattle isn’t money, it’s the entrepreneurial talent | Cam Myhrvold
What’s the missing ingredient in Seattle’s startup community? Is it a lack of smart money? Or a lack of solid entrepreneurs?
Well, for one of Seattle’s top venture capital firms the answer is pretty clear: It’s the entrepreneur... |
| 24.01.2013 | Ignition changing course as it seeks to raise new fund | Frank Artale
Ignition Partners has experienced a number of transformations over the years, launching a fund in China and debuting a fund just for later-stage deals. Now, the Bellevue venture capital firm — a backer of Splunk, Hipmunk, DocuS... |
| 24.01.2013 | Confirmed: Ignition Partners Scaling Down With New $150M Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 5:30 pm Pacific] One of the Northwest’s leading venture firms is scaling back, looking at raising a smaller fifth fund with fewer active partners.
A source familiar w... |
| 14.12.2012 | Source: Cisco Takes Secretive Role As “Unnamed Silicon Valley Industry Titan” In WhipTail’s $31M Round | According to multiple sources, Cisco has taken a secretive role as the “Unnamed Silicon Valley industry titan” in a $31 million round for WhipTail, a flash storage company that also took investment from SanDisk and others
The Series C round... |
| 07.12.2012 | Cloudera Raises $65M in Funding | Cloudera, a Palo Alto, CA-based Real-Time platform for Big Data, has raised $65m in funding.
The round was led by Accel Partners, with participation from Greylock Partners, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and Meritech Capital Partners.
The comp... |
| 04.12.2012 | Under Seattle’s Cloud, a Big Data Cluster Grows | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s a good time to be doing big data in Seattle.
So says Ed Lazowska, the University of Washington computer science professor who played host and tour guide to the region’s b... |
| 14.11.2012 | Continuuity Raises $10M in Series A Funding | Continuuity, a Palo Alto, CA-based Big Data application platform, has raised $10m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Battery Ventures and Ignition Partners, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Amplify Par... |
| 16.10.2012 | Referly Raises $1M in Seed Funding | Referly, a San Francisco, CA-based shopping network where every product is hand picked by a community of social sellers, has raised $1m in seed funding.
According to reports, backers include Ignition Partners, New Enterprise Associates, 500... |
| 15.10.2012 | The wheels on Message Bus go round and round for better email delivery | The wheels on startup Message Bus keep on turning, as it drives into $11 million in growth funding.
This company is building the Message Bus Global Delivery Network, which delivers communications across multiple channels without having to d... |
| 15.10.2012 | Funding Daily: Fuel for innovation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It’s hard to say which is more important in fueli... |
| 15.10.2012 | The wheels on Message Bus go round and round for better email delivery | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The wheels on startup Message Bus keep on turning... |
| 15.10.2012 | Message Bus Closes $11M in Funding | Message Bus, a Corte Madera, CA-based provider of a cloud-native application service enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels, has closed $11m in growth funding.
The round was led by North Bridge Venture Partners, wi... |
| 07.10.2012 | 5 cloud-native security companies to watch | This guest post is written by entrepreneur and AngelList Scout Mathew Johnson.
Important advances in security are happening right now due to the trends of virtualization everywhere and the aggressive move to deploy applications in the cloud... |
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This guest post is written by entrepreneur and An... |
| 04.09.2012 | Korrio Adds $4.6M to Expand Youth Sports Sites | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Korrio, the Seattle-based startup that offers websites to help grownups organize youth sports leagues, has raised another $4.6 million from existing investors. That brings the... |
| 12.06.2012 | Hipmunk (YC S10) raises $15M Series B from IVP and Ignition | We’ve got fantastic news today and are excited to share it with all of you whether you’re a loyal fan, travel enthusiast, part of the tech and investment community or just part of the greater hipmunk family. Two months shy of our two-year a... |
| 12.06.2012 | Hipmunk Raises $15M Series B, Promises Big Product Improvements | My favorite travel site Hipmunk just announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding.
The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and IVP parter Todd Chaffee will be joining the Hipmunk board. Previous inves... |
| 22.05.2012 | Bye, SocialEyes: Startup Drops Video Chat, Goes Mobile with Sidecar | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
SocialEyes, a startup with roots in RealNetworks and financial backing from Bellevue, WA’s Ignition Partners, is changing directions.
The company unveiled a group video-chat s... |
| 15.05.2012 | Prosodic Completes $1.4M Seed Funding Round | Prosodic Inc., a Seattle, WA-based provider of a software platform that brings predictability and insight in optimizing owned Facebook content, has completed a $1.4m seed round of funding.
Backers include Ignition Partners, as well as sever... |
| 09.05.2012 | Amazon Takes Over: How a Flood of People Could Remake Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In Seattle, the future is pretty easy to find. Just head to Amazon.com’s neighborhood.
Just a few years ago, this corner of the city was dominated by warehouses and cheap rent... |
| 03.05.2012 | WePay Raises $10 Million To Scale Its Online Payment Platform | Online payment platform WePay just announced that it has raised $10 million in a new financing round. This round was led by Ignition Partners. Two of the company’s existing investors, Highland Capital Partners and August Capital also partic... |
| 03.05.2012 | WePay (YC S09) raises $10M growth round from Ignition Partners | Online payment platform WePay just announced that it has raised $10 million in a new financing round. This round was led by Ignition Partners. Two of the company’s existing investors, Highland Capital Partners and August Capital also partic... |
| 03.05.2012 | WePay Closes $10M Financing | WePay, a Palo Alto, CA-based provider of solutions to accept payments online, has closed a $10m financing.
The round was led by Ignition Partners, with participation from existing investors Highland Capital Partners and August Capital.
This... |
| 01.05.2012 | SEOmoz Raises $18M from Brad Feld, Sees a Possible Path to IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
SEOmoz, the Seattle-based provider of online marketing software, has raised $18 million in venture financing to fuel its expansion in the growing sectors of social media, onli... |
| 01.05.2012 | SEOmoz raises $18 million, Brad Feld joining board — and yes, the deal has closed | SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin
SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin has been down this path before, as detailed in his extensive account of the company’s unsuccessful attempt to raise a large round of venture capital funding last year. But this time, with a di... |
| 19.03.2012 | EMC-Isilon Acquires Storage Software Partner Likewise | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One of the biggest recent acquisitions in the Seattle area is paying some more dividends today. EMC’s Isilon storage division, which was added to the IT behemoth in a $2.25 bi... |
| 07.02.2012 | Spoken Communications Completes $11.5M Series B Financing | Spoken Communications, a Bellevue, WA-based provider of an enterprise cloud platform for contact centers, has completed an $11.5m Series B round of financing.
The round was led by Ignition Capital, with participation from existing investor ... |
| 25.01.2012 | Continuuity Raises Funding | Continuuity, a Big Data startup, has received an investment of undisclosed amount.
Backers include Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, and several angel investors including Bob Pasker, Matt Ocko and The Data Collective... |
