Verity Solutions, a Kirkland, Wash.-based startup that sells drug pricing software, was snapped up by Express Scripts, a large pharmacy benefit manager that is part of health insurance giant Cigna.… Read More
— Identity management startup Auth0 hired Barry Plaga as chief financial officer and Shiven Ramji as chief product officer. Plaga was previously the CFO and COO of Guidance Software. Ramji… Read More
Shyft Technologies, a Seattle startup that helps workers in the service and retail industries communicate and swap shifts, has raised $6.5 million. The Series A round was led by Ignition… Read More
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 ranches to the Microsoft… Read More
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 officer… Read More
A little more than a year ago, Dan Springer was a stay-at-home dad. Today he is the CEO of a freshly minted public company now valued at close to $6… Read More
Ignition Partners added two high-profile names to its roster, including former Microsoft chief information officer Jim DuBois. DuBois and Datasphere CEO Satbir Khanuja will serve as “venture advisors” at Ignition, a Bellevue, Wash.-based… Read More
Cameron Borumand, a Seattle venture capitalist and co-founder of the new venture fund Curious Capital, has joined Ignition Partners as an investment associate in the firm’s Bellevue, Wash., headquarters. The… Read More
We’re at the point where a lot companies need a cloud service to manage all their cloud services, and Seattle’s Azuqua has raised $10.8 million in new funding to build… Read More
When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each… Read More
Ignition Partners, the Bellevue, Wash.-based venture capital firm, has led the way on a new $20 million round of funding for Accompany, an app that is billed as an intelligent… Read More
Accolade, the Philadelphia-based healthcare company with an office in Seattle, has appointed Dr. Ivor Horn as its new chief medical officer. Horn was most recetly the medical director of the… Read More
The Wall Street Journal reported today that Bellevue-based Ignition Partners has invested in Docker, the San Francisco-based company that helps developers to build, ship and run distributed applications with its open… Read More
Ignition Partners announced some changes to its investment portfolio on Thursday, as the Bellevue-based venture capital firm saw IBM scoop up one of the cloud startups it backs, at the same… Read More
MTN Communications, a provider of wireless communications technologies to the maritime industry, is being acquired by another company with expertise in communications in remote locations, Miami-based Emerging Market Communications (EMC).… Read More
Xamarin, the San Francisco-based company that allows developers to code applications for a variety of different platforms using Microsoft’s C# programming language, announced today that it has raised a $54… Read More
Travel planning site Hipmunk announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Oak Investment Partners, and joined by a number of… Read More
Keas, a corporate wellness program based out of San Francisco, has just received $8 million in funding from Ignition Partners and Atlas Venture. The company’s product is a gamified fitness… Read More
Shares of business intelligence company Splunk are up more than 80 percent in their first day of trading today — a strong IPO from a “big data” company backed in… Read More
SEOMoz CEO Rand Fishkin may raise a massive venture capital round in the range of $20 million to $30 million. Then, again, he may not. I guess that’s the luxury… Read More
Seattle startup AdXpose, which has had more lives than a cat since it was founded in 2005, is getting ready for a new one. The company, formerly known as Mpire… Read More
Liberty Dialysis Holdings, a Mercer Island company that operates 260 dialysis clinics across the country, has entered into an agreement to be sold to Germany’s Fresenius Medical Care for $1.7 billion.… Read More
Bellevue-based Ignition Partners led a $20 million financing round in Motif Investing, a San Mateo, Calif.- based company founded by former Microsoft general manager Hardeep Walia and former hedge fund analyst… Read More
One of the interesting trends in the venture capital business around these parts over the past few months has been the number of deals being done by Seattle venture capital… Read More
Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm, continues to plow cash into Bay Area startup companies. The latest to benefit is Topsy, a San Francisco real time search engine that… Read More