A startup by the name of Tipbit — backed by Ignition Partners and Andreessen Horowitz —wants to make you more productive. The company is currently accepting folks into a beta program, noting in an email to prospective users that the service is designed to make “everyday business tasks faster and easier.” We discovered Tipbit through… Read More…
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 investments in companies like Splunk, which went public last April, Heroku, XenSource and Parse, which was just acquired by Facebook. Connors, who… Read More…
Bellevue-based Ratify, a stealthy startup that was developing a data analytics platform to better understand network information, notified employees this week that it is ceasing operations, according to a source who was familiar with the changes. It’s unclear why the company pulled the plug, or what’s next for the Ratify technology. However, the company’s Web… Read More…
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 announcing that it has closed on a $150 million fund. Ignition’s… Read More…
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 entrepreneurs. Cam Myhrvold of Ignition Partners delivered some bitter medicine about the Seattle startup community in remarks Wednesday afternoon at… Read More…
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, DocuSign and others — is getting ready for its biggest change yet. The firm, which is currently in the… Read More…
It’s been a good week for Ignition Partners, the Bellevue venture capital firm. On Wednesday, Citrix Systems announced its intentions to acquire Ignition portfolio company Zenprise in a deal that Fortune pegged at $355 million. Now, Cloudera, a four-year-old Hadoop based software startup led by ex-engineers from Facebook, Google and Yahoo, has scored $65 million… Read More…
SEOmoz is gobbling up another Portland startup, this time acquiring GetListed for about $3 million in cash and stock. The deal follows SEOmoz’s acquisition of Portland-based social media analytics upstart FollowerWonk in August. Founded in 2009, GetListed operates a service that helps small businesses determine how their listing information is appearing on search engines such… Read More…
INRIX continues to add horsepower to its board, as the Kirkland provider of traffic data preps for an initial public offering. The latest addition is John Connors, a venture capitalist at Bellevue-based Ignition Partners who previously served as CFO of Microsoft. That’s a big-name election for INRIX, which crowd sources data from nearly 100 million… Read More…
Technology consulting firm Avanade has entered into an agreement to purchase eight-year-old Seattle technology company Azaleos. As a result of the deal, terms of which weren’t disclosed, the 200 employees at Azaleos will be offered positions at Avanade. Azaleos describes itself as a provider of remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Lync, allowing… Read More…
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