Ignition leads $19.5 million investment in Seattle’s Opscode

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Opscode has raised $19.5 million in venture capital financing, the second large funding round in a Seattle area business-to-business software company this month. The deal, which was led by Bellevue-based Ignition Partners and included participation from Battery Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, follows the $50 million round that Bellevue-based Apptio raised on March 15th. As a… Read More…

Ex-Avanade boss Mitch Hill jumps back into the startup world, joins Opscode as CEO

Opscode founder Jesse Robbins, left, handed the CEO reins to tech veteran Mitch Hill, right last year.

As the founding CEO of Avanade, Mitch Hill once oversaw close to 9,000 employees. In his latest gig, there won’t be quite as many heads to count. The 52-year-old Seattle executive has been named CEO of Opscode, a 37-person company backed with $13.5 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Battery Ventures and others. That’s obviously a… Read More…