Seattle-area venture capital firm Ignition Partners is going through another transformation — and this time it includes a Super Bowl champion. A group of investors at Ignition, including longtime managing… Read More
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… Read More
After running his own commodities trade and marketing firm for 15 years, John Han knew all about the inefficiencies that plagued stakeholders across the global commodity industry. Now he’s turning… Read More
Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded company, joining a growing list of technology companies looking to… Read More
Peter Wilson, a fixture on the Seattle tech scene for more than 20 years, is on his way to London for his next challenge. The former vice president of engineering… Read More
Icertis, which helps large organizations such as 3M, Becton Dickinson, Cognizant, Daimler and Microsoft manage contracts, has landed a $25 million venture funding round, one of the largest in a Seattle… Read More
– 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 since being founded by Appature co-founders Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager in February.… Read More
The country is at a crossroads. Some see the political landscape as soiled, unsalvageable with two presidential candidates who are largely disliked by the majority of Americans. (Hillary Clinton’s unfavorable… Read More
Icertis, the Bellevue, Wash.-based company specializing in contract management services in the cloud, has raised $15 million in new venture capital, the company announced today. Ignition Partners led the Series… Read More
Ignition Partners, the Seattle-based venture capital firm known for its enterprise technology investments, rejoined Accel Partners and Greylock Partners and new investor Cathay Innovation to invest $35 million into Trifacta, a San Francisco-based company that… Read More
Fast-growing Spoken Communications has reeled in $28 million in fresh funding, money that the maker of cloud technologies for customer support centers will use to ramp up sales and marketing… Read More
Ignition Partners, the backer of companies such as Chef, Couchbase, Heroku and others, is raising a new annex fund to support companies in its fourth fund. According to a SEC… Read More
Ignition Partners has more fuel in the tank. The Bellevue venture capital firm — an early-stage backer of companies such as Chef, Cloudera and Couchbase — today is announcing a… Read More
We’re back with an update to the GeekWire 200, our list of the hottest up-and-coming privately-held technology companies in the Pacific Northwest. This month — sparked by an interesting comment… Read More
Ignition, the Bellevue venture capital firm led by former Microsoft executives Frank Artale and John Connors as well as Silicon Valley venture capitalist Nick Sturiale, is looking to raise a… Read More
Cyberattacks are causing havoc across a number of industries, with hackers exposing vulnerabilities everywhere they go. One of the worst fears with any of these cyberattacks is that they could… Read More
The technology industry is in constant motion occasionally undergoing tectonic shifts, altering the landscape and crowning new winners and losers. The industry is in the midst of one of those… Read More
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 noting that there almost seems… Read More
Azuqua, a Seattle-based startup that helps businesses connect external cloud services with each other, today announced a $5 million Series A round led by Ignition Venture Partners. After graduating from Microsoft’s Windows… Read More
Let’s face it. Managing email on a mobile device kind of sucks. It’s nearly impossible to find archived messages, let alone seamlessly connecting to one’s calendar, contacts or other third-party… Read More
Not everyone is happy about today’s $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource. A group of series A preferred stockholders filed suit last week in King County Superior Court alleging… Read More
Seattle startup Twisted Pair Solutions has been acquired by Motorola Solutions in a deal of undisclosed size. Twisted Pair’s technology creates an integrated communications system for smartphones, tablets and PCs… Read More
The Apple acquisition train keeps on rolling. This week, the Cupertino-based company scooped up Topsy Labs, a startup that specializes in Twitter analytics, according to a report by The Wall… Read More
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… Read More
Bellevue venture capital firm Ignition is celebrating today after enterprise cloud management startup ServiceMesh of Santa Monica, Calif. was sold to CSC as part of a strategic acquisition. Terms were not… Read More
U.S. venture capital funds had a bit more success raising money in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter, despite big shifts in government regulations that are changing the… Read More
Ignition Partners has led a $15 million venture capital round in BlueData, a stealthy Mountain View, California startup that’s developing private cloud technologies for businesses. Other investors in the round… Read More
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… Read More
Seattle startup Glympse announced a key milestone this morning, touting that it now has more than 10 million people using the real-time location sharing application. The company, which is backed… Read More
Ignition Partners is strengthening its team in Silicon Valley, adding Rachel Chalmers as a principal. Chalmers most recently served as vice president of research for the 451 Group. In her… Read More