Ignition Partners

Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm based in Washington that specializes in seed and series A-stage investments in software companies across the United States. Founded in 2000, the firm manages over $2 billion and focuses on identifying and supporting emerging leaders in enterprise software. Ignition Partners combines deep industry knowledge, technical expertise, and extensive operational experience, with a team of partners who have successfully built notable companies in the tech sector. The firm assists entrepreneurs by transforming initial ideas into viable businesses, providing guidance on team hiring, offering industry insights, and facilitating strategic growth. Ignition Partners aims to help founders achieve optimal outcomes as they navigate the challenges of building and scaling their businesses.

Scott Coleman

Partner

John Connors

Managing Partner

Michelle Goldberg

Partner

Robert Headley

Partner

Steven W. Hooper

General Partner

Steve Hooper

Founding Partner

Ike Lee

Venture Partner

Cameron Myhrvold

Founding Partner and General Partner

Chris Peters

Founding Partner

Jonathan David Roberts

Founding Partner

Mariya Sichkar

Fund Manager

Adrian Smith

Partner

338 past transactions

AVST

Series B in 2004
With more than 30 years of continuous innovation, Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a trusted developer of software-based Unified Communications (UC) solutions for businesses of all sizes. Our mission is to develop communications solutions that transform the productivity of individuals, teams and businesses while leveraging the value of their existing and evolving IT infrastructure. Thousands of businesses worldwide rely on AVST to meet their “mission-critical” communications requirements today, align their business with key trends and, with the world-class interoperability and delivery models of AVST’s UC solutions, provide a bridge to their digital future. MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS TODAY Nobody builds more secure, reliable, feature-rich and scalable “enterprise class” UC solutions than AVST. That’s why top hospitals, leading universities, major government agencies and multinational companies worldwide have turned to AVST to meet their requirements today, including replacing mission-critical voice applications like automated attendant, voicemail and fax, as well as extending the life of their existing call control infrastructure. ALIGN WITH KEY TRENDS For over three decades, AVST has remained at the forefront of our industry by developing next-generation communications solutions. Today these solutions include flexible and secure unified messaging, speech-based call processing, contextually aware personal assistant, powerful UC mobile clients and advanced notification and information-access solutions that integrate with the databases of your organization. THE BRIDGE TO YOUR DIGITAL FUTURE The broadest interoperability suite in the communications industry serves as the foundation of our best-of-breed UC solutions. By connecting new and existing communications technologies, AVST facilitates the migration of your enterprise to the Cloud, IP and Microsoft Lync. AVST maintains relationships with virtually all of the major premise and cloud communications technology providers to ensure that your UC solutions and your business are always “future-proofed.” ABOUT AVST Headquartered in Orange County, California, AVST maintains facilities in Seattle, Washington, Victoria B.C., Canada and the United Kingdom and has remote sales offices throughout the United States. AVST's UC solutions are sold and supported worldwide by an extensive network of resellers and OEM partners. To learn more about AVST, our products and partners, please visit www.avst.com or you can follow us at Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. AVST was established in September 2003 from the combined businesses of Sound Advantage (established in 1997) and the AVT division (established in 1982) of Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAPA). A privately owned company, AVST's two major institutional investors are Ignition Partners, Bellevue, WA (www.ignitionpartners.com) and Second Alpha Partners, New York, NY (www.secondalpha.com).

Motif

Series B in 2011
Motif is an online broker that lets you invest in a world of big ideas. The company, based in Silicon Valley, is changing the face of online investing through an innovative, transparent social platform that allows individuals and investment advisors to invest in stock and bond portfolios built around everyday ideas and broad economic trends -- and even create brand-new motifs from scratch. Motif is a registered broker-dealer and a member of SIPC. The company's investors include Foundation Capital, Goldman Sachs, Ignition Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Board members include former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Wall Street executive Sallie Krawcheck.

Message Bus

Venture Round in 2012
Mail Bypass, Inc., doing business as Message Bus, provides a cloud-native application service for enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels. Its service enables enterprises and application developers to deliver transactional and marketing messages, including emails, SMS, push mails, and social messages. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Corte Madera, California.

Trifacta

Series E in 2019
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture. It also leverages decades of innovative research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management, and machine learning to make the process of preparing data faster and more intuitive. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 8,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data wrangling solutions. The company develops data wrangling software for data exploration and self-service data preparation for analysis. They focused on building software that helps organizations and individuals unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Trifacta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Xamarin

Series A in 2012
Mobile App Development & App Creation Software

BlueData

Series C in 2015
BlueData provides the leading container-based software platform for AI, machine learning, data science, and big data analytics focuses on helping enterprises to accelerate their deployments, with faster time-to-value and lower TCO. The BlueData platform leverages Docker container technology and patented innovations to make it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to deploy Spark, Kafka, TensorFlow, Hadoop, and other AI / ML / DL and big data.

Azaleos

Series B in 2005
Azaleos Corporation provides the benefits of hosted e-mail and collaboration services for organizations that cannot or will not allow their data to reside outside the datacenter. Azaleos 24X7 remotely managed services for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Active Directory, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server keep information on-premise and under IT control, while uptime, maintenance, and support is handled by experts in its network operations centers.

WePay

Series B in 2012
WePay is a payment provider focused solely on meeting the needs of online platforms that need to settle money between their users. Founded in 2008, it provides everything an online marketplace or cloud software provider needs to provide integrated payments from within their app while maintaining trust and safety. This includes not just credit card processing, but also complete solutions for managing fraud risk, regulatory compliance, and customer support provided at no extra cost. WePay is venture-backed with more than $74.15 million and was named to the Inc. 500 list in 2015 as 62nd fastest-growing private company in the US.

mFoundry

Series C in 2007
mFoundry is the most popular mobile banking solution in the U.S., the choice of more than 800 banks and credit unions nationwide. mFoundry's award-winning mBanking platform is the leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) mobile banking solution in the financial services industry today. mFoundry has an extensive partner network that includes FIS, Open Solutions, COCC, PSCU Financial Services, NCR, CO-OP, First Data and PayPal. These partnerships, combined with its extensive implementation experience and flexible SaaS-based architecture help it deploy mobile banking solutions quickly. While known best for its mobile banking innovation, mFoundry has also demonstrated leadership in mobile payments, leading Starbucks Card Mobile, the most successful mobile payments program to date, currently used across more than 6,800 Starbucks. mFoundry was founded in 2004 by Drew Sievers and Rodney Aiglstorfer. The company is headquartered in Larkspur, California, with additional offices in downtown San Francisco. For more information, please visit http://www.mfoundry.com.

Acalvio Technologies

Series A in 2015
Acalvio provides Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions to detect, engage and respond to malicious activity inside the perimeter. The solutions are anchored on patented innovations in Deception and Data Science. This enables a DevOps approach to ATD, enabling ease of deployment, monitoring and management. Acalvio enriches its threat intelligence by data obtained from internal and partner ecosystems, enabling customers to benefit from defense in depth, reduce false positives, and derive actionable intelligence for remediation.

Referly

Seed Round in 2012
Referly is an Online Referral System for Your Social Network. Referly tracks the links you share, and rewards you for your friends’ actions. When you share your favorite products and services, you build a reputation as the “go-to guru” for the things you love, and get rewards for generating purchases.

Keas

Series C in 2014
Keas is an employee engagement and benefits management platform for enterprise HR with an emphasis on health benefits and corporate wellness. Keas provides HR with a consumer-style app for employees and dependents that is gamified, social, and mobile with 10x greater engagement than other health IT apps. For HR professions, Keas delivers a SaaS-based enterprise platform that includes analytics, integration, and cross-vendor management and reporting functionality. Keas is the only vendor that guarantees employee engagement and seamless integration of all health tech and services vendors for both employees and HR. Keas delivers high ROI by driving HR and employee productivity, supporting the benefits strategy, and managing health risks and costs.

Cloudmark

Venture Round in 2010
Cloudmark builds messaging security software that protects communications service provider networks and their subscribers against the widest range of messaging threats. Only Cloudmark Security Platform™ delivers instant security and control across diverse messaging environments, enabling communications service providers to create a safe user experience, protect revenue and safeguard their brand, while streamlining infrastructure and reducing operational costs. Cloudmark’s patented solutions protect more than 120 tier-one customers worldwide, including AT&T, Verizon, Swisscom, Comcast, Cox and NTT.

Lala

Venture Round in 2006
Lala is a hub for online music discovery and purchasing. Users can listen for free music, adding tracks to their playlist as they surf. members who download a plugin can turn Lala into an online music locker that syncs their desktop music libraries to their Lala account. Long uploads aren't necessary. If Lala already has the song in their library, they simply unlock the file to you online. It was announced by the New York Times on December 4, 2009, that Lala was acquired by Apple, Inc.

Apprenda

Series C in 2013
Apprenda is a developer of a cloud-based enterprise platform used to power the next generation of enterprise software development. The company creates and supports modern, enterprise-ready application platforms for both cloud-native and traditional application workloads. With more than a decade of deep, enterprise customer insights, it provides compatible solution offerings for both individuals and IT departments, removing friction from the software delivery process and transforming IT into an engine of growth. Apprenda was established in 2007 and is headquartered in Troy, New York.

Pure Networks

Series B in 2006
Equipment management, content and digital services to individuals and companies

Onehub

Series A in 2009
Onehub Inc. provides online secure sharing and collaboration solutions to businesses. It offers customization, sharing client portal, FTP alternative, secure file sharing, and virtual data room solutions. The company enables businesses to store, organize, and share files in the cloud specifically for iPhone, iPad, and android. Onehub Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Symend

Private Placement in 2019
Symend Inc. develops debt recovery solutions. It provides a software platform that reduces the incidence of debt delinquency while creating a positive experience for everyone involved in the debt collection process. Its platform combines automation, predictive analytics, and positive collections tactics. It includes treatment planning, campaign planning, self-treatment toolkit, and business logic control. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Calgary, Canada, with additional offi9ces in Toronto, Ontario and Denver, Colorado.

Carbon Robotics

Series C in 2023
Maka Autonomous Robotic Systems, Inc. designs and develops mobile robots for weed control. The company’s products specialize in robotics, autonomous, and deep learning technologies focused on eliminating weeds and unwanted plants, enabling cultivators to optimize crop yield. Maka Autonomous Robotic Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Glympse

Private Placement in 2019
Glympse is the only built-for-mobility SaaS company that helps Fortune 1000 companies improve their customer satisfaction by eliminating the friction and anxiety of product and service delivery experiences. The pioneer in real-time temporary location sharing technology, Glympse has a powerful platform that successfully aggregates existing Service, Marketing and Commerce Cloud capabilities into a single easy-to-use Glympse, helping businesses improve communication and increase satisfaction when their products and services are delivered or picked up by their customers. Many of the world's largest brands trust Glympse to provide a best-in-class location experience with their customers.

SourceLabs

Venture Round in 2006
SourceLabs is a provider of a set of tools and services used to support open source software like Linux. The company sells subscriptions for enterprise support, maintenance, and upgrades for open source software, including SASH, offers a proprietary Open Source Management System and is also behind the wiki website SWiK, a community project that documents open source software.

Topsy Labs

Venture Round in 2012
Topsy is a social analytics company that gives you instant answers to critical business questions through real-time analysis of public conversations. Operating the world's only index of the public social web, Topsy is used by some of the largest global marketing, news, entertainment, and financial organizations to get real-time insights into a wide variety of business questions: everything from spotting breaking news and identifying customer satisfaction issues, to gauging response to TV programming and understanding political sentiment. Many of the world’s largest brands also use Topsy as their day-to-day social dashboard to discover and track the impact of trending topics and predict future events. Headquartered in San Francisco, Topsy is backed by BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Scott Banister. For more information visit: http://about.topsy.com.

Skytap

Series E in 2017
Skytap, Inc. provides cloud based development and test environments for migrating and modernizing enterprise applications worldwide. It offers Skytap Cloud, a solution that provides self-service access to production-like environments, which enables development/test teams to test code more frequently. The company’s collaboration tools enable development teams to identify, share, and reproduce software defects. In addition, it offers cloud migration, DevOps, application modernization, training, and independent software vendor solutions; and onboarding and adoption, implementation, and strategic consulting services. Skytap, Inc. was formerly known as illumita, Inc. and changed its name to Skytap, Inc. in April 2008. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It has other locations in Toronto, Canada; and London, United Kingdom.

Full Capture Solutions

Series A in 2004
Full Capture Solutions, Inc. develops predictive, analytic-driven solutions for the insurance industry. Its analytic technology is applied to insurance claims for discovery, forensic analysis, and predictive modeling. Its applications include automobile, environmental, liability, property, workers compensation, and recovery operations. Full Capture Solutions, was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in East Hartford, Connecticut.

Trifacta

Series C in 2014
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture. It also leverages decades of innovative research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management, and machine learning to make the process of preparing data faster and more intuitive. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 8,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data wrangling solutions. The company develops data wrangling software for data exploration and self-service data preparation for analysis. They focused on building software that helps organizations and individuals unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Trifacta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Pure Networks

Series A in 2003
Equipment management, content and digital services to individuals and companies

Forgame

Series A in 2012
Forgame Group (Forgame云游控股) is a Chinese company focused on developing and launching cloud games. Founded in 2009, Forgame is headquartered in Guangzhou. It consists of Feiyin and Jieyou, both of which are brands of game research and development, and Weidong launching platform. Forgame has launched more than 20 sets of self-developed cloud games, including Ming Dynasty, Wan, Wan2, Dream Faerie, Nine Fairy Dream and the Myth in Foreworld, and more. Besides being issued in 91wan of Forgame, these games are also issued on more than 100 platforms, such as, 4399, 360, Baidu, Duowan and PPS, and others with the model of joint operation. In addition, 91wan has successfully launched more than 50 vicegerent games, such as UUYX and Hero Expedition.

Glympse

Series B in 2011
Glympse is the only built-for-mobility SaaS company that helps Fortune 1000 companies improve their customer satisfaction by eliminating the friction and anxiety of product and service delivery experiences. The pioneer in real-time temporary location sharing technology, Glympse has a powerful platform that successfully aggregates existing Service, Marketing and Commerce Cloud capabilities into a single easy-to-use Glympse, helping businesses improve communication and increase satisfaction when their products and services are delivered or picked up by their customers. Many of the world's largest brands trust Glympse to provide a best-in-class location experience with their customers.

LiveStories

Series A in 2017
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.

Talyst

Series C in 2008
Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems.

StreamSets

Series A in 2015
StreamSets software delivers performance management for data flows that feed the next generation of big data applications. Its mission is to bring operational excellence to the management of data in motion, so that data continually arrives on-time and with quality, empowering business-critical analysis and decision-making. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Symend

Private Placement in 2020
Symend Inc. develops debt recovery solutions. It provides a software platform that reduces the incidence of debt delinquency while creating a positive experience for everyone involved in the debt collection process. Its platform combines automation, predictive analytics, and positive collections tactics. It includes treatment planning, campaign planning, self-treatment toolkit, and business logic control. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Calgary, Canada, with additional offi9ces in Toronto, Ontario and Denver, Colorado.

Nymi

Series B in 2017
Nymi Inc. develops and delivers Nymi Band, a wearable authenticator that identifies a user based on their unique electrocardiogram through proprietary technology called HeartID. The company also offers a mobile application for Android phones to activate their Nymi Bands. It sells its bands online. Nymi Inc. was formerly known as Bionym Inc. and changed its name to Nymi Inc. in December 2014. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Avvo

Series B in 2007
Avvo is an online legal marketplace connecting consumers and lawyers. The lawyer directory provides Avvo-rated profiles, client reviews, and peer endorsements for 97% of all lawyers in the U.S., so consumers can find the lawyer who’s right for the needs. Avvo also helps lawyers grow businesses with marketing tools and services including Avvo Ignite, a cloud-based marketing platform designed specifically for attorneys. Avvo was launched in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Trifacta

Series D in 2018
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture. It also leverages decades of innovative research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management, and machine learning to make the process of preparing data faster and more intuitive. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 8,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data wrangling solutions. The company develops data wrangling software for data exploration and self-service data preparation for analysis. They focused on building software that helps organizations and individuals unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Trifacta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Tractable

Series A in 2017
Tractable Ltd. develops artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms to learn and perform expert visual tasks. The company’s solution collects damage data, analyses it, enables repairs, and accelerates settlement; and develops AI products for data-rich organizations. Its technology solution is used to transform traditional industries by streamlining outdated processes; and focuses on creating representations that capture the subtlety of real damaged automobiles and properties. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Symplified

Series C in 2012
Symplified is an Identity-as-a-Service-based hybrid platform offering user access to applications and helping meet compliance requirements. The company simplifies user access to applications, provides visibility and control over usage, and helps meet security and compliance requirements. Symplified delivers single sign-on, identity and access management, directory integration, centralized provisioning, strong authentication, mobile device support, and flexible deployment options. Unlike legacy IAM products or lightweight cloud-based offerings, Symplified allows convenient access to any cloud or on-premises application through a unified, customizable SSO portal and delivers a single-tenant identity control point, with no need to replicate sensitive user data to a third party, no “side-door” access to cloud applications and an enterprise-wide audit trail. With operations in Silicon Valley, the northeastern U.S., the Midwestern U.S., the United Kingdom, and EMEA, Symplified is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Wireless Services Corporation offers advanced data solutions for wireless carriers.

Tempered

Series A in 2015
Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption. Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

eHi Car Rental

Series A in 2008
eHi Car Services Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides car rental and car services to individuals, and corporate and institutional clients in China. The company offers self-drive car rental services; and chauffeured car services, including airport pickup and drop-off, inter-office transfers, and other business transportation services, as well as event-driven activities, such as conventions, promotional tours, and special events. eHi Car Services Limited was formerly known as Prudent Choice International Limited. eHi Car Services Limited was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Appature

Series A in 2009
Appature, Inc. was acquired by IMS Health in March 2013. It's a Seattle-based technology company that provides cloud-based marketing software platform, now branded as Nexxus Marketing, designed exclusively for healthcare and life sciences companies. Nexxus Marketing combines a big data marketing database, campaign management engine, and insights for campaign optimization and data visualization.

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2018
CrowdAI, Inc. develops an artificial-intelligence (AI)-as-a-service platform that sends autonomous vehicles, satellite, or drone images. Its solutions are used to identify features in satellite imagery and track moving obstacles for self-driving cars and automated drones. CrowdAI, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Shyft Technologies

Private Placement in 2020
Shyft Technologies Inc. develops a mobile application that enables employees to swap shifts and share schedules. It serves retail, supply chain, food service, and grocery industries. Shyft Technologies Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Los Angeles, California.

Hipmunk

Series B in 2012
Hipmunk is a travel search site that aims to take the agony out of travel planning. Their mission is to help people book travel faster and more efficiently. Hipmunk was designed to help people who are overwhelmed with pages of irrelevant search results. Hipmunk presents flight results in a visual timeline that allows people to select the best flight for them at a glance. Hotel results are shown on a map so that people can view wherein a destination they will be staying and the landmarks near them.

Realm

Seed Round in 2011
Realm ApS develops a mobile database. The company’s mobile database serves as a replacement for SQLite and Core Data; and is accessible on Android, and iOS and OSX platforms. Its mobile database comprises querying, relationships and graphs, thread safety, and other features; and provides memory-efficient access to the user’s data by using Realm objects. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark with an additional office in San Francisco, California. As of May 7, 2019, Realm ApS operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc.

Chirply

Seed Round in 2011
Chirply is a platform for crowd-sourcing & crowd-curating design. Chirply's mission is to build engagement, stickiness, and virality through crowd-sourcing design. Initially the company focused on the launch of a marketplace for crowd-sourced design for paper goods - an industry that hasn't been disrupted since the advent of the printing press. Chirply then launched a B2B platform for crowd-sourced design for brands to help engage users and use design to make daily products inspiring.

KenSci

Series B in 2019
KenSci's machine learning powered risk prediction platform helps healthcare providers and payers intervene early by identifying clinical, financial and operational risk to save costs and lives. KenSci's platform is engineered to ingest, transform and integrate healthcare data across clinical, claims, and patient-generated sources. With a library of pre-built models and modular solutions, KenSci's machine learning platform to integrates into existing workflows allowing health systems to better identify utilization, variation and improve hospital operations. With Explainable AI models for healthcare, KenSci is making risk-based prediction more efficient and accountable.

Jupiter Intelligence

Series B in 2019
Led by a team of world-renowned scientists and executives, Jupiter provides data and analytics services to better predict and manage risks from weather and sea-level rise, storm intensification and rising temperatures caused by medium- to long-term climate change. Jupiter’s ClimateScore Intelligence Platform provides sophisticated, dynamic, hyper-local, current to 50-year predicted risks from weather in a changing climate. The company’s FloodScore and HeatScore services are currently focused on climate-related risk assessment and management for New York City, South Florida and the Atlantic Coast with global expansion underway. Jupiter’s models are based on the latest science, as developed by the global Earth and Ocean Systems community.

PaxVax

Series B in 2013
PaxVax is a vaccine start-up company developing candidate oral vaccines for influenza, and key infectious diseases. It has developed a proprietary oral vaccine technology based on a common virus called adenovirus. The technology removes the delivery hurdles of traditional injectable vaccines, namely the need for cold storage, needles, and administration by medical personnel. PaxVax was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Tipbit

Series A in 2014
Tipbit returns email to killer app status by recreating it to make working from the smartphone easier and more productive – as often as possible, turning everyday tasks into a single swipe of a thumb or finger. It is the only mobile app that pulls everything a person needs to work effectively on the go into a single interface.

Aviatrix

Series A in 2015
Aviatrix Systems is a software-defined cloud routing pioneer that builds the enterprise multi-cloud backbone. It is purpose-built with easy and secure networking software for cloud engineers. Aviatrix networking and security software delivers simplicity, performance, and scale required for enterprises moving to the cloud.

LaLa Media

Venture Round in 2006
Lala was a revolutionary cloud-based hub for online music discovery and purchase, enabling consumers to more effectively manage their digital music, find and purchase new titles that fit their taste, and access music recommendations through a variety of digital channels. Lala was acquired by Apple in 2009.

Judys Book

Series A in 2004
Th Social Search® tool to get the trusted scoop on local places.

RadioFrame

Series D in 2003
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

Visible Technologies

Series C in 2009
Visible Technologies operates Visible Intelligence, a social media platform designed to deliver marketing ROI and smarter customer insights

Moz

Series B in 2012
Moz provides analytics software to track all of a website's inbound marketing efforts—search marketing, link building, social media, and brand mentions—on one platform. Moz Analytics tracks each effort with beautiful data visualizations, insights into competitors' data, and actionable recommendations to improve each effort's performance. Dedicated to helping people do better marketing, Moz creates easy-to-use tools, tutorials, and educational resources for learning inbound marketing—and fosters the web’s most vibrant online marketing community. With offices in Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, Moz supports over 20,000 customers and 300,000 community members worldwide. The company received an A round of financing from Ignition Partners and Curious Office in September 2007 to build their Linkscape web index.

Spoken Communications

Series D in 2015
Spoken Communications offer these businesses Spoken ConversationCenter, the first conversation-centric solution for the contact center. It provides a single AI-enabled platform for channeling, managing, and analyzing digital conversations – including voice, thanks to TrueMeaning, Spoken’s patented real-time digital voice channel. Spoken ConversationCenter let’s service providers meet the demands of the modern digital consumer now and in the future while optimizing service delivery costs with AI, Big Data, and cloud-first performance.

RadioFrame

Series F in 2008
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

Trifacta

Private Placement in 2018
Trifacta enables anyone to efficiently explore and prepare data by utilizing machine learning to provide a breakthrough UX and architecture. It also leverages decades of innovative research in human-computer interaction, scalable data management, and machine learning to make the process of preparing data faster and more intuitive. Around the globe, tens of thousands of users at more than 8,000 companies, including leading brands like Deutsche Boerse, Google, Kaiser Permanente, New York Life, and PepsiCo, are unlocking the potential of their data with Trifacta’s market-leading data wrangling solutions. The company develops data wrangling software for data exploration and self-service data preparation for analysis. They focused on building software that helps organizations and individuals unlock the potential of their data by providing a new approach to how data is explored and prepared for analysis. Trifacta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Berlin, London, and Paris.

Skytap

Series D in 2014
Skytap, Inc. provides cloud based development and test environments for migrating and modernizing enterprise applications worldwide. It offers Skytap Cloud, a solution that provides self-service access to production-like environments, which enables development/test teams to test code more frequently. The company’s collaboration tools enable development teams to identify, share, and reproduce software defects. In addition, it offers cloud migration, DevOps, application modernization, training, and independent software vendor solutions; and onboarding and adoption, implementation, and strategic consulting services. Skytap, Inc. was formerly known as illumita, Inc. and changed its name to Skytap, Inc. in April 2008. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It has other locations in Toronto, Canada; and London, United Kingdom.

DocuSign

Venture Round in 2005
DocuSign, Inc. provides cloud based transaction products and services in the United States. The company offers e-signature solution that enables businesses to digitally prepare, execute, and act on agreements. It serves large enterprises, sole proprietorships, small- to medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individuals. The company was 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Tier 3

Series A in 2011
Tier 3 unleashes business agility through unique, enterprise-class cloud services and software that puts global companies on the path to IT as a Service. The company’s virtual private cloud services combine both infrastructure (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) in a comprehensive platform. The Tier 3 Cloud increases IT operational efficiency and flexibility through advanced cloud orchestration and management capabilities. Global enterprises and service providers find the Tier 3 Cloud ideal for their entire business application portfolios, from development to production environments and mission-critical applications.

Twisted Pair Solutions

Series A in 2006
Twisted Pair Solutions, Inc. designs and develops unified group communications software. The company offers WAVE, a VoIP software application that provides SIP functionality for interoperability with IP telephony providers; WAVE SDK, a set of .NET and Java APIs that provides programming interfaces to the communications functions and enables software developers to create custom client applications; WAVE Supernode Monitor that provides a graphical interface, which displays various endpoints in a WAVE system along with the primary and secondary connections; and WAVE Dispatch Communicator, a wave desktop communicator. Its products are used by government, defense, public safety, energy, and commercial organizations. Twisted Pair Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Mino Games

Seed Round in 2011
Mino Games is a free-to-play mobile gaming studio that produced the top 50 grossing mobile game Mino Monsters, with over 13 million downloads. We create deeply engaging, widely appealing games for millions of fans. We’re currently building our world class development studio in Montreal. We are a small group of passionate engineers, artists and analysts with a mission to create games that millions of people all around the world love to play for years. We are funded by the best angel investors, institutional investors, and gaming companies from across the world. Our third and latest game, Cat Game, has already hit the App Store’s Top 100 Grossing Chart in Canada. The game, currently in soft launch, is showing world class key metrics, and we are expecting it to be a global hit when we launch it by February 2019. We are looking today to grow the team and looking for world class ambitious talent to come join us on the journey, to develop and support this newest title into a global success on both iOS and Android, and help us with future projects as we rapidly grow.

AdXpose

Series B in 2008
AdXpose is the leader in digital advertising analytics solutions. The company's SaaS technology provides advertisers and publishers with greater transparency and confidence in the quality, safety, and performance of their digital advertising campaigns. The actionable optimization metrics captured by AdXpose solutions help its customers realize increased ROI, more profitable margins, and measurable ad effectiveness. AdXpose is headquartered in Seattle, WA, with offices in New York City, and is backed by Draper Fischer Jurvetson and Ignition Partners

Chef, Inc.

Series C in 2012
Chef, Inc. provides cloud-based infrastructure automation solutions. It offers configuration management, a solution to manage complex infrastructure; cloud management that enables users to manage and scale cloud infrastructure with no downtime or interruptions, as well as build, destroy, and rebuild servers on public or private cloud; and DevOps, a solution for collaboration between development and operations. The company also provides Enterprise Chef that automates user infrastructure that accelerates time to market, helps users to manage scale and complexity, and safeguards their systems; and professional services that include planning, training and skill development, and project-based services. Chef, Inc. was formerly known as Chef, Inc. and changed its name to Opscode, Inc. in December 2013. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington. As of October 5, 2020, Chef, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

Motif

Series D in 2014
Motif is an online broker that lets you invest in a world of big ideas. The company, based in Silicon Valley, is changing the face of online investing through an innovative, transparent social platform that allows individuals and investment advisors to invest in stock and bond portfolios built around everyday ideas and broad economic trends -- and even create brand-new motifs from scratch. Motif is a registered broker-dealer and a member of SIPC. The company's investors include Foundation Capital, Goldman Sachs, Ignition Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. Board members include former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt and former Wall Street executive Sallie Krawcheck.

VM6 Software

Series A in 2010
VM6 provides enterprise-class virtualization to remote locations and SMB without the complexity or cost of traditional solutions. Designed for remote office and SMB budgets and capabilities, VM6 VMex harnesses the power of virtualization to provide server consolidation, management, shared storage and high availability without the need for costly consultants, professional services, training or specialized skill sets other than the MSCEs our customers already have on staff.

LaLa Media

Series B in 2007
Lala was a revolutionary cloud-based hub for online music discovery and purchase, enabling consumers to more effectively manage their digital music, find and purchase new titles that fit their taste, and access music recommendations through a variety of digital channels. Lala was acquired by Apple in 2009.

Shyft Technologies

Private Placement in 2018
Shyft Technologies Inc. develops a mobile application that enables employees to swap shifts and share schedules. It serves retail, supply chain, food service, and grocery industries. Shyft Technologies Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Seattle, Washington with an additional office in Los Angeles, California.

Iron.io

Seed Round in 2011
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Botkeeper

Private Placement in 2017
Botkeeper, Inc. develops accounting and bookkeeping software for businesses that integrate with business software such as Quickbooks, Expensify, and Tsheets using automation to generate reports on spending and revenue. Its solutions offer revenue recognition, accounts receivable tracking, invoices generation, accounts payable tracking, document management, banking and credit card reconciliation, and inventory accounting to businesses. Botkeeper, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has additional locations in Charlotte, North Carolina; Manhattan, New York; and Balanga, the Philippines.

globalscholar.com

Series B in 2008
Global Scholar is an online education portal. Globalscholar offers an end-to-end, student centric, standards based learning software which includes Student Information System (SIS), Performance based Scheduler, Curriculum, Assessment, Collaboration, Grade book, Analytics, Professional Development (PD), Supplemental Tutoring, and a rich Parent Portal. Globalscholar also provides online tutoring and homework help for children K-12 and college preparation exams. Additionally, Globalscholar provides information on the majority of schools in the U.S., including; preschools, K-12, colleges and online colleges.

RadioFrame

Series B in 2001
RadioFrame Networks is a supplier of targeted base-transceiver station solutions. It offers base-transceiver station solutions to the wireless communications industry. The company’s products include wireless base stations, iDEN network management tools, pico and femtocell base stations, microcell and macrocell base stations, and network and system management systems.

Blowtorch

Series A in 2007
Blowtorch Entertainment is a venture capital backed, Hollywood media and entertainment studio that caters to college students, ages 18-24. Fortune Magazine named Blowtorch as one of its "Six Leaps of Innovation" to watch in 2008 and AlwaysOn named it to its Global 250 list of companies changing the market landscape worldwide. The company specializes in the distribution of entertainment (including feature films, advertiser-financed short-form digital content and online applications) for young-adult audiences. Blowtorch is backed by Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm comprised of early Microsoft employees with almost $2 billion under management. In addition to feature films, Blowtorch operates a website where users can upload their own short videos. The most popular videos are re-shot professionally and included at the start of Blowtorch's feature films. Taking it even further, Blowtorch allows audience members in the theater to vote for their favorite digital shorts as they are watching them from their mobile phones.

Yhat

Seed Round in 2015
Yhat (pronounced Y-hat) provides an end-to-end data science platform for developing, deploying, and managing real-time decision APIs. Yhat eliminates painful IT obstacles involved in cloud-based data science like server setup and config. With Yhat, data scientists can transform static insights into production-ready decision making APIs that integrate seamlessly with any customer- or employee-facing app. Yhat also created Rodeo, an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for Python. Yhat was founded in 2013 and is based in New York. The team is composed of entrepreneurs, data scientists, and engineers formerly at OnDeck, AppNexus, Guidespark, Shareablee and the Washington Post.

KenSci

Private Placement in 2019
KenSci's machine learning powered risk prediction platform helps healthcare providers and payers intervene early by identifying clinical, financial and operational risk to save costs and lives. KenSci's platform is engineered to ingest, transform and integrate healthcare data across clinical, claims, and patient-generated sources. With a library of pre-built models and modular solutions, KenSci's machine learning platform to integrates into existing workflows allowing health systems to better identify utilization, variation and improve hospital operations. With Explainable AI models for healthcare, KenSci is making risk-based prediction more efficient and accountable.

DocuSign

Series C in 2010
DocuSign, Inc. provides cloud based transaction products and services in the United States. The company offers e-signature solution that enables businesses to digitally prepare, execute, and act on agreements. It serves large enterprises, sole proprietorships, small- to medium-sized businesses, professionals, and individuals. The company was 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Cloudera

Series D in 2011
Cloudera delivers an Enterprise Data Cloud for any data, anywhere, from the Edge to AI.Cloudera was founded in 2008 by some of the brightest minds at Silicon Valley’s leading companies, including Google (Christophe Bisciglia), Yahoo! (Amr Awadallah), Oracle (Mike Olson), and Facebook (Jeff Hammerbacher). Doug Cutting, co-creator of Hadoop, joined the company in 2009 as Chief Architect and remains in that role. Today, Cloudera has more than 1,600 employees. They have offices in 24 countries around the globe, with their headquarters in Palo Alto, California.

Message Bus

Series B in 2012
Mail Bypass, Inc., doing business as Message Bus, provides a cloud-native application service for enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels. Its service enables enterprises and application developers to deliver transactional and marketing messages, including emails, SMS, push mails, and social messages. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Corte Madera, California.

Zencoder

Series A in 2011
Zencoder is web-based [video encoding software as a service](http://zencoder.com), designed to quickly convert any video into web and mobile compatible formats. It is for web sites and applications that accept uploaded videos and need to encode them to standard formats.

DataSphere

Series C in 2010
DataSphere provides Web technology and an ad sales team focused on generating neighborhood level user engagement and monetization for existing media companies.

Xeround

Series B in 2008
Scalable elastic cloud computing infrastructure for elastic data management and data federation within and across clouds

Couchbase

Series F in 2016
Couchbase is a NoSQL vendor that develops Couchbase Server, an open-source, NoSQL, document-oriented database optimized for interactive applications. Couchbase’s NoSQL mobile solution is comprised of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Sync Gateway, and Couchbase Lite, a lightweight NoSQL database designed for the device. Couchbase's mission is to be the NoSQL database that revolutionizes digital innovation. The platform provides unmatched agility and manageability – as well as unparalleled performance at any scale – to deliver ever-richer and ever-more-personalized customer experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise.

Archipelage Analytics Holdings

Private Placement in 2019
Archipelage Analytics Holdings is based in USA.

BlueStacks

Series A in 2011
BlueStacks is pioneering the next generation of cloud technology for the mobile ecosystem. BlueStacks App Player enables the universe of Android games and apps to run fast and full screen on Windows PCs. App Player is powered by BlueStacks' patented LayerCake virtualization technology and has 145 million users. BlueStacks 2, released December 3, 2015, users could now run multiple apps at once and navigate between each app in a browser-like tabbed interface. With BlueStacks TV, released April 7, 2016, BlueStacks allows users to stream their gameplay directly to Twitch.tv with one-click.

Aviatrix

Series D in 2021
Aviatrix Systems is a software-defined cloud routing pioneer that builds the enterprise multi-cloud backbone. It is purpose-built with easy and secure networking software for cloud engineers. Aviatrix networking and security software delivers simplicity, performance, and scale required for enterprises moving to the cloud.

Tipbit

Debt Financing in 2013
Tipbit returns email to killer app status by recreating it to make working from the smartphone easier and more productive – as often as possible, turning everyday tasks into a single swipe of a thumb or finger. It is the only mobile app that pulls everything a person needs to work effectively on the go into a single interface.

Mattermark

Seed Round in 2012
Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups. Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to deal sourcing and due diligence. The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups.

Apptio

Series A in 2007
SaaS-based Technology Business Management solutions for managing IT businesses

Iron.io

Series A in 2015
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Iron.io

Series A in 2016
Iron.io's event-driven computing platform delivers and processes 100s of millions of messages and tasks through IronMQ and IronWorker. Its asynchronous workloads operate in public and private clouds, on-premises, or hybrid environments. Iron.io's messaging queuing, task processing, and job scheduling solutions are used for event processing, transaction processing, mobile and IoT compute, microservices, and other asynchronous computing patterns within modern cloud applications.

Jupiter Intelligence

Private Placement in 2018
Led by a team of world-renowned scientists and executives, Jupiter provides data and analytics services to better predict and manage risks from weather and sea-level rise, storm intensification and rising temperatures caused by medium- to long-term climate change. Jupiter’s ClimateScore Intelligence Platform provides sophisticated, dynamic, hyper-local, current to 50-year predicted risks from weather in a changing climate. The company’s FloodScore and HeatScore services are currently focused on climate-related risk assessment and management for New York City, South Florida and the Atlantic Coast with global expansion underway. Jupiter’s models are based on the latest science, as developed by the global Earth and Ocean Systems community.

Sotto Wireless

Venture Round in 2006
Sotto Wireless, Inc. provides hosted communications services to small and medium-sized businesses. Its solution streamlines the business communications by combining the mobility of cellular services and wireless applications with the functionality of office phone systems into a single service.

Integris Software

Venture Round in 2016
A new EU law, the General Data Protection Regulation, will fine companies up to 4% of WW revenue for violations of people’s privacy. This will have the same impact on all industries as SOX compliance had on the financial sector. Integris Software helps organizations meet rigid compliance mandates with the ability to visualize where all personal information is located across the enterprise, prove adherence to regulatory standards, and empower strategic decision making by bridging the gap between legal, business, and technology.

PaxVax

Venture Round in 2009
PaxVax is a vaccine start-up company developing candidate oral vaccines for influenza, and key infectious diseases. It has developed a proprietary oral vaccine technology based on a common virus called adenovirus. The technology removes the delivery hurdles of traditional injectable vaccines, namely the need for cold storage, needles, and administration by medical personnel. PaxVax was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Couchbase

Series C in 2011
Couchbase is a NoSQL vendor that develops Couchbase Server, an open-source, NoSQL, document-oriented database optimized for interactive applications. Couchbase’s NoSQL mobile solution is comprised of Couchbase Server, Couchbase Sync Gateway, and Couchbase Lite, a lightweight NoSQL database designed for the device. Couchbase's mission is to be the NoSQL database that revolutionizes digital innovation. The platform provides unmatched agility and manageability – as well as unparalleled performance at any scale – to deliver ever-richer and ever-more-personalized customer experiences. Built with the most powerful NoSQL technology, Couchbase was architected on top of an open source foundation for the massively interactive enterprise.

Azuqua

Series B in 2017
Azuqua helps the world’s leading companies integrate their SaaS applications and automate time-consuming, repetitive work so they can deliver better employee and customer experiences and redefine productivity across the organization. Azuqua's platform is intuitive, powerful, and resilient. The visual drag and drop interface without the need for code makes this platform usable for business and IT. Azuqua solves even the toughest problems with hundreds of comprehensive connectors and a rich library of business logic and data processing functions. Azuqua is resilient and will give the user ease-of-mind. You can trust your automations will run on-time, every time and that your data will be secured.