Ignition Partners

Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks. Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.

Ryan Baker

CFO and Administrative Partner

Scott Coleman

Partner

John Connors

Managing Partner

Richard Fade

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Michelle Goldberg

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Robert Headley

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Steven W. Hooper

General Partner

Steve Hooper

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Christopher Howard

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Ike Lee

Venture Partner

Cameron Myhrvold

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Chris Peters

Founding Partner

Jonathan David Roberts

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Mariya Sichkar

Operations

Brad Silverberg

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Adrian Smith

Founding and Prior Funds Partners

Nicholas G. Sturiale

Managing Partner

338 past transactions

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 Its technology solution is used to transform traditional industries by streamlining outdated processes; and focuses on creating representations that capture the subtlety of real damaged automobiles and properties.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.

Xeround

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

ScaleXtreme

Series B in 2011
ScaleXtreme Delivers Server Automation for the Distributed Datacenter. ScaleXtreme provides powerful, cloud-based server automation products for the modern distributed datacenter. Built from the ground up to be simple, scalable and social, ScaleXtreme gives customers a unified automation platform to build and control physical, virtual and public cloud servers.

Kong

Seed Round in 2011
Kong powers API & microservices driven organizations with the world's popular open-source API Gateway and industry leading Enterprise solution including Kong (API Gateway/Administrative GUI/Dev Portal). Mashape is funded by tier 1 VC firms including Index Ventures, NEA, CRV, Stanford University, Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Eric Schmidt (Google).

DocuSign

Series B in 2009
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SeaMobile

Venture Round in 2007
SeaMobile, Inc. provides at-sea and remote location communications, connectivity, and content services. Its services include remote access for Internet, fixed and mobile phones, fax, television, on-board newspapers, special events and news, ATM banking access, and direct payroll deposit. The company also provides voice/data/wireless, inbound calling, audio and video conferencing, stored value calling cards, and collect calling services. SeaMobile serves oil and gas, government and military, yachts, casino boats, ferries, commercial shipping, cruise lines, and offshore platforms. SeaMobile, Inc. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in Miramar, Florida; Paris, France; Rome, Italy; and Athens, Greece.

Stellr

Series A in 2012
Stellr offers payment-centric solutions for global brands.

Splunk

Series C in 2007
Splunk is the market leader in analyzing machine data to deliver Operational Intelligence for security, IT and the business. Splunk® software provides the enterprise machine data fabric that drives digital transformation. More than 12,000 customers in over 110 countries use Splunk solutions in the cloud and on-premises.

Likewise Software

Series C in 2009
[Likewise Software](http://www.likewisesoftware.com) provides identity management solutions designed to improve security and operational efficiencies and help achieve regulatory compliance in mixed network environments. Likewise Open allows large organizations to securely authenticate Linux, Unix and Mac systems with a unified directory such as Microsoft Active Directory. Likewise Enterprise includes all of the core authentication technology that comes with Likewise Open, plus world-class migration, group policy, audit and reporting modules.

Visible Technologies

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

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.

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.

Heavybit

Seed Round in 2013
Heavybit helps companies scale. We focus exclusively on companies building cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and APIs. Based in San Francisco, our program provides capital, strategic advice, operational services, and an expansive network to help grow companies of all sizes. The Heavybit community is the only one of its kind to focus solely on turning products loved by developers into successful businesses.

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.

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.

Lala

Series A in 2005
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.

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.

Botkeeper

Seed Round in 2018
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cask

Series B in 2015
Acquired by Google. Founded by developers for developers, Cask, the open source software company makes building and running big data solutions easy, provides the first unified integration platform for big data that cuts down the time to production for data applications and data lakes by 80%. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company is backed by leading investors including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

PaxVax

Series B in 2014
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.

Entellium

Series A in 2005
Entellium provides customer relationship management (CRM) software for businesses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Entellium

Series A in 2004
Entellium provides customer relationship management (CRM) software for businesses.

Pure Networks

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

Tempered

Venture Round in 2017
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.

Aviatrix

Private Placement in 2019
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Everypath

Series C in 2000
Everypath is the leading provider of mobile task automation software to global 1000 companies.

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.

Sidecar.me

Series A in 2011
Internet technology dominates telecom. A billion people around the world are now armed with smartphones. Our hardware can run more amazing software, connected to more innovative services than ever. But while we're all happily gaming, jamming and watching on our phones—what’s happening with the core of why we all have phones in the first place: communication? Sidecar started out by daring to reimagine the phone call. With version 2.0 we've taken the logical next step. Now, Sidecar not only enables you to do more during a call—it also seamlessly integrates the communication we all naturally do beforehand and afterwards. So you can see who's available, message them and slide into and out of a phone—all using richer synchronous and asynchronous tools than you’re ever going to get from your phone and wireless carrier alone. Sidecar was founded in 2010 by Rob Williams, Rob Glaser and Jeff McLeman. Sidecar is backed by Ignition Ventures, The Webb Investment Network, Rob Glaser and other prominent individual investors. The company was previously known as SocialEyes but [pivoted](http://www.ignitionpartners.com/sidecar-app-re-imagines-mobile-phone-calls-with-a-flurry-of-clever-features/) in 2012.

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.

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.

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

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.

BlueStacks

Series B 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.

Acalvio Technologies

Series B in 2016
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.

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.

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.

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.

Korrio

Series B in 2012
Korrio, founded in January 2009, is the developer of Playflow, a 21st-century youth sports automation platform. Korrio has a singular focus on kids and sports. The company's mission is to transform the sports experience and elevate the level at which sports are played by automating the things that get in the way — like registration/payment, team formation, rosters, scheduling, communication, and web hosting. Korrio is easy, safe, integrated, and mobile. Visit us online at korrio.com and watch our Korrio video to learn how to elevate your game.

Unidesk

Venture Round in 2014
Unidesk is a management platform that develops computer software applications for Windows app mobility. Its patented application layering technology “containerizes” Windows apps so IT departments only have to manage them once across session hosts and virtual desktops in any cloud. Unlike legacy application delivery technologies, Unidesk offers unequaled packaging simplicity, 99% application compatibility, and platform independence. Unidesk was established in 2007 and is based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States.

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.

Carbon Robotics

Venture Round in 2019
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

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.

Bromium

Series B in 2012
Provider of micro-virtualization and hardware based security for enterprise desktops

Intelage

Seed Round in 2018
Intelage is a cloud-based global trade management (GTM) and logistics platform that brings together trade suppliers, buyers, and partners to create, track, and manage trades all from within a single application. They help customers overcome logistical obstacles, automate manual processes, obtain greater visibility into critical information, eliminate costly exceptions, and simplify their overall trading experience. Their solutions cover sourcing, logistics, tracking, documentation, communication, trade, and regulatory compliance activities.

Shyft Technologies

Series A 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.

Unidesk

Venture Round in 2016
Unidesk is a management platform that develops computer software applications for Windows app mobility. Its patented application layering technology “containerizes” Windows apps so IT departments only have to manage them once across session hosts and virtual desktops in any cloud. Unlike legacy application delivery technologies, Unidesk offers unequaled packaging simplicity, 99% application compatibility, and platform independence. Unidesk was established in 2007 and is based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States.

RLX Technologies

Series C in 2003
As of October 19, 2005, RLX Technologies, Inc. was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. RLX Technologies, Inc. provides blade hardware and management technologies. It offers control tower, which provides remote management, monitoring and control of hardware, operating systems, network services, and various IT resources to consuming management tasks. RLX Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1999 as RocketLogix, Inc. and changed its name to RLX Technologies, Inc. in 2001. The company is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

SnapLogic

Series F in 2016
Connects big data, cloud, and on-prem applications

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.

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.

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.

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.

ChinaCache

Series B in 2007
ChinaCache is a Chinese provider of content delivery networks and cloud-based services. The company also provides services for many clients in various industries including small and large business enterprises, luxury brands, e-commerce, banking, online gaming, and media. Today, ChinaCache maintains more than 400 service nodes in more than 120 major cities across China and has global points of presence on five continents. Its total network capacity is over 1000Gbps with interconnections to China Telecom, China Netcom, China Mobile, China Unicom, China Railcom, China CERNET, and various other access providers. ChinaCache was established in 1998.

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.

BlueData Software

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.

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.

Archipelage Analytics Holdings

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

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.

Skytap

Series A in 2007
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.

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.

SnapLogic

Private Placement in 2019
Connects big data, cloud, and on-prem applications

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.

Pure Networks

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

Judys Book

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

SourceLabs

Series A in 2004
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.

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.

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.

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.

Vastrm

Seed Round in 2013
Vastrm, Inc. provides made-to-order sportswear for men. Its portfolio includes custom hoodies, as well as personalized track jackets, mock neck pullovers, tailored polos, shirts, T-shirts, and other lightweight layering pieces for corporate clients. The company also provides home try-on program for clients; and private-label services for retailers. It offers its products in various fabrics, colors, detailing, and sizes. It serves individual customers and retailers through its online store. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Burlingame, California.

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.

Icertis

Series E in 2019
Icertis is an enterprise contract management platform in the cloud that solves hard contract management problems on an easy to use platform. With Icertis, companies can accelerate business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize the commercial relationships by maximizing revenue and reducing costs. The AI-infused Icertis Contract Management (ICM) platform is used by companies like 3M, Airbus, Cognizant, Daimler, Microsoft, and Roche to manage 5.7 million contracts in 40+ languages across 90+ countries. Icertis was founded on 2009 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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.

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.

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.

Graffiti Labs

Seed Round in 2011
Graffiti Labs, Inc. develops a browser based game create virtual drawings. Graffiti Labs, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Cloudera

Series E in 2012
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.

The/Studio

Series A in 2018
The/Studio is a destination for businesses, organizations, and individuals to easily manufacture custom products. The company is a manufacturing platform that makes manufacturing accessible to anyone. Their network of factories gives you the ability to manufacture products, and their technology makes it simple – no MOQs, quick turnaround times, competitive pricing, and guaranteed trust in your supply chain. All on a cloud-based management platform. The/Studio was founded by Joseph Heller.

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.

Ufora

Seed Round in 2011
Ufora is the next generation data science platform, built from the ground up to work at a modern scale. It empowers data scientists to tackle sophisticated problems in statistics, machine learning, and predictive analytics from the comfort of a familiar environment. Ufora’s implicitly parallel platform adaptively and automatically manages computations and data across a cluster of machines. With Ufora, data scientists can think and code the way they’re used to, without forcing their problem into a specialized parallel programming framework.

Aviatrix

Private Placement in 2019
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.