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What does Ignition Partners invest in?
Ignition Partners invests most often at Series B and Series A (53% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Privacy, Authentication and Cloud.
Ignition Partners highlights
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232 rounds on record
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 53% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 15 rounds, median $5.0M
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41 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Backing founders of category creating enterprise software companies for over 20 yearsFrom their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- Up to $10M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- PrivacyAuthenticationCloud
- Based in
- Bellevue, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first232 appearances
- 2019
4 rounds
- Oct
- Sept
- May
- Mar
- 2018
4 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Feb
- Jan
- 2017
2 rounds
- May
- Jan
- 2016
2 rounds
- Dec
- Jan
- 2015
12 rounds
- Nov
- Nov
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Aug
- Jul
- May
- May
- Mar
- 2014
18 rounds
- Dec
- Oct
- Oct
- Oct
- Sept
- Sept
- Aug
- Jul
- Jun
- Jun
- May
- May
- May
- May
- Apr
- Mar
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration10 named
BSBrad SilverbergManaging DirectoriForm ADV
FAFrank ArtaleManaging Director of Ignition GP VI, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
JCJohn ConnorsManaging Director of Ignition GP VI, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
JRJonathan RobertsManaging DirectoriForm ADV
MCMyhrvold CameronManagind DirectoriForm ADV
NGNicholas G SturialeManaging DirectoriForm ADV
NSNick SturialeManaging Director of Ignition GP VI, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
RHRobert HeadleyAuthorized Person of Ignition GP VI, LLC, General PartneriFiling they signed
RKRyan Kendall BakerAdministrative Partner and Chief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
SHSteven HooperManaging DirectoriForm ADV
We also hold 17 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$498Mgross assets of its funds, 2 advisers combinedOct 2026
Exemptreporting adviserventure or small private funds
- Legal name
- Ignition Ventures Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 160814
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
21 of 37 we have independently watched raise
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed41 in all
StrongLoopBought by IBM (International Business Machines)UndisclosedSept 2015
Visible TechnologiesBought by CisionUndisclosedSept 2014
Twisted Pair SolutionsBought by Motorola SolutionsUndisclosedJan 2014
Topsy LabsBought by Apple$200MDec 2013
Tier 3Bought by CenturyLink$200MNov 2013
ServiceMeshBought by CSCUndisclosedOct 2013
EnclarityBought by LexisNexisUndisclosedSept 2013
AppFogBought by CenturyLinkUndisclosedJun 2013
AppatureBought by IMS HealthUndisclosedMar 2013
ZenpriseBought by Citrix SystemsUndisclosedDec 2012
AzaleosBought by AvanadeUndisclosedNov 2012
StorSimpleBought by MicrosoftUndisclosedOct 2012
ZencoderBought by Brightcove$30MJul 2012
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.