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Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> ClearCycle, formerly known as Valutech, is the industry leader in complex payment solutions, serving healthcare and the Fortune 100 for 25 years. We specialize in tailored financial, claims, compliance and information management solutions offered as software, consulting, analytical and decision support services. ClearCycle provides visibility and control across the entire healthcare enterprise, enabling our clients to reduce costs, ensure compliance, improve customer service and increase operational efficiencies every day. We believe there is an enormous opportunity for radical improvement in the healthcare payments field and are taking the leadership role in driving innovation and transformation.
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Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> www.gotvoice.com]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.283 2008-05-01T18:49:32Z 2008-05-15T00:45:25Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com San Jose Mercury News April 26, 2008]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.282 2008-04-23T19:50:53Z 2008-04-23T19:54:31Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> Skytap (formerly illumita) is the leading provider of cloud-based virtualization solutions available as on-demand services over the Web. The Seattle-based company has an experienced executive team and advisory board, including industry veterans from HP, Microsoft, Mercury Interactive, Rational Software and EMC. Skytap was founded in 2006 and has received venture funding from Madrona Venture Group, Ignition Partners, Bezos Expeditions, and Washington Research Foundation Capital.
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Susan Giordano http://gkd.com Christy is a Staff Accountant with Ignition. Her focus includes assisting with capital investments, distributions and financial reporting as well as handling the company payables.

Prior to Ignition, Christy spent 4 years as an Accountant for Nintendo of America, where she managed the marketing accruals and financial statements for several Nintendo subsidiaries. She also brings 5 years of experience in Cash Management and several years in Public Accounting. Christy holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Oregon, and is a CPA, currently inactive.]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.280 2008-03-21T21:36:05Z 2008-03-21T21:41:16Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> Airbiquity provides wireless data communications solutions that enable real-time two-way data connectivity in the M2M and vehicle telematics industries. Used by several of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers in their telematics service offerings, Airbiquity’s patented aqLink technology provides data communications over digital wireless voice networks. VIAaq, Airbiquity’s turnkey managed Telematics data service, provides seamless connectivity between telematics service providers and vehicles or navigation devices.
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Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> SEOmoz is a global leader in search marketing. The SEOmoz website, including the popular blog, calendar, SEOmarketplace and messaging center, serves as a hub for the professional SEO community. SEOmozPRO!, which includes a suite of premium search marketing tools, improves and streamlines the work of professional SEOs. CEOs and CMOs use SEOmozPRO! to improve their search engine rankings, train marketing and SEO teams, test and track their website's SEO performance, as well as effectively hire and work with outsourced SEO firms.
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Susan Giordano http://gkd.com Vanessa Fox, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition, is a noted technology blogger who has been cited in publications such as USA Today and the London Times. She's been building websites since 1995 and has been involved with product strategy in a number of industries including telecom, retail, and wireless. A Google alumnus, she created Google's Webmaster Central, designed to help site owners improve their web sites and gain more visitors from search. Vanessa writes for a variety of publications, particularly as Features Editor for SearchEngineLand.com, hosts a weekly show on webmasterradio.fm, and consults with clients on building online communities and on internet marketing. Read her observerations on the web 2.0 world at vanessafoxnude.com.]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.276 2008-02-20T20:02:24Z 2008-05-08T23:49:18Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com Daniel Karr is the Controller at Ignition Partners and is responsible for overseeing the financial accounting and reporting functions across all Ignition funds.

Prior to joining Ignition, Dan spent 5 years at Deloitte & Touche LLP, most recently as a manager in the Seattle audit practice, where he served venture capital firms, hedge funds, and start-up technology and life-science companies in and around the Seattle area. Dan received a B.A. degree from Western Washington University in Accounting and Economics and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Washington.]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.275 2008-02-20T19:56:29Z 2008-02-20T20:17:20Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> Splunk is a Silicon Valley company inventing large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The freely downloadable software platform indexes, searches and navigates data from any application, server or network device in real time. More than 500 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers, and more than 125,000 users achieve higher availability, investigate security incidents in record time, and meet compliance requirements at lower costs.
www.splunk.com]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.274 2008-02-20T04:28:51Z 2008-03-21T21:48:12Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> Fat Spaniel is the leading provider of remote monitoring and reporting services for renewable energy systems such as solar electric, solar hot water and wind. Our information services benefit PPA service providers, project finance firms, system installers, manufacturers, commercial owners and residential homeowners. Fat Spaniel solutions address renewable energy information needs in three key areas: operations and maintenance, revenue-grade services, marketing & education. Fat Spaniel's services help maximize the return on investment of renewable energy projects, for owners and operators alike.
www.fatspaniel.com]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.273 2008-02-16T01:20:37Z 2008-05-08T23:56:58Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com Brian is an Entrepreneur in Residence with Qiming Ventures in Shanghai and its sister fund Ignition Partners in Seattle. He focuses on energy, environment and resource investments. Brian also acts as an independent consultant and advisor to clean energy start-ups and the US Department of Energy. Recent cases include cellulosic ethanol, electrification of cars, synthetic biology for biofuels, nano-materials for clean catalysts and food/air/water quality. Brian came to Qiming from Shanghai New Margin Ventures where he was a Venture Partner.

Brian first came to China in 2003 as founding General Manager for Heritage Technologies Asia, which operates a series of environmental protection joint ventures in South China. Under his management, the company structured its partnerships, built a chemical plant and established a Chinese distribution network. Brian works from a foundation of 2 formative experiences early his career: first, as a hydrogen and alternative fuels engineer for Chevron and, then, as an IT entrepreneur whose company was acquired in pre-bubble popping 2000.

Brian holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and remains active in the global MIT community. He is a judge for the MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize and recently co-founded the Shanghai chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum. During school, he was the Lead Organizer for the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition and dedicated much of his time to developing entrepreneurial programs across campus. He received the Patrick J McGovern, Jr Award for outstanding contribution to entrepreneurship at MIT and the Sloan Senate Award for leadership in the MIT Sloan community. Brian holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA.

Brian is a native Californian splitting time between Shanghai and San Francisco.]]> tag:www.ignitionpartners.com,2008://3.272 2008-02-15T18:31:56Z 2008-03-21T21:53:53Z

Susan Giordano http://gkd.com ]]> Earth Class Mail gives people access their U.S. postal mail online from anywhere in the world, 24x7, and is a popular alternative to P.O. Box rental, executive suites and mail-forwarding services. The service is used by individuals, small businesses, major corporations and government enterprises in over 130 countries. Earth Class Mail manages standardized process mail more efficiently and cost-effectively than ordinary document management solutions for companies that want to "go paperless" or have large numbers of mobile workers or telecommuters.
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