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Ignition News
Another day, another big investment for Ignition in a cloud startup
January 19, 2012

Airbiquity and Allstate Roadside Services to Integrate Connected Vehicle Services for Automotive Customers
January 9, 2012

Ignition’s John Connors joins board of AppSense
January 9, 2012

Hipmunk launches mobile app for booking hotels
January 9, 2012

Keas Scores $6.5 Million Series B Financing From Atlas Venture, Ignition Partners
January 6, 2012

Start-Ups Look to Social Gaming to Make Health Care Less of a Pain
January 3, 2012

Keas Scores $6.5 Million Series B Financing From Atlas Venture, Ignition Partners
December 21, 2011

Xeround Gets $9M for New Cloud Mission, at New HQ
December 15, 2011

Ignition backs San Francisco cloud application service Iron.io
December 8, 2011

Cloudera upgrades Hadoop management tools, offers free version for startups
December 8, 2011

MasterCard Makes Its First Mobile Payments Investment in mFoundry
December 1, 2011

Fotopedia Brings Brand Advertising To The iPad In Magazine Form (First Stop: Japan)
November 16, 2011

Servicemesh nets $15 million for enterprise software push
November 16, 2011

Redfin picks DocuSign for electronic signatures
November 15, 2011

Ignition Partners leads $40 million round for Cloudera
November 13, 2011

Ignition invests in Calif. gaming startup headed by teen
November 11, 2011

Ignition scares up another deal in San Fran, backs 19-year-old’s MinoMonsters
November 11, 2011

Ignition leads $5.5M round in Parse; John Connors joins board
November 10, 2011

Some supermarkets are bagging use of self-checkout
November 9, 2011

Smartphone app works as a super-fast self-checkout
November 9, 2011

BlueStacks App Player Wins CES Innovations Honor
November 9, 2011

Ignition's Cameron Myhrvold Joins the Lineup for Mobile Maddness NW Dec 6
October 26, 2011

Travel search service Hipmunk adds Google Calendar integration
October 25, 2011

BlueStacks raises cash to run Android apps on Windows PCs
October 20, 2011

BlueStacks runs Google Android apps on Windows
October 12, 2011

Grocers Test Smartphones
October 11, 2011

Travel app Trover makes its Android debut
October 11, 2011

Done Deal: Nuance Buys Swype for $100M
October 7, 2011

Tier 3 to Bring Enterprise-Grade Virtual Private Cloud to New Yokr with New Data Center
October 5, 2011

Tier 3 Adds Predictive Autoscaler, Virtualized Load Balancer to Enterprise-Class Hybrid Cloud
October 4, 2011

Travel search Hipmunk launches new Android app
September 29, 2011

Social Media monitoring firm Visible raises $4 million
September 22, 2011

Looking to take on Quora, Avvo rebrands as a Q&A site
September 21, 2011

Fotopedia Creates A Flipboard Photo Magazine
September 20, 2011

Seven Questions for Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan
September 19, 2011

Bezos, Schmidt, Ignition and other toss support behind API marketplace Mashape
September 7, 2011

Tier 3 Lanches Client Backup App for Enterprise Cloud
August 29, 2011

Q&A: Ignition's Frank Artale is one very busy VC
August 26, 2011

Cloud Foundry adds PHP, Python; AppFog now a user
August 25, 2011

Tier 3 PaaS Automates Multiple Server Cloud Deployments
August 24, 2011

Happy Birthday, Hipmunk: 1 million monthly searches served and still growing
August 18, 2011

Ignition Leads $8M Round for AppFog
August 11, 2011

Ignition Continues Blistering Pace, Leads $14M Round for Couchbase
August 10, 2011

Tier 3 Accelerates Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Adoption, Opens Data Centers with Equinix
August 9, 2011

Ignition Leads $10M Round in New York's Apprenda
August 9, 2011

August 5, 2011

Topsy Searches Twitter Better Than Twitter
August 4, 2011

Stop & Shop Pilots Mobile Check-Out Application to Enhance In-Store Shopping Capabilities
August 2, 2011

Up and Away! Trover Travel App Now In Wide Release
July 28, 2011

Tier 3 Enterprise Cloud Platform Attains VMware Vcloud Powered Validation
July 26, 2011

Motif Raises $20M to Allow Investors to Invest in Ideas
July 26, 2011

Startup Q&A: Tier 3's Adam Wray on a billion-dollar future
July 22, 2011

Startup Q&A: Mark Upson of Scout Analytics on revenue growth
July 22, 2011

With A Half Billion Pages Signed, DocuSign Launches Free Edition
July 19, 2011

3 Big Ideas from Frank Artale
July 19, 2011

Swype Grabs More Funding for its Virtual Keyboard Push
July 12, 2011

Latest Funding Establishes StorSimple as the Safe Bet in Enterprise Cloud Storage
June 23, 2011

Bromium Gets $9.2M To Make The Cloud More Secure
June 22, 2011

Glympse Raises $7.5 Million To Help You Share Your Location, A Few Hours At A Time
June 22, 2011

Ignition backs ScaleXtreme
June 22, 2011

Airbiquity Congratulates Nissan Motors Japan on Nissan Leaf Mobile Application Award
June 8, 2011

Splunk wants to webify big data
June 8, 2011

For Hipmunk, it's all about the users– and the UI
June 8, 2011

How To Lose Weight By Competing With Your Co-Workers
June 7, 2011

Start-Up BlueStacks Raises Cash to Bring Android Apps to Windows PCs
May 25, 2011

Check out the future of shopping
May 24, 2011

Trover: The Best Location-Based Discovery App You’re Not Using (Yet)
May 20, 2011

Splunk sees growth as customers go above and beyond
May 20, 2011

Visible Technologies Reports Soaring Sales, Surge In Social Media Data
April 11, 2011

Fast-growing Swype scores cash from Ignition, hints at Apple iOS integration
April 7, 2011

Swype Grabs More Funding, Looks to Trace Path Into New Areas
April 7, 2011

DailyBooth Wants Your Next Status Update to Be a Photo, Gets Investment to Help
March 9, 2011

DocuSign Named Commercial Product/Service of the Year at WTIA Industry Achievement Awards
March 2, 2011

Rob Glaser's SocialEyes: Facebook-connected videophone
February 28, 2011

Hipmunk Takes Simple Flight Search And Makes It Even Easier On The iPhone
February 28, 2011

Travel Search Gets Convenient With Hipmunk
February 16, 2011

Splunk: Extracting Business Ideas from IT Logs
February 11, 2011

'Laptop is dead,' proclaims MDM company: Helps IT push software images to tablet platform instead
February 9, 2011

Frank Artale Joins Ignition Ventures as Managing Director
February 7, 2011

Former Microsoft tech fellow Brad Lovering to open R&D office for Splunk
February 7, 2011

Hipmunk’s Official Round: $4.2 Million Led By Ignition And A Group Of Online Travel Experts
February 3, 2011

AVST Completes Exclusive Long-Term Agreement with VMI for UC Cloud Technology
February 2, 2011

Ignition leads investment in online sports site Korrio
January 28, 2011

Splunk News: Macy's Ramps Up Online Operations
January 27, 2011

BlueKai Buys TrackSimple
January 27, 2011

New SEVEN Solution Optimizes Mobile Apps Traffic and Cuts Device Data Consumption by 70%
January 26, 2011

Airbiquity to Provide Connected Vehicle Services for Ford Electric Vehicles
January 7, 2011

Cloudmark Nominated for Prestigious Telecom Industry Award
January 6, 2011

Skytap Secures $10 Million to Accelerate Business Growth for Cloud Automation
January 3, 2011

Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash
December 30, 2010

E-Signature Company DocuSign Lands $27 Million, Expands Management Team
December 29, 2010

GlobalScholar Acquired By Scantron
December 16, 2010

SeaMobile Connecting the Oceans
December 2, 2010

Airbiquity and Bosch Announce Long-Term Agreement
November 12, 2010

Avvo Launches Free Doctor Ratings Directory...Contains Profiles for Over 800,000 U.S. Doctors
November 1, 2010

Visible Technologies Unveils Vision for Social Intelligence
October 29, 2010

Why the best entrepreneurs are both cheerleaders and scientists
October 27, 2010

Business Move Toward Accepting Tablets, But Hurdles Remain
October 26, 2010

ChinaCache Jumps 95% for Biggest U.S. IPO Rally in Three Years
October 4, 2010

ChinaCache skyrockets on Wall Street
October 4, 2010

StorSimple to Accelerate Expansion Plans in High-Growth Cloud Storage Market
September 15, 2010

DataSphere, Backed by OVP and Ignition, Raises $10M to Tap into Hyperlocal Online Ad Market
September 9, 2010

Zenprise Launches Management Offering for iPads and iPhones
August 27, 2010

Fotopedia Heritage Shows the Web Isn't Dead
August 27, 2010

Likewise to preview CIFS Appliance edition at VMWorld (booth #1606): August 30 - September 2, 1010
August 26, 2010

Airband, Sparkplug merge to create largest US fixed-wireless company
August 24, 2010

Zenprise extends security controls to employee-owned iPhones, other devices
August 18, 2010

Fotopedia Introduces The Endless Photo Book On The iPad (Video Demo)
August 10, 2010

Visible Technologies Featured: How savvy firms monitor customers' online chatter
July 14, 2010

Keas Makes Online Care Plans Pay
June 30, 2010

Docusign Names Mike Dinsdale CFO
May 28, 2010

CDC Chooses Azaleos to Manage New Microsoft Exchange 2010 Email System
May 27, 2010

LocalTV LLC and DataSphere to Launch Community Websites in 11 U.S. States
May 17, 2010

Azaleos Broadens Management Partnership with EMC to Encompass SharePoint 2010
May 13, 2010

New Azaleos Service Does the Dirty Work to Keep SharePoint 2010 Humming
May 11, 2010

Heroku Raises $10M for Its Ruby Platform
May 11, 2010

Shell Selects Airbiquity to Connect Shell FuelSave Partner
May 5, 2010

Bonanzle Raises $1M from Angel Investors, Plus Three VC Firms, to Expand Its Online Marketplace
April 29, 2010

Osterman Research: 44 Percent of Orgs will Migrate to Exchange 2010
April 29, 2010

Hitachi Automotive and Airbiquity Partner to Provide Global Connected Services for Electric Vehicles
April 28, 2010

VM6 Software - Canadian startup connects with cross-border cash
April 14, 2010

Virtualization Infrastructure Software Company VM6 Raises $4 Million
April 14, 2010

IPhone -Zenprise to Support Apple iPad in the Enterprise
April 2, 2010

USA.Net Selects Cloudmark To Extend Messaging Security For More Than One Million Mailboxes
April 2, 2010

Cloudmark Server Edition Wins ‘Security Product Of The Year’ At 2010 Network Computing Awards
April 2, 2010

Likewise Software to be Included in VMware vSphere™ for Privileged User Access Management
April 2, 2010

Bluetie Selects Cloudmark Gateway To Protect 1.6 Million Mailboxes For Best-In-Class Business Email
April 2, 2010

Topsy Surfaces Hottest Real Time Links, Hits Bit.ly And TweetMeme Head On
April 2, 2010

Topsy Search Launches: ReTweets Are The New Currency Of The Web
April 2, 2010

Avvo Raises $10M from New Investor, Looks to Expand Online Legal Services
March 22, 2010

How Semantic and Social Search Are Evolving: Lessons From the Evri-Twine Merger
March 16, 2010

Winner! Talyst for AutoCool! 2010 WTIA Industry Achievement Award Winner for Commercial Product or Service
March 5, 2010

$23 Million Round for San Francisco-based Cloudmark
March 5, 2010

Shell Selects Airbiquity to Connect FuelSave Partner
February 23, 2010

A Good Start? WA Companies Raised $57M in January, Up from $22M in Previous Month
February 11, 2010

Topsy Becomes An Even More Powerful Alternative To Twitter’s Offical Search Engine
February 10, 2010

Pfizer and Keas Partner to Help Consumers Take a More Active Role in Their Health and Wellness
February 10, 2010

Azaleos CEO Phil Van Etten: Mutiny In IT
February 3, 2010

Mpire Partners With comScore to Enhance AdXpose's Demographic Campaign Performance
February 3, 2010

Datasphere News - Fisher Invests $1.5 Million in Hyperlocal Partner
February 3, 2010

SEOmoz Hands Off Consulting Biz to U.K. Firm, Doubles Down on Software and Tools
February 2, 2010

DocuSign gets a new CEO as it aims to dominate electronic signatures
January 27, 2010

5 Recent Big Moves In Hyper-Local News
January 19, 2010

Three Questions on Hyperlocal Advertising with Satbir Khanuja, CEO of DataSphere
January 19, 2010

Marketing in the Age of Google: Vanessa Fox Interview
January 19, 2010

Visible Technologies Raises A Whopping $22 Million For Social Media Monitoring Software
January 13, 2010

Venture Capitalists' Best Tech Predictions for 2010
January 7, 2010

DocuSign Raises $2 Million For E-Signature Software
November 18, 2009

Keas Launches Web Tool to Take Control of Your Health
October 6, 2009

Xeround Wins Billing & OSS World Excellence Award for Best OSS Transformation
April 17, 2009

Twisted Pair Solutions and Fpweb.net Partner to Deliver Interoperability as a Service (IaaS)
April 14, 2009

Is It Time for a Postal Service 2.0?
February 11, 2009

The Recession. Isn't It Romantic?
February 11, 2009

Cleantech Firm Fat Spaniel Calls for Action
February 2, 2009

Fidelity Introduces E-Signature Capability with Docusign Product
August 11, 2008

Sparkplug CEO Dishes on Broadband Expansion, Differentiation
June 11, 2008

Plugging Into Your System's Vital Signs
May 1, 2008

Citrix Will Enhance Relationship With and Provide Alternative to Microsoft
August 16, 2007

XenSource Acquired by Citrix
August 16, 2007

First Data Corp Completes Acquisition of Intelligent Results
April 16, 2007

Linksys and Sotto Wireless Team to Streamline Telecommunications and Networking for Small Businesses
March 16, 2007

Mpire Online Shopping Mashup for $144 Billion eCommerce Opportunity
March 13, 2007

HyperQuality Secures $10 Million in Second-Round Venture Financing
January 26, 2007

Sparkplug Inc. Secures $22.5 Million Funding Round to Drive Expansion of Wireless Broadband Networks
January 17, 2007

BioPassword – Telltale Fingertips
December 18, 2006

Mpire Adds Amazon.com, Community Features, and Enhanced Search Engine
August 20, 2006

Fangtek Concludes Financing Round of $12MM
June 8, 2006

Wireless Services Buying Mobile Media North America
May 19, 2006

Noble Systems and Intelligent Results Form Strategic Partnership
May 16, 2006


Ignition Press Releases
Airbiquity Named Winner of Two International Telematics Update Awards
June 9, 2011

GlobalScholar’s Kal Raman, Fresh Off $160M Deal, Seeks to Build an Oracle for K-12 Schools
December 20, 2010

Zenprise MobileManager Protects Business-Critical Applications in Mobile Environment
December 7, 2010

Zenprise Tries to Bring Serenity to Mobile Security Management
December 7, 2010

Sparkplug Names Former Hawaiian Telecom Leader New CEO
August 18, 2008

Ice.Com Secures Growth Equity Investment from Polaris Venture Partners and Ignition Partners
January 25, 2008

Ignition Partners Names Three New Partners at Investment Group
November 19, 2007

Ignition Partners Announces formation of Ignition Ventures IV Fund
October 1, 2007

Ignition Partners Announces Affiliate Fund Focused on Later, Growth Stage Investments
October 1, 2007

Full Capture Secures $7 million in Series B Funding
September 25, 2006

Ignition Partners adds $80MM to Most Recent Fund
June 1, 2006

SeaMobile Acquires Maritime Telecommunications Network
May 11, 2006

Online Jewelry Retailer Ice.com Acquires Diamond.com Business from Odimo, Inc.
May 11, 2006



IGNITION EVENTS


Sponsored Community Events


May 2010: Ignition Book Launch Party for Vanessa Fox: Thursday May 13, 2010 at the Palace Ballroom in Seattle

Speaking Engagements & Event Attendance












September 2010 - Michelle Goldberg speaking at TechNW Social Media Consumer Panel - Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle, Sept 27




October 2010 - Richard Fade, Chris Howard attending Microsoft VC Summit - October 26 Mt. View, CA

October 2010 - Chris Howard attending August Capital's "The Lobby"
















Press And Analysts
Contact Shannon Anderson at Ignition Partners