Ignition Partners

2000

Founded

312

Investments

United States

Offices

Venture Fund

Investor Type

About

Ignition Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 2000, specializing in early-stage investments in enterprise software companies. With offices in both Seattle and Silicon Valley, the firm leverages decades of operating experience and deep enterprise relationships to back category-defining startups. Their portfolio includes notable companies such as Splunk, DocuSign, Cloudera, and Heroku.

Ignition Partners focuses on sectors like cloud computing, SaaS, DevOps, cybersecurity, and AI-driven applications. The firm's investment philosophy emphasizes making a limited number of investments each year to provide substantial support and guidance to portfolio companies.

Portfolio Companies

Splunk, DocuSign, Cloudera, Heroku, Parse, Xamarin, Xensource, Archipelago, Aviatrix, Botkeeper

Gepgraphic Focus

United States

Key Differentiators

Decades of operating experience, Deep enterprise relationships, Limited number of investments per year for focused support

Thypical Investment Size

$250K to $300K

Total Funds Raised

Over $2 billion under management

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Consumer

Fashion

Software

Advertising (AdTech)

Big Data & Analytics

Marketing (MarTech)

Palo Alto

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

United States