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Entellium execs fudge the numbers, face fraud charges
VentureBeat — ... among them, who helped the company raise a total of $50 million — $19 million coming from Ignition Partners alone. ...

Entellium Scandal Gives Ignition Partners a Black Eye
TechCrunch — ... The scandal in Seattle is particularly embarrassing for Ignition Partners, the VC fund made up of former Microsoft hotshots who put in $19.7 million of the total $50 million that Entellium had raised. Ignition’s Jonathan Roberts sat on Entellium’s board (as did former Cisco CIO ...

Lala convinces major record labels to be a little less dumb
VentureBeat — ... then buy the rights to stream the song with one click. This sort of ability, made possible by having a huge database of legally licensed songs in the cloud, gives Lala the potential to distribute its selling power across the entire web to almost every corner of music fandom. Whether or not consumers will take to the idea of owning songs that aren’t downloaded onto some physical medium is yet to be seen. The company raised $20 million in October from Ignition, Bain Capital and Warner Music. ...

Making Site Architecture Search-Friendly: Lessons From whitehouse.gov
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — Guest blogger Vanessa Fox is co-chair of the new O'Reilly conference Found: Search Acquisition and Architecture. Find more from Vanessa at ninebyblue.com and janeandrobot.com. Vanessa is also entrepreneur in residence at Ignition Partners, and Features Editor at Search Engine Land. Yesterday, as President-elect Obama became president Obama, we geeky types filled the web with chatter about change. That change of change.gov becoming whitehouse.gov, that is. The new whitehouse.gov robots.txt file opens everything up to ...

Ignition Leads $10M Funding for Zenprise
Xconomy — ... Gregory T. Huang wrote: Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners has led a $10 million funding round for Zenprise, a mobile-management software firm based in Fremont, CA. Existing investors Bay Partners, Mayfield, and Shasta Ventures also participated in the round. Zenprise makes automated software to help companies troubleshoot and fix IT problems with smartphones and mobile devices. ...

Ignition Capital Splits from Ignition Partners, Focuses on Private Equity
Xconomy — ... Xconomy has learned that three venture partners from Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners have formed a separate management company called Ignition Capital, and are working from new offices in downtown Seattle on private equity and late-stage investments. Jon Anderson, Rich Tong, and John Zagula are managing directors of Ignition Capital, whose fund is “focused on profitable mid to late stage companies,” according to the new firm’s ...

Ignition’s Brad Silverberg Says No Company Split, Just Different Funds
Xconomy — ... with the formation of downtown Seattle-based Ignition Capital, which is focused on growth-stage and private equity investments. Reached by e-mail, Ignition Partners co-founder Brad Silverberg says that Ignition is still one firm, with three complementary funds. ...

Diving Into the Online Ad Network Spaghetti
E-Commerce Times — ... hot market from the investment perspective. The companies in this space are really driving a renaissance in online advertising , doing things with data, because the pipes and the foundation for the house have already been built, and the fit and finish are being layered on top of the house. There's a tremendous amount of [venture capital] funding flowing into the space." Mpire just completed its series B round of funding from Seattle venture firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Ignition Partners . The company has 17 employees and has no money-draining upfront data center ...

Who rules real-time search? A look at 9 contenders
VentureBeat — ... for learning about what’s happening right now in Tehran, although I do find a few heavily followed Iranian Twitter accounts that only began posting within the last 24 hours. Sources: Twitter, although Ghosh says the company may incorporate other sources Funding: $15 million in equity and debt to date, including $900,000 in seed funding from angel investor and Listbot founder Scott Banister. Other backers include Blue Run Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Western Technology Investment. See ...

First Andreessen Horowitz investment, Apptio, raises $14M
VentureBeat — ... Founded in 2007, the company previously raised $7 million from Ignition Partners, Greylock, Madrona, Shasta and ...

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Ignition Partners Talk Cloud Computing and Virtualization—A Crucial Part of the VC Firm’s Strategy
Xconomy — ... Over the past couple of months, I’ve had a chance to talk with a number of VCs at Bellevue, WA-based Ignition Partners, and they’ve shared a great deal of knowledge and insight into how they think about cloud computing and virtualization. What follows is not a comprehensive look at the firm’s strategy, but rather a few thematic highlights that struck me as important to those interested in cloud-based technologies and business models. To an outside observer at least, what Ignition does in this area will go a long way towards determining its ...

IT search company Splunk reaches profitability
VentureBeat — ... of Hyperion Systems when it sold to Oracle for $3.3 billion, was appointed CEO in 2008 to help get Splunk’s business into shape. Looks like he managed to do that. Also in Q3, Splunk says it added 153 customers, bringing the total to more than 1,300. New customers include NATO, Credit Suisse, and the United States Department of State and Department of Energy. Splunk has raised $40 million in venture funding from Ignition Partners, August Capital, JK&B Capital, and Sevin Rosen Funds. ...