Brad Silverberg
Founding Partner Emeritus @ Ignition Partners
Bellevue, United States
Brad Silverberg is a seed investor at Ignition Partners in Bellevue focused on SaaS and Software. Brad is the co-founder of Fuel Capital, an early stage venture fund based in San Francisco, CA. Fuel focuses on consumer and cloud/ infrastructure companies. Fuel Capital has invested in CoreOS, FrontBack, Hightower, Homejoy, Julep, Layer, Mesosphere, Mindie, Secret, Swapbox, Teespring, URX, WilCall, and others. Brad previously co-foundedIgnition where he remains a partner. He is on the boards of Hipmunk, Keas, and Avvo, and led the investments in XenSource (acquired by Citrix), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), and TellMe (acquired by Microsoft). Previously, Brad was an SVP at Microsoft, where he ran the development and marketing of Windows from the launch of Windows 3.0 through Windows 95. He later led Microsoft’s early Internet efforts, including Internet Explorer and the Internet platform. He also led the Developer and Office divisions. Earlier he worked at Borland, Apple and SRI.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Brad Silverberg invests in
Stages Brad Silverberg invests in
Countries Brad Silverberg invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$2.1M
- Series A
- $2M–$11M
- Series B
- $8M–$25M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (14%)
- Software 3 (14%)
- Enterprise Software 3 (14%)
- Apps 2 (10%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (24%)
- Series A 5 (24%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Series C 3 (14%)
- Series D 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 11 (52%)
- Colombia 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Dondo is an AI Copilot for e-commerce sellers that saves time and money by automatically optimizing and creating thousands of platform-specific descriptions and listings. With Dondo, sellers can post SEO-enhanced listings across marketplaces and social media platforms like Instagram, MercadoLibre, Shopify, TikTok, and more, all with just the clickof a button. | $2.1M / Pre-Seed / Jan 19, 2021 | ||
| ScaleFT is a software company building the next generation of cloud-native access management solutions. The company offers a comprehensive Zero Trust platform that unifies access controls across all user and resource types, saving from having to deploy and manage disparate PAM and IAM products. It controls access to their company resources throughan intelligent access fabric that makes smarter trust decisions in real-time based on dynamic user and device conditions.ScaleFT was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. | $2M / Seed / Jul 19, 2017 | ||
| It is critical to success in today’s economy to rapidly deliver goods and services through software. Organizations must modernize their approach to software delivery by leveraging the cloud, implementing agile and DevOps processes, and adopting new architectures. This transition enables faster, safer, and more efficient application development,which is the cornerstone of the on-demand digital services that customers expect.Skytap is your partner in this transformation. Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. Our technology makes it easy to build, run, and evolve these hybrid applications by rapidly migrating traditional workloads to the cloud, enabling modern development practices, and integrating new cloud architectures and processes.We deliver cloud benefits in weeks, not months or years. True self-service, on-demand resources enable you to create your own software-defined datacenter and networks with environments on demand that work in the cloud just like in your datacenter. Gain all the benefits of cloud speed and scale with little risk and big reward. | $35M / Series D / Dec 18, 2014 | ||
| Keas is an employee engagement and benefits management platform for enterprise HR with an emphasis on health benefits and corporate wellness. Keas provides HR with a consumer-style app for employees and dependents that is gamified, social, and mobile with 10x greater engagement than other health IT apps. For HR professions, Keas delivers aSaaS-based enterprise platform that includes analytics, integration, and cross-vendor management and reporting functionality.Keas is the only vendor that guarantees employee engagement and seamless integration of all health tech and services vendors for both employees and HR. Keas delivers high ROI by driving HR and employee productivity, supporting the benefits strategy, and managing health risks and costs. | $7.4M / Series C / Sep 11, 2014 | ||
| Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $25M / Series B / Jul 14, 2014 | ||
| Hipmunk is a travel search site that aims to take the agony out of travel planning. Their mission is to help people book travel faster and more efficiently. Hipmunk was designed to help people who are overwhelmed with pages of irrelevant search results. Hipmunk presents flight results in a visual timeline that allows people to select the bestflight for them at a glance. Hotel results are shown on a map so that people can view wherein a destination they will be staying and the landmarks near them. | $20M / Series C / May 30, 2014 | ||
| Avvo is an online legal marketplace connecting consumers and lawyers. The lawyer directory provides Avvo-rated profiles, client reviews, and peer endorsements for 97% of all lawyers in the U.S., so consumers can find the lawyer who’s right for the needs. Avvo also helps lawyers grow businesses with marketing tools and services including AvvoIgnite, a cloud-based marketing platform designed specifically for attorneys.Avvo was launched in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA. | $36.5M / Series D / Apr 15, 2014 | ||
| Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $8.6M / Series A / Mar 14, 2014 | ||
| Secret offers an online platform that enables users to share their personal secrets with other users anonymously. It owns and operates a mobile application that helps users to share and connect with friends. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $8.6M / Series A / Feb 28, 2014 | ||
| It is critical to success in today’s economy to rapidly deliver goods and services through software. Organizations must modernize their approach to software delivery by leveraging the cloud, implementing agile and DevOps processes, and adopting new architectures. This transition enables faster, safer, and more efficient application development,which is the cornerstone of the on-demand digital services that customers expect.Skytap is your partner in this transformation. Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. Our technology makes it easy to build, run, and evolve these hybrid applications by rapidly migrating traditional workloads to the cloud, enabling modern development practices, and integrating new cloud architectures and processes.We deliver cloud benefits in weeks, not months or years. True self-service, on-demand resources enable you to create your own software-defined datacenter and networks with environments on demand that work in the cloud just like in your datacenter. Gain all the benefits of cloud speed and scale with little risk and big reward. | $6.5M / Series C / Feb 05, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Ignition Partners
Ignition is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity. With over $2B under management, Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in enterprise software.Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition'spartners are proven business leaders who have built some of the world's most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows and Office, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Starbucks.Ignition helps entrepreneurs by turning their early idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, to growing the business strategically, globally, financially, to realizing the best ultimate outcome, Ignition is ready to go the distance.
Ignition Partners Contacts
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Nick Sturiale
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Richard Fade
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Cameron Myhrvold
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John Connors
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FAQ
What does Brad Silverberg invest in?
Brad Silverberg invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Brad Silverberg's check size?
Brad Silverberg typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$2.1M at Seed, $2M–$11M at Series A and $8M–$25M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Brad Silverberg participates in.
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When did Brad Silverberg last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Brad Silverberg closed in Jan 2021. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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