Ignition Partners
VC Fund
Los Altos, United States
Ignition Partners is a VC fund in Los Altos focused on Software and Enterprise Software. 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's partners 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.
- Total investments:
- 242
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
- Fund size:
- $200M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Ignition Partners invests in
Stages Ignition Partners invests in
Countries Ignition Partners invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series A
- $2.1M–$13M
- Series B
- $6M–$25M
- Series C
- $7.4M–$40M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 68 (28%)
- Enterprise Software 32 (13%)
- SaaS 27 (11%)
- Analytics 23 (10%)
- Information Technology 21 (9%)
Stage
- Series B 61 (25%)
- Series A 48 (20%)
- Series C 39 (16%)
- Series D 23 (10%)
- Seed 15 (6%)
Country
- United States 114 (47%)
- Canada 4 (2%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
- China 2 (1%)
- Israel 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jim DuBois
Venture Advisor
|
Venture Advisor | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Nick Sturiale
Managing Director
|
Managing Director | Total investments: 25 | Find email | |
Richard Fade
Partner Prior fund
|
Partner Prior fund | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
Cameron Myhrvold
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 15 | Find email | |
John Connors
Managing Partner
|
Managing Partner | Total investments: 40 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carbon Robotics is revolutionizing agriculture with AI and robotics to reduce costs and increase yields. Amid labor challenges, rising input costs, and increasing concerns about herbicide use, growers worldwide are seeking smarter, more efficient ways to farm. Carbon Robotics addresses these needs by delivering advanced AI robotic laser weeders andtractor autonomy that drives efficiencies to the global community. Learn more at carbonrobotics.com. | $70M / Series D / Oct 21, 2024 | ||
| Carbon Robotics is revolutionizing agriculture with AI and robotics to reduce costs and increase yields. Amid labor challenges, rising input costs, and increasing concerns about herbicide use, growers worldwide are seeking smarter, more efficient ways to farm. Carbon Robotics addresses these needs by delivering advanced AI robotic laser weeders andtractor autonomy that drives efficiencies to the global community. Learn more at carbonrobotics.com. | $30M / Series C / Apr 11, 2023 | ||
| Jupiter offers climate risk analytics that turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. The increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events across the globe are having a major impact on economies, businesses, and communities. With forward-focused, rigorous methodologies, and analytics delivered by some of the bestscientists in the industry, Jupiter turns sophisticated climate science into actionable data. Customers proactively assess the physical risks in their portfolios, address regulatory requirements and evaluate potential reputational concerns. By managing, mitigating, and disclosing your climate risk, you can confront the challenges of tomorrow, today. | $54M / Series C / Oct 21, 2021 | ||
| Blockchain Monster Hunt develops an NFT collectible game that lives on multiple blockchains. It is a multi-chain metaverse game that connects people from different blockchain communities. It allows users to play and earn in an abundantly diverse world of monsters | $3.8M / Pre-Seed / Sep 29, 2021 | ||
| Aviatrix cloud network platform delivers advanced networking, security, and operational visibility required by enterprises with the simplicity and automation of cloud. The Aviatrix cloud network delivers a common platform for multi-cloud networking, regardless of public cloud providers used.More than 400 customers worldwide use Aviatrix and itsproven multi-cloud network reference architecture to design, deploy, and operate a repeatable network and security architecture that is consistent across any public cloud. | $200M / Series E / Sep 08, 2021 | ||
| Carbon Robotics is revolutionizing agriculture with AI and robotics to reduce costs and increase yields. Amid labor challenges, rising input costs, and increasing concerns about herbicide use, growers worldwide are seeking smarter, more efficient ways to farm. Carbon Robotics addresses these needs by delivering advanced AI robotic laser weeders andtractor autonomy that drives efficiencies to the global community. Learn more at carbonrobotics.com. | $27M / Series B / Sep 01, 2021 | ||
| Archipelago is an AI-powered commercial property risk platform that delivers real-time visibility into how to better manage risk, improve portfolio resilience, and add value to portfolios through intelligent insurance and investment methods. Archipelago provides businesses with greater visibility into their data and greater control over theiroperations. | $34M / Series B / Apr 20, 2021 | ||
| Aviatrix cloud network platform delivers advanced networking, security, and operational visibility required by enterprises with the simplicity and automation of cloud. The Aviatrix cloud network delivers a common platform for multi-cloud networking, regardless of public cloud providers used.More than 400 customers worldwide use Aviatrix and itsproven multi-cloud network reference architecture to design, deploy, and operate a repeatable network and security architecture that is consistent across any public cloud. | $75M / Series D / Feb 23, 2021 | ||
| Botkeeper saves time and money by automating the bookkeeping with Botkeeper. The company provides businesses with a powerful combination of skilled accountants and automated data entry through the use of machine learning and AI. Botkeeper clients receive 24/7 accounting and support as well as incredible insight into their financials withbeautiful dashboards and unlimited reporting. With Botkeeper, companies can grow from 0 to 100+ employees and on average save 50% compared to the cost of a bookkeeper or outsourced firm.Botkeeper access information to make entries, tracks and schedules revenue and deferred expenses account for payroll, reconciles bank accounts, and sends invoices. It is a virtual robotic bookkeeper that does the bookkeeping and supports the accounting needs through machine learning and integration of systems and software. it also helps automate common bookkeeping workflows, provides answers to client questions, and can request more info when necessary much the same way a regular bookkeeper would.Botkeeper was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. | $25M / Series B / Jun 18, 2020 | ||
| Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. | $52M / Series B / May 05, 2020 | ||
| See all 242 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Ignition Partners invest in?
Ignition Partners invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 242 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Ignition Partners invest in?
Ignition Partners typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$13M at Series A, $6M–$25M at Series B and $7.4M–$40M at Series C. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Ignition Partners's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Ignition Partners took part in.
How do I contact Ignition Partners?
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Who are the partners at Ignition Partners?
The team at Ignition Partners includes Jim DuBois (Venture Advisor), Nick Sturiale (Managing Director) and Richard Fade (Partner Prior fund), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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