John Connors
Managing Partner @ Ignition Partners
Bellevue, United States
John Connors is a Series A investor at Ignition Partners in Bellevue focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. John Connors is the Operating Partner of Fuse Venture Partners. He is also managing partner at Ignition, joining in 2005 after lengthy career as a software-industry executive, principally at Microsoft.John spent sixteen years at Microsoft in several high-level, strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president offinance and administration, as well as the company’s chief financial officer.He also served as vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise Group and vice president and chief information officer (CIO). Before becoming CIO, John held a number of positions within and outside finance, including corporate controller; general manager of worldwide financial operations; director of business operations at Microsoft’s European headquarters in Paris; and director of business operations for the Worldwide Sales and Support Strategy Group. John is a member of the board of directors of Nike (NKE), FiREapps, Scout Analytics, Datasphere, Motif Investing, Splunk (SPLK), Opscode, Parse and Tier 3. He was also a board member of Heroku, which was sold to Salesforce.com in 2010, and Xensource, acquired by Citrix in 2007.John received his BA in accounting from the University of Montana. He also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Montana.
- Total investments:
- 39
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 44%
Last updated:
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Industries John Connors invests in
Stages John Connors invests in
Countries John Connors invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (31%)
- Artificial Intelligence 7 (18%)
- SaaS 5 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 5 (13%)
- Cloud Computing 4 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 9 (23%)
- Series B 8 (21%)
- Seed 6 (15%)
- Series C 6 (15%)
- Series D 5 (13%)
Country
- United States 18 (46%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
Investments
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Pay-i
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Pay-i is a technology company. | $4.9M / Seed / May 21, 2025 | |
Carbon Robotics
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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 | |
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Carbon Robotics
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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 | |
Bolster
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Bolster is an all in one platform that thousands of contractors use to sell more, automate project management and make more profit | $8.5M / Seed / Oct 06, 2021 | |
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Carbon Robotics
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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 | |
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Carbon Robotics
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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. | $8.9M / Series A / Sep 27, 2019 | |
Icertis
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Icertis is an enterprise contract management platform in the cloud that solves hard contract management problems on an easy-to-use platform. With Icertis, companies can accelerate business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize commercial relationships by maximizing revenueand reducing costs. | $115M / Series E / Jul 17, 2019 | |
Tempered
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Tempered is a cyber risk management company that reduces cyber risks by providing point and click identity-based micro-segmentation. Its security and cloud network allow users to segment anything to achieve micro-segmentation for an IP resource without infrastructure change or disruption.Tempered Networks was founded in 2012 and is headquarteredin Seattle, Washington. | $17M / May 08, 2019 | |
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Icertis
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Icertis is an enterprise contract management platform in the cloud that solves hard contract management problems on an easy-to-use platform. With Icertis, companies can accelerate business by increasing contract velocity, protect against risk by ensuring regulatory and policy compliance, and optimize commercial relationships by maximizing revenueand reducing costs. | $50M / Series D / Feb 08, 2018 | |
AstrumU
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AstrumU is creating a new paradigm for the ‘Learn+Work’ Lifecycle based on outcomes. The 'AstrumU Platform' provides predictive insights by using artificial intelligence to translate data from students, schools and employers—delivering meaningful and lasting careers discovered through facts, not fortune. | $2.3M / Seed / Feb 07, 2018 | |
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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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Jim DuBois
Venture Advisor
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Nick Sturiale
Managing Director
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Cameron Myhrvold
General Partner
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John Connors
Managing Partner
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Jonathan Roberts
Managing Director
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What does John Connors invest in?
John Connors invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did John Connors last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Connors closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 39 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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