Jonathan Roberts
Managing Director @ Ignition Partners
Bellevue, United States
Jonathan Roberts is a Managing Partner at Ignition Partners. He invests in business application and services companies and represents Ignition as director on the boards of DocuSign, AVST, HyperQuality, Spoken Communications and Earth Class Mail.Prior to Ignition, Jonathan spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as general manager of theWindows CE Intelligent Appliance Division, where he was responsible for developing new WinCE products, product marketing, business development and long-term planning for the Windows CE platform, as well as the retargeting of the Microsoft's PocketPC effort.Jonathan led the marketing and business efforts for Windows 3.1, 3.11, Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0, BackOffice 1.0, Windows 98 and NT 4.0 on the Desktop, and finally all of Windows CE including embedded, Pocket PC, Auto, Phones, Set-top, Games, etc.Jonathan received his BA in history from the University of Washington where he was also student body president.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries Jonathan Roberts invests in
Stages Jonathan Roberts invests in
Countries Jonathan Roberts invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 3 (33%)
- Software 3 (33%)
- Email 1 (11%)
- Computer 1 (11%)
- Internet 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series B 3 (33%)
- Series A 1 (11%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
- Series D 1 (11%)
- Series E 1 (11%)
Investments
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Spoken Communications
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Spoken Communications offer these businesses Spoken ConversationCenter, the first conversation-centric solution for the contact center. It provides a single AI-enabled platform for channeling, managing, and analyzing digital conversations – including voice, thanks to TrueMeaning, Spoken’s patented real-time digital voice channel.SpokenConversationCenter let’s service providers meet the demands of the modern digital consumer now and in the future while optimizing service delivery costs with AI, Big Data, and cloud-first performance. | $5M / Feb 21, 2017 | |
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Spoken Communications
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Spoken Communications offer these businesses Spoken ConversationCenter, the first conversation-centric solution for the contact center. It provides a single AI-enabled platform for channeling, managing, and analyzing digital conversations – including voice, thanks to TrueMeaning, Spoken’s patented real-time digital voice channel.SpokenConversationCenter let’s service providers meet the demands of the modern digital consumer now and in the future while optimizing service delivery costs with AI, Big Data, and cloud-first performance. | $28.8M / Series D / Aug 05, 2015 | |
Docusign
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DocuSign operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices.The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented businesstransactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.The company also provides training and support services. Its platform serves the sales, human resources, finance, information technology, operations, legal, marketing, facilities, support, product management, and procurement departments in the financial services, healthcare, technology, higher education, insurance, real estate, life sciences, and government sectors in the United States and internationally.DocuSign was incorporated in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Dublin. | $85M / Series E / Mar 04, 2014 | |
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Spoken Communications
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Spoken Communications offer these businesses Spoken ConversationCenter, the first conversation-centric solution for the contact center. It provides a single AI-enabled platform for channeling, managing, and analyzing digital conversations – including voice, thanks to TrueMeaning, Spoken’s patented real-time digital voice channel.SpokenConversationCenter let’s service providers meet the demands of the modern digital consumer now and in the future while optimizing service delivery costs with AI, Big Data, and cloud-first performance. | $11.5M / Series B / Feb 07, 2012 | |
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Docusign
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DocuSign operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices.The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented businesstransactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.The company also provides training and support services. Its platform serves the sales, human resources, finance, information technology, operations, legal, marketing, facilities, support, product management, and procurement departments in the financial services, healthcare, technology, higher education, insurance, real estate, life sciences, and government sectors in the United States and internationally.DocuSign was incorporated in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Dublin. | $27M / Series C / Dec 08, 2010 | |
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Docusign
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DocuSign operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices.The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented businesstransactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.The company also provides training and support services. Its platform serves the sales, human resources, finance, information technology, operations, legal, marketing, facilities, support, product management, and procurement departments in the financial services, healthcare, technology, higher education, insurance, real estate, life sciences, and government sectors in the United States and internationally.DocuSign was incorporated in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Dublin. | $5M / Series B / May 08, 2009 | |
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Docusign
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DocuSign operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices.The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented businesstransactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.The company also provides training and support services. Its platform serves the sales, human resources, finance, information technology, operations, legal, marketing, facilities, support, product management, and procurement departments in the financial services, healthcare, technology, higher education, insurance, real estate, life sciences, and government sectors in the United States and internationally.DocuSign was incorporated in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Dublin. | $12.4M / Series B / Sep 01, 2007 | |
HyperQuality
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At HyperQuality, they focus on improving customer experience 24/7. they accomplish this through their proven and innovative methodology for evaluations and surveys, reliable and valid data, and quality assurance software resulting in specific recommendations from the agent to the company–wide level. | $10M / Series B / Jan 23, 2007 | |
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Docusign
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DocuSign operates a cloud-based electronic signature platform that helps small- and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and individuals collect information, automate data workflows, and sign on various devices.The company’s platform automates manual and paper-based processes that allow users to manage various aspects of documented businesstransactions, including identity management, authentication, digital signature, forms and data collection, collaboration, and workflow automation and storage.The company also provides training and support services. Its platform serves the sales, human resources, finance, information technology, operations, legal, marketing, facilities, support, product management, and procurement departments in the financial services, healthcare, technology, higher education, insurance, real estate, life sciences, and government sectors in the United States and internationally.DocuSign was incorporated in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, Sydney, Sao Paulo, and Dublin. | $10M / Series B / Apr 01, 2006 |
Co-Investors
Frazier Technology Ventures
5 deals together
Sigma Partners
4 deals together
WestRiver Group
2 deals together
Cross Creek
1 deal together
Jackson Square Ventures
1 deal together
Kleiner Perkins
1 deal together
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 Jonathan Roberts invest in?
Jonathan Roberts invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Email startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 9 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 Jonathan Roberts last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Jonathan Roberts closed in Feb 2017. Shizune tracks 9 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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