# Nick Sturiale

> Nick Sturiale is a Series A investor at Ignition Partners (Palo Alto) backing Software and SaaS. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ignition Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ignition-partners)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 30%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicksturiale/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/NickSturiale
- Website: https://x.com/NickSturiale

Nick Sturiale is a Series A investor at Ignition Partners in Palo Alto focused on Software and SaaS. Nick Sturiale joined Ignition as managing partner in 2013, after more than 25 years of experience developing startups, both as venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Prior to Ignition, Nick spent three years at JAFCO Ventures as a general partner, where he invested in companies such as Reputation.com, Bill.com and Delphix.Prior to JAFCO, Nickspent eight years at Sevin Rosen Funds, where he incubated and led first investments in companies such as XenSource, which was acquired by Citrix Systems (CTXS) for $500 million; Splunk (SPLK), the leading public company in “big data”; and Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), a leading SaaS vendor in file collaboration. Nick also worked at The Carlyle Group as a managing director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office.Prior to venture capital, Nick spent twelve years as a software entrepreneur. He was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies, a manufacturing-analytics software company, which won the 1999 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition and was acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million in 2001.Currently he serves on the board of directors of Splunk, Hightail, Vuclip, StrongLoop and BlueData.Nick holds a BS degree in economics from California State University, Chico, and an MBA with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he is a frequent guest lecturer.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 10 | 43% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Analytics | 3 | 13% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 13% |

35 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 30% |
| Series B | 7 | 30% |
| Series C | 3 | 13% |
| Seed | 2 | 9% |
| Series D | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 48% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DataTrails | Jitsuin built RKVST; a service for developers to continuously prove who did what when which brings confidence in critical business decisions. RKVST delivers provenance, governance, and immutability to prove the trustworthiness of shared data from a single line of code. We envision a world where we assure resilience for critical decisions in digitaloperations done right.Our mission is to enable developers with tools and services to build verifiable digital trust between organizations. Visit https://rkvst.com to learn more | $7.5M | Series A | Sep 14, 2022 |  |
| Jupiter Intelligence | 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 |  |
| Aviatrix | 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 |  |
| Aviatrix | 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 |  |
| Aviatrix | 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. | $40M | Series C | Oct 28, 2019 |  |
| Jupiter Intelligence | 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. | $23M | Series B | Mar 04, 2019 |  |
| Jupiter Intelligence | 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. | $8M | Series A | Feb 12, 2018 |  |
| Nymi | Nymi is leading the way towards true digital transformation by creating Workplace Wearables that integrate humans with their digital network in a manner that is safe, secure, and simple. Our leading-edge connected worker platform delivers humancentric applications for worker health and safety, enterprise security, data integrity, compliance, andincreased productivity--even in the most challenging environments.We're also a great place to work. Nymi is a winner of the Best Workplaces in Canada 2019 - Less Than 100 Employees. | $15M | Series B | May 16, 2017 |  |
| Aviatrix | 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. | $15M | Series B | Jan 18, 2017 |  |
| Accompany | Accompany designs and develops a relationship intelligence platform. Its AI-driven database provides rich, relevant insights for millions of people and companies, so they can always find the right people and build stronger relationships.Founded in 2013, Accompany is headquartered in Los Altos, California, and backed by CRV, ICONIQ Capital,Ignition Partners, and Cowboy Ventures. | $20M | Series B | Dec 05, 2016 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Formation 8](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/formation8) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alloy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alloy-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Cambrian Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambrian-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Energize Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invenergy-future-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Ignition Partners

VC Fund · Los Altos, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Ignition Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jim DuBois | Venture Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-dubois |
| Nick Sturiale | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-sturiale |
| Cameron Myhrvold | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cameron-myhrvold |
| John Connors | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-connors |
| Jonathan Roberts | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-roberts |

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## FAQ

### What does Nick Sturiale invest in?

Nick Sturiale invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Analytics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 23 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 Nick Sturiale last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nick Sturiale closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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