Richard Fade
Partner Prior fund @ Ignition Partners
Seattle, United States
Richard Fade is a Series A investor at Ignition Partners in Seattle focused on Enterprise Software and SaaS. Richard Fade has more than 35 years of operational, business development and investment experience.He is currently a Partner at Ignition Partners, a venture capital firm in Bellevue Washington investing in early stage technology, software and services companies. Mr. Fade's prior investments include more than a dozen virtualization, software asa service, cloud, and storage technology companies. Most recently Appature (IMS Health 2013), Azaleos (Avanade 2012), Likewise (Isilon/EMC 2012), StorSimple (Microsoft 2012) and Whiptail (Cisco 2013). He currently serves on the boards of Onehub, Talyst and Spaceflight Industries and is a Board advisor and angel investor in several early stage technology companies in the Northwest.Prior to joining Ignition, Mr. Fade was 16 years at Microsoft Corporation in leadership roles including serving on Microsoft’s Executive Staff for 10 years as a division level vice president. His positions included; Senior Vice President of the OEM division responsible for Microsoft’s business with PC OEM and embedded software business, VP Desktop and Consumer Applications, overseeing the creation of Office 97 and other desktop applications, Vice President of the Internet Business Unit and Vice President Far East Region including product development for Japan, China and Korea. Mr. Fade led the teams that produced the first successful Asian language versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office applications. Mr. Fade has served on several non-profit boards and independent schools including presently Whitman College.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
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Industries Richard Fade invests in
Stages Richard Fade invests in
Countries Richard Fade invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Enterprise Software 4 (50%)
- SaaS 2 (25%)
- Mobile 1 (13%)
- Sports 1 (13%)
- Hospital 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 2 (25%)
- Series C 2 (25%)
- Angel 1 (13%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- Canada 1 (13%)
Investments
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| Ripl was launched in October 2015 with the mission of helping small businesses and influencers succeed in the realm of digital marketing. A key part of finding that success is having the ability to create compelling visual and social media content.The application allows users to integrate their own photos into professionally-designed templates tocreate animated video posts. With simple customization options for text, colors, and music, Ripl makes it easy for users to create engaging posts on the go.In January 2016 the company introduced Ripl PRO, a premium plan for small businesses and other social media power users. The monthly PRO subscription unlocks access to the full library of animated post layout design templates and additional features such as custom brand integration, music track overlays, and content post scheduling. In 2017 the company released its Android mobile app. In 2018 the company launched its Web application for use on laptops and desktop computers. | $1.9M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 03, 2016 | ||
| StorSimple has developed an application-optimized hybrid storage solution for SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines that delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection, and reduces cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storageused with these applications.StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures. | $10.5M / Series C / Jun 23, 2011 | ||
| StorSimple has developed an application-optimized hybrid storage solution for SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines that delivers consistent storage performance at scale, significantly simplifies data protection, and reduces cost by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storageused with these applications.StorSimple is based in Silicon Valley and is funded by Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures. | $13M / Series B / Sep 13, 2010 | ||
| VM6 provides enterprise-class virtualization to remote locations and SMB without the complexity or cost of traditional solutions. Designed for remote office and SMB budgets and capabilities, VM6 VMex harnesses the power of virtualization to provide server consolidation, management, shared storage and high availability without the need for costlyconsultants, professional services, training or specialized skill sets other than the MSCEs our customers already have on staff. | $4M / Series A / Apr 13, 2010 | ||
| Onehub's mission is to provide small and medium-sized businesses with the best tools to share and secure their business data. Onehub has two main products:Onehub is also the name of the company's cloud-based file storage and sharing service. It features granular sharing permissions, white label branding, as well as collaborativefeatures such as task assignments and comments. The company also makes Marshal, a free DLP tool that allows businesses to quickly scan their cloud accounts to uncover exposed sensitive data threats. More than 1.6 million business users trust Onehub as their enterprise file sharing service. Onehub was founded in 2008 and is based in Seattle, Washington. To learn more visit www.Onehub.com or follow us on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/Onehub. | $1.3M / Series A / Oct 29, 2009 | ||
| Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems. | $8.5M / Series C / May 30, 2008 | ||
| Talyst is engineering the safer pharmacy. The company was founded in 2002 to provide easy-to-use, automated medication management systems to acute care hospital pharmacies. The following year, Talyst launched AutoPharm®, the innovative software platform designed to integrate medication storage, inventory, ordering, barcoding, and clinical systems. | $20M / Series B / Nov 10, 2006 | ||
| BlueDot Inc. sold the faves.com domain and ceased operations in December of 2011-----Faves, formerly called BlueDot, is a bookmarking site with a uniquely anti-social approach. The relaunched site adds features making their bookmark database more relevant and easier to use for anti-social bookmarkers. At the core, it has the same social andprivacy features of the old Blue Dot. However, they've added a new method of finding trusted links that doesn't require building yet another social network. The new site adds a topic network that does a lot of the networking and recommending implicitly along with an easy-to-use feed reader for sorting through new links. It's kind of like Digg and Delicious combined with Google Reader.Users can annotate their links as well as see multimedia previews in order to better understand what they are looking at. The bookmarking system works similarly to | $1.5M / Angel / Jan 01, 2004 |
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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What does Richard Fade invest in?
Richard Fade invests primarily in Enterprise Software, SaaS and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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