Riley Kennysmith | August 10, 2011 | 461 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Accel Partners, Couchbase, Ignition Partners, Mayfield Fund, North Bridge Venture Partners

Couchbase, the NoSQL database company created by the merger of CouchOne and Memebase, has raised $14 million in new funding. The investors include Ignition Partners, Accel Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners and Mayfield Fund. The Series C funds, which bring the company’s total to $30 million, will be used to grow Couchbase’s enterprise and help the company expand internationally. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | May 11, 2011 | 719 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under 500 Startups, Clearstone Venture Partners, Ignition Partners, Inporia, New Enterprise Associates, Ryan Junee, Southern Cross Venture Partners, Start Fund, SV Angel, Y Combinator

Inporia is a stealth e-commerce start-up company that has raised $1.25 million in funding. Inporia was founded by Ryan Junee, who is known for co-founding Omnisio (acquired by Google) and works as an advisor at 500 Startups. The investors in this round include New Enterprise Associates, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Clearstone Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Ignition Partners, Southern Cross Venture Partners, and Start Fund. [TechCrunch]
Amit Chowdhry | March 11, 2011 | 423 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under DailyBooth, Ignition Partners, Sequoia Capital

Photo sharing website DailyBooth.com has raised $6 million in funding in a round that was led by Ignition Partners. Sequoia Capital also participated in this round. DailyBooth shared 14 million photos and many of them are self-portraits. [AllThingsD]
Amit Chowdhry | March 10, 2011 | 526 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under BlueRun Ventures, Founders Fund, Ignition Partners, Scott Banister, The Founders Fund, Topsy, Western Technology Investment

Topsy is a real-time search engine that has raised $15 million in a third round of funding. Topsy allows users to search for real-time content on Facebook and Twitter. Topsy recently launched Topsy Social Modules, which lets publishers add real-time content to their websites. Social Modules are being used by websites such as Discovery Communications and The Huffington Post. Western Technology Investments, BlueRun Ventures, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund, and Scott Banister invested in this round. This puts Topsy at a total of $30 million in funding. [VentureBeat]
Amit Chowdhry | January 3, 2011 | 669 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, OpenView Venture Partners, Skytap, Washington Research Foundation

Skytap is a cloud automation solutions company that has raised $10 million in a Series C round of funding. OpenView Venture Partners led the round of funding with participation from Ignition Partners, Madrona Venture Group, and Washington Research Foundation.

Amit Chowdhry | December 8, 2010 | 548 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under DocuSign, Dustin Grosse, Frazier Technology, Ignition Partners, Roger Erickson, Rory O'Driscoll, Salesforce.com, Sigma Partners

Electronic signature company DocuSign has raised $27 million in a third round of funding. DocuSign lets businesses send verified electronic signatures to save time from having to handwrite and fax documents back-and-forth. DocuSign hired two new executives: Roger Erickson and Dustin Grosse.

Amit Chowdhry | May 12, 2010 | 876 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Amazon.com EC2, Baseline Ventures, Harrison Metal Capital, Heroku, Ignition Partners, Redpoint Venture Partners

Heroku is a Ruby on Rails platform built on Amazon.com’s EC2 infrastructure. The company has raised $10 million in a second round of funding, bringing them to a total of $15 million. The number of apps using Heroku has risen from 40,000 to 60,000 within the last 6 months. Ignition Partners led the fund. Other investors include Redpoint Venture Partners, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital. [GigaOm]
Amit Chowdhry | December 5, 2009 | 1,144 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Apple Inc., Bain Capital Ventures, Ignition Partners, Lala, Warner Music Group

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has bought out steaming music company Lala.com. Earlier this year Warner Music Group invested in Lala and it seems like their investment has paid off.
While this is good news for Lala’s board of directors, the acquisition may spell bad news for Lala users. Lala users can stream music an unlimited number of times for ten cents per song as of right now. Lala users may lose that ability if Apple starts to make some changes. Apple is highly interested in Lala’s engineering talent and technology for their music streaming in the cloud abilities. Lala has $35 million in funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Ignition Partners, and Warner Music Group.
The financial details are unknown.