For more than a decade, the team at Ignition has helped entrepreneurs in the Northwest and beyond build innovative, category-defining businesses. We invest in cloud-computing, mobile and consumer companies and leverage the deep operating backgrounds of our partners to help start-ups scale. We’ve helped build widely used technology platforms and are acutely aware of the intricacies—and pitfalls—of building and scaling businesses. Let us help take your company to the next level.
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a leading venture capital and growth equity firm focused on helping entrepreneurs create and build major new enterprises that use technology to improve the way we live, work and play. Since its founding in 1978, the firm has followed the same core principles: supporting its entrepreneurs, providing an excellent return to its limited partners, and practicing its profession with the highest standards and respect. Through its affiliated funds, NEA focuses on investments at all stages of a company’s development, from seed stage through IPO. With approximately $11 billion in committed capital, NEA’s experienced management team has invested in over 650 companies, of which more than 165 have gone public and more than 255 have been acquired.
High Peaks Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage, high-growth, entrepreneurial technology companies. High Peaks is Upstate New York’s largest early-stage venture fund, and predominantly focused on investing within New York State. The firm has a growing portfolio of companies in the new media, information technology, advanced materials, and telecom markets.
