Richard Fade

Ignition Venture Partners (Ignition Venture) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Ignition Partners Group founded in 2000 by Cameron Myhrvold, Jonathan D Roberts, Jon Anderson, and John Ludwig. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

Likewise Software, Inc. provides systems management software solutions. The firm specializes in information technology, unstructured data, data storage, Linux, security and Unix. The company was founded by Brian K. Moran, Manny Vellon, David Feinleib and Charles W. Mount in 2004 and is headquartered in Bellevue, WA.

GotVoice, Inc. provides voicemail transcription services. The company was founded by Martin Dunsmuir and Curt Dean Blake in 2003 and is headquartered in Kirkland, WA.

StorSimple, Inc. provides enterprise cloud storage solutions for Windows and VMware infrastructures. The company was founded in May 2009 by Guru Pangal and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

VM6 Software, Inc. engages in the provision of virtualization solutions for small-scale remote and branch offices. Its solutions combine virtualization with shared storage, advanced clustering and intuitive management and monitoring on windows. The firm's technology leverages Microsoft Hyper-V to create an internal cloud that serves as vehicle for provisioning, consolidating, managing and protecting all of the workloads without the need for expensive hardware or storage area networks (SANs). The company was founded by Claude Goudreault, Eric Courville, and Sebastien Arcand in 2004 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Klir Technologies, Inc. provides information technology services. It delivers operational monitoring, alerting, reporting, and analytical solutions that provide real-time visibility into application impacts on IT infrastructure. The company's customers include Alpharma Inc, CACI International, E&B Giftware, ISI Emerging Markets, Planet Beach, and Scalable Networks. The company was founded by James N. Maiocco in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Blacksky Holdings, Inc. provides integrated space products and services. The firm offers satellite design, rideshare launch management, global communications networking, and a geospatial intelligence service to support a new era of global awareness. The company was founded by Jason Andrews and Marian S. Joh in 1999 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

WhipTail Technologies, Inc. manufacturer of solid-state storage arrays. The firm's datacenter and virtual desktop systems dramatically reduce delays related to disk contention and access times - thereby allowing database or virtualization servers to process more data in dramatically less time, while lowering the overall TCO by up to 90 percent when compared to traditional storage. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Whippany, NJ.