Ignition Partners
Ignition Partners, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is a premier venture capital firm dedicated to helping the best entrepreneurs seize opportunity — from turning their early stage idea into a business, to hiring the right team, providing the right industry and functional insight and connections, and growing the business strategically, globally, and financially to realize the best ultimate outcome. Ignition invests in emerging and future leaders in communications, internet, software, and services across business and consumer targets. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise, and global operational experience. Ignition's partners 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.
www.ignitionpartners.com
Core Capital Partners
Core Capital Partners is a $370 million private equity fund that provides capital to both early-stage technology ventures and small to mid-sized growth companies where technology is a driver of change in the business or sector. The common thread is that these companies are developing or incorporating disruptive technologies into their businesses. Core Capital Partners focuses principally on the kinds of "core" or fundamental technologies that enable or enhance information, data and communication. They are headquartered in Washington, D.C. and most of their investments are made on the East Coast.
www.core-capital.com
Chart Venture Partners
Chart Venture Partners concentrates its investments in the homeland defense and security markets, with an emphasis on dual-use technologies (government and commercial). Through an exclusive Strategic Partner Agreement with InSitech, Inc., the sole Partnership Intermediary for Picatinny/ARDEC (Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center), Chart Venture Partners has unique access to research facilities and potential customers in the military and homeland security arenas.
www.chartventure.com
