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 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 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