Investors

Northwest Venture Associates. Formed in 1986, NWVA is a leading private equity firm exclusively invested in a diversity of Northwest based companies, predominantly in the information and business services, communications and consumer industries.  NWVA differentiates itself by seeking emerging businesses with exceptional growth potential, adhering to an investment strategy based on fundamentals and working closely with its management teams.  Since inception, NWVA has invested in over 40 companies in its targeted sectors, including several of the region’s most promising and successful businesses.



Intel Capital, Intel’s stategic investment program, is one of the largest worldwide corporate venture programs investing in the technology segment. With an overall strategy to stimulate advances in computing and communcations, the Intel Capital team seeks out and invests in promising companies worldwide working together to establish new and innovative technologies, develop industry standard solutions, drive Internet growth and advance the computing platform.

Frazier Technology Ventures is among the Frazier family of venture funds, which is the largest family of venture capital funds based in the Pacific Northwest with over $1.3 billion under management. FTV was founded in late 2000 with an investment focus on seed and early stage technology investments in the Pacific Northwest. The FTV partners have a combined 70 years of operating experience with industry leaders such as Microsoft, Visio, AT&T, Real Networks and Immunex. Leveraging their operational, technical and domain skills, FTV’s mission is to partner with entrepreneurs to build innovative and sustainable businesses.

Ignition Partners, headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., is a premier venture capital firm focused on early stage computing, network infrastructure and telecommunications startups in the Western United States. Ignition brings together an unparalleled combination of domain focus, technical expertise and operational experience. Ignition’s partners are proven business leaders with more than 160 years of combined experience, who have built some of the world’s most successful businesses of the last two decades, including Microsoft Windows, McCaw Cellular Communications, AT&T Wireless and Microsoft’s enterprise business. The VC’s founders are also credited with leading Microsoft’s Internet turnaround.