John Connors is a Managing Partner at Ignition Partners, a Bellevue, Washington-based venture capital firm. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
John Connors is a Managing Partner at Ignition Partners, a Bellevue, Washington-based venture capital firm, where he joined in 2005 after a 16-year executive career at Microsoft that included serving as Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance. Ignition Partners invests in early-stage and growth-stage enterprise software companies, with a thesis focused on category-creating solutions in infrastructure software and cloud services. While specific check sizes and lead/follow behavior for Connors individually are not publicly detailed, the firm has raised approximately $1.5 billion across its funds and targets startups principally focused on software for business customers. Connors led or participated in numerous successful Ignition investments, including Splunk (which IPO’d in 2012), Chef (acquired by Progress Software), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce), and Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft). He currently serves on the boards of Ignition-backed companies Carbon Robotics, Icertis, Forward, and Tractable, and was a 16-year board member of Nike. Connors is also an Operating Partner at Ignition’s successor firm FUSE VC, which he helped launch
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