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 [1][2]. 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 [4][5]. 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 [4][10]. 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) [1]. 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 [1]. Connors is also an Operating Partner at Ignition’s successor firm FUSE VC, which he helped launch
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