Thursday, November 10, 2011

Ignition Funds 19-Year Old Entrepreneur

In its third investment in Silicon Valley this week, Seattle venture capital firm Ignition Partners has backed a 19-year old entrepeneur with big plans in the social gaming space. Ignition is one of a long list of investors in San Francisco-based MinoMonsters, which is developing a monster trading and battle game for the iPhone. MinoMonsters is led by 19-year old entrepreneur Joshua Buckley. Other investors in the round included Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, Y Combinator, Yuri Milner, General Catalyst, Raymond Tonsing, and Alexis Ohanian. Ignition has had a very busy week investing in Silicon Valley--yesterday, the firm led a round in Parse, a developer of mobile backend software, and earlier in the week it led an investment in Cloudera, a developer of big data analysis software. More information »