Nick Sturiale

Nick Sturiale joined Ignition in 2013 as managing partner and oversees the Los Altos office. Nick started his career as an entrepreneur in three enterprise startups - in system and analytics software - where he ran most functional roles from QA to product management, channel sales, marketing and BD. While in business school, he was founding CEO of Timbre Technologies, a manufacturing-process analytics software company, which won inaugural 1999 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition. Three years later, Timbre was acquired by Tokyo Electron for $138 million, generating nearly 15X cash on cash returns for his investors.

Since starting his early stage venture career in 1999, Nick’s has been deeply involved helping to build over 100 startups. He’s held more than 30 board seats and invested across multiple industries and technology platform shifts - from client server to serverless, from ecommerce to industrial. To date, Nick’s companies have realized more than $1B in returns from approximately $180M in investment cost.

Prior to Ignition, Nick spent three years at Icon Ventures as a general partner, where he invested in companies such as VuClip (PCCW), Reputation.com, Bill.com (BILL), and Delphix. Prior to Icon, Nick was general partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, where he incubated and led first investments in companies such as Actional (PRGS), XenSource (CTXS), Solidcore (INTC) and Splunk (SPLK). Nick also worked at The Carlyle Group as a managing director and co-head of its Silicon Valley office.

Nick holds a BS degree (and completed BA requirements) from California State University, Chico, and an MBA with academic distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, where he remains a frequent guest lecturer.