Founder spends $150k/mo on 21 FTE's to build tool that helps your product teams launch

Derek Osgood

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Updated: May 8th, 2023

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Derek Osgood & Karthik Suresh are the former marketing executives who co-founded and launched IGNITION in 2021. The collaborative GTM platform assists Product and Marketing teams in bringing innovative products to market more quickly and efficiently.

Derek Osgood is an experienced brand marketer with an entrepreneurial approach and vast experience directing teams at start-up organizations. He has worked with video game giant PlayStation where his products have produced over $1 billion in sales. He specializes in Go-to-Market, product management, positioning, engagement, and segmentation.

Karthik Suresh, Co-founder of Ignition, is a product & technology leader with experience as a founder, a key player, and an early start-up hire. He has extensive experience in product-defining strategy and the data domain across early-stage & established companies.

Post-launch, the company acquired funding of $4.9 million in total and has generated revenue of $360K. Ignition has launched over 200 products and built GTM processes at some of the best companies in the world.

Ignition currently has around 800 companies on the platform and serves companies of all sizes and operating in a wide range of industries, from SaaS to CBG product companies.

Ignition work fields:

Positioning Strategy
Fantasy Novels
Tech
DTC Brands
Entertainment
Gaming