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SignalFire
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
San Francisco, California 11,509 followers
Built like startups we fund
About us
SignalFire is the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders. The core of its value-add is Beacon, the AI engine SignalFire has been refining since the firm's launch in 2013. Beacon tracks more than 600 million employees and 80 million companies to guide the fund’s investing and assist portfolio companies with scaling their teams and revenue. SignalFire also helps early-stage founders navigate the toughest parts of building a company at every stage, with expert advisors, 100 skill-building workshops a year, and an in-house team of recruiters, data scientists, PR experts, and go-to-market leaders. With over $2.1 billion in assets under management, SignalFire focuses on investing from seed to scale. The firm’s key sectors include AI/ML, developer tools, B2B SaaS, healthcare, cybersecurity, and consumer.
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http://www.signalfire.com
External link for SignalFire
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2012
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501 2nd St
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San Francisco, California 94107, US
Employees at SignalFire
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Tom Ryan
CEO at Paramount Streaming -- $7.6B revenue run rate division includes Paramount+ (>71M subs in 3 years, est domestically profitable 2025) and Pluto…
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Jim Stoneham
Partner, SignalFire
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Chris Scoggins
Former builder of companies currently helping builders of companies.
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Greg Badros
Gluroo (we're hiring!) Makes managing diabetes as easy as messaging: Ex-Facebook, Ex-Google, Advisor, Investor
Updates
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SignalFire reposted this
"Lago moved to SF instead of New York" - Why? I've been asked this so many times for the past months: by founders, team members, candidates, investors. - As always, I thought "I should write about it" (it's a more scalable way to answer the question). An even better opp was to chat with the fantastic Julie Bort at TechCrunch (Thanks Josh Constine!). The TLDR: SF is the best place to expand Lago: from a customer pool and talent perspective, *despite* the timezone. Before having any physical presence in the US, we already had 30% of our user base here, and we moved in the Bay Area to amplify this. SF is also a place where "luck is manufactured" or, in 🇫🇷 we'd say "provoquer sa chance"! We've already made our first hires in SF in a few weeks and are still hiring! (ping Alison Eastaway ;) ) Immensely grateful to the amazing local support group here in the Bay Area! Oana O. AJ Solimine Nicolas Dessaigne Diana Hu Romain Huet Cathy Han Aishwarya (AG) Goel, and of course to my partner in crime Raffi Sarkissian! PS: to answer another of the most common questions: Deel Alex Bouaziz Shuo Wang ahmed mousa 👋 helped me for the visa, ping them directly! 🙃
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SignalFire reposted this
SF really is back. SignalFire’s Beacon data platform reveals San Francisco leads the country as the #1 place to found, fund, and hire for startups. More stats include: -The SF Bay Area is home to 27% of all startup engineers and 49% of all big tech engineers. -SF leads with 26% of all top VC-backed early-stage funding rounds, and 38% of AI funding rounds. -Despite the “SF is dead” narrative, its share of founders and startups both dropped less than 10% in the COVID era Though we love our NYC office too, we're proud to be headquartered in SF and contribute to its lively startup culture. Check out our full SF Is Back report in the comments for more stats and graphs from our head of research Asher Bantock.
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Four trends to watch in one of the most exciting areas of AI—called reinforcement learning—from leading experts: Our partner and machine learning scientist Oana O. moderated a panel at Ai4 in Las Vegas with William Viet Tran (senior engineering manager at Pager Health), Jasleen Singh (senior principal research scientist at Dell), Alfredo Garcia (Texas A&M professor), and Sainyam Galhotra (Cornell assistant professor). Here’s what we learned about reinforcement learning (RL), a branch of machine learning where an agent learns to make decisions by interacting with an environment (think driverless cars): 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: An autonomous car can handle a closed course well but struggles when a family of ducks tries to cross the road. This strategy takes the environment into account when training, which makes training much more difficult but is often necessary to move from theory to reality. 𝗦𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆: RL can come up with custom treatment plans for patients based on their history or discover new drugs, but are its recommendations safe? For a lot of applications, the “do no harm” principle will have to apply. 𝗥𝗟 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸: Ever read something and think, “this sounds like it was written by AI?” RLHF focuses on pushing AI systems to become more human, with an expert (human) comparing the AI’s responses to those of a human and tweaking the model. 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴: With IRL, the AI figures out what to do based on what it observes instead of being pre-preprogrammed. In the driverless car example, researchers could input reams of real driver data and let the car figure out what is important, instead of inputting countless commands like “go at green light” and “stop for pedestrians” and letting the car figure out what to do when both conditions are present. For more details, see our latest blog post (link in comments).
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SF really is back. SignalFire’s Beacon data platform reveals San Francisco leads the country as the #1 place to found, fund, and hire for startups. More stats include: -The SF Bay Area is home to 27% of all startup engineers and 49% of all big tech engineers. -SF leads with 26% of all top VC-backed early-stage funding rounds, and 38% of AI funding rounds. -Despite the “SF is dead” narrative, its share of founders and startups both dropped less than 10% in the COVID era Though we love our NYC office too, we're proud to be headquartered in SF and contribute to its lively startup culture. Check out our full SF Is Back report in the comments for more stats and graphs from our head of research Asher Bantock.
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Congratulations to CodaMetrix on being featured as an Epic Toolbox recommended product!
CodaMetrix’s AI Platform Now Available in Epic™ Toolbox! Toolbox features products that meet Epic’s recommended integration practices (“Blueprint”) for the product type. 👉 Learn how #CodaMetrix uses AI to help #1 ranked health care systems in 14 states, 220 hospitals, and 60,000 physicians reduce cost and improve quality: https://hubs.la/Q02LxJsw0 Epic is a registered trademark of Epic Systems Corporation.
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One uses AI to stop cyber attacks. The other uses AI to help injured victims get justice. And now they’re both honored as one of Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups. Congratulations to SignalFire's portfolio companies Horizon3.ai and EvenUp for being recognized on the list of 25 startups poised for rocketship growth. In the past decade, 58% of companies featured on the Forbes list have reached a billion-dollar valuation while just 2% have shut down. Here’s a taste of the fascinating work these companies are doing—with links to the full list and more details on each firm in the comments: 𝗛𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝟑.𝗔𝗜: Imagine you hired a reformed prolific robber to prevent your home from break-ins. That’s the “attacker approach” Horizon3.AI takes with cybersecurity, continuously finding and fixing weak points before an attack can take place. As a ‘90s kid, CEO/co-founder Snehal Antani formed this mindset while trying to get around the restrictions his parents put on their dial-up internet. Now, Horizon3.AI’s AI-driven NodeZero tool has been used to autonomously find security flaws and gain domain admin privileges in major firms in as little as 7 minutes. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗨𝗽: Big companies and insurance firms have the upper hand in personal injury cases because they have mass amounts of data and legal resources. EvenUp levels the playing field by using AI to analyze huge pools of available data and auto-generate legal docs and suggest fair compensation for the lawyers representing injured people. Its AI ingests more than a million medical documents a week along with a quarter-million settlements and verdicts. The time savings for law firms is staggering—what used to take staff days or months, analyzing as much as 30,000 documents per case, can now be done in minutes, resulting in settlements as much as 30% higher.
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PayZen’s AI-personalized medical bill payback plans keep American families out of bankruptcy. As one of the clearest examples of AI’s positive impact, we’re honored to fund Itzik Cohen & the team again!
🚀 We’re excited to announce that PayZen has secured $232 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with full participation from existing investors, including SignalFire, 7wireVentures, and Viola Ventures! The round includes $32 million in equity and a new $200 million credit warehouse from Viola Credit and a syndicate of insurance companies. This significant investment will continue to drive the advancement of our AI-powered platform and bring our affordable, customized healthcare payment options to even more Americans. A huge thank you to our investors, partners, and amazing team for making this achievement possible! 👉 Read about our Series B funding here: https://lnkd.in/gZveSkk2
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If you’re building in NYC we’d love to see you at our next event!
It’s tougher to create community in consumer tech because the boundaries are blurry. That’s why it was so special to see 100 founders and builders come out to SignalFire’s Consumer AI happy hour in NYC. From personal agents to social apps to online learning, we’re seeing AI unlock huge new opportunities. What once only few could afford or took too much work from users, now can be easy for everyone. Thanks to all who braved the rain to enjoy boba and onigiri with us. Huge shout-outs to our special guests Venmo founder iqram magdon-ismail & Meta / Snap Inc. designer Danny Trinh, to our sponsor Silicon Valley Bank, to Veronica Mercado, Mitchell Yee, & Michael Mangini for planning, to fellow investors Bradford Jones, Lisa Liu, & Ryan Wexler for sharing ideas, and Ginny Curley, Corey Richard, & Rachelle Chin for arranging such a lovely environment for connection. NYC and SF founders, we'd love to see you at our next event!
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Tag your NYC consumer founder friends! We've got legends of the sector coming to chat about building with AI.
The next phase of AI will see it escape the chat box to power a new wave of consumer AI startups. That's why I'm heading to NYC where SignalFire & I are hosting a consumer meetup. RSVP link in comments. Our featured guests include Venmo founder iqram magdon-ismail and legendary Meta / Snap Inc. / Zenly designer Danny Trinh. Join us in Flat Iron to meet our NYC team and fellow founders building the future of social, marketplaces, AI-enabled services, and more. I'm excited to chat about how we shift AI from a destination to a companion, and democratize access to what only few can afford. Come hang!
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