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SignalFire

SignalFire is a venture capital and private equity firm built on a real-time data platform.

Contents
Funds Seed fund Breakout fund and SignalFire Fund II
Timeline
Funded Companies
Funding rounds
Products
Acquisitions
Associated investment funds
Accelerator batches
People
Further reading
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Companies
News
References

SignalFire is a venture capital and private equity firm that is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was founded in 2012 by Chris Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. SignalFire combines their data analysis platform with traditional portfolio services to make their investment decisions. SignalFire also offers a talent recruitment platform that helps companies with: recruitment process optimization, leadership development & mentorship, executive recruiting, technical recruiting, talent research, advisor network, community development, and a talent sourcing tool.

Funds

As of January 31, 2019 SignalFire claims to have $375 million under their management.

Seed fund

SignalFire's Seed Fund is made for investing up to $5 million in series A funding for early stage startup companies. The fund closed in 2014 with $53 million in capital that was invested into 8 startup companies.

Breakout fund and SignalFire Fund II

In 2017 Signal fire raised 101.6 million in capital for its Breakout Fund and SignalFire Fund II.

Timeline

Associated investment funds

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People

Name
Role
LinkedIn

Adam Vogel

Managing Director, Data Science

Chris Farmer

Co-Founder, Managing Director & CEO

Ilya Kirnos

Co-Founder, Managing Director & CTO

Laurent Parmentier

Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Operations

Mike Mangini

Managing Director & Head of Talent

Tony Huie

Managing Director

Walter Kortschak

Managing Director & Executive Chairman

Wayne Hu

Managing Director, Seed Fund

Yujin Chung

Managing Director & Head of Market Development

Further reading

Title
Author
Link
Type
Date

Seed Fund SignalFire Emerges With $53 Million

Lizette Chapman

https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/10/14/seed-fund-signalfire-emerges-with-53-million/

Web

SignalFire Raises $330 Million for Data-Centric Venture Capital

Tomio Geron

https://www.wsj.com/articles/signalfire-raises-330-million-for-data-centric-venture-capital-1494415804

Web

This Upstart Is Using A Bridgewater-Style Data Approach To Beat Traditional VCs To Key Hires--And Deals

Alex Konrad

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2018/10/15/this-upstart-is-using-a-bridgewater-style-data-approach-to-beat-traditional-vcs-to-key-hiresand-deals/#4d8795f85add

Web

Watch Out, VCs: Chris Farmer Plans To Massively Disrupt The Industry

Connie Loizos

https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/watch-out-vcs-chris-farmer-says-hes-about-to-massively-disrupt-the-industry/

Web

We are thrilled to publicly announce SignalFire's talent platform!

Michael Mangini

https://medium.com/signalfire-fund/we-are-thrilled-to-publicly-announce-signalfires-talent-platform-42612af87029

Web

Documentaries, videos and podcasts

Title
Date
Link

Companies

Company
CEO
Location
Products/Services

AnchorFree

Auptix

ClassDojo

Color Genomics

EarnUp

Facerig

Frame.io

Grabr

Grammarly

Hawthorne Effect

Juvo

Jyve

Ledger Investing

Lime

Lyric

Mapper.ai

OneSignal

Osso VR

PlanetScale

PropelPLM

Rocksbox

Roman

SafeGraph

ScopeAR

SmartSpot

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News

Title
Author
Date
Publisher
Description
Top VCs say a16z isn't the only one with a 'direct' media plan - Business Insider
Candy Cheng and Berber Jin
January 25, 2021
Business Insider
VC firms have been building out their editorial and content strategy, with and without PR relations with tech journalists, for decades, they say.
Tradeswell Raises $15.5M in Series A Funding to Deliver AI-Powered Ecommerce Growth for Brands
January 13, 2021
WebWire
In 2020, shopping changed forever. Consumers were already shifting their spend to online channels, but the pandemic accelerated the trend by roughly five years. To empower brands to fast-forward their growth across digital marketplaces, Tradeswell launched its next-generation ecommerce platform in October, and today announced the close of a $15.5M Series A round of funding to fuel its expansion. The Series A is led by SignalFire, the firm that was also the lead investor of Tradeswell's...
SignalFire Hosts Webinar with Tradeswell and Ecommerce Experts from Allbirds, Spanx, and Bayer Discussing: A Look Back on Ecommerce in 2020
December 11, 2020
WebWire
Tradeswell, the company on a mission to fix the economics of ecommerce while unlocking profitable, healthy growth for brands, announces a live webinar it will be hosting along with venture firm SignalFire on Tuesday, December 15th titled: "A Look Back on Ecommerce in 2020." Connecting an esteemed panel of speakers that include: Geraldine M
Venture Investors Turn To AI To Find...
Chris Metinko
December 10, 2020
Crunchbase News
There are few industries in tech that have not been changed or disrupted by artificial intelligence. Now, some of the people investing in those sectors are using AI to figure out where to put their money next.
Indian customer intelligence platform Zeotap raises $18.5m in extended Series...
Mars W. Mosqueda Jr.
November 18, 2020
DealStreetAsia
The firm raised $42 million in Series C early this year.
Zeotap raises $18.5M for a customer ID platform it says was built with privacy in mind
Ingrid Lunden
November 16, 2020
TechCrunch
As the online world slowly moves to a more privacy-focused environment free of cookies, startups building alternative ways to help businesses manage customer identity and build marketing around that are getting attention. Zeotap, a customer identity platform built around a company's own (first-party) data that combines this with other data sources to create more complete [...]
Josh Constine leaves TechCrunch for VC fund SignalFire
Josh Constine
April 27, 2020
TechCrunch
How do you leave the place that made you? You figure out what it made you for. TechCrunch made me a part of the startup ecosystem I love. Now it's time to put that love into action to help a new generation of entrepreneurs build their dreams and tell their stories. So it's "TC to [...]
Startups Weekly: How will tech hubs weather the pandemic?
Eric Eldon
April 18, 2020
TechCrunch
Cities around the world have become home this decade to distributed tech teams and homegrown startup successes. Each of these additional layers of experience and specialization help to make each local community stronger, like what began happening in Silicon Valley many decades ago. Now layoffs are striking deep into these fragile, complex ecosystems. Yes, companies [...]
SignalFire, just six years old, has raised $500 million across two new funds
Connie Loizos
December 9, 2019
TechCrunch
SignalfFire, a six-year-old, San Francisco-based venture firm that prides itself on mining what it says is more actionable data about, well, the world, has just raised a pair of funds that total $500 million in capital commitments. One of the vehicles is a $200 million "seed" fund that SignalFire will use to write checks up [...]
PlanetScale Raises $22 Million Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Make it Easy for Enterprises to Scale Transactional Data Across Multiple Clouds
May 24, 2019
WebWire
PlanetSc ale, the first company to allow businesses to operationalize Vitess, today announced $22 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from SignalFire and others. This latest investment will fuel PlanetScale's growth, allowing the company to expand its team and continue to develop products for enterprises to scale, organize, access and get value from their burgeoning data. Co-founders Jitendra Vaidya (CEO) and Sugu Sougoumarane (CTO) are infrastructu...

References

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Location
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Company status
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CEO
Chris Farmer
Founder
Crunchbase
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Investors
FlyMachine
Competitors
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