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
Funded Companies
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A mobile financial services platform made for people without access to traditional banking services. It was founded in 2014 and has headquarters in San Francisco, California.
OneSignal is a multi-platform service for pushing notifications and emails.
Zume Pizza is a food delivery company operating an automated pizza delivery platform. It offers pizza without artificial flavors or high fructose corn syrup.
Zendrive is a smartphone-based data analytics and transportation safety platform.
Grabr is a peer-to-peer platform for shopping and cross border delivery.
Scope AR is an augmented reality company. It develops AR solutions for remote tasks, employee training, product and equipment assembly, maintenance and repair, field and customer support.
Zero is a mobile banking application with a card that acts like a debit card while earning cash back on purchases.
Stampli is a interactive invoice management and accounts payable software tool.
PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service platform acting as a middleware system for MySQL.
Lighthouse AI is a Palo Alto, California-based consumer electronics company.
Frame.io is an online video creation platform that is integrated with Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Slack, and Vimeo.
AnchorFree, also known as HotSpot Shield, is a VPN platform for mobile devices and computers.
Leaseable is a software company founded by Lisa Tran, Cameron Steele, Chris Hsu and Beth Phillips.
Jyve is a skills as a service platform for enterprises in need of in-store skilled labour.
Associated investment funds
People
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
Seed Fund SignalFire Emerges With $53 Million
Lizette Chapman
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SignalFire Raises $330 Million for Data-Centric Venture Capital
Tomio Geron
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This Upstart Is Using A Bridgewater-Style Data Approach To Beat Traditional VCs To Key Hires--And Deals
Alex Konrad
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Watch Out, VCs: Chris Farmer Plans To Massively Disrupt The Industry
Connie Loizos
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We are thrilled to publicly announce SignalFire's talent platform!
Michael Mangini
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