SignalFire

SignalFire is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm founded in 2013 that specializes in seed and early-stage investments in technology companies across North America. The firm focuses on a diverse range of sectors, including consumer services such as mobile, media, gaming, and e-commerce, as well as enterprise technologies like software as a service, big data, and machine learning. SignalFire typically acts as the first institutional investor in its portfolio companies, investing up to $5 million in seed and small series A or B rounds and up to $20 million in companies poised for rapid growth. The firm employs a unique distributed network approach, leveraging a centralized team of experienced investors and engineers to provide support in areas like recruiting, business development, and customer acquisition. SignalFire aims to empower entrepreneurs by addressing significant challenges in talent acquisition and strategic guidance, while emphasizing the use of data and technology to transform markets.

Rikhil Bajaj

Principal

Taylor Barada

Venture Partner

Heston Berkman

Principal, Venture

Josh Constine

Venture Partner

Adele English

Senior Associate

Chris Farmer

Co-Founder, CEO and Partner

Wayne Hu

Partner

Bradford Jones

Principal, Venture

Enushé Khan

Senior Associate, Venture

Ilya Kirnos

Founding Partner, Venture and CTO

Jonathan Lim

Partner

Lisa Liu

Principal, Venture

Veronica Mercado

Principal, Venture and Chief Of Staff

Tony Pezzullo

Vice President

Varun Ramakrishnan

Senior Associate

Jacqueline Wibowo

Senior Associate

Yuanling Yuan

Principal

Nick Zaharias

Managing Director and Head, Competitive Intelligence

Past deals in Infrastructure

Argyle

Series B in 2022
Argyle Systems Inc. develops an infrastructure-as-a-service platform that grants businesses access to workforce data. Its primary offering, Argyle, is a workforce platform that allows gig workers to authenticate their accounts, enabling their data to stream directly to businesses that provide products and services. The company focuses on maximizing the personal value of workers' data through a consumer-controlled software gateway to employment records. Additionally, Argyle offers a risk assessment service for contractors, along with financial visibility and recommendations. The company's services cater to insurance providers and credit card issuers. Founded in 2018, Argyle is headquartered in New York, New York.

Faros

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an engineering operations platform designed to automate tasks with a single application program interface. The company's artificial intelligence platform brings together all engineering data in one place, enabling engineering leaders a single-pane view of velocity, quality, cost, goals, team health, and more, across the entire organization.

Actual

Seed Round in 2022
Actual is a software company that specializes in providing SaaS modeling for large-scale sustainable infrastructure projects. In response to the urgent need for "net-zero" infrastructure aimed at combating climate change and addressing the challenges posed by growing populations, Actual's platform serves as a comprehensive tool for stakeholders involved in these initiatives. By integrating multidisciplinary expertise across various technologies, regulatory frameworks, and financial models, Actual enables users to assess the investability of these projects. The platform facilitates collaboration among stakeholders, helping them originate ideas, develop understanding, and identify viable projects, all while accelerating the development process to meet global demands.

Prophecy

Series A in 2022
Prophecy is a cloud-native data engineering company based in Silicon Valley that focuses on enhancing data pipeline development and deployment. By integrating visual development with agile software engineering practices, Prophecy enables users to create quality data pipelines through an intuitive interface that requires minimal coding, primarily using SQL. The company specializes in automating the migration of existing ETL workflows to Apache Spark, thereby modernizing data engineering processes for enterprises. Its product offers comprehensive support throughout the development and delivery lifecycle, featuring capabilities such as column-level lineage and metadata management. With a design that allows users to fill in templates visually, Prophecy's platform supports open source technologies like Apache Airflow and provides hybrid cloud deployment options, making it easier for data engineering teams to meet and exceed industry standards.

Plural

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an open-source platform designed to streamline application installation and operations. The company's platform offers open-source management software to establish a direct relationship between enterprise developers and open-source maintainers, without the cost of cloud-managed services standing between them, enabling companies to access and deploy suitable open-source alternatives.

Horizon3.ai

Series B in 2021
Horizon3.ai specializes in providing automated penetration testing services aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for organizations. By utilizing offensive cyber operations powered by automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, the company identifies and addresses cybersecurity weaknesses within client systems. Customers grant initial access, allowing Horizon3.ai to simulate various threat scenarios, including insider threats and advanced persistent threats. This process involves orchestrating cyberattack techniques to assess vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential exploits. The platform employs graph analytics to map out verified attack paths that could compromise sensitive data or disrupt business operations. By prioritizing these threats based on their potential impact, Horizon3.ai enables organizations to effectively remediate vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture.

Kurtosis

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an end-to-end testing software designed to build reliable distributed systems and manipulate customized development environments. The company's software provides the tools to automate the creation of test environments, simulate outages or malicious behavior and test their codebase against arbitrary black swan failures before deploying into production, enabling developers to focus on their core feature work by reducing development workloads.

Horizon3.ai

Venture Round in 2021
Horizon3.ai specializes in providing automated penetration testing services aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for organizations. By utilizing offensive cyber operations powered by automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, the company identifies and addresses cybersecurity weaknesses within client systems. Customers grant initial access, allowing Horizon3.ai to simulate various threat scenarios, including insider threats and advanced persistent threats. This process involves orchestrating cyberattack techniques to assess vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential exploits. The platform employs graph analytics to map out verified attack paths that could compromise sensitive data or disrupt business operations. By prioritizing these threats based on their potential impact, Horizon3.ai enables organizations to effectively remediate vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture.

Prophecy

Venture Round in 2021
Prophecy is a cloud-native data engineering company based in Silicon Valley that focuses on enhancing data pipeline development and deployment. By integrating visual development with agile software engineering practices, Prophecy enables users to create quality data pipelines through an intuitive interface that requires minimal coding, primarily using SQL. The company specializes in automating the migration of existing ETL workflows to Apache Spark, thereby modernizing data engineering processes for enterprises. Its product offers comprehensive support throughout the development and delivery lifecycle, featuring capabilities such as column-level lineage and metadata management. With a design that allows users to fill in templates visually, Prophecy's platform supports open source technologies like Apache Airflow and provides hybrid cloud deployment options, making it easier for data engineering teams to meet and exceed industry standards.

Horizon3.ai

Series A in 2021
Horizon3.ai specializes in providing automated penetration testing services aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for organizations. By utilizing offensive cyber operations powered by automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, the company identifies and addresses cybersecurity weaknesses within client systems. Customers grant initial access, allowing Horizon3.ai to simulate various threat scenarios, including insider threats and advanced persistent threats. This process involves orchestrating cyberattack techniques to assess vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential exploits. The platform employs graph analytics to map out verified attack paths that could compromise sensitive data or disrupt business operations. By prioritizing these threats based on their potential impact, Horizon3.ai enables organizations to effectively remediate vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture.

Transposit

Series B in 2020
Transposit Corporation develops a data platform for engineers to manage APIs and connections to other programs. It offers Transposit, a platform that unifies incident management and operations, leveraging bi-directional integrations and workflow automations to increase uptime and simplify daily life for engineering teams. The company’s platform is also used to accelerate action with direct access, fuel automation with interactive runbooks, track activity with automatic documentation, and extend and customize for any DevOps ecosystem with the developer console. Transposit Corporation was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Strattic

Seed Round in 2020
Strattic Ltd. is a company based in Jerusalem, Israel, that specializes in converting WordPress websites into static versions to enhance speed and security. Founded in 2016, Strattic's platform utilizes serverless architecture to make websites faster and more scalable while minimizing vulnerabilities. By disconnecting the dynamic aspects of a WordPress site from the web, Strattic allows site owners to continue managing their content and plugins in the familiar WordPress environment. Once changes are made, they can deploy their site with a single click, resulting in a static site composed of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This process makes the websites virtually unhackable and leverages a global network of content delivery networks (CDNs) to ensure quick and secure delivery.

Horizon3.ai

Venture Round in 2020
Horizon3.ai specializes in providing automated penetration testing services aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for organizations. By utilizing offensive cyber operations powered by automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, the company identifies and addresses cybersecurity weaknesses within client systems. Customers grant initial access, allowing Horizon3.ai to simulate various threat scenarios, including insider threats and advanced persistent threats. This process involves orchestrating cyberattack techniques to assess vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and potential exploits. The platform employs graph analytics to map out verified attack paths that could compromise sensitive data or disrupt business operations. By prioritizing these threats based on their potential impact, Horizon3.ai enables organizations to effectively remediate vulnerabilities and improve their overall security posture.

Frame.io

Series C in 2019
Frame.io, Inc. offers a video review and collaboration platform that enhances the video creation process for filmmakers and media professionals. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the platform allows users to upload, organize, and share various media assets, including dailies, scripts, and work-in-progress content. It facilitates efficient collaboration by enabling real-time feedback, comments, and approvals from clients and team members, all within private workspaces. With more than 500,000 users, Frame.io streamlines post-production workflows and connects stakeholders in a single, user-friendly interface accessible across both web and mobile devices. This focus on collaboration and organization helps content creators work more effectively before the distribution phase.

Frame.io

Series C in 2019
Frame.io, Inc. offers a video review and collaboration platform that enhances the video creation process for filmmakers and media professionals. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the platform allows users to upload, organize, and share various media assets, including dailies, scripts, and work-in-progress content. It facilitates efficient collaboration by enabling real-time feedback, comments, and approvals from clients and team members, all within private workspaces. With more than 500,000 users, Frame.io streamlines post-production workflows and connects stakeholders in a single, user-friendly interface accessible across both web and mobile devices. This focus on collaboration and organization helps content creators work more effectively before the distribution phase.

Prophecy

Seed Round in 2019
Prophecy is a cloud-native data engineering company based in Silicon Valley that focuses on enhancing data pipeline development and deployment. By integrating visual development with agile software engineering practices, Prophecy enables users to create quality data pipelines through an intuitive interface that requires minimal coding, primarily using SQL. The company specializes in automating the migration of existing ETL workflows to Apache Spark, thereby modernizing data engineering processes for enterprises. Its product offers comprehensive support throughout the development and delivery lifecycle, featuring capabilities such as column-level lineage and metadata management. With a design that allows users to fill in templates visually, Prophecy's platform supports open source technologies like Apache Airflow and provides hybrid cloud deployment options, making it easier for data engineering teams to meet and exceed industry standards.

Transposit

Series A in 2019
Transposit Corporation develops a data platform for engineers to manage APIs and connections to other programs. It offers Transposit, a platform that unifies incident management and operations, leveraging bi-directional integrations and workflow automations to increase uptime and simplify daily life for engineering teams. The company’s platform is also used to accelerate action with direct access, fuel automation with interactive runbooks, track activity with automatic documentation, and extend and customize for any DevOps ecosystem with the developer console. Transposit Corporation was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Crave

Seed Round in 2018
Crave.io Inc. is a developer of a software infrastructure platform aimed at enhancing engineering productivity for software and chip design engineers. Established in 2016 and located in Sunnyvale, California, the company focuses on improving the development process by providing migration services, parallelized compilation, and pipeline consistency. Additionally, Crave.io offers tools that facilitate the creation of personal applications for digital creators and influencers, allowing them to co-create, collaborate, and engage with their audiences more effectively. The platform is designed to accelerate builds and testing on shared servers, thereby fostering efficiency in remote work environments.

Frame.io

Series B in 2017
Frame.io, Inc. offers a video review and collaboration platform that enhances the video creation process for filmmakers and media professionals. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the platform allows users to upload, organize, and share various media assets, including dailies, scripts, and work-in-progress content. It facilitates efficient collaboration by enabling real-time feedback, comments, and approvals from clients and team members, all within private workspaces. With more than 500,000 users, Frame.io streamlines post-production workflows and connects stakeholders in a single, user-friendly interface accessible across both web and mobile devices. This focus on collaboration and organization helps content creators work more effectively before the distribution phase.

Frame.io

Series A in 2016
Frame.io, Inc. offers a video review and collaboration platform that enhances the video creation process for filmmakers and media professionals. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the platform allows users to upload, organize, and share various media assets, including dailies, scripts, and work-in-progress content. It facilitates efficient collaboration by enabling real-time feedback, comments, and approvals from clients and team members, all within private workspaces. With more than 500,000 users, Frame.io streamlines post-production workflows and connects stakeholders in a single, user-friendly interface accessible across both web and mobile devices. This focus on collaboration and organization helps content creators work more effectively before the distribution phase.

Frame.io

Seed Round in 2015
Frame.io, Inc. offers a video review and collaboration platform that enhances the video creation process for filmmakers and media professionals. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, the platform allows users to upload, organize, and share various media assets, including dailies, scripts, and work-in-progress content. It facilitates efficient collaboration by enabling real-time feedback, comments, and approvals from clients and team members, all within private workspaces. With more than 500,000 users, Frame.io streamlines post-production workflows and connects stakeholders in a single, user-friendly interface accessible across both web and mobile devices. This focus on collaboration and organization helps content creators work more effectively before the distribution phase.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.