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 PaaS

TestBox

Seed Round in 2022
TestBox is a collaborative software platform designed to help enterprises evaluate multiple software options prior to making a purchase. The platform offers a user-friendly live environment tailored to each user's specific needs, allowing them to compare different software solutions side-by-side. With guided walkthroughs and pre-configured use cases, TestBox enables users to effectively test various customer support solutions, facilitating informed decision-making in selecting the best software for their requirements.

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.

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.

PlanetScale

Series C in 2021
PlanetScale, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in online database solutions, focusing on NewSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on the open-source project Vitess. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, PlanetScale provides a platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for efficient data management and insights. Their offerings include a comprehensive DBaaS platform, cluster management software licenses, open source Vitess support, and training services. PlanetScaleDB, their core product, delivers features such as vendor lock avoidance, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, and scalable solutions for managing large database clusters. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having developed Vitess, a MySQL sharding technology that supports major platforms like YouTube, Slack, and Square, thereby helping businesses enhance their infrastructure and scale effectively.

Bubble

Series A in 2021
Bubble Group, Inc., established in 2012 and located in New York, develops an internet-based application programming interface that offers a code-free programming language. This platform allows users to create and host web applications without needing engineering skills. Bubble provides a visual programming tool designed for both web and mobile applications, enabling startups to create customer-facing platforms, businesses to develop internal tools, and educational institutions to teach programming fundamentals. By simplifying the application development process, Bubble aims to democratize technology creation, allowing individuals to build applications easily without prior coding experience. The company hosts all applications on its cloud platform, striving to eliminate the divide between technology creation and usage.

PlanetScale

Series B in 2021
PlanetScale, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in online database solutions, focusing on NewSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on the open-source project Vitess. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, PlanetScale provides a platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for efficient data management and insights. Their offerings include a comprehensive DBaaS platform, cluster management software licenses, open source Vitess support, and training services. PlanetScaleDB, their core product, delivers features such as vendor lock avoidance, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, and scalable solutions for managing large database clusters. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having developed Vitess, a MySQL sharding technology that supports major platforms like YouTube, Slack, and Square, thereby helping businesses enhance their infrastructure and scale effectively.

TestBox

Seed Round in 2021
TestBox is a collaborative software platform designed to help enterprises evaluate multiple software options prior to making a purchase. The platform offers a user-friendly live environment tailored to each user's specific needs, allowing them to compare different software solutions side-by-side. With guided walkthroughs and pre-configured use cases, TestBox enables users to effectively test various customer support solutions, facilitating informed decision-making in selecting the best software for their requirements.

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.

TestBox

Seed Round in 2020
TestBox is a collaborative software platform designed to help enterprises evaluate multiple software options prior to making a purchase. The platform offers a user-friendly live environment tailored to each user's specific needs, allowing them to compare different software solutions side-by-side. With guided walkthroughs and pre-configured use cases, TestBox enables users to effectively test various customer support solutions, facilitating informed decision-making in selecting the best software for their requirements.

Saturn Cloud

Seed Round in 2020
Saturn Cloud, Inc. is a New York-based company that develops a data science platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of data science teams. Established in 2019, the platform features a parallel computing library called Dask, enabling users to perform data science and analytics tasks effectively. Saturn Cloud provides tools for seamless collaboration, scalable compute resources, and easy analytics, allowing data scientists to work independently without relying heavily on development operations or data engineering teams. The platform also includes automation tools, such as one-click publishing and sharing, which streamline processes and reduce the time spent on traditional manual tasks. This comprehensive approach equips businesses with the necessary resources to develop and deploy data science models in Python efficiently.

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.

Saturn Cloud

Seed Round in 2019
Saturn Cloud, Inc. is a New York-based company that develops a data science platform aimed at enhancing the efficiency of data science teams. Established in 2019, the platform features a parallel computing library called Dask, enabling users to perform data science and analytics tasks effectively. Saturn Cloud provides tools for seamless collaboration, scalable compute resources, and easy analytics, allowing data scientists to work independently without relying heavily on development operations or data engineering teams. The platform also includes automation tools, such as one-click publishing and sharing, which streamline processes and reduce the time spent on traditional manual tasks. This comprehensive approach equips businesses with the necessary resources to develop and deploy data science models in Python efficiently.

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.

Bubble

Seed Round in 2019
Bubble Group, Inc., established in 2012 and located in New York, develops an internet-based application programming interface that offers a code-free programming language. This platform allows users to create and host web applications without needing engineering skills. Bubble provides a visual programming tool designed for both web and mobile applications, enabling startups to create customer-facing platforms, businesses to develop internal tools, and educational institutions to teach programming fundamentals. By simplifying the application development process, Bubble aims to democratize technology creation, allowing individuals to build applications easily without prior coding experience. The company hosts all applications on its cloud platform, striving to eliminate the divide between technology creation and usage.

PlanetScale

Series A in 2019
PlanetScale, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in online database solutions, focusing on NewSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on the open-source project Vitess. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, PlanetScale provides a platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for efficient data management and insights. Their offerings include a comprehensive DBaaS platform, cluster management software licenses, open source Vitess support, and training services. PlanetScaleDB, their core product, delivers features such as vendor lock avoidance, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, and scalable solutions for managing large database clusters. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having developed Vitess, a MySQL sharding technology that supports major platforms like YouTube, Slack, and Square, thereby helping businesses enhance their infrastructure and scale effectively.

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.

PlanetScale

Seed Round in 2018
PlanetScale, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in online database solutions, focusing on NewSQL database-as-a-service (DBaaS) based on the open-source project Vitess. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, PlanetScale provides a platform that enables businesses to operationalize Vitess for efficient data management and insights. Their offerings include a comprehensive DBaaS platform, cluster management software licenses, open source Vitess support, and training services. PlanetScaleDB, their core product, delivers features such as vendor lock avoidance, data locality, disaster recovery, MySQL compatibility, and scalable solutions for managing large database clusters. The company is recognized for its innovative approach, having developed Vitess, a MySQL sharding technology that supports major platforms like YouTube, Slack, and Square, thereby helping businesses enhance their infrastructure and scale effectively.

PropelPLM

Series B in 2018
PropelPLM is a provider of cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software designed to assist companies in their digital transformation efforts. The platform connects various stakeholders, systems, and processes involved in bringing products from concept to market. It serves as a centralized source of product information for the entire value chain, including sales and service teams, facilitating secure and transparent collaboration. This approach enables faster market delivery while enhancing customer satisfaction and meeting global compliance requirements. PropelPLM operates on the Salesforce platform, leveraging its modern cloud infrastructure to ensure a scalable and future-ready solution for businesses seeking to streamline their product development processes.

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.

PropelPLM

Series A in 2016
PropelPLM is a provider of cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software designed to assist companies in their digital transformation efforts. The platform connects various stakeholders, systems, and processes involved in bringing products from concept to market. It serves as a centralized source of product information for the entire value chain, including sales and service teams, facilitating secure and transparent collaboration. This approach enables faster market delivery while enhancing customer satisfaction and meeting global compliance requirements. PropelPLM operates on the Salesforce platform, leveraging its modern cloud infrastructure to ensure a scalable and future-ready solution for businesses seeking to streamline their product development processes.
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