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 Penetration Testing

Twingate

Series B in 2022
Twingate is a solution for securing remote access to an organization’s private applications, data, and environments, whether they are on-premise or in the cloud. Built to make life easier for DevOps, IT, and infrastructure teams, as well as end users, it replaces outdated and insecure business VPNs which were not built to handle a world in which "work from anywhere" and cloud-based assets are now the norm. Twingate’s modern zero trust-based approach to securing remote access focuses on improving security, while not compromising on usability and maintainability.

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.

Kolena

Seed Round in 2021
Kolena.io is a testing and analytics platform for quality assurance of software and machine learning. It allows ML teams to rigorously test their model behavior. With Kolena, ML teams can identify and track failure modes to help engineering, sales, and customers better understand model performance and identify gaps. Kolena.io was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, CA.

ProjectDiscovery

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a remote-first open-source software company intended to simplify security operations for hackers and developers. The company offers powerful and simplified attack surface management based on its open-source stack, enabling users to make complex security processes more visible and accessible in a simpler manner that can easily be integrated into their workflow.

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.

Twingate

Series A in 2020
Twingate is a solution for securing remote access to an organization’s private applications, data, and environments, whether they are on-premise or in the cloud. Built to make life easier for DevOps, IT, and infrastructure teams, as well as end users, it replaces outdated and insecure business VPNs which were not built to handle a world in which "work from anywhere" and cloud-based assets are now the norm. Twingate’s modern zero trust-based approach to securing remote access focuses on improving security, while not compromising on usability and maintainability.

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.

CloudVector

Seed Round in 2019
CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. CloudVector provides deep visibility, beyond just the endpoints, into the data transmitted within each API. This unparalleled level of data visibility allows CloudVector to protect your organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.

CloudVector

Seed Round in 2019
CloudVector protects an organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them. CloudVector provides deep visibility, beyond just the endpoints, into the data transmitted within each API. This unparalleled level of data visibility allows CloudVector to protect your organization’s internally-developed APIs, third-party application APIs, and the data carried within them.

Testim

Series B in 2019
Testim makes it easy for developers and testers to become automation experts, making quality an organization-wide initiative and powering developers to own code quality.
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