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 Software

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.

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.

Superdao

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a decentralized autonomous organization management platform designed to start and operate decentralized independent organizations. The company's platform uses a hybrid governance system for incentivized collaborative management of disruptive, economically viable decentralized application ventures, and in one click, add and customize intelligent contracts, use a built-in member directory, treasury dashboard, contributor management, newsfeed to do even more with third-party apps, enabling businesses to improve decision-making and governance structure for the decentralized autonomous organizations.

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.

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.

Explosion

Series A in 2021
Operator of a software development company intended to develop tools for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). The company offers a free, open-source library for advanced NLP to build information extraction or natural language understanding systems or to pre-process text for deep learning and an annotation tool for creating training data for machine-learning models and brings collaborative data development into the cloud, built for scale, scriptability and data privacy, enabling users to learn and exploring AI, ML and NLP technologies efficiently.

Syncari

Series A in 2021
Syncari, Inc. is a data automation platform that addresses data inconsistencies and integration challenges for revenue teams. Founded in 2019 and based in Newark, California, Syncari offers a suite of tools designed to help organizations manage their data effectively. The platform enables users to cleanse, merge, and augment data, allowing teams to regain control over their data sources and integrations. Key components of the platform include Sync Studio for connecting and mapping systems, Schema Studio for managing data objects and fields, Data Studio for visualizing and manipulating data across connected systems, and Merge Studio for deduplication and merging of data. By automating data management processes, Syncari enhances collaboration on data-driven decisions, ultimately helping businesses improve revenue and reduce churn associated with inaccurate or incomplete data.

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.

Stampli

Series C in 2021
Stampli Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based invoice management software, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its accounts payable automation platform enhances control over the entire invoice lifecycle by facilitating communication directly on the invoice, which accelerates issue resolution and approvals. Stampli's software employs artificial intelligence to learn the unique operational patterns of organizations, allowing for simplified general ledger coding, automated approval notifications, and the identification of duplicate invoices. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing procure-to-pay processes, accommodating both purchase order and non-purchase order transactions. By leveraging human collaboration alongside AI, Stampli aims to reduce manual entry and streamline invoice management, ultimately decreasing approval times and improving operational efficiency.

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.

Jitsu

Seed Round in 2020
Jitsu is a developer of open-source data integration and event collection software, headquartered in Berkeley, California. The company, which was incorporated in 2019 and previously known as kSense, Inc., provides a platform that captures data from various sources, including web and mobile applications, physical devices, and other software as a service platforms. Jitsu's features include event capture, JavaScript tracker execution, and seamless integration with existing tools, allowing users to avoid vendor lock-in. The platform enables organizations across industries such as tourism, retail, and healthcare to gain real-time insights by correlating data and acting on customer intentions through its event application programming interface.

Syncari

Seed Round in 2020
Syncari, Inc. is a data automation platform that addresses data inconsistencies and integration challenges for revenue teams. Founded in 2019 and based in Newark, California, Syncari offers a suite of tools designed to help organizations manage their data effectively. The platform enables users to cleanse, merge, and augment data, allowing teams to regain control over their data sources and integrations. Key components of the platform include Sync Studio for connecting and mapping systems, Schema Studio for managing data objects and fields, Data Studio for visualizing and manipulating data across connected systems, and Merge Studio for deduplication and merging of data. By automating data management processes, Syncari enhances collaboration on data-driven decisions, ultimately helping businesses improve revenue and reduce churn associated with inaccurate or incomplete data.

Docugami

Seed Round in 2020
Docugami, Inc. is an artificial intelligence document engineering company based in Kirkland, Washington, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that utilize various AI techniques, such as natural language processing, image recognition, and declarative markup. These tools are designed to help businesses of all sizes enhance their document creation and management processes, leading to improved insight, efficiency, and overall business impact. Through its innovative approach, Docugami aims to transform how organizations handle their unique documents, making the process more effective and impactful.

Stampli

Series B in 2019
Stampli Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based invoice management software, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its accounts payable automation platform enhances control over the entire invoice lifecycle by facilitating communication directly on the invoice, which accelerates issue resolution and approvals. Stampli's software employs artificial intelligence to learn the unique operational patterns of organizations, allowing for simplified general ledger coding, automated approval notifications, and the identification of duplicate invoices. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing procure-to-pay processes, accommodating both purchase order and non-purchase order transactions. By leveraging human collaboration alongside AI, Stampli aims to reduce manual entry and streamline invoice management, ultimately decreasing approval times and improving operational efficiency.

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.

Stampli

Series A in 2018
Stampli Inc. is a company that specializes in cloud-based invoice management software, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its accounts payable automation platform enhances control over the entire invoice lifecycle by facilitating communication directly on the invoice, which accelerates issue resolution and approvals. Stampli's software employs artificial intelligence to learn the unique operational patterns of organizations, allowing for simplified general ledger coding, automated approval notifications, and the identification of duplicate invoices. The platform seamlessly integrates with existing procure-to-pay processes, accommodating both purchase order and non-purchase order transactions. By leveraging human collaboration alongside AI, Stampli aims to reduce manual entry and streamline invoice management, ultimately decreasing approval times and improving operational efficiency.

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.
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