SignalFire

SignalFire is a U.S. AI-native data-driven early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by CEO and Managing Partner Chris Farmer (previously Venture Partner at General Catalyst 2010-2013 with seed investments in Stripe, Venmo, Coinbase, Discord, ClassDojo, Alation, Fivetran, Zapier, and Getaround; and Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners 2005-2009) alongside Partner and CTO Ilya Kirnos (with a team that includes Google ML veterans and Stanford / Berkeley PhDs). The firm's core differentiator is its proprietary AI-powered Beacon platform, which processes approximately half a trillion data points to rank over 650 million people across 80 million organisations in the global technology ecosystem on talent-quality, hireability, deal-sourcing signals, market-traction indicators, and competitive-intelligence metrics, used to support both investment sourcing and post-investment portfolio-company recruiting and go-to-market execution. SignalFire invests from pre-seed through Series B with approximately USD 2.1 billion in assets under management across flagship funds plus an earmarked USD 50 million SignalFire AI Lab for applied-AI founder support. Notable portfolio companies include Grammarly, Frame.io (acquired by Adobe for USD 1.275 billion), ClassDojo, Stampli, Instacart, Gong, CrowdStrike, Notion, and OrthoFX. SignalFire is headquartered in San Francisco with additional presence in New York.