Beacon AI

AI meets venture capital

Recruit, research, and source with our proprietary AI-based platform.

Size up the market and seek out new talent with in-house AI

Looking to bring on an early foundational tech team or a Goldilocks business leader? Build a globally distributed engineering organization? After a decade of designing, building, and fine-tuning our own AI data platform, Beacon AI is primed to power hiring and go-to-market and uncover new investment opportunities. We use it, our founders use it—and everyone charts toward success faster.

2 million+

data sources

1/2 trillion

data points

See what's beyond LinkedIn

Our proprietary AI-powered platform brings you closer to the world's best (we use it, too).

Beacon Sourcing

100% of investments, researched

Beacon is our recruiting and intelligence platform, too. We use it to uncover investment opportunities by identifying high-quality, early-stage startups and exceptional future founders (like you).

Beacon GTM

Go to market, smarter

Beacon AI equips our portfolio companies with the GTM research you need: competitive analysis, market research, lead lists, and more. Get help with everything from pricing to cohort analysis with answers to questions like:

  • How much would a discount impact revenue growth and profit margins?
  • Who in the U.S. fits my target customer profile?
  • How can we enrich a list of leads to find the best prospects for our product?

Beacon Talent

Find the right talent, faster

Find and hire the world’s top engineers, data scientists, product managers, designers, and business leaders with less headache and more speed when you draw from a pool of 600 million employees and 80 million companies.

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SignalFire Report: Who’s really building Health & PharmaTech unicorns
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Beacon AI
May 14, 2025

SignalFire Report: Who’s really building Health & PharmaTech unicorns

Discover the new wave of AI-native HealthTech founders reshaping a $5T industry. SignalFire analyzed 300+ unicorn founders and what sets them apart.
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Fierce and SignalFire's Healthtech 20: The most-funded startups transforming healthcare
Beacon AI
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December 19, 2024

Fierce and SignalFire's Healthtech 20: The most-funded startups transforming healthcare

Discover the top 20 most-funded healthcare startups and the biggest recent funding rounds in SignalFire’s latest report with Fierce Healthcare. Explore emerging trends like telehealth pharmacies, value-based care models, and lessons from flameouts like Olive and Forward Health.
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Why our venture firm has a CTO
SignalFire
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Beacon AI
January 9, 2024

Why our venture firm has a CTO

I’m often asked what it means to be a venture firm CTO, so I wrote this post to share what an org structure with engineering at its core unlocks for our investment and portfolio success strategies.
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By the numbers

Support so meticulous, you can measure it.

80m

companies tracked by Beacon AI

650m

employees tracked


496b

data points

100%

of potential investments researched with Beacon Sourcing
"The Beacon AI platform is an amazing way to find talent that goes way beyond LinkedIn searches."*
Matt Welsh
Co-founder and Chief Architect
Matt Welsh

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*Portfolio company founders listed above have not received any compensation for this feedback and may or may not have invested in a SignalFire fund. These founders may or may not serve as Affiliate Advisors, Retained Advisors, or consultants to provide their expertise on a formal or ad hoc basis. They are not employed by SignalFire and do not provide investment advisory services to clients on behalf of SignalFire. Please refer to our disclosures page for additional disclosures.