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June 22, 2026

SignalFire's State of Talent Report - 2026

Flatter, leaner, more technical - The new shape of tech companies in 2026. Read SignalFire's 2026 State of Tech Talent Report to discover how AI is reshaping tech hiring, why engineers are more in demand, and how the modern org chart is flattening.

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Insurance brokers earn $260B in commissions a year but still run on 1980s tech. Outmarket is the upgrade they’ve been waiting for
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Health & PharmaTech

April 8, 2024

Grow Therapy raises $88M to revamp mental health and the MSO playbook

Grow Therapy helps therapists launch, grow, and get insurance coverage for their own practice. After SignalFire led its Series A, Grow today announced an $88M Series C from Sequoia.

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SignalFire News
Sales & Go-to-Market
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April 2, 2024

Modernizing VC marketing with a data-driven strategy

SignalFire has invested in the necessary infrastructure to take a truly data-driven approach to marketing.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Talent & Hiring
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March 27, 2024

Building blocks for HR success: Set up a People function

Discover key strategies to effectively prioritize and implement People function fundamentals in this comprehensive guide for startups.

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AI/ML
Enterprise AI
AI/ML Tools

March 19, 2024

Copilots aren’t the future of SaaS: We’re shifting from tools to AI solutions

AI-powered services will unlock new end-to-end automations that are priced by the business impact they drive.

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Portfolio
AI/ML Tools
Dev Tools

March 14, 2024

Lago helps companies of all stages with composable and effortless metering and billing

Customers connect data sources to Lago without the need for pre-aggregation or data cleaning, and can make use of a meticulously designed UI for business teams.

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SignalFire News
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March 13, 2024

Announcing SignalFire’s Mentor Program

SignalFire’s Mentor Program is designed to provide our portfolio startups with strategic guidance and expertise from experienced operators as an included benefit of having us on their cap table.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Talent & Hiring
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February 14, 2024

The new 9-box: Modernizing the talent review template

This new 9-box framework—a critical tool for calibration—is designed to solve today’s talent needs using more objective criteria and actionable output.

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Investment Thesis
Cybersecurity

February 5, 2024

We need startups to fight prompt injection, the top LLM security risk

How AI chatbots can be tricked by this new hacking technique, and our market map of security startups trying to stop it

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Talent & Hiring
AI/ML Tools

January 31, 2024

Hire from these 9 AI-vy League companies, not Ivy League schools

A Harvard diploma, a PhD, or stint at Google are no longer the best signifiers of the top minds in artificial intelligence. Instead, hirers should look for engineers and researchers with applied AI experience at a group of nine startups that our data shows have the highest concentration of AI talent.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
AI/ML Tools

January 25, 2024

How startups can build AI data partnerships with corporates

A guide to how AI startups can negotiate access to training data through licensing and sharing agreements

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Portfolio
AI/ML Tools

January 24, 2024

Anomalo brings AI-powered quality control to the modern data factory

SignalFire is leading Anomalo’s $33M Series B so every enterprise can trust their data.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
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January 11, 2024

The SDR outreach guide for startups

Learn to manage the five core tasks of a sales development representative: Account targeting, prospect research, outreach, sequencing, and handoffs.

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SignalFire News
Beacon AI
Developers
AI/ML Tools

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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Investment
Investment Thesis
Health & PharmaTech

December 18, 2023

The pharma fast lane: How software will speed up drug development

A guide to the biggest opportunities for pharma software startups to improve drug discovery, clinical studies, and commercialization.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
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December 14, 2023

How to hire, onboard, and manage your first SDR

A quick guide to what to look for in and SDR, how to build a compensation plan, the best training strategies, and when to fire underperformers.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Sales & Go-to-Market
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December 6, 2023

Do I need an SDR? Scaling your startup beyond founder-led sales

A quick guide to how SDRs can help, how to know when to hire one, and what go-to-market strategy they work best within.

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Portfolio
SignalFire News
Cybersecurity

December 5, 2023

Palo Alto Networks acquires SignalFire portfolio company Dig Security

5 reasons Dig Security conquered cloud data security and is now being acquired by Palo Alto Networks a year after SignalFire led Dig's Series A.

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SignalFire News
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November 27, 2023

SignalFire expands team with new investors and portfolio support staff

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AI/ML
Developers
AI/ML Tools

November 16, 2023

Comparing LLM fine-tuning methods

Understand LLMs better with this guide to prompt engineering, fine-tuning, LoRA, and other efficient ways to improve AI models.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Talent & Hiring
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November 9, 2023

The Quarterly Sit-Down: How to run more efficient performance reviews

Learn how to make continuous feedback a habit with QSD. Streamline your review process and improve collaboration. Boost productivity today!

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Investment Thesis
Health & PharmaTech

November 7, 2023

Healthcare is flatlining, but GPT-4 could revive it

Discover how GPT-4 and AI are reshaping healthcare. Explore the potential of untapped data assets and address data privacy concerns.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Sales & Go-to-Market
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November 6, 2023

Designing free trials that close deals

Learn how to design free trials that close deals. Identify decision-makers, set success criteria, establish timing, and provide ROI for maximum conversions.

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Portfolio
Cybersecurity

October 25, 2023

Funding Spec to fight AI-powered fraud

Discover how Spec, the antifraud platform, is fighting AI-powered fraud. Stop losing millions to online fraud and get the same protection as giants like Amazon.

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SignalFire News
Beacon AI
AI/ML
AI/ML Tools

October 12, 2023

VC GPT: How LLMs are strengthening SignalFire’s in-house AI

At SignalFire, we’re not only investing in AI companies, but we’re also building an AI-driven venture firm day-to-day.

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Portfolio
Vertical SaaS
AI/ML Tools

October 11, 2023

Formant and the coming-of-age moment for robotics software

Why SignalFire is tripling down on Formant, backing a $21M raise for its robotics teleoperations and fleet management suite

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Portfolio
Enterprise AI

October 3, 2023

How Stampli’s AI will end finance busywork

SignalFire backs Stampli’s $61 million Series D to modernize accounts payable

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Portfolio
Dev Tools

September 28, 2023

SigNoz pioneers open source observability with $6.5M led by SignalFire

Built on OpenTelemetry, SigNoz puts all your critical monitoring metrics in one place with predictable pricing

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Portfolio
AI/ML Tools
Dev Tools

September 26, 2023

Kolena and why we need industrial-strength tools for AI testing

Kolena turns AI model comparison, testing, and validation into a science instead of a haphazard art. It allows developers to build AI systems characterized by safety, reliability, and fairness.

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Investment
AI/ML
Vertical SaaS

September 21, 2023

LLMs: Legal language models and the end of legalese

AI has mastered a language that’s challenged humans for hundreds of years: legalese. And in this era of technological disruption, AI's penetration into the legal domain has transformative potential.

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SignalFire News
Practitioner’s Perspective
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September 18, 2023

Building ecosystems for VC: Sadasia's tips

SignalFire’s new head of ecosystem shares how to recognize great partners, establish communities, and scale up support

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