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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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Health & PharmaTech

September 13, 2023

The healthcare labor shortage market map

The next giant startup opportunity is in helping the healthcare system hire, train, and retain doctors and nurses.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Sales & Go-to-Market
Enterprise AI

September 11, 2023

How CMOs say AI is changing content, sales, and event marketing

Which jobs AI could replace, what tools CMOs are using, and how to keep marketing authentic while personalizing at scale.

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SignalFire News
Health & PharmaTech

September 5, 2023

Sooah Cho joins SignalFire as Partner for Health and Life Sciences Tech

Sooah Cho joins SignalFire as a Partner to fund and support the most audacious founders building in health and life sciences tech.

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SignalFire News
Health & PharmaTech

August 30, 2023

Checkmate to health tech: Chess champ YY named SignalFire Partner

A real-life Queen of the Gambit, Yuanling Yuan (YY) was the youngest Canadian to ever become a Woman International Master in chess. Now she focuses on SignalFire's health tech investing practice and was recently promoted to Partner at the firm.

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Portfolio
Health & PharmaTech

August 28, 2023

SignalFire leads $15.7M for Moxie to help nurses launch med spas

Moxie provides an end-to-end software suite for med spas -- an industry projected to grow to $50 billion annually by 2030

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AI/ML
AI/ML Tools
Dev Tools

August 6, 2023

The AI compute shortage explained by Nvidia, Crusoe, & MosaicML

Discover how the AI compute shortage is affecting startups financially and learn strategies to optimize your AI compute spend efficiently.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
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August 2, 2023

How disqualifying customers can actually boost sales

Learn how to emphasize practical use cases, predictability, and auditability to show safe, immediate ROI when you sell AI to enterprises

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Practitioner’s Perspective
AI/ML
Enterprise AI

July 6, 2023

How startups can sell AI to enterprises

Learn how to emphasize practical use cases, predictability, and auditability to show safe, immediate ROI when you sell AI to enterprises

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Investment Thesis
Enterprise AI

June 28, 2023

You know you need a customer success team when…

Discover how your startup can prevent customer churn and improve sales by splitting customer success from sales.

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SignalFire News
AI/ML
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June 15, 2023

Announcing the SignalFire AI Lab

We've earmarked up to $50M for the SignalFire AI Lab to provide the resources, capital, and credibility to help tomorrow's AI leaders today.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Investment Thesis
Enterprise AI
Dev Tools

June 14, 2023

What makes the modern stack so shaky

Point solutions fall shot and midmarket customers don't scale, so data infra founders should build complete enterprise solutions

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Portfolio
Consumer

June 8, 2023

How EvenUp’s AI gets justice for personal injury victims

After investing in EvenUp’s seed round and leading the Series A, SignalFire is backing its $50.5M Series B to launch an AI legal assistant.

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Portfolio
Cybersecurity
Enterprise AI

April 4, 2023

Security, meet CX: Why we invested in Strivacity

Strivacity has built a world-class CIAM platform that makes the customer experience seamless without compromising cybersecurity.

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Health & PharmaTech

March 30, 2023

The Patient Engagement Revolution: Why we led Wellth’s $20M Series B

We're investing in Wellth, the leader in leveraging behavioral economics to drive adherence to prescribed care, treatment plans, and help chronic disease.

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Portfolio
AI/ML Tools
Dev Tools

March 30, 2023

Funding Fixie’s LLMOps to unlock AI for enterprise

SignalFire is investing in Fixie, a pioneer in LLMOps. Fixie provides APIs and SDKs that integrate LLMs with existing applications easily.

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SignalFire News
AI/ML Tools

March 24, 2023

Why founders and VC Journal call Oana Olteanu a Rising Star

SignalFire partner Oana Olteanu has been awarded VC Journal's Rising Star of VC award for her helpful approach to venture capital investing.

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Investment
Investment Thesis
Developers
Dev Tools

March 22, 2023

Tomorrow's machine learning startup opportunities

Machine learning is a staple of our investments at SignalFire. We are interested in MLOps, AI infrastructure, and native LLMOps.

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Portfolio
Health & PharmaTech

March 3, 2023

Why Signalfire funded CodaMetrix to fix medical billing

SignalFire is honored to be leading CodaMetrix’s $55M Series A to use machine learning to automate medical bill coding.

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SignalFire News
AI/ML Tools

February 15, 2023

SignalFire announces $900M fundraise, XIRs, & AI to help founders

Discover how SignalFire's $900M fundraise, XIRs, and AI are revolutionizing venture capital. Get insights on their AI data platform and support programs for founders.

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Investment Thesis
Cybersecurity

November 7, 2022

The Rise Of Decentralized Cybersecurity: Trends & Opportunities

How cybersecurity trends around skill shortage, zero-trust identity, and obsolete firewalls are creating new startup opportunities

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Health & PharmaTech

October 20, 2022

Why I’m joining SignalFire as a healthcare EIR

Hi, I'm Charu Sharma. I'm joining SignalFire as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence to fund health companies while I research ideas to start my own.

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Portfolio
Health & PharmaTech

September 29, 2022

Funding 'Grow Therapy' to get mental health covered by insurance

Grow Therapy builds tools that have helped over 3K therapists launch their own practices. SignalFire is excited to back Grow's $45M Series B.

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September 21, 2022

The Best Emerging Funds for Strategic Venture Capital

Here are 7 of the best emerging VCs that can help with sales, product, infra, crypto, marketplaces, talent, and diversity

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Portfolio
Cybersecurity

September 14, 2022

The need for real-time data monitoring: Leading $34M for Dig Security

Dig Security monitors your cloud data in real-time to detect attacks in under a minute so it can block hackers before they steal your data.

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Portfolio
Enterprise AI

September 1, 2022

How OneSignal pivoted to power notifications for 1 in 7 apps

After leading its Series A and B, SignalFire backs OneSignal’s new $50M Series C

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Talent & Hiring
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August 17, 2022

The WFH FAQ: SignalFire’s Remote Hiring Guide For Startups

A strategy guide for recruiting, onboarding, compensating, managing and motivating your remote team or startup

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Portfolio
Cybersecurity

April 14, 2022

Investing in Twingate, a VPN your team will actually love

SignalFire is joining Twingate's $42M Series B to help it build a modern enterprise VPN that doesn't cause latency or performance issues.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Talent & Hiring
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April 13, 2022

How to make a startup hiring plan

SignalFire’s guide to headcount planning, inclusive job descriptions, compensation benchmarking, and interviewer training.

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Practitioner’s Perspective
Talent & Hiring
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April 13, 2022

How To Make A Startup Careers Page

A guide to the 10 essential elements of a recruiting website, including sample text and 50 screenshot examples from top startups.

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SignalFire News
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March 23, 2022

I was Stripe’s CMO. Here’s why I’m joining VC firm SignalFire

Ex-Stripe CMO Jim Stoneham says "I'm thrilled to be joining VC firm SignalFire as an Operating Partner to help our portfolio with marketing."

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