Tony Pezzullo

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Tony Pezzullo

Tony joined the SignalFire team in 2021 to source, evaluate and support venture and growth-stage investments, in addition to expanding the investment team’s presence on the East Coast, specifically in NYC.

Prior to joining SignalFire, Tony worked as an investor on the growth equity investment team at Bregal Sagemount, focusing on enterprise software and tech-enabled services. He began his career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Tony holds a BSBA in Finance from Georgetown University. In college, he served as CFO for a regional credit union with $17M in assets. This came after a stint as interim CTO, where he led an effort to become the first customer of a seed-stage FinTech startup that launched the credit union's modern mobile banking platform.

Tony’s interest in the intersection between business and technology began in his youth, when he started selling customized gaming PCs at age 12. He then tried his hand in the MSP industry and worked as an apprentice at an engineering design firm, before founding an SAT/ACT tutoring business in his hometown of Freehold, NJ (where, as he will often remind you, Bruce Springsteen grew up) that helped pay his way through college.

Outside of work, Tony enjoys playing basketball and soccer (though only as keeper), and hang gliding when he has the time. Depending on the season, you'll likely find him obsessing either over fantasy football or the New York Yankees.

Stage focus

Seed

Series A & B

Sector Focus

Health & PharmaTech

Cybersecurity

Vertical SaaS

Tony Pezzullo's Posts

Funding Praia Health’s Series A to bring an ecommerce experience to patient engagement
Portfolio
September 25, 2024

Funding Praia Health’s Series A to bring an ecommerce experience to patient engagement

With the pace of innovation in healthcare technology only increasing every week, month, and year, there is one choice for health systems: adapt or slowly lose market share.
We need to prepare for deepfakes and spear phishing at scale
Advice
August 20, 2024

We need to prepare for deepfakes and spear phishing at scale

AI is opening up possibilities for scammers interested in scaling the deeper, more targeted work of spear phishing. It’s time to build the right defenses.
Securing shadow AI and misuse of commercial LLMs
Investment
May 20, 2024

Securing shadow AI and misuse of commercial LLMs

Your employees are secretly using banned LLMs, and it’s a huge security risk. We need startups building real-time detection and secure enterprise LLMs to stop corporate data leaks.
We need startups to fight prompt injection, the top LLM security risk
Investment
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
Anomalo brings AI-powered quality control to the modern data factory
Portfolio
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.
Healthcare is flatlining, but GPT-4 could revive it
Investment
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.
Security, meet CX: Why we invested in Strivacity
Portfolio
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.
The Patient Engagement Revolution: Why we led Wellth’s $20M Series B
Portfolio
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.
The Rise Of Decentralized Cybersecurity: Trends & Opportunities
Investment
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