SignalFire

Summary

SignalFire appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2013. The main department of described VC is located in the San Francisco. The venture was found in North America in United States.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 participants. Despite the SignalFire, startups are often financed by Kortschak Investments, L.P., Y Combinator, UpWest Labs. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Kortschak Investments, L.P., Accel, General Catalyst. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by FirstMark, Shasta Ventures, Kortschak Investments, L.P..

This organization was formed by Chris Farmer, Ilya Kirnos. Besides them, we counted 10 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The average startup value when the investment from SignalFire is 50-100 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Comparing to the other companies, this SignalFire performs on 24 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The real fund results show that this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is generally included in 7-12 deals every year.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as SaaS, Artificial Intelligence. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Zume Pizza, AnchorFree, Grammarly. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.