Venture Capital

SignalFire

SignalFire is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco that manages approximately $3 billion in assets and operates more like a tech company than a traditional VC. The firm invests across eight sectors — Health and PharmaTech, Enterprise AI, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Consumer, Applied AI/ML and Vertical SaaS, AI/ML Infrastructure and Developer Tools, and Enterprise Infrastructure and Developer Tools — and supports portfolio founders with a team of engineers, data scientists, operators, recruiters, and advisors. SignalFire's differentiator is Beacon AI, a proprietary data platform the firm spent roughly a decade building that tracks more than 80 million companies and 650 million employees across hundreds of billions of data points to power sourcing, talent, and go-to-market intelligence for both the firm and its portfolio. SignalFire does not publish any public developer APIs — Beacon AI is an internal platform offered as a service to portfolio companies, not a third-party product.

3 portfolio companies 3 publish APIs here 20 properties
Venture CapitalInvestmentStartup FundingPrivate MarketsBeacon AITalent IntelligenceGo-to-Market IntelligenceSourcing
Portfolio Strength across 1 profiled portfolio company on the network
1 top-rated API companies 1 exemplar · 0 strong
1 agent-ready companies 0 agent-native · 1 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 29.2
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 16.7

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SignalFire has 3 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 1 (33%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 2 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Health Gorilla.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: signalfire
name: SignalFire
description: >-
  SignalFire is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco that
  manages approximately $3 billion in assets and operates more like a tech
  company than a traditional VC. The firm invests across eight sectors —
  Health and PharmaTech, Enterprise AI, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Consumer,
  Applied AI/ML and Vertical SaaS, AI/ML Infrastructure and Developer Tools,
  and Enterprise Infrastructure and Developer Tools — and supports portfolio
  founders with a team of engineers, data scientists, operators, recruiters,
  and advisors. SignalFire's differentiator is Beacon AI, a proprietary data
  platform the firm spent roughly a decade building that tracks more than 80
  million companies and 650 million employees across hundreds of billions of
  data points to power sourcing, talent, and go-to-market intelligence for
  both the firm and its portfolio. SignalFire does not publish any public
  developer APIs — Beacon AI is an internal platform offered as a service to
  portfolio companies, not a third-party product.
type: Index
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/signalfire.png
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Investment
  - Startup Funding
  - Private Markets
  - Beacon AI
  - Talent Intelligence
  - Go-to-Market Intelligence
  - Sourcing
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Investment
  - Startup Funding
  - Private Markets
  - Beacon AI
  - Talent Intelligence
  - Go To Market Intelligence
  - Sourcing
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/signalfire/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-10-18'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/signalfire-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://signalfire.com/
  - type: BeaconAI
    url: https://signalfire.com/beacon-ai/
  - type: AILab
    url: https://signalfire.com/ai-lab/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://signalfire.com/portfolio/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/signalfire-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://signalfire.com/team/
  - type: Sectors
    url: https://signalfire.com/sectors/
  - type: About
    url: https://signalfire.com/about/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://signalfire.com/blog/
  - type: Press
    url: https://signalfire.com/press/
  - type: Developers
    url: https://signalfire.com/developers/
  - type: PortfolioJobs
    url: https://signalfire.com/portfolio-jobs/
  - type: FounderPortal
    url: https://signalfire.com/founder-portal/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/SignalFire
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.signalfire.com/jobs
  - type: Contact
    url: mailto:partners@signalfire.com
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/signalfire/
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/signalfire-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/signalfire-well-known.yml

maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com

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