Elaine Zelby
5 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2021 by Elaine Zelby · said 3 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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Apr 26, 2021 positive
SignalFire reserves its proprietary data platform exclusively for portfolio companies
“We do not sell it and we don't spin it out. That's part of our whole selling point is that this is within the family. So if you come and take our money and become part of the SignalFire family, you get access to all this stuff. So we don't actually give it out…”
Apr 26, 2021 positive
SignalFire uses proprietary algorithms for deal sourcing and talent intelligence
“So we buy, scrape, or, you know, aggregate every data signal you could possibly imagine. And our engineers have proprietary algorithms that use that data to do one of two things. One, we have different systems that are alerting systems for us on the investment…”
Apr 26, 2021 bearish
Data-driven algorithmic VC investing fails at the seed stage, says Zelby
“In my opinion, it only works at certain stages and in certain categories. This does not work at all at the seed stage. You're betting on people for the most part, and you're betting on the growth of a category. There's no data.”
Apr 26, 2021
SignalFire completes a minority of investments purely from automated alerts
“On the sourcing side, we've definitely done deals that were completely from our alerting system. In addition, we just do a ton more outbound than the average firm because we'll go in these meetings and we'll triage based off of, oh, this looks interesting, and…”
Apr 26, 2021 neutral
SignalFire operates with one-third engineers to invest its $500M fund
“So if you look at our team, we're about a third engineers and data scientists building products. We're about a third people on our platform. These are the in-house business people doing PR recruiting growth, and then we have investment, and we, you know, we es…”