Wayne Hu
General Partner at SignalFire
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2015 - Current
SignalFire is a $2.1B fund that operates as a technology company comprised of data scientists, engineers and investors trained at Google, Facebook, Slack, General Catalyst, KPCB, and Andreessen Horowitz. We have built first of its kind products and centralized infrastructure to help with recruiting exceptional talent, business development, customer acquisition as well as educational & community events. You can read more about SignalFire at: https://medium.com/signalfire-fund Member of the Investment Committee. Our investments include Grammarly, Uber, Ro, Alchemy, Color, Stampli, Frame.io, Aura, ClassDojo, Flock Freight, PlanetScale, Twingate, Assembled, and Horizon3 Fortunate to partner as the seed / series A lead with Ro, Bubble, EvenUp, Grow Therapy, Karat, OssoVR, Lumeo, Verse Medical, Smith.AI, Superteacher/Perceptron, Modal, Snow, Apostrophe (200M exit), Planetscale (source), and many others
SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.
Series B Co-Lead / Board Observer
2024
Freshpaint is a data platform that facilitates marketing by collecting customer data.
Raised $46,850,000.00 from Zero Prime Ventures, Intel Capital, Y Combinator, SignalFire and Threshold.
Series A Co-Lead
2018
Series A Lead / Board Director
2021
Grow Therapy is a provider-centric mental health technology company improving access to high-quality mental healthcare.
Raised $178,000,000.00 from TCV, Lily Collins, Goldman Sachs, Dak Prescott, Plus Capital, Anna Kendrick, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, Lauren Holiday and Jrue Holiday.
Series A Lead / Board Director
2020
EvenUp is a legal tech company developing cloud and AI-based legal case management solutions.
Raised $220,500,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, PremjiInvest, Bessemer Venture Partners, B Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and SignalFire.
Seed Lead / Board Director
2019
Bubble is a no-code development platform that allows users to create customized web and mobile applications.
Raised $106,250,000.00 from Betaworks, Third Kind Venture Capital, Neo, Insight Partners, SignalFire, BoxGroup and Dig Ventures.
Seed Lead / Board Director
2017
Osso VR is a training and assessment platform focused on surgical virtual reality.
Raised $109,222,596.00 from Tiger Global Management, Oak HC/FT, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Duro Ventures, SignalFire and GSR Ventures.
Series A Lead / Board Director
2022
Seed Lead / Board Director
2022