Jonathan Downey

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📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2018
VC🌍 United States
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Scout Investor
Feb 2018
SignalFire is the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders. The core of its value-add is Beacon, the AI engine SignalFire has been refining since the firms launch in 2013. Beacon tracks more than 600 million employees and 80 million companies to guide the fund’s investing and assist portfolio companies with scaling their teams and revenue. SignalFire also helps early-stage founders navigate the toughest parts of building a company at every stage, with expert advisors, 100 skill-building workshops a year, and an in-house team of recruiters, data scientists, PR experts, and go-to-market leaders. With over $2.1 billion in assets under management, SignalFire focuses on investing from seed to scale. The firm’s key sectors include AI/ML, developer tools, B2B SaaS, healthcare, cybersecurity, and consumer. https://www.signalfire.com/disclosures
Board Member
May 2015
The Association for Uncrewed Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) — the worlds largest non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of unmanned systems and robotics — represents corporations and professionals from more than 60 countries involved in industry, government and academia. AUVSI members work in the defense, civil and commercial markets. For more information, visit AUVSI.org.
Board Member
May 2011
Airware is the leading enterprise drone analytics company helping enterprises leverage today’s rapidly advancing technologies (such as drones, cloud computing, machine learning and more) to safely see and sense their sites and structures to improve productivity, mitigate risks, and take workers out of harm’s way. Effective Friday, September 14th Airware has ceased operations: https://www.airware.com/en/blog/thank-you-farewell/
Experience · 8 entries
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2023
CEO, Head of Product, & Co-founder
Jun 2023
2019
CEO and co-founder
Feb 2019
Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat VC-backed entrepreneur whos personally done the founder journey twice. We offer executive and professional search for companies that want access to highly entrepreneurial and impactful talent. Functions we cover: go-to-market, product, design, engineering, finance, and operations. Weve built iconic teams and hired leaders for: Notion (Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures) Retool (Sequoia Capital, a16z) Vercel (Accel) Deel (a16z, Spark Capital) Decagon (a16z, Bain Capital Ventures) Luma AI (a16z) Credal AI (Spark Capital) Cleanlab (Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo Ventures) Homie (Khosla Ventures, OpenAI) Concourse (a16z) Complete (Accel, Stripe) Muon Space (Radical Ventures, Costanoa) Coda (General Catalyst, Greylock) Modern Treasury (Benchmark) dbt Labs (Sequoia Capital, a16z) Tome (Greylock, Coatue) EvenUp (BCV, Lightspeed, Bessemer) Airbase (First Round, Menlo Ventures) Lattice (Thrive Capital) Sentry.io (Accel, NEA) Aurora Solar (Fifth Wall, ICONIQ) Finch (Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst) Mindbloom (Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins) Whatnot (a16z) Lumos Identity (a16z) and more!
2018
Scout Investor
Feb 2018
SignalFire is the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders. The core of its value-add is Beacon, the AI engine SignalFire has been refining since the firms launch in 2013. Beacon tracks more than 600 million employees and 80 million companies to guide the fund’s investing and assist portfolio companies with scaling their teams and revenue. SignalFire also helps early-stage founders navigate the toughest parts of building a company at every stage, with expert advisors, 100 skill-building workshops a year, and an in-house team of recruiters, data scientists, PR experts, and go-to-market leaders. With over $2.1 billion in assets under management, SignalFire focuses on investing from seed to scale. The firm’s key sectors include AI/ML, developer tools, B2B SaaS, healthcare, cybersecurity, and consumer. https://www.signalfire.com/disclosures
2017
Entrepreneur In Residence
Oct 2017
SignalFire is the first venture capital firm built like a technology company to better solve for the needs of founders. The core of its value-add is Beacon, the AI engine SignalFire has been refining since the firms launch in 2013. Beacon tracks more than 600 million employees and 80 million companies to guide the fund’s investing and assist portfolio companies with scaling their teams and revenue. SignalFire also helps early-stage founders navigate the toughest parts of building a company at every stage, with expert advisors, 100 skill-building workshops a year, and an in-house team of recruiters, data scientists, PR experts, and go-to-market leaders. With over $2.1 billion in assets under management, SignalFire focuses on investing from seed to scale. The firm’s key sectors include AI/ML, developer tools, B2B SaaS, healthcare, cybersecurity, and consumer. https://www.signalfire.com/disclosures
2015
Commercial Drone Fund
General Partner
May 2015
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