Sam "Frenchie" S.

InfoSec, Startup Geek.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2022
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Angel Investor
Jun 2022
Secure your customer journeys with Authsignal. Drop flexible authentication flows into your customer journeys today. Deploy passkeys and out-of-the-box passwordless (MFA) authentication in hours. Authsignal is a drop-in authentication platform. Focused on enabling enterprise and mid-market businesses to seamlessly authenticate customer identity, mitigate fraud, and secure customer data. Partnering with modern consumer-focused enterprises, Authsignal enables a flexible and contextual approach to authentication. Underpinned by a powerful no-code-rules engine Product and Fraud teams leverage Authsignal to secure customer flows, reduce customer friction, and mitigate risk and fraud. Built to drop into any identity stack, out-of-the-box integrations via OpenID Connect (OIDC), Microsoft Azure b2c, ForgeRock, and Ping Identity deliver rapid deployment times and significant cost savings. Customer service and fraud teams gain complete observability of their customer journeys with a single view of customer actions and audit trail reporting dashboards. Authsignal’s identity stream delivers a real-time view of actions and behavior. Authsignal enables businesses to easily deploy passwordless authentication, eKYC, biometric authentication, customer journey orchestration, fraud detection, and mitigation powered by a no-code fraud rules engine for rapid policy deployment. Mitigate risk and fraud with a no-code-rules engine and deliver seamless customer experiences with a hosted and fully customizable UI. www.authsignal.com Authsignal makes it easy to protect customer data, deliver seamless customer authentication experiences
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Apply access control directly to your data with encryption-in-use that works everywhere, from SQL to Spreadsheet.
Experience · 5 entries
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2023
Co Founder & CEO
Jan 2023
Helping companies build trusted software to reduce the occurrence of software supply chain attacks.
2022
Angel Investor
Jun 2022
Secure your customer journeys with Authsignal. Drop flexible authentication flows into your customer journeys today. Deploy passkeys and out-of-the-box passwordless (MFA) authentication in hours. Authsignal is a drop-in authentication platform. Focused on enabling enterprise and mid-market businesses to seamlessly authenticate customer identity, mitigate fraud, and secure customer data. Partnering with modern consumer-focused enterprises, Authsignal enables a flexible and contextual approach to authentication. Underpinned by a powerful no-code-rules engine Product and Fraud teams leverage Authsignal to secure customer flows, reduce customer friction, and mitigate risk and fraud. Built to drop into any identity stack, out-of-the-box integrations via OpenID Connect (OIDC), Microsoft Azure b2c, ForgeRock, and Ping Identity deliver rapid deployment times and significant cost savings. Customer service and fraud teams gain complete observability of their customer journeys with a single view of customer actions and audit trail reporting dashboards. Authsignal’s identity stream delivers a real-time view of actions and behavior. Authsignal enables businesses to easily deploy passwordless authentication, eKYC, biometric authentication, customer journey orchestration, fraud detection, and mitigation powered by a no-code fraud rules engine for rapid policy deployment. Mitigate risk and fraud with a no-code-rules engine and deliver seamless customer experiences with a hosted and fully customizable UI. www.authsignal.com Authsignal makes it easy to protect customer data, deliver seamless customer authentication experiences
2021
Angel Investor
Sep 2021
Apply access control directly to your data with encryption-in-use that works everywhere, from SQL to Spreadsheet.
2013
Cofounder & Director
Jul 2013
Claiming.com.au streamlines Australian Medical billing by providing: Easy & Fast-to-integrate billing functionality, Elegant error handling, Developer-friendly RESTFUL API endpoints, A reduced impact of Medicare NOIs, JSON/XML/HL7 interoperability, for: Medicare online claiming via ECLIPSE, DVA online claiming, more to be rolled out soon. Visit www.claiming.com.au for more information.
2012
Associate
2012
Adventure Capital Private is a leading Australian early-stage technology venture investor, at the epicentre of the ecosystem and passionate about advancing local human and intellectual capital, and enabling global opportunities for driven entrepreneurs and their businesses to reach their full potential. Adventure Capital Private is sourcing and funding the significant opportunities arising from the rapid growth of early-stage technology businesses - leveraging our experience and active involvement in driving capital efficient, globally focussed businesses. Adventure Capital Private is a super-angel style venture investor focused on finding and guiding early-stage tech companies that are highly capital efficient and have global ambition and scope. The investment approach is active and startups benefit from the experience the team has in rapid early-stage growth and exits, leveraging the strong ecosystem built around the team both in Australia and internationally.