Scott Kriz

Co-Founder / CEO @ SGNL

📍 United States🔄 Updated August 2026💼 2 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2015
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Board Member (acquired by Blockdaemon)
2015
Gem is a cryptocurrency API company that powers fiat-to-crypto onramps for some of the largest companies in the cryptocurrency industry. Gem gives our partners a beautiful user interface to the crypto universe with just a few lines of code. Our flagship product, Gem Onramp is the "Add Money" button for crypto; an embeddable UI flow offering global fiat payment methods and exchange transfer options to your users. With our embeddable UI flows and API, your users can seamlessly connect external crypto data, assets and fiat without ever leaving your app.
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2021
Co-Founder & CEO
Oct 2021
Enterprise identity teams have invested billions in IGA, IdPs, and PAM, yet 78% of breaches still involve compromised credentials and associated standing access. Why? Because these tools manage identity in isolation, creating fragmented context and static access decisions that cant adapt to real-time threats. Meanwhile, attackers exploit the exposure windows between when access is granted and when it should be revoked. SGNL pioneered Continuous Identity—centralizing all identity and security context into a unified intelligence layer that evaluates and orchestrates access decisions at the speed of business. Our platform doesnt just monitor—it actively orchestrates access based on real-time context: business activity, security posture, behavioral patterns, and environmental factors. We integrate seamlessly with your existing IAM investments, dramatically improving their performance while eliminating the legacy bottlenecks that create risk and drive up costs. The result: access that finally matches reality, exposure windows that disappear, and an IAM program that actually works. It’s why multiple Fortune 100 companies and fast-growing, global enterprises alike are turning to SGNL to reduce their identity attack surfaces, and why SGNL is backed by top security technology investors including Cisco and Microsoft.
2015
Board Member (acquired by Blockdaemon)
2015
Gem is a cryptocurrency API company that powers fiat-to-crypto onramps for some of the largest companies in the cryptocurrency industry. Gem gives our partners a beautiful user interface to the crypto universe with just a few lines of code. Our flagship product, Gem Onramp is the "Add Money" button for crypto; an embeddable UI flow offering global fiat payment methods and exchange transfer options to your users. With our embeddable UI flows and API, your users can seamlessly connect external crypto data, assets and fiat without ever leaving your app.
2012
Co-Founder and CEO
Feb 2012
Bitium is a cloud-based identity platform that includes single sign-on, credential management, and analytics for midmarket and enterprise companies. Bitium’s flexible, easy-to-use solution allows IT to operate more efficiently and enables CIOs to be the agent of change inside their organization. Founded in 2012, the company aims to give organizations the ability to securely manage access to all of their web-based applications in one place, accelerating employee adoption of these applications.
2011