Ilya Kirnos is a Partner and CTO at SignalFire, focusing on seed and Series A/B investments in cybersecurity, AI/ML tools, and dev tools. He previously worked at Google, CardSpring, Bell Labs, and Oracle.
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SignalFire writes $100K to $10M checks, larger than 5% of firms in the atlas.
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- Bell Labs · Software Engineer
- Oracle · Software Engineer
- Google · Software Engineer2004-2012
- CardSpring · led platform backend development
- SignalFire · Partner & CTONow
- CardSpring · Technical Lead
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Who is Ilya Kirnos?
Ilya Kirnos is a Partner and CTO at SignalFire, focusing on seed and Series A/B investments in cybersecurity, AI/ML tools, and dev tools. He previously worked at Google, CardSpring, Bell Labs, and Oracle.
How much does Ilya Kirnos invest?
Ilya Kirnos invests through SignalFire, which writes checks of $100K to $10M at seed, series a.
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What did Ilya Kirnos do before SignalFire?
Software Engineer at Bell Labs; Software Engineer at Oracle; Software Engineer at Google; led platform backend development at CardSpring; Technical Lead at CardSpring.
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