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Ilya Kirnos

Investor

CTO, Co-founder at SignalFire

Los Altos, California

Writes $5M – $20M checks · typically $12.5M

About

Ilya Kirnos co-founded SignalFire and serves as its CTO. He previously spent 2004-2012 as a software engineer at Google, holding technical leadership roles including Technical Lead for Gmail Ads and AdWords Performance and Scalability, and founding Google Prediction Markets. He later led backend platform development at CardSpring, a payment company acquired by Twitter, and earlier worked at Bell Labs and Oracle. He holds a B.S.E. in Computer Science with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Princeton University.

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Invests in

AI & Machine Learning

Experience

  1. SignalFireFounding Partner & CTOcurrent2013 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. CardSpring (acquired by Twitter)Tech Lead2012 — 2013Palo Alto, CA
  3. GoogleSoftware Engineer2004 — 2012
  4. OracleSoftware Engineer1999 — 2003

Education

  1. Princeton UniversityBSE, CS & Applied Math1995 — 1999

Skills & more

Distributed Systems22Machine Learning2Java21C++10Collaborative Filtering1User ModelingWebsite Monetization1Software Engineering15MySQL4Computer Science4Scalability7Git2
+6 moreRubyMapReduceBig DataSoftware DevelopmentPythonCloud Computing

Languages Russian

From Ilya's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Princeton University444

Fabrice GrindaCo-founder & Managing Partner at FJ LabsAndrewAdvisor at Clear VenturesChristal NgAssociate at Golden Gate VenturesDavid CoatsManaging Director & Co-Founder at Correlation VenturesDan MoreheadFounder & CEO at Pantera CapitalGeoff YangCo-Founder at Redpoint Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at CardSpring (acquired by Twitter)2

Simon LeveneCo-founder and Partner at Mosaic VenturesAmit KumarInvestor at Accel

Also worked at Google945

Ron ConwayFounder of SV AngelBrian SingermanCo-founder of GPx; Partner Emeritus at Founders FundJess LeePartner and Chief Product Officer at Sequoia CapitalTomasz TunguzFounder & General Partner at Theory VenturesHunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at HomebrewAydin SenkutFounder & Managing Partner at Felicis

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Also worked at Oracle307

Danny RimerPartner at Index VenturesAyshaAdvisor at Clear VenturesNatalie VaisInvestor at Spark CapitalMark SiegelPartner Emeritus at Menlo VenturesHope CochranVenture Partner at Madrona Venture GroupMark T. NelsonVenture Partner at Madrona Venture Group

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Deals · 1

LeaseABLEBoard seat

via SignalFire · filed Feb 2021 · $2.5M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Colleagues at SignalFire

Aayush Sharma
Senior Associate at SignalFire
Alex Hooshmand
Co-founder ZaiNar & Bluekai at SignalFire
Andrew Reid
Director, GTM Recruiting at SignalFire
Asher Bantock
Head of Research at SignalFire
Ben Davenport
CTO & Co-founder of BitGo; former Co-founder of Beluga at SignalFire
Bill MacCartney
Former VP ML at Cohere at SignalFire
Bobby Lent
Managing Partner at Hillsven & Co-founder of Ariba at SignalFire
Brad Hoover
former CEO of Grammarly at SignalFire

Network8

Aabed Meer
Partner at Questa Capital
Bradford Jones
Principal at SignalFire
Chenxi Wang
General Partner at Rain Capital
Chris Scoggins
Partner at SignalFire
Elaine Zelby
Venture Partner at SignalFire
Ellen Blix
Partner & Head of Investor Relations at SignalFire
Ellen Salisbury
Managing Director of Start Smart Labs; Former VP BizOps at Altiscale & VP Eng at Yahoo at SignalFire
Gil Elbaz
Partner at TenOneTen Ventures

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