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Inside the issue — A Monday morning
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Walk through the exact moment Signal lands in your inbox — and what it hands you before your first investor call.
6:47 AM
Your phone lights up before the coffee.
Three notifications. One Slack from your co-founder. One calendar reminder for the 9 AM partner meeting. And one email with a subject line that cuts through the noise — “Signal 001 — Series A valuations just broke a record.”
You open it before your feet hit the floor. By the time you reach the kitchen, you know what the market did last week.
Trend Signal
+34%
Series A valuations, Q4 2025 vs Q4 2024
Median pre-money valuations crossed $34M for the first time, driven by compressed AI deal timelines — the average time from first meeting to term sheet dropped to 11 days in December.
7:02 AM
Pilot Data — Issue 001
Median Series A Pre-Money
$34.2M
Q1 '24
Q2 '24
Q3 '24
Q4 '24
Q1 '25
Q2 '25
Q3 '25
Q4 '25
Source: Signal analysis of 1,847 disclosed rounds, Q1 2024–Q4 2025
The data you've been manually scraping, already compiled.
Every week, Signal processes 1,000+ funding announcements, strips the PR spin, and surfaces the actual numbers — median valuations, check sizes, and the investors who wrote them.
The chart on the left? That's from Issue 001. Median Series A pre-money crossed $34M for the first time in Q4 2025. You should know this before your investor picks up the phone.
“I used to spend 40 minutes on Crunchbase every Sunday night. Signal gave me that time back.”
— Priya Mehta, Founder, Meridian Health (Series A, $18M)
7:11 AM
Ten minutes. One issue. Zero noise.
By 7:21, you know which firms are most active in your sector this quarter, what the median term sheet looks like, and which three trends every investor in the room will reference before lunch.
The heat map on the right shows lead investor activity by sector across Q4 2025. This is the context that turns a good pitch into a great conversation.
Trend Signal
$2.1B
in climate-tech rounds, Q4 2025 alone
Climate infrastructure quietly became the second-largest Series A category by dollar volume, surpassing consumer fintech for the first time since 2021.
Pilot Data — Issue 001
Lead Investor Activity by Sector
Q4 2025 — deal count intensity
AI/ML
Fintech
Health
Infra
SaaS
Climate
a16z
Sequoia
Bessemer
GC
Accel
Lightspeed
Low
High
Source: Signal proprietary analysis of disclosed lead positions, Q4 2025
Three signals from Issue 001
The newsletter is already built.
Already sharp.
Trend Signal
+34%
Series A valuations, Q4 2025 vs Q4 2024
Median pre-money valuations crossed $34M for the first time, driven by compressed AI deal timelines — the average time from first meeting to term sheet dropped to 11 days in December.
Trend Signal
68%
of lead investors are repeat backers
Relationship capital is compressing the cold-pitch funnel. Founders who raised their seed from a top-20 firm are 3.4× more likely to close Series A with the same firm or a direct referral.
Trend Signal
$2.1B
in climate-tech rounds, Q4 2025 alone
Climate infrastructure quietly became the second-largest Series A category by dollar volume, surpassing consumer fintech for the first time since 2021.
Each signal above is drawn from Issue 001 of Signal — the pilot issue we built to prove the product before asking for your inbox. These numbers are real. The analysis is ours.
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