Investing Profile

Taylor Barada(133)

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Venture Partner at SignalFire
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23 Investors

Connected to Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Wayne Hu (SignalFire), and 20 other investors on Signal.

Networks Taylor is a member of
Harvard Business School Network
506 CONNECTIONS
Bain & Company Network
157 CONNECTIONS
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Network
124 CONNECTIONS
University of Virginia Network
93 CONNECTIONS
Yahoo! Network
90 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
SignalFire Venture Partner
Investment Range
$5.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$12.5M
Investments On Record
7
Current Fund Size
$500M

Taylor Barada is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Taylor Barada's Investments On Record (7)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Grain
Series AApr 2022$16M
$27M
Co-investors: Jenny Lefcourt (Freestyle Capital), Micah Rosenbloom (Founder Collective), Guillaume Cabane (Sequoia Capital), Bradley Horowitz (Google Ventures), Alireza Masrour (Plug & Play Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Zach Weinberg (Curie.Bio), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Scooter Braun (TQ Ventures), Andreas Klinger (Prototype Capital), Lauren Kolodny (aCrew Capital), Asad Khaliq (aCrew Capital), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), Vishal Harnal (500 Global)
Recora Health
Series AMar 2022$20M
$20M
Zeotap
Series CJul 2020$42M
$61M
Co-investors: Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), Eric Franchi (AperiamVentures), Christoph Bornschein (Bornschein & keine Töchter)
Valor Performance
SeedJun 2019
The Pill Club
Series BJan 2019$51M
$59M
Co-investors: Frederique Dame (GV (Google Ventures)), Nikhil Basu Trivedi (Footwork), TJ Nahigian (Base10 (Base10 Partners) ), Evan Mintz (VMG Partners), Carle Stenmark (VMG Partners)
Travelstride
Pre SeedJun 2017
$3M
Co-investors: Pete Flint (NFX), Gigi Levy-Weiss (NFX), James Currier (NFX)
HoneyBook
SeedOct 2012$250K
$480M
Co-investors: Michael Eisenberg (Benchmark), Stan Chudnovsky (NFX), James Currier (NFX), Chelsea Stoner (Battery Ventures), Jeff Crowe (Norwest Venture Partners), Clark Landry (CESPPA), Rick Marini (Catapult Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Bobby Lent (Hillsven), Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures), Gil Ben-Artzy (UpWest), Michael Birch, Oliver Thylmann

not interested in

Not interested in Creative, VR/AR, SaaS--anything overlapping with Adobe; for Adobe Ventures email me at work via Linkedin

Taylor Barada's Experience

VP, Global Head of Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy & Strategic Partnerships Adobe Systems Inc.Present
Venture Partner SignalFirePresent
Member of Board of Directors GoNoodlePresent
VP, Global Head of Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy & Strategic Partnerships AdobePresent
VP of Business ZyngaPresent
Vice President, Corporate Development Yahoo!Present
Senior Director, Corporate Development Yahoo!Present
Advisor VoxPop.TVPresent
Executive in Residence Rosewood CapitalPresent
Consultant Bain & CompanyPresent
Director of Special Projects, Office of the CEO Peregrine SystemsPresent
Director, Product Marketing & Business Development Peregrine SystemsPresent
Corporate Development Analyst Peregrine SystemsPresent
Associate Product Manager Peregrine SystemsPresent
Market Research Analyst Peregrine SystemsPresent
Goalkeeper Various professional soccer clubsPresent
VP, Global Head of Corporate Development, Corporate Strategy & Strategic Partnerships Jen Goings DesignsPresent
Vice President, Corporate Development yahooPresent
Senior Director, Corporate Development yahooPresent
Advisor Various professional soccer clubsPresent
Executive in Residence Bay City CapitalPresent
Area Vice President, Corporate Development Peregrine SystemsPresent

Taylor Barada's Education

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management MBA
Northwestern University School of Law JD
Harvard Business School The General Manager Program--Exec Ed.
University of Virginia BA History & Foreign Affairs