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Technologist. Investor. System Builder.
I’m Keith Teare, founder and CEO of SignalRank Corporation, where we’re reimagining how capital flows into venture-backed startups. Our platform is the first to use systematic, machine-learning-based indexing alongside heuristics as features to score and invest in private companies—transforming what was once opaque, illiquid, and relationship-driven into something transparent, accessible, and data-native.
A Career of Building Firsts
Across my career, I’ve been drawn to first principles and frontier problems. In the early internet era, I co-founded:
EasyNet — Europe’s first consumer ISP, bringing broadband access to the UK
RealNames — a pioneering identity and navigation layer for the web
Archimedes Ventures — a seed-stage investment studio backing transformational ideas
As a founding investor in TechCrunch, I helped founder Mike Arrington catalyze the media engine that defined startup storytelling for a generation. That experience reaffirmed my belief that information flow shapes market behavior—and those who control the architecture of insight have leverage.
What I'm Building Now
At SignalRank, we’ve developed the SignalRank Index—the world’s first index offering exposure to systematically selected, venture-backed private companies and a plan to be listed so retail investors can benefit. It’s a data-driven solution to three entrenched problems in venture capital:
Access: democratizing entry to top-tier startup investments
Selection: removing human bias via statistical and ML-based scoring
Liquidity: enabling exits through public listing and index mechanics
We’ve combined Snowflake-scale data infrastructure, AI-powered decision engines, and financial architecture to build a new asset class. This isn’t just fintech—it’s financial infrastructure for the intelligent era.
Revolutionizing Public Access to Private Assets
Unlike traditional venture capital models—where access is gated by networks, LP status, or fund minimums—SignalRank is engineering a breakthrough in public access. By building an index that not only tracks but also owns the underlying private companies, and listing that index on public markets, we make institutional-quality venture exposure accessible to a wider range of investors.
This is a radical step forward: private market returns, delivered with the liquidity and transparency of public markets. No cap tables. No capital calls. Just intelligent, systematic exposure to innovation. 
