
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.
netnames.com
cryptoindex.com
easynet.com
infarm.com
verisign.com
techcrunch.com
Palo Alto, California, United States
Founder and CEO
SignalRank
• www.linkedin.com/company/signalrank
Nov 2021 - Present
Palo Alto, California, United States
Advisor to Crypto Index
CryptoIndex
• www.linkedin.com/company/cryptoindexcom
Dec 2024 - Present
Investor & Advisor
Miles
• www.linkedin.com/company/getmilesapp
Jun 2017 - Present
San Francisco Bay Area
University of Kent In America Alumni Board Member
University of Kent in America
Jan 2007 - Present
Palo Alto
Founder
Archimedes Accelerator LLC
Jul 2005 - Present
Palo Alto, CA
Investor & Advisor
INFARM
• www.linkedin.com/company/infarm-wearetheinfarmers
Dec 2015 - Jun 2024
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
SVP, Head of Corporate Development
INFARM
• www.linkedin.com/company/infarm-wearetheinfarmers
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
Palo Alto, California, United States
Board Member of Innovation Board
Medco / Express Scripts
Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
Founding Board Member
fotopedia
Feb 2008 - Sep 2009
ceo
edgeio corporation
Mar 2005 - Dec 2007
CEO, President, Chairman
RealNames Corporation
• www.linkedin.com/company/realnames
Jan 1998 - Jun 2002
Founder
CYBERIA, Cybercafe Ltd
Aug 1994 - Sep 2000