Signal Media Raises £5.8M in Funding

Signal Media, a London, UK-based AI-powered information intelligence company, raised a further £5.8m Backers included MMC Ventures and Hearst Ventures. The company, which has raised £8.3m ($10.5m) in total funding to date, intends to use the funds to take its business into new industry verticals such as to new verticals including Health, Pharma and Technology, and grow in the financial, legal and professional services markets, to further bolster the senior team and partnerships with universities, expand into the US during 2017 and strengthen the existing product. Co-founded in 2013 by David Benigson and Dr. Miguel Martinez, Signal Media provides an AI-powered information intelligence platform that allows businesses to access to information to track changes in real-time – from competitors, to regulation, to their own reputation – to make faster business decisions. Knowledge workers, communications teams and research executives use Signal's AI to monitor the world's news media.