The team at Signia Venture Partners. Left to right. Top: Zaw Thet, Ed Cluss, Sunny Dhillon, Rick Thompson. Bottom: Anagha Raje, Linus Liang, Gina Domizio.
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Signia Venture Partners raises $85 million fund for early stage tech companies

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Signia Venture Partners is announcing today that it has raised a second fund — totaling $85 million — to invest in early-stage technology companies.

The fund is headed by a seven-member team that includes Rick Thompson, former chairman of Playdom (which Disney bought for $763 million in 2010); Ed Cluss; Zaw Thet, and Sunny Dhillon. In an interview with VentureBeat, Thet said that the new fund will invest in startups that fit into the theme of mobility and data analysis.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.