Signals

iMessage revenue channel for DTC brands that brings customers back

San Francisco

2 employees

Pre-seed

About Signals

Signals is a new iMessage revenue channel for DTC ecommerce brands that gets customers to buy again. After a purchase, we open a real two-way conversation over iMessage, the channel customers actually read and reply to, and turn it into repeat revenue. In A/B tests, that drives ~$30 in average incremental repeat revenue per conversation.

Company details

Team Size2

LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Alejandro Zaniolo

Co-founder at Signals. I like building things from the ground up. Previously helped take two startups from 0 - 1: one was acquired by Blueground, and another grew 6x YoY to $40M ARR and became profitable by the time I left.

Ilya Valmianski

2x founder with a Physics PhD from UC San Diego. Previously built AI patient intake at Kaiser Permanente, medical ChatGPT at Curai Health, and co-founded MDandMe (raised $2.5M, 100k+ patients).

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.