Signal AI: new features and launches
We confirmed 21 product launches from Signal AI since April 2015. The latest, Connects Signal AI to Gemini Enterprise via MCP, was announced Sept. 29, 2026. We also record 3 funding rounds, 3 acquisitions and 1 new company.
Updated . Launches from 2013 to Sept. 29, 2026.
Signal AI sells reputation and risk intelligence to chief communications and risk officers at large enterprises. Its AIQ engine monitors news in many markets and languages to surface risk and reputation signals. Dashboards measure reputation, and AI Citations tracks how a brand appears in AI answers.
- Site
- signal-ai.com
- Founded
- 2013
- Category
- Media monitoring and analysis
- Status
- Active
Every dated launch, newest first
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Connects Signal AI to Gemini Enterprise via MCP
Announced Sept. 29, 2026.
Gemini Enterprise agents can pull Signal AI's external risk and reputation intelligence into their workflows through a custom MCP server connection.
Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.
Source: Signal AI blog.
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Signal AI integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot
Available July 29, 2026.
Copilot users ask natural-language questions and get answers from Signal AI's licensed news, regulatory and analyst data.
Features: MCP servers and connectors, Chat assistant, Plugin.
Source: Signal AI press release.
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Adds TVEyes Canada broadcast coverage
Announced July 7, 2026.
Adds about 300 English-language Canadian TV and radio channels to Signal AI's broadcast monitoring.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI What's New post.
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Signal AI launches Search 2.0
Announced June 25, 2026.
Users describe what to track in plain English instead of Boolean, and the platform builds custom labels. This lets them track how a message spreads, separate sub-brands and get sentiment at the topic level.
Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.
Source: Signal AI blog.
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Signal AI launches Risk Scanner
Available June 18, 2026.
Risk teams upload their own risk register, or let the AI suggest risks, and Risk Scanner watches global news for early signals against each risk and scores them in a risk matrix.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Signal AI press release.
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Launch of Signal AI MCP
Available June 10, 2026.
Signal AI launched Signal AI MCP, a connector exposing its intelligence capabilities directly to AI agents and LLM applications.
Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.
Source: Signal AI newsroom.
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Launch of AI Citations
Available May 27, 2026.
Signal AI launched AI Citations, tracking brand visibility and citation sources inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.
Sources: Signal AI blog, Signal AI newsroom.
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Switches translation to DeepL and expands to 120+ languages
Announced May 7, 2026.
Signal AI now uses DeepL to translate content from 120+ languages, which improves entity detection and search. Premium Social posts are translated for the first time.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI blog.
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Adds Dow Jones Factiva content to the platform
Announced April 28, 2026.
Factiva's licensed sources, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch, come into Signal AI's reputation platform in 31 languages.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI press release.
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Adds Nikkei Asia paywalled content
Announced April 20, 2026.
Signal AI adds Nikkei Asia's premium, paywalled APAC business reporting to the platform under a data-mining agreement.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI What's New post.
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Launches Risk Proximity dashboard
Announced April 20, 2026.
A dashboard that tracks the momentum of risks globally or by country, and shows exposure in three layers: direct mentions, closely linked entities and nearby countries.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI What's New post.
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Adds Custom Logic search builder
Announced April 20, 2026.
Users build several AND/OR groups that mix organizations, keywords and products in one auditable view, instead of complex nested searches.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI What's New post.
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Signal AI Acquires Memo
Announced March 26, 2026.
Signal AI acquired Memo, a platform providing real publisher readership data, to bring actual readership metrics into reputation intelligence.
Source: Signal AI newsroom.
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$165 Million Investment Round Led by Battery Ventures
Announced Sept. 24, 2025.
Signal AI announced a $165M growth-equity round led by Battery Ventures, which will hold a majority stake once the deal closes in Q4 2025.
Source: Signal AI newsroom.
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Theme Landscape
Available July 15, 2025.
Treemap of dynamic themes and sentiment for a brand, industry or period.
Features: Coverage analysis.
Source: Signal AI.
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Ask AIQ
Available March 24, 2025.
Conversational, agentic AI experience letting executives query global risk/reputation data in natural language via RAG.
Features: Chat assistant.
Source: Signal AI press release.
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Configurable Sentiment Analysis
Announced June 24, 2024.
Lets users choose among five sentiment-aggregation methods, with entity-level sentiment scoring.
Features: Coverage analysis.
Source: Signal AI press release.
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Signal AI Acquires Social 360
Announced Feb. 15, 2024.
Signal AI acquired Social 360, a reputation intelligence monitoring firm analyzing billions of pieces of content from 90M+ sources.
Source: GlobeNewswire.
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AIQ Summary
Available Sept. 13, 2023. In beta.
Generative AI feature (beta at launch) that turns chart/graph data into a short plain-language written summary.
Features: Coverage analysis.
Source: Signal AI blog.
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Topic Analysis
Available Aug. 16, 2023.
AI identifies topics linked to an organization, with relevance and sentiment, to find narrative whitespace.
Features: Coverage analysis.
Source: Signal AI.
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Signal AI Acquires KELP
Announced Aug. 10, 2022.
Signal AI acquired KELP, a reputation-analytics platform that benchmarks hundreds of companies.
Source: O'Dwyer PR.
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Signal AI API Suite (reputation measurement)
Available Feb. 8, 2022.
An API suite (Affinity, Metrics, Search) that measures shifts in corporate reputation from entity-topic proximity across billions of documents.
Features: Reporting and measurement, Coverage analysis.
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Signal AI Raises $50 Million Series D
Announced Dec. 15, 2021.
Signal AI raised a $50M Series D led by Highland Europe with new investor abrdn, taking total funding to $100M.
Source: TechCrunch.
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AIQ
Available Feb. 19, 2020.
Next-generation proprietary AI engine powering Signal AI's media monitoring and market intelligence platform.
Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.
Sources: MarTech Series (syndicated press release), Signal AI newsroom.
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Briefings
Available Feb. 19, 2020.
First AIQ-powered feature; clusters and ranks high-volume news into a manageable briefing email.
Features: Coverage analysis.
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Signal AI Raises $25 Million Series C
Announced Oct. 22, 2019.
Signal AI raised a $25M Series C led by Redline Capital with MMC Ventures, GMG Ventures and Hearst Ventures, total funding to $49.5M.
Source: Signal AI newsroom.
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Signal Media platform (ML topic classification, entity recognition, summarization)
Available April 1, 2015.
Monitoring platform that sorts news into topics, spots entities and summarizes articles with machine learning.
Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.
Source: TechCrunch (Signal Media gets $1.8M).
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Signal Media founded
Announced 2013.
David Benigson and Miguel Martinez launched Signal Media in 2013 as a three-person startup from a garage in North London.
Source: DataIQ profile of David Benigson.
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