# Guy Fighel

> Guy Fighel is a seed investor at New Relic backing Software and Cyber Security. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [New Relic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-relic)
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guyfig
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/guyfig
- Website: https://www.guyfighel.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guyfig

Guy Fighel is a seed investor at New Relic in San Francisco Bay Area focused on Software and Cyber Security. Guy Fighel is the Senior Vice President, GM, Data Platform Engineering and AI of New Relic, Inc. He previously worked at SignifAI as a Co-Founder and CTO. Guy Fighel attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5M–$14M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 67% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 17% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 83% |
| Angel | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 3 | 50% |
| France | 1 | 17% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upriver | Upriver is an AI-native data engineering platform that connects to an organization's data stack, understands its data environment, and uses autonomous agents to build, maintain, validate, and troubleshoot data pipelines and data operations. | $14M | Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Willow | The AI basecamp for the enterprise.Willow (formerly Webrix) connects any AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to your internal systems with the visibility security needs and the enablement teams want. SSO, RBAC, audit trail, and runtime guards, built in.You'll find: - Technical deep dives on MCP, agents, and AI governance - Enterprise AIadoption playbooks (not hype) - Real implementation walkthroughs from production deployments - Conversations with CISOs, platform leaders, and AI adoption ownersBuilt for: CISOs, VPs of Engineering, platform leads, and CTOs rolling out AI at scale. | $7M | Seed | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Formel AI | Formel AI is an AI firm that develops massive language models of production quality that are improved using formal verification to get rid of reasoning hallucination To guarantee logical consistency and mathematical accuracy, the organization integrates formal techniques with LLM frameworks. |  | Angel | Feb 01, 2025 |  |
| Restate | Restate build workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await. | $7M | Seed | Jun 10, 2024 |  |
| Helios | Helios gives you the power to understand, troubleshoot, and test all your applications and services. | $5M | Seed | Jun 29, 2022 |  |
| Stigg | Stigg is a platform that enables software companies to be nimble in their pricing and packaging while freeing up development resources. | $6.4M | Seed | Apr 21, 2022 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amiti Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amiti-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Emerge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergo-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Entrée Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/entree-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Essence VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/essence-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Firstminute Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstminute-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About New Relic

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

New Relic is a digital intelligence company that delivers full-stack visibility and analytics with more than 14,000 paid business accounts. The New Relic digital intelligence platform provides actionable insights to drive digital business results. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at New Relic.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Messinger | Member of the Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-messinger |
| Guy Fighel | Senior Vice President, GM, Data Platform Engineering and AI | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guy-fighel |
| Lew Cirne | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lewis-cirne |
| Adam Johnson | Principal Product Manager - Full Stack Observability | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-johnson |
| Anita Lynch | Chief Data Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anita-lynch-407e |

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## FAQ

### What does Guy Fighel invest in?

Guy Fighel invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Guy Fighel's check size?

Guy Fighel typically joins rounds of $5M–$14M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Guy Fighel participates in.

### When did Guy Fighel last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Guy Fighel closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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