Media monitoring startup Signal raises $1.8m in round led by Frontline Ventures.

Media monitoring startup Signal, co-founded by Queen Mary University of London PhD student Miguel Martinez-Alvarez, has raised $1.8m.

The round was led by Frontline Ventures, and joined by Samos Investments, Reed Elsevier Ventures, and a number of individuals. Cash from the investment will go into increasing the number of data scientists Signal has on hand and further platform development ahead of a global roll out. As part of the deal, Russel Levi, former global head of product management at Bloomberg,…