Amir Salek
Senior Managing Director @ Cerberus Capital Management
San Francisco, United States
Amir Salek is a Series A investor at Cerberus Capital Management in San Francisco focused on Electronics and Manufacturing. Amir Salek, Ph.D., has joined as a Senior Managing Director of Cerberus and Partner of Tracker Ventures, Cerberus’ newly formed, stage-agnostic venture capital platform that will focus on investments in deep technology companies and pioneering advancements. Dr. Salek was the head of Silicon for Google Technical Infrastructure and Google Cloud. Hestarted and led multiple lines of products that today are part of the de facto infrastructure behind Google services. Over the past two decades, Dr. Salek has led development of products for a wide range of markets such as machine learning, networking, graphics, video, and mobile processors. Prior to joining Google, Dr. Salek was a Senior Director of Engineering at Nvidia, where he was the Founder and head of Nvidia’s System-on-a-Chip Design organization. Dr. Salek is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering and Computer Science.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Amir Salek invests in
Stages Amir Salek invests in
Countries Amir Salek invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Electronics 1 (50%)
- Manufacturing 1 (50%)
- Semiconductor 1 (50%)
- Industrial Manufacturing 1 (50%)
Stage
- Series A 1 (50%)
- Series B 1 (50%)
Investments
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Avicena Tech
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It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $65M / Series B / May 14, 2025 | |
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Avicena Tech
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It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $25M / Series A / Aug 02, 2022 |
Co-Investors
About Cerberus Capital Management
Cerberus Capital Management is a private investment firm that focuses on operational private equity investments. The firm manages funds and accounts for many of the world’s most respected investors.
Cerberus Capital Management Contacts
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Morgan Mahlock
Director
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Amir Salek
Senior Managing Director
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Brett Ingersoll
President, Chief Investment Officer
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Chenny Zhang
Director
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David Mcwilliam
Managing Director
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What does Amir Salek invest in?
Amir Salek invests primarily in Electronics, Manufacturing and Semiconductor startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Amir Salek last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Amir Salek closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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