# Amir Salek

> Amir Salek is a Series A investor at Cerberus Capital Management backing Electronics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Cerberus Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cerberus-capital-management)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-salek-b87a02

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Electronics | 1 | 50% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |
| Semiconductor | 1 | 50% |
| Industrial Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |
| Series B | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avicena Tech | 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 |  |
| Avicena Tech | 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 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Clear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Hitachi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hitachi-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lam Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lam-research) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maverick Silicon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maverick-silicon) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Micron Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/micron-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Prosperity7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosperity7-ventures-d527) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Cerberus Capital Management

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

5 contacts available at Cerberus Capital Management.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Morgan Mahlock | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/morgan-mahlock-a6ba |
| Amir Salek | Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amir-salek-4e42 |
| Brett Ingersoll | President, Chief Investment Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brett-ingersoll |
| Chenny Zhang | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chenny-zhang-a2b4 |
| David Mcwilliam | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-mcwilliam |

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## FAQ

### 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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