Maria Salamanca
Partner @ Unshackled Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Maria Salamanca is a pre-seed investor at Unshackled Ventures in San Francisco focused on Social Network and Apps. Maria Salamanca is the Founding Board Member & VP of LatinxVC & she attended University of California, Berkeley in 2011.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 53%
Last updated:
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Industries Maria Salamanca invests in
Stages Maria Salamanca invests in
Countries Maria Salamanca invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Social Network 4 (27%)
- Apps 3 (20%)
- Internet 3 (20%)
- Software 3 (20%)
- E-Commerce 3 (20%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 8 (53%)
- Seed 6 (40%)
- Series A 1 (7%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology. | $15M / Series A / Aug 10, 2022 | ||
| Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology. | $5M / Seed / May 31, 2021 | ||
| The Landing is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together. Our mission is to empower and enable the creativity of our community through an intuitive, fun, and social platform. We believe the future of product discovery is social, experiential, and creator-led. We provide our community with the tools to discover, remix,create and connect over fully customizable moodboards. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 25, 2021 | ||
| Zeen is a social design platform that empowers everyone to create together. Our mission is to empower and enable the creativity of our community through an intuitive, fun, and social platform. We believe the future of product discovery is social, experiential, and creator-led. We provide our community with the tools to discover, remix, create andconnect over fully customizable moodboards. | $2.5M / Seed / Feb 25, 2021 | ||
| Dispo is a photo-sharing app designed to simulate the experience of using a disposable camera from the comfort of mobile phones. The app replicates the experience of taking photos on a disposable camera without a front-facing screen and develop those photos over a period of one day, thereby enabling users to create raw and authentic photos. | $4M / Seed / Oct 07, 2020 | ||
| Luminai automates internal workflows by taking any multi-click process and making it one click. | $3.4M / Seed / Oct 07, 2020 | ||
| Aavia was born from a shared passion for solving problems in healthcare and improving female health and wellness. They chose Aavia because it evokes an image of a bird - powerful and free to soar. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. | $3.2M / Seed / Aug 28, 2020 | ||
| Luminai automates internal workflows by taking any multi-click process and making it one click. | $250K / Pre-Seed / Mar 15, 2020 | ||
| Prismpop is an online beauty community that helps users in finding products that are personalized to their needs. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. | $450K / Pre-Seed / Feb 15, 2020 | ||
| BounceTown develops an application designed to make music production simple. It provides social graphs for creators to set up immediate feedback loops. It also helps creators build a reputation for their music skills. It helps them build a community, a following, and a fan base. | Pre-Seed / Oct 01, 2019 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Unshackled Ventures
Unshackled Ventures is the only early-stage venture capital fund that enables unrecognized and excluded immigrant founders to start companies in the U.S. Since its founding in 2014, Unshackled has proven its thesis that investing and supporting this population drives strong investment returns across key industries, including Americaninfrastructure, generative AI, healthcare, space, and enterprise SaaS. To date, the firm has invested in 80 companies and over 200 entrepreneurs.
Unshackled Ventures Contacts
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E'mani Davis
Operations Associate
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Manan Mehta
Founding Partner
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Michael Serotte
Law Partner
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Nitin Pachisia
Founding Partner
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Alexis Zamira Maciel
Pre-Seed Investor
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FAQ
What does Maria Salamanca invest in?
Maria Salamanca invests primarily in Social Network, Apps and Internet startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Maria Salamanca last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Maria Salamanca closed in Aug 2022. Shizune tracks 15 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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