Oscar Salazar
Angel Investor
New York, United States
Oscar Salazar is a seed investor in New York focused on E-Commerce and Software. Oscar Salazar is one of the most influential figures in the modern tech industry. Salazar is the Founding-CTO and Architect of Uber. He was responsible for the creation of the initial prototypes for Uber’s customer app, driver app and dispatch engine.Salazar is also the founder of Citivox, Pager and RIDE. Citivox is an international companydesigned to enable NGOs and individuals to report and monitor electoral fraud, crime and infrastructure problems. Pager is an Uber like concept designed to connect patients with high quality health care providers. RIDE is an application that enables co-workers to carpool to work.Salazar graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the Universidad de Colima in Mexico. He later earned a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary in Canada and a Ph.D. in Telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
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Industries Oscar Salazar invests in
Stages Oscar Salazar invests in
Countries Oscar Salazar invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$3.7M
- Series A
- $4M–$24M
- Series B
- $10M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 4 (19%)
- Software 3 (14%)
- SaaS 2 (10%)
- Mobile 2 (10%)
- Transportation 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (38%)
- Series A 4 (19%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (5%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 4 (19%)
- France 2 (10%)
- Mexico 2 (10%)
- Chile 1 (5%)
- Spain 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qbeast Analytics SL is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Qbeast is a Big Data cloud platform with a patented data storage technology that reorganizes and manages data through multidimensional indexing and sampling techniques so that it can be analyzed up to 100 times faster. Qbeast provides data teams with the option toadjust the precision of data analytics to produce high-quality insights while only accessing a fraction of the available data. This speeds up their work massively and at the same time produces savings on computational resources and energy. | $2.6M / Seed / Feb 23, 2023 | ||
| B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America | $3M / Seed / Jan 10, 2023 | ||
| Giskard is the first automated Red Teaming platform for AI agents to prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure business alignment. We are committed to ensuring companies can deploy AI Agents with trust, by advancing research in AI Safety and providing the leading standards for LLM quality & security testing in critical applications.We areproud to be backed by leading investors such as Elaia, Bessemer Venture Partners, and the CTO of Hugging Face. Giskard is trusted by industry leaders including AXA, BNP Paribas, Michelin, and Google DeepMind to ensure their AI models are reliable, secure, and robust, allowing them to deploy Generative AI applications with confidence and trust. | $1.6M / Seed / Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| Giskard is the first automated Red Teaming platform for AI agents to prevent security vulnerabilities and ensure business alignment. We are committed to ensuring companies can deploy AI Agents with trust, by advancing research in AI Safety and providing the leading standards for LLM quality & security testing in critical applications.We areproud to be backed by leading investors such as Elaia, Bessemer Venture Partners, and the CTO of Hugging Face. Giskard is trusted by industry leaders including AXA, BNP Paribas, Michelin, and Google DeepMind to ensure their AI models are reliable, secure, and robust, allowing them to deploy Generative AI applications with confidence and trust. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Dec 15, 2022 | ||
| B2B e-commerce platform in Latin America | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 10, 2022 | ||
| Constrafor is a SaaS and fintech innovator purpose-built for construction. Constrafor is setting new standards of productivity and cost-efficiency for the way GCs and subcontractors manage essential back-office tasks and financial transactions.For general contractors, Constrafor’s cloud platform streamlines and standardizes subcontractorprocurement and administration, including contracts, COIs, invoices and payments, and diversity procurement – all in one place.For subcontractors, the platform offers fast and cost-effective receivables financing, including an Early Pay Program (EPP) that shortens the invoice payment cycle, frees up cash, and allows them to take on more projects. | Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | ||
| Not So Dark offers a food delivery industry solution that creates exclusively online brands. | $24.1M / Series A / Feb 03, 2021 | ||
| Cowboy is an e-bike company that creates innovative electric bikes for city riders. It is still transforming the bike and mobility industries, from the point of sale to the point of service. Its mission is to empower riders to map their own paths, as well as the paths of the cities in which they live, through mindful movement that benefitseveryone.Cowboy's electric bikes are simple — there is no gear and no + and - buttons to adjust the motor's power. The company believes riding a bike should be as simple as hopping into the saddle and putting one foot on the peddle. | $11.5M / Series A / Oct 23, 2018 | ||
| YOIN is a mobile App and software that disrupts condo administrations and resident living through technology. | Seed / Sep 01, 2018 | ||
| CargoX is a technology freight marketplace that provides shipping companies and carriers a smart and efficient solution to transport the most diverse types of products in any parts of LATAM. Through technology, we connect over 10 thousand shippers with 1.4 million trucks to eliminate excess capacity. CargoX save on shipping costs for shippers,increase earnings for truckers and reduces C02 emissions generated by empty trucks on the road. | $60M / Private Equity / Aug 28, 2018 | ||
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FAQ
What does Oscar Salazar invest in?
Oscar Salazar invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Oscar Salazar's check size?
Oscar Salazar typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$3.7M at Seed, $4M–$24M at Series A and $10M–$32M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Oscar Salazar participates in.
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When did Oscar Salazar last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Oscar Salazar closed in Feb 2023. Shizune tracks 21 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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