# Raquel Urtasun

> Raquel Urtasun is a seed investor backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 3 investments, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Boston, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raquel-urtasun-4130605/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/uoftcompsci
- Website: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~urtasun/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uoftcompsci

Raquel Urtasun is a seed investor in Boston focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Raquel Urtasun is based out of Toronto, Ontario, and is the Founder and CEO at Waabi. Raquel previously served as the Chief Scientist, Head of Uber ATG R&D at Uber. Raquel Urtasun attended Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 67% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |
| Agentic AI | 1 | 33% |
| Generative AI | 1 | 33% |
| Developer APIs | 1 | 33% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |
| Series B | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LlamaIndex | LlamaIndex is a flexible framework designed for building AI Knowledge Assistants over enterprise data, enabling organizations to manage and query their databases effectively. It provides tools suitable for both beginner and advanced users, allowing easy data ingestion and querying through a user-friendly API. s an open-source data orchestrationframework, LlamaIndex supports the development of large language model applications, fostering innovation in AI technology. | $8.5M | Seed | Jun 06, 2023 | https://www.llamaindex.ai/ |
| Cohere | Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $124.9M | Series B | Feb 15, 2022 | https://cohere.ai/ |
| Cohere | Cohere develops artificial intelligence solutions for enterprises, focusing on natural language processing and large language model deployments. The company offers API-based access to models that support tasks such as summarization, search, classification, and content generation. It enables organizations to integrate these models into internalsystems across regulated industries, including finance and healthcare. Cohere provides infrastructure that is cloud-agnostic and can be deployed on-premise or across public clouds. It also supports retrieval-augmented generation and offers tooling designed to align models with enterprise data and compliance needs. In addition to its core technology, | $40M | Series A | Sep 07, 2021 | https://cohere.ai/ |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Radical Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/radical-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [S32](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/section-32) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [S Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/s-ventures-a30e) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Raquel Urtasun invest in?

Raquel Urtasun invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Agentic AI startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Raquel Urtasun last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Raquel Urtasun closed in Jun 2023. Shizune tracks 3 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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