Salman Ullah
Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Merus Capital
San Francisco, United States
Salman Ullah is a Series A investor at Merus Capital in San Francisco focused on Software and SaaS. Salman co-founded Merus Capital in November 2007. Previously he was Vice President of Corporate Development at Google, where he spent three years managing a worldwide team responsible for all of Google’s acquisitions and investments. Prior to Google, he spent over seven years at Microsoft in several roles including General Manager of CorporateStrategy and Managing Director of Corporate Development.Earlier in his career, he was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey in Chicago where he spent four years working in the technology and consumer goods sectors. He was also a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in physics at the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago.He holds an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Oxford, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 52%
Last updated:
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Industries Salman Ullah invests in
Stages Salman Ullah invests in
Countries Salman Ullah invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 8 (38%)
- SaaS 5 (24%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (19%)
- Internet of Things 2 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (29%)
- Seed 4 (19%)
- Series B 4 (19%)
- Funding Round 3 (14%)
- Debt Financing 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 10 (48%)
- Germany 2 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Talage is focused on powering the digital distribution of P&C insurance for the benefit of insurance carriers, agencies, and small business owners. | $9M / Series B / Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| AiSight develops a product that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to determine the state of a machine in real time, predict errors and dynamically regulate the machine parameters based on sensor data. The solution consists of both hardware and software components. | $2.5M / Seed / Oct 04, 2019 | ||
| Silexica was a venture capital backed company for software development tools. The SLX programming tools accelerate the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems and thus reduce time-to-market of intelligent products.Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from RWTH Aachen University, Silexica was headquartered in Germany with officesin the US and Japan. It has received $28M in venture capital funding from international investors and was acquired by Xilinx/AMD in 2021. | $18M / Series B / Jun 21, 2018 | ||
| Relimetrics is an industrial AI software company building programmable vision intelligence for autonomous and industrial systems. Its flagship platform, ReliVision, enables organizations to program perception itself—using GenAI to generate synthetic defects, adapt inspection logic and continuously evolve vision systems as products, environments andrequirements change. Designed as inspection-native software, ReliVision transforms quality inspection into software-defined intelligence with built-in traceability, auditability, allowing vision systems to be deployed, reused and refined across products, lines, and sites. Relimetrics helps industrial teams move beyond static AI models toward vision systems that learn, adapt, and operate reliably in real-world conditions.Relimetrics operates in Sunnyvale, California, and Berlin, Germany. | $3.3M / Seed / Jan 31, 2018 | ||
| Symphony Communication Services is a secure and compliant collaboration platform. Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of allsizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo. | $63M / Series C / May 16, 2017 | ||
| Outward develops a digital merchandising platform for the retail industry. Its proprietary measurement and rendering technology enable the inexpensive production of creative content suitable for digital and print applications. Eliminating the need for expensive studios and digital editing, Outward speeds, simplifies, and expands creative output. | $5M / Series B / Jan 23, 2017 | ||
| Silexica was a venture capital backed company for software development tools. The SLX programming tools accelerate the journey from software to application-specific hardware systems and thus reduce time-to-market of intelligent products.Founded in 2014 as a spin-off from RWTH Aachen University, Silexica was headquartered in Germany with officesin the US and Japan. It has received $28M in venture capital funding from international investors and was acquired by Xilinx/AMD in 2021. | $8M / Series A / Nov 28, 2016 | ||
| Symphony Communication Services is a secure and compliant collaboration platform. Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of allsizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo. | $100M / Series B / Oct 12, 2015 | ||
| Outward develops a digital merchandising platform for the retail industry. Its proprietary measurement and rendering technology enable the inexpensive production of creative content suitable for digital and print applications. Eliminating the need for expensive studios and digital editing, Outward speeds, simplifies, and expands creative output. | $6.5M / Series A / May 30, 2015 | ||
| Symphony Communication Services is a secure and compliant collaboration platform. Symphony offers a secure team collaboration platform that transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application. Forging a new path in the industry, Symphony is designed to help individuals, teams and organizations of allsizes improve productivity while meeting complex data security and regulatory compliance needs. Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in Hong Kong, London, New York, Paris, Singapore, Sophia-Antipolis, Stockholm and Tokyo. | $66M / Series A / Oct 01, 2014 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Merus Capital
Merus Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded by former M&A leaders at Google and Microsoft. Merus empowers ambitious teams building tomorrow’s industry-defining platforms. The firm partners with founders that possess unique industry and customer insights, an unwavering commitment to product innovation, and a relentless focus onexecution.
Merus Capital Contacts
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Brad Stein
Operating Partner and CFO
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Erin Lockhart
Partner, Marketing and Investor Relations
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Salman Ullah
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
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Antonio Cordoba
Partner - Langre Tech Growth Fund
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David Rangel
General Partner
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What does Salman Ullah invest in?
Salman Ullah invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed 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.
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