Oscar Salazar

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

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 company designed 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.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Oscar Salazar has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Dec 15, 2022, when Giskard raised €1.50M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Dec 15, 2022 Giskard Seed €1.50M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Oct 23, 2018 Cowboy Series A €10M Electric Vehicle Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
3
Oscar Salazar has 3 current jobs including Advisor at Uber , Co-Founder at Uber and Co-Founder at Pager .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Uber Advisor Apr 1, 2010 Detail
Uber Co-Founder Detail
Pager Co-Founder Detail