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Oana Olteanu

Principal at SignalFire

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Oana Olteanu is currently an Investor at SignalFire in San Francisco, California, with a focus on investing in various sectors including Enterprise Infrastructure, DeepTech, and Web3/Crypto. She has successfully invested in companies like enso.org and plural.sh at the seed stage, and Explosion.ai at the Series A stage, showcasing her ability to identify and support promising startups at different growth phases.

Work Experience 

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SignalFire

  • Principal -> Partner

    2020 - Current

    Partner to founders building developer tooling/ML/OSS - leading pre-seed, seed Investments to date: — spaCy / Explosion.ai (seed) — fixie.ai (seed) — enso.org (seed) — kolena.com (seed) — Kurtosis.com (seed) — plural.sh (seed) — budibase.com (seed) — stealth LLM CI/CD (pre-seed) — stealth vercel for LLMs (seed) — stealth voice ordering with gen AI (seed) — getlago.com (seed)

SignalFire is a venture capital firm that invests in seed stage companies and breakout companies.

signalfire.com
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Scale Venture Partners

  • Sr. Associate

    2018 - 2020

    Investments to date: — observe.ai (Series A) — flatfile (Series A) — honeycomb (Series A) — Proscia (Series B) — AllyO (Series B) Green card

Scale is a seed-stage venture capital firm focused on intelligent business software.

scalevp.com
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SAP

  • Working Student -> Office of the CEO

    2011 - 2018

    SAP HQ Germany: Nov 2011 - Aug 2015 in the organization of the CTO Vishal Sikka. Built internal tool to capture meta data for 10s of thousands products spanning 25 industries and 11 business functions. SAP in Palo Alto: Aug 2015 - Oct 2018 Office of the CEO Bill McDermott, building products in partnership with native Silicon Valley companies such as Slack, Uber, Facebook. Worked on enterprise NLP product development for Concur, Ariba and SuccesFactors and contributed to the development of CoPilot, internal enterprise NLP platform, by helping partners build apps on top of it and identifying usecases. L1 visa SAP in SF: 11/2017 - 10/2018 joined SAP.io - SAP's internal venture $35M fund to extend SAP products and expose the right cloud APIs. Lead on all Bay Area deals, lead ML investments in voice from SRI (for CS), plum ML (to extend SuccessFactors) applied to recruiting and Akorda ML for legal. H1B visa

SAP IoT Start up Accelerator is a global co-innovation program for B2B startups innovating in the world of the Internet of Things.

sap.com
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algorithmica technologies GmbH

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2010 - 2010

    Implementing unsupervised learning algorithms for OCR

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NASA Ames Research Center

  • Designed a space station

    2007 - 2008

    Grand Prize in the international contest organized by NASA Ames https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Contest/

Education 

Investments 

enso.org

seed

Total funding: $16M

plural.sh

seed

Total funding: $6M

Explosion.ai

Series A

Total funding: $6M

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