Raquel Urtasun

Angel

Overview

Gender
female
Investor Type
Angel

Raquel Urtasun is the Head of Uber ATG Toronto. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, a Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision and a co-founder of the Vector Institute for AI. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor at TTI Chicago. She was also a visiting professor at ETH Zurich during the spring semester of 2010.

She received her Ph.D. degree from Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006 and did her postdoc at MIT and UC Berkeley. She is a world leading expert in machine perception for self-driving cars. Her research interests include machine learning, computer vision, robotics and remote sensing. Her lab was selected as an NVIDIA NVAIL lab.

She is a recipient of an NSERC EWR Steacie Award, an NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, a Ministry of Education and Innovation Early Researcher Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, an Amazon Faculty Research Award, a Connaught New Researcher Award and two Best Paper Runner up Prizes awarded at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2013 and 2017 respectively.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Raquel Urtasun has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 7, 2021, when Cohere raised $40M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Feb 15, 2022 Cohere Series B $159M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Sep 7, 2021 Cohere Series A $40M Artificial Intelligence Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
2
Raquel Urtasun has 2 current jobs including Chief Scientist Advanced Technologies Group at Uber , Founder and CEO at Waabi and .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Uber Chief Scientist Advanced Technologies Group Jan 1, 2017 Detail
Waabi Founder and CEO Detail