Oana Olteanu

Oana Olteanu is a Partner at SignalFire in San Francisco, California, where she leads the venture capital firm's developer tools and AI infrastructure investment practice. She focuses on enterprise software investments across the Seed, Series A, and Series B stages, deploying check sizes ranging from $100,000 to $500,000. Before joining SignalFire, she invested in applied machine learning at Scale Venture Partners and served as an early AI seed investor at SAP. Her venture capital career is preceded by operating experience as a machine learning engineer at SAP, where she evaluated funding requests across 70 product teams and managed conversational AI partnership strategies involving Slack and Microsoft. Drawing on her technical background to evaluate complex infrastructure decisions, she coaches founders on board meeting strategy and has backed notable startups including Flatfile, Honeycomb, Kolena, Budibase, and Kurtosis.