Michael de la Torre

CEO/Founder of Redica Systems; Independent board director

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2024
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Oct 2024
Varis is a digital commerce software-as-a-service and procurement company. On one modern and intuitive platform, business-to-business suppliers and buying organizations directly connect, transact, and grow together. We strive to fuel our customers success by going beyond the transactional to the transformational. We are using technology to level the playing field, bringing together organizations of all sizes, backgrounds, and experiences to create value for all.
Investor
Dec 2023
Censia empowers organizations to unleash their potential through transformative talent. Censia’s AI-powered talent intelligence technology allows companies to instantly find, evaluate, and hire passive talent. Our solution can be used directly in the cloud and can be quickly integrated into most applicant tracking systems. These are our core functions: *Censia + Your ATS: Censia is a plug-and-play solution that can be used on its own or quickly integrated into your ATS. It does not require extensive onboarding or training. *Complete Talent Profile: The Golden Record of a candidates profile in Censia *Ideal Candidate Modeling: Models an existing talent profile and discovers look-a-like candidates *Intelligent Passive Sourcing: Maps out the talent landscape and instantly reveal high match candidates. *Ranked Candidate Slate: Active and Passive talent is instantly ranked for best fit, and can be quickly easily filtered by location, seniority, and other relevant factors. *Talent Mapping: Connect skills and capabilities to various job functions *Competitive Talent Pool Comparisons: Benchmark your talent pool’s skills cloud against your top competitors *Anonymous Mode: Mask names to mitigate unconscious bias in candidate sourcing *Profile Enrichment: Enrich profiles with emails, phone numbers, and social links *Attribute Recommendation: Suggests criteria to enhance your candidate slate *Candidate Rediscovery: Extend slates to include previous candidates who match your current modeled role *Internal Mobility Matching: Include current employees who match your current modeled role
Experience · 4 entries
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Investments (2)
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2024
Investor
Oct 2024
Varis is a digital commerce software-as-a-service and procurement company. On one modern and intuitive platform, business-to-business suppliers and buying organizations directly connect, transact, and grow together. We strive to fuel our customers success by going beyond the transactional to the transformational. We are using technology to level the playing field, bringing together organizations of all sizes, backgrounds, and experiences to create value for all.
2023
Investor
Dec 2023
Censia empowers organizations to unleash their potential through transformative talent. Censia’s AI-powered talent intelligence technology allows companies to instantly find, evaluate, and hire passive talent. Our solution can be used directly in the cloud and can be quickly integrated into most applicant tracking systems. These are our core functions: *Censia + Your ATS: Censia is a plug-and-play solution that can be used on its own or quickly integrated into your ATS. It does not require extensive onboarding or training. *Complete Talent Profile: The Golden Record of a candidates profile in Censia *Ideal Candidate Modeling: Models an existing talent profile and discovers look-a-like candidates *Intelligent Passive Sourcing: Maps out the talent landscape and instantly reveal high match candidates. *Ranked Candidate Slate: Active and Passive talent is instantly ranked for best fit, and can be quickly easily filtered by location, seniority, and other relevant factors. *Talent Mapping: Connect skills and capabilities to various job functions *Competitive Talent Pool Comparisons: Benchmark your talent pool’s skills cloud against your top competitors *Anonymous Mode: Mask names to mitigate unconscious bias in candidate sourcing *Profile Enrichment: Enrich profiles with emails, phone numbers, and social links *Attribute Recommendation: Suggests criteria to enhance your candidate slate *Candidate Rediscovery: Extend slates to include previous candidates who match your current modeled role *Internal Mobility Matching: Include current employees who match your current modeled role
2017
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Aug 2017
Redica Systems helps life sciences companies stay inspection ready, manage supplier risk, and keep pace with evolving global regulations. We turn the industry’s most complete regulatory and inspection data set, sourced from hundreds of health authorities and FOIA records, into trusted intelligence that quality and regulatory teams use every day to reduce compliance risk and improve oversight. Built on the Redica Catalyst Platform and Redica ID, we are evolving toward the Redica Intelligence Cloud, where internal and external data come together to provide proactive insights and guide smarter, faster decisions across the enterprise. Founded in 2010 and with headquarters in Pleasonton, CA, Redica Systems serves over 200 customers in the pharma, biopharma, medtech, medical device, and food and cosmetics industries, including 19 of the top 20 pharma companies and 9 of the 10 top medical devices companies. More information is available at www.redica.com.
2005
Associate
Jul 2005
Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $223 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented, and risk-controlled approach to investments in credit, equity, and real estate. The firm has more than 1,500 employees and offices in 26 cities worldwide. For additional information, please visit Oaktree’s website at http://www.oaktreecapital.com/. Please be aware of fraudulent LinkedIn accounts posing as Oaktree employees, claiming to be recruiting for job opportunities at the firm. If you’ve encountered or become aware of any suspicious activity, please alert oaktreelinkedin@oaktreecapital.com and share any relevant messages and screenshots for reference. We’re working closely with LinkedIn to address this issue as soon as possible. For important disclosures, please visit http://www.oaktreecapital.com/socialmedia and https://www.oaktreecapital.com/fraud-and-phishing.