Martin Varsavsky is a serial entrepreneur and the General Partner and Founder of VAS Ventures. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Martin Varsavsky is a serial entrepreneur and the General Partner and Founder of VAS Ventures, an early-stage investment vehicle based in Madrid, Spain. He has founded over ten companies across telecommunications, renewable energy, biotechnology, fertility medicine, autonomous vehicles, and artificial intelligence over the past 30 years. VAS Ventures targets Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, and Growth Stage companies, primarily focusing on mobility, mobile, SaaS, health-tech, and bio-tech sectors. The firm invests globally but maintains its strategic center in Spain, with a reported average check size of €250,000 per mobility or healthcare startup. Varsavsky typically leads or actively co-invests, notably partnering with German publishing house Axel Springer since 2019. His portfolio includes notable companies such as 23andMe, Forward, Tumblr, Prelude Fertility (now Inception Fertility), Ample, and Voyage. He is also a professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia University, NYU, and IE, and publicly advocates for cross-disciplinary approaches combining biology, technology, and data science to extend human lifespan.
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