# Access Industries

> Access Industries is a VC fund in New York backing E-Commerce and Software. See 96 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 96
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/access-industries/
- Website: http://www.accessindustries.com

Access Industries is a privately held industrial group with long-term holdings worldwide, that focuses on natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, real estate and venture capital.Founded in 1986 by Len Blavatnik, an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Access is an international industrial concern with strategicinvestments in the United States, Europe and South America. We have corporate offices in New York, London and Moscow.Our holdings include a number of market-leading companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $9M–$212M |
| Series B | $15M–$127M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| E-Commerce | 13 | 14% |
| Software | 11 | 11% |
| Health Care | 8 | 8% |
| Biotechnology | 8 | 8% |
| FinTech | 7 | 7% |

120 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 14 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 14 | 15% |
| Series A | 13 | 14% |
| Series C | 12 | 13% |
| Series D | 8 | 8% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 34 | 35% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 6% |
| Germany | 4 | 4% |
| Israel | 3 | 3% |
| China | 2 | 2% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Len Blavatnik | Founder | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/len-blavatnik |
| Dan Becker | Principal - Biotechnology | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-becker |
| Daniel Shinar | Head of Tech Investments | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-shinar |
| Guillaume d’Hauteville | Vice Chairman | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-d-hauteville |
| Ivan Nechaev | VP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivan-nechaev-9104 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| All Things Butter | All Things Butter provides organic butter. | $4.9M | Seed | Apr 16, 2026 |  |
| VAST Data | VAST Data is a software company bringing an end to complex storage tiering and unlocking the ability to use flash across the enterprise. Its managed storage software unlocks the value of data and modernizes data centers in preparation for the era of AI computing. It delivers real-time performance to all data and overcomes the historic cost barriersto building all-flash data centers.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York. | $1B | Series F | Apr 09, 2026 |  |
| Vima Therapeutics | Vima Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company.Vima Therapeutics creates a new era in treatments for dystonia and related movement disorders. | $40M | Series A | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Zyg | Zyg offers a platform that helps users discover, buy, and manage consumer health products through curated bundles and guided choices. It serves as a multidisciplinary design agency that supports graphic identity, product and packaging design, exhibition and installation planning, website creation, and digital experience development. The firm offersservices in strategy, research, visual identity, UI/UX design, content development, and production coordination. It combines creative and analytical expertise—including design analysts, content creators, and visual producers—to guide clients through complex project workflows. The agency focuses on turning ideas into cohesive brand experiences across both physical and digital channels. | $58M | Seed | Mar 05, 2026 |  |
| Vima Therapeutics | Vima Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company.Vima Therapeutics creates a new era in treatments for dystonia and related movement disorders. | $60M | Series A | May 29, 2025 |  |
| NEST | NEST is a research lab for scientific discovery and development that offers artificial Intelligence and cosmeceutical Research. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| DailyPay | DailyPay offers a platform that allows employees to access their earned wages before their scheduled payday. The service integrates with employer payroll systems and provides tools for financial wellness. DailyPay aims to improve employee retention and engagement through flexible pay access. | $100M | Debt Financing | Oct 24, 2024 |  |
| Numeric | Numeric is an AI-native accounting automation platform designed to streamline and accelerate the month-end close process. It centralizes transaction data from ERPs, bank feeds, CSVs, and more, enabling real-time visibility into financial operations. Numeric automates account reconciliations, journal entries, and flux variance explanations byleveraging machine learning and AI. It provides a task-management workflow to manage close items, while its Analytics Suite supports detailed variance reporting, anomaly detection, and management reporting. The platform also supports cash management through automated matching of bank transactions to ledger entries. Numeric’s system aims to reduce manual accounting work, improve control, and surface meaningful financial insights. | $28M | Series A | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| SirenOpt | SirenOpt is accelerating sustainable and smart manufacturing of advanced materials using intelligent characterization and real-time decision-making to drive the creation of innovative, high-performance products that fuel the advancement of society. SirenOpt was founded in 2022 as a spin-out from the UC Berkeley Chemical Engineering Department.SirenOpt is pioneering a paradigm shift in advanced materials characterization by leveraging cold atmospheric plasma, machine learning and predictive analytics to non-destructively create a uniquely distinctive, multifaceted material fingerprint in real-time. SirenOpt transforms measurement blind spots into rich multi-layered material insights, which enable intelligent performance-centric decision-making. SirenOpt thus accelerates R&D and process optimization, enhances product performance, and delivers higher production quality to maximize value in both in-line and off-line applications. SirenOpt’s manufacturing intelligence platform has demonstrated use cases across battery, aerospace, semiconductor, electronic and many other advanced manufacturing segments in both inline production and offline tool deployments. | $6.6M | Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| All Things Butter | All Things Butter provides organic butter. | $2.8M | Seed | May 13, 2024 |  |

10 of 96 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bessemer Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bessemer-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Blumberg Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blumberg-capital) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Kinnevik](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investment-ab-kinnevik) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Rocket Internet](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rocket-internet) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Access Industries invest in?

Access Industries invests primarily in E-Commerce, Software and Health Care startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 96 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Access Industries's check size?

Access Industries typically joins rounds of $9M–$212M at Series A and $15M–$127M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Access Industries participates in.

### How do I contact Access Industries?

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### Who are the partners at Access Industries?

The team at Access Industries includes Len Blavatnik (Founder), Dan Becker (Principal - Biotechnology) and Daniel Shinar (Head of Tech Investments), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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