# Sebastian Stranieri

> Sebastian Stranieri is a pre-seed investor at VU (Montevideo) backing EdTech and Software. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [VU](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vu-security)
- Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianstranieri
- Website: https://x.com/sstranieri

Sebastian Stranieri is a pre-seed investor at VU in Montevideo focused on EdTech and Software. Stranieri Sebastian founded VU Security with the aim to address the inherent authentication processes sensitive information vulnerabilities. VU anti fraud solutions enable companies to ensure that critical customer information is kept secure, ensuring that phishing attacks, pharming and DoS attacks are managed effectively.Born in Buenos Aires,Sebastian Stranieri passion for technology and computing began with the purchase of his first computer in 1989. Independent by nature and accustomed to hard work, after graduating from high school in 1997, Sebastian decided to follow his passion and started working in Trend. There he honed his skills in business and management, and also obtained certifications CISSP, TSCE and TMSE.By the end of 2006 Sebastian noted the difficulty of people remember many passwords and user names in order to gain access to secure networks. Given the experience of Trend Argentina, Sebastian saw an opportunity to introduce innovative security solution that greatly simplify the authentication process for secure networks.Ready to take the technological leap, left his job after nine years in order to create a set of software solutions focused on information security. Thus, with the advice of NXTP Labs, he founded VU Security in November 2007 with the mission to prevent online fraud and protect the identity of users, eliminating phishing attacks, pharming and social engineering attacks on financial institutions, private companies, government agencies and telecommunications companies also simplify the authentication process for end users.In less than a year, he signed a contract with Banco Credicoop in order to implement the Mobile Token for their entire online banking users.VU Security today has a broad customer base throughout Latin America, and is a Gold Member of international organizations focused on the nature of the authentication as FIDO Alliance, OIC and OATH Initiative. Also, VU was recognized by Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Ventures ranking 500, a comprehensive directory of 500 companies from over 2015 outstanding and innovative cybersecurity.In 2013, Sebastian Stranieri was awarded the Prize of the MIT Technology Review as one of the young innovators of Argentina and Uruguay. He has also received the Red Innova Challenge 2015 award - the competition looking for the most promising and innovative startups in the region in a multitude of categories in the Category Mobile. He has also been invited to speak at international technology events, for college students - and IAE Business School recently - and in television and media interviews graphics and online communication.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| EdTech | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Analytics | 1 | 50% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 50% |
| E-Learning | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Toket | Toket provides user-friendly APIs & no-code tools that empowers teams with no blockchain experience to easily create NFT-based applications. |  | Pre-Seed | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| HENRY | Henry trains software developers and data scientists for free in LatAm and helps them find a job remotely in exchange for a share of their future income. More than +1,000 companies from all around the world hire HENRY talent. | $10M | Series A | May 03, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kayyak Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kayyak-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amarena](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amarena) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DILA Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dila-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Draper University Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-university-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Emles Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emles-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kalei Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kalei-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About VU

VC Fund · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Sebastián Stranieri, is CEO and founder of VU Inc, a multinational company that provides secure and frictionless digital experiences for more than 350 million people over the world. Passionate about technology, he has more than two decades of experience in the cybersecurity industry. His career has always been driven by the desire to innovate insafer solutions that improve the quality of life of citizens and companies, and that is how VU was born. VU focuses on the new concept of “online persona” providing robust identity verification for its users, which allows a more holistic authentication paradigm. Through the combination of traditional cybersecurity controls with geolocation, biometrics and user behavior analysis based on machine learning, VU enables a continuous authentication process where the user is seen as a whole, rather than a set of credentials. In July 2021, VU announced a $12 million Series B funding round with investors such as Globant and Telefonica. Sebastian, is also an Endeavor entrepreneur, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2013 and selected by Forbes Argentina as one of the 30 Promises in 2017. His passion for what he does led him to win the Sadosky Award for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Chamber of the Argentine Software Industry (CESSI) in 2019. VU received several recognitions, such as: Cybersecurity Ventures ranking 500, Santander’s X100 and VISA - La Nación’s Innovation Award, in the category of payment methods and cybersecurity for developing new business models in financial services through the use of technology that mark socioeconomic trends, changes in consumption habits and payment methods and also improve the security of transactions, among many acknowledgments from Microsoft as partners and for our technology, such as: AI Latam Partner of the Year (2021), Global Finalists in IA and Government (2021) and Country Partner of the Year (Argentina, 2019 and Bolivia, 2020)

5 contacts available at VU.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sebastian Stranieri | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-stranieri |
| Diego Vazquez | CIO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-vazquez |
| Martiniano Aizaga | Mobile Security PM | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martiniano-aizaga |
| Nicolas Stranieri | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicolas-stranieri |
| Pablo Lima | Account Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pablo-lima |

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## FAQ

### What does Sebastian Stranieri invest in?

Sebastian Stranieri invests primarily in EdTech, Software and Analytics startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Argentina. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sebastian Stranieri last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sebastian Stranieri closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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