VAS Ventures
VC Fund
Madrid, Spain
VAS Ventures is a VC fund in Madrid focused on Software and Health Care. VAS Ventures is Martin Varsavsky's early stage investment fund. They are looking for companies whose innovative founders think big and are courageous enough to shape the future. Martin is a serial entrepreneur, mentor, professor of entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School and investor.As a founder, he has built 5 successful companies,Viatel, Jazztel, Ya.com, Fon and Prelude. Viatel, Jazztel, and Ya.com all sold for over $700m. As an investor, he backed fascinating companies such as 23andMe, Eolia, Smarthings, Tumblr and Aura Biosciences.VAS Ventures’ key for success is offering hands-on mentoring from Martin.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 11%
Last updated:
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Industries VAS Ventures invests in
Stages VAS Ventures invests in
Countries VAS Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.4M–$10M
- Series A
- $3.3M–$31M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (16%)
- Health Care 3 (16%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (16%)
- Retail 2 (11%)
- Delivery 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (42%)
- Series A 4 (21%)
- Funding Round 2 (11%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 11 (58%)
- Spain 3 (16%)
- Mexico 1 (5%)
- Switzerland 1 (5%)
- United Kingdom 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Martin Varsavsky
General Partner and Founder
|
General Partner and Founder | Total investments: 25 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mox is the fastest-growing last-mile delivery group in Spain. We offer technology and expertise for providing optimal delivery experiences for ecommerces, restaurants, SME and corporations. By 2022 we are employing more than 1.000 couriers in 50 Spanish cities. | $3.3M / Series A / Dec 23, 2019 | ||
| Jüsto is an online delivery-only grocery store chain that offers a wide range of fruits, vegetables, meat products, beauty products, and house supplies that can be delivered at every consumers' doorstep. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Mexico City. | $10M / Seed / Nov 06, 2019 | ||
| Connected Epods and Ecargos. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 26, 2019 | ||
| Forward is a startup redesigning the way healthcare is delivered using all the technologies healthcare has neglected such as sensors, mobile, and AI.Forward was founded in January 2016 by former executives and engineering leaders from Google and Uber and led by serial entrepreneur Adrian Aoun. Forward is funded by investors and entrepreneursincluding First Round Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google/Alphabet chairman), Marc Benioff (Salesforce founder), Joe Lonsdale (Palantir founder), Joshua Kushner (Oscar co-founder), and Garrett Camp (Uber co-founder). | Series C / May 01, 2019 | ||
| Synthesia provides an AI video-generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages. The service allows users to create, edit, and share videos quickly, making it suitable for various applications like training and marketing. Users can utilize fully cloneable AI videotemplates and create studio-quality videos directly in their browser. | $3.1M / Seed / Apr 25, 2019 | ||
| Verse is the payments technology platform that takes the friction out of storing, spending and sharing money. The mobile app allows you to share payments easily, instantly and with no hidden fees and also allows you to choose whether your transactions are private or public so that you can have fun while keeping track of your financial activities.Verse is available for both Android and iOS-based phones and transactions are completed in less than two business days. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Barcelona, Spain. | Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 01, 2019 | ||
| Visla Labs is an AI medical diagnostics platform | $3M / Seed / Oct 30, 2018 | ||
| Jawbone Health helps its users to catch lifestyle diseases early and guide them towards a healthier life. The company was founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California. | Convertible Note / Oct 15, 2018 | ||
| Shujinko is a software as a service (SaaS) that enables organizations to quickly build compliant environments, this allows customers to iterate on business capabilities quickly. Shujinko’s approach is to bring cloud compliance know-how together with automation to make compliance and audits easy for our customers. Shujinko helps its customersconfidently prepare for an audit by using intuitive cloud compliance automation for the vast majority of the technical controls that are error-prone and time-consuming to set up, as well as the evidence collection and documentation that takes teams away from the work they love to do.Scott Schwan and Matt Wells founded it in June 2018, with its headquarters in Seattle in Washington. | $2.8M / Seed / Oct 11, 2018 | ||
| WaveSense is commercializing technology developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory that has proven to be a successful in a military context. After years of development, MIT’s ultra-wide band radar was first deployed in Afghanistan in 2013. The technology allowed military vehicles to stay on previously-mapped routes by matching radar measurements with mapsof subterranean geology. | $3M / Seed / Sep 06, 2018 | ||
| See all 19 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does VAS Ventures invest in?
VAS Ventures invests primarily in Software, Health Care and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does VAS Ventures invest in?
VAS Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed and $3.3M–$31M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not VAS Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds VAS Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at VAS Ventures?
The team at VAS Ventures includes Martin Varsavsky (General Partner and Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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