# VAS Ventures

> VAS Ventures is a VC fund backing Health Care and Artificial Intelligence. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Madrid, Spain
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Dec 2019
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vas-ventures/
- Website: https://vas.ventures/

VAS Ventures is a VC fund in Madrid focused on Health Care and Artificial Intelligence. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.4M–$10M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$31M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 3 | 17% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 17% |
| Retail | 2 | 11% |
| Software | 2 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 11% |

62 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 44% |
| Series A | 4 | 22% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 17% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |
| Series D | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 61% |
| Spain | 3 | 17% |
| Mexico | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Martin Varsavsky | General Partner and Founder | 25 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/martin-varsavsky |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mox | Mox mission is to use technology and smart operations in order to provide an end-to-end last mile logistics solution that allows us to maintain a sustainable relationship with our workforce, our environment, and our customers. | $3.3M | Series A | Dec 23, 2019 |  |
| Jüsto | 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 |  |
| Enuu | Connected Epods and Ecargos. | $1.4M | Seed | Sep 10, 2019 |  |
| Forward | 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 | 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 | 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. |  |  | Mar 01, 2019 |  |
| Visla Labs | Visla Labs is an AI medical diagnostics platform | $3M | Seed | Oct 30, 2018 |  |
| Jawbone Health | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Rhapsody Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rhapsody-venture-partners-llc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [NOMO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nomo-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACE & Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-and-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ACE Investment Partners Ltd.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ace-investment-partner) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Axel Springer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axel-springer) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does VAS Ventures invest in?

VAS Ventures invests primarily in Health Care, Artificial Intelligence and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 18 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 VAS Ventures's check size?

VAS Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.4M–$10M at Seed and $3.3M–$31M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds VAS Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact VAS Ventures?

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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.

### 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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