Andrew Zalasin brings an unusual combination of 25+ years as both a technology founder/operator and licensed attorney alongside his venture capital experience, having been involved in nearly 200 investments across multiple continents including early stakes in Facebook, Uber, Twitter, and Venmo. As General Partner at VU Venture Partners overseeing North America, Europe, and Latin America, he actively invests $100K-$10M across diverse categories from messaging and AI to transportation tech and health IT, spanning regions from the US and Canada to Africa, India, and Asia-Pacific.
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VU Venture Partners
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Consumer, Enterprise, Fintech, Health, Space
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$200K - $1M
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VU Venture Partners operates a global investment platform that combines a VC fund, private equity fund, and investor accelerator (Venture University) in one integrated structure, using an unusually large distributed team of 70+ investors to see ~20,000 deals per year and invest in only ~0.1% of them. The firm maintains truly global on-the-ground presence across six continents with headquarters spanning San Francisco, Hong Kong, Munich, Burgas, and São Paulo, while using Venture University to train fellows who feed directly into their investment teams and create a proprietary network for deal sourcing and portfolio support.
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