Yatan Blumenthal Vargas
I've spent the past 15 years working at the intersection of science, startups, and human systems — building accelerators, coaching founders, and facilitating teams across Europe, Africa, and Latin America. My current focus is brain health and ending neurodegeneration.
Now
- Operations Steward at CerebrumDAO — a biotech funding and building engine focused on solving neurodegeneration
- Building products at Guacamaya Lab — practical software, built from problems I run into myself
- Supporting founders through Founder Institute
- Certified Search Inside Yourself teacher — mindfulness and emotional intelligence for teams
Previously
- CoLab Lead at RnDAO — pushing CollabTech and Web3 organisational design forward
- Venture Partner at Infinita VC — sourcing startups and doing due diligence in Latin America
- COO at BetahausX — built and ran accelerators for Deutsche Bahn, Volkswagen, Siemens, Samsung and others
- Co-founder at Hardware.co — Europe's first hardware accelerator
- Country Manager at La Ruche Qui Dit Oui in Germany and Spain — built a community of 900 farmers and 50 consumer groups
Writing
Essays and unfinished thoughts at /writing — on operating a portfolio of ventures, brain health, DeSci, and what I'm learning as I go.