Vargas
Investor · Stockholm, Sweden · Europe
Vargas is an impact company builder and incubator founded in 2014 that develops new ventures from the ground up, based on vertical integration and close customer collaboration. It now acts as an active, long-term owner of the companies it has incubated, which span energy storage, steelmaking, hydrogen, home energy-tech and textile recycling.
Invests inIndustrial & ManufacturingSpace & DefenseEducation
In its own wordsdecarbonizationenergy storagegreen steelhydrogentextile recyclingclimate tech
Your fit with Vargas
Four questions about your startup
See how your round matches what it backs, point by point.
Or find every investor that fitsVargas lists 6 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are Industrial & Manufacturing (50%), Space & Defense (20%) and Education (20%). 67% of its companies are based in Sweden. It invests most often alongside Kinnevik, Norrsken VC and Boundary Holding.
No funding round on record names Vargas yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 8th | 6 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 85th | 50% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers6100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 50% | 7% |
| Space & Defense | 20% | 3% |
| Education | 20% | 7% |
| Consumer | 10% | 3% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Vargas head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
6 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aira makes clean energy technology accessible and affordable for homes with heat pumps at the heart of their solutions | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Arctial is conducting a feasibility study for low-carbon aluminium production in Finland | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company manufactures batteries with a lower carbon footprint and builds them into solutions to make the world a cleaner place. | Industrial & ManufacturingSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | ||
| Polarium develops smart battery management and storage solutions | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Stegra produces near-zero emission steel using green hydrogen and green iron. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company decarbonizes and dewastes the textile industry through textile-to-textile recycling | Space & DefenseConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- vargasholding.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 6
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
Get Vargas' profile as data
Pull Vargas' portfolio, co-investors and changes through one API key or MCP, open every portfolio row, compare it with other firms, and get an email when it adds a company or files a fund.
Work email, sign-in link by email. Already have an account? Log in- Ask AI5 plain-English investor searches a day
- Full listsEvery portfolio row and two-firm overlap
- API and MCP100 REST or MCP calls a month, one key
- AlertsFollow 5 investors for portfolio and fund changes
$ curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://api.vcinfo.io/v1/firms/vargasholding.com
# also
GET /v1/firms/vargasholding.com/portfolio
GET /v1/firms/vargasholding.com/coinvestors
GET /v1/firms/vargasholding.com/news