Matias Szarfer

Matias Szarfer is the founder of Venture City, an AI-powered venture studio that builds, ships and runs companies autonomously. Before this, he was CTO and co-founder of Trialing, a digital health startup that reached roughly 90% market share in Southern Europe with 200+ hospital partnerships.

He's been coding since age 11, won HackUPC 2021 building one of the first AI website generators, placed 4th at the MongoDB Hackathon in SF, and contributed to privacy-preserving contact-tracing protocol design at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre at 21. At 17, he also built a college app that hit 200K+ downloads and got featured on Spanish TV.

What makes Matias exceptional is the rare combination of relentless shipping velocity and serious technical depth, paired with a track record that spans both viral consumer products and high-stakes B2B infrastructure. He thinks in systems but moves like a hacker, bootstrapped Venture City to a paying customer within hours of launch, and has spoken at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva alongside publishing oncology research. Grew up in Barcelona, thinking globally — the kind of builder who treats company creation itself as the product to be automated.