Media and Telecommunications
Natural Resources and Chemicals
Venture Capital / Technology
Real Estate
Entertainment
Biotechnology
Endowment
Investing in Transformative Companies
We deploy long-term capital to transformative companies that deliver today’s most innovative products and services to the market and exceptional value to investors.
We continually identify new strategic investment opportunities, and work with both emerging and established companies to generate significant growth over time.
Access Biotechnology, a newly formed strategic investment arm specializing in therapeutic platforms and products, is the latest testament to our cross-industry expertise and experience as we increase our focus on innovative and impactful life science-related investments in the years ahead.
Access Industries is headquartered in New York with additional offices in London and Moscow.
Investments in over
30
countries
Investments with over
$35B+
value
Operated
for
37
years
Len Blavatnik: Global Industrialist, Founder and Chairman of Access Industries
Len Blavatnik is a global industrialist and philanthropist with over 36 years of experience in deploying long-term capital and transforming companies into market leaders delivering exceptional returns on investment. Born in Odesa, Ukraine, he is a dual citizen of the U.S. and UK.
In 1986, Mr. Blavatnik founded Access Industries, a privately-held industrial group based in the U.S. Access owns strategic and diversified investments around the world in media and entertainment, natural resources and commodities, real estate, venture capital, and biotechnology.
A self-made billionaire, Mr. Blavatnik’s financial acumen and entrepreneurial instincts have resulted in a successful track record of investments and a reputation as a visionary and synergistic investor.
In the media and entertainment sector, Mr. Blavatnik has created a media platform for the 21st century built on investments in disruptive technologies, content platforms, and production companies. In addition to Warner Music Group, Access’ TME holdings include DAZN, the leading digital sports content streaming company, Deezer, the high-resolution online music streaming service with over 15 million active monthly users, Access Entertainment, which invests in premium-quality television, film, theater, and other transformational companies.
In the industrials sector, Access’ investment in LyondellBasell Industries was widely heralded as one of the greatest deals in Wall Street history. Access currently owns approximately 22% of the company. Access also owns Clal Industries, one of Israel’s leading investment companies with a portfolio encompassing heavy industry, biotechnology, hi-tech, and energy companies. Access Technology Ventures (ATV), Mr. Blavatnik’s venture capital and growth technology arm, invests in and builds foundational companies that impact millions of customers across the consumer and enterprise technology ecosystems. ATV’s portfolio encompasses many leading technology companies in the U.S. and abroad including DigitalOcean and Opendoor.
Mr. Blavatnik’s real estate investments through Access Real Estate are driving significant transformation. The development of the Faena District in Miami Beach, an eight-block cultural neighborhood has revitalized the mid-beach area with more than one million square feet of hotels, residential condominiums, a cultural center, and retail complex. Similarly, Access’ investment in the Faena Buenos Aires project has transformed Puerto Madero into one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in Argentina. Access’ real estate portfolio also includes iconic hotel properties around the world including Hollywood’s landmark Sunset Tower Hotel and the Four Seasons-managed properties of the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera and the Ocean Club Bahamas.
Mr. Blavatnik also invests in select external funds using an endowment-style approach.
In addition to his business interests, Mr. Blavatnik is a well-respected and active global philanthropist. The Blavatnik Family Foundation, a 501(c)(3) private foundation is exclusively self-funded. Over the past decade, it has contributed more than $1 billion to 250 institutions worldwide. To learn more about the Foundation’s many philanthropic activities and initiatives, visit its website at www.blavatnikfamilyfoundation.org.
Mr. Blavatnik is also engaged in numerous educational, scientific, and cultural activities, sitting on the boards of Tel Aviv University and Carnegie Hall, and serving as a member of the Harvard Global Advisory Council. Mr. Blavatnik was knighted in the 2017 Birthday Honours for service to philanthropy.
Born in the former Soviet Union in 1957, Mr. Blavatnik attended Moscow State University before emigrating with his family to the U.S. in 1978. He earned a master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University in 1981, became a U.S. citizen in 1984, and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1989. He became a citizen of the UK in 2010. Mr. Blavatnik has been married for over 20 years and has five children.
Blavatnik Family Foundation
A cornerstone of the Blavatnik Family Foundation is the belief that science and education hold the key to unlocking the vast potential for improving the human condition.
Through charitable contributions to leading academic and research institutions, the Foundation supports scientists in early stage research and discovery who hold the promise of transformational change in the way we approach health and treat and cure disease. The Foundation also supports international schools of business and government to educate and inspire the next generation of global leaders.
The Foundation is passionate about creativity and donates to world-class art and cultural institutions to preserve beauty and history in all its various forms. It also gives to local organizations that care for underserved communities.
The Foundation has contributed over the years more than $1 billion to hundreds of scientific, educational, cultural, and other charitable institutions.
The Blavatnik Archive
The Blavatnik Archive is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to preserving and disseminating primary resources that contribute to the study of 20th-century Jewish and world history, with a special emphasis on World War I, World War II, and the interwar period. The Archive was founded in 2005 by the American/British industrialist and philanthropist Len Blavatnik to reflect his commitment to cultural heritage, explore his interest in historical events and people, and expand his support for primary resource–based scholarship and education.
There are over 120,000 items in the Archive’s collections in modern Jewish History & Culture, World Wars I & II, and Soviet Russia.