About Levensohn Venture Partners and Levensohn Swiss

Pascal Levensohn is the founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners LLC and President of Levensohn Swiss Sàrl.

He has spent over three decades as a professional director, building a body of work on stewardship and corporate governance. He first served as a public-company director in 1993 and has been a trusted advisor to a select group of family offices since 1996.

Through investment partnerships affiliated with Levensohn Venture Partners, Pascal has invested over $600 million in early-stage technology startups since 1996. He served as a director of the National Venture Capital Association from 2007 to 2011 and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He taught the next generation of venture capitalists as a Kauffman Fellows faculty member from 2006 to 2021 and currently advises Cambridge University's leadership on strategy and governance matters related to the Cambridge Innovation Hub.

How it started

1981

After two years at Bankers Trust Company, Pascal began his career on Wall Street with seven years of investing in merger arbitrage, primarily at The First Boston Corporation in New York. He moved to San Francisco in 1990 to join Blum Capital as a partner, where he focused on long-term active investing in public and private companies.

1994

Pascal began building his independent practice in 1994, and has served clients continuously through Levensohn Venture Partners and Levensohn Swiss Sàrl (and its predecessors) since 1996.

2014 to present

Since 2014, Pascal has practiced a diversified global investing strategy, investing in seed and early-stage startups across Aerospace, Augmented Reality, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Bio Informatics, and Neurodegeneration. In 2021 Pascal moved to Geneva, Switzerland.

About Pascal

Pascal is affiliated with Dolby Family Ventures (San Francisco, California), Susman Ventures (Houston, Texas), Arden Road Investments (New York, New York), and the Gideon Hixon Fund (Santa Barbara, California).

After living in the San Francisco Bay Area for 31 years, Pascal moved to Geneva in 2021 with his wife, German author Mélanie Levensohn.

Pascal holds an AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he was raised; he is of French-Canadian, Romanian, and Austrian descent and is fluent in French and Spanish.

Current Board and Advisory Roles

In April 2026, Pascal was appointed Chair of the Global Advisory Board for the Cambridge Innovation Hub at the University of Cambridge, where he advises the University’s leadership on scaling deep tech and life sciences commercialization.

Pascal currently serves as fiduciary director or formal board observer on several US- and Europe-based venture-backed companies, including:

  • Chair, DigiLens, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)

  • Director, Cure Network Dolby Acceleration Partners (San Francisco, CA, USA)

  • Board Observer, Salvia BioElectronics (Eindhoven, Netherlands)

  • Board Observer, Vandria SA (Lausanne, Switzerland)

  • Chairman, Investment Committee, Dolby Family Ventures

Appointments

Pascal Levensohn has taught and lectured on venture capital, board governance, and corporate stewardship at leading institutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Current

  • Chair, Cambridge Innovation Hub Global Advisory Board, Cambridge University

  • Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, Cambridge University

Past

  • Faculty Member, Kauffman Fellows Program (2006–2021) — taught best practices for VC-backed company board members

  • Trustee, American Academy in Berlin (2016-2019)

  • Co-Chair, Steering Committee Socrates Society, Aspen Institute (2007-2009)

  • Chair, Business Leadership Council, San Francisco Jewish Community Federation (2007-2009)

Pascal’s Conflict Resolution Work

Conflict Resolution and Shareholder Advocacy

Pascal’s conflict-resolution work spans private lawsuits on behalf of victims of financial fraud — most notably the successful Tyco litigation (2004–2008), which he championed on behalf of Hixon family members against Tyco International and former CEO Dennis Kozlowski.

He has restructured several closely held operating companies in industries ranging from commercial farming to geothermal water, and has guided over a dozen single-family offices through comprehensive management and governance reorganizations.