Martin Suarez

Martín Suárez is the Co-founder of SAFU, bringing deep protocol and DeFi experience to the company’s mission of turning on-chain insurance into a liquid, composable asset class. Before SAFU, he founded Debita, a DeFi lending protocol that reached approximately $14M in loan volume and integrated with all major Solidly forks, enabling users to use their veNFTs as collateral while retaining governance power. This background gives Martín a strong understanding of capital efficiency, collateral design, and DeFi incentives core elements in SAFU’s model of using staked ETH as coverage and representing insurance as a fungible token. Martín is also a START Fellow, a recognition he shares with his co-founder, underscoring their ambition and commitment as builders shaping the next generation of crypto-native financial infrastructure.