Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky is a serial entrepreneur, professor and investor who has founded 8 companies in the United States and Europe in the last 30 years.

In 2015, backed by Lee Equity, Martin founded Prelude Fertility/Inception, now the largest chain of fertility
clinics in the USA. In 2017, Martin founded Overture Life, focused on automating the embryology lab. Overture is backed by Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff and Allen & Company.

In 2018 Martin founded Goggo Network, an Axel Springer/Softbank backed startup that is helping develop
the legal and engineering framework for fleets of autonomous vehicles and plans to deploy these fleets.

Martin Varsavsky is also an investor through Jazzya, his family office, and through funds with a combined pool of $200 million. 

These funds are Varsavsky Axel Springer or VAS Ventures, which does seed and early stage investing, and Martin Varsavsky Bankinter or MVB, which does late stage investing and funds.

At the start of his career in the 1990s, Martin built Viatel, which became the first pan-European  fiber optic
network, followed by Jazztel, a telecom operator. In the early 2000s, Martin built Ya.com, which was sold to Deutsche Telekom for $650 million. Martin subsequently co-founded Eolia, together with Miguel Salis, one of Spain's largest renewable energy companies which was sold in 2019.

Martin Varsavsky occasionally teaches entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School. He is also, since
2014, a member of the board of Axel Springer SE.