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Martin Varsavsky

Founder of Gameto

Alcobendas, Community of Madrid

Overview 

Martin Varsavsky is the Chairman of Inception Prelude Fertility, Overture, and Gameto, and the CEO of Jazzya. With a background in founding and leading successful ventures like Fon and Jazztel, he has made significant investments in various sectors and stages, including companies like Outdid, Vitara Biomedical, and TympaHealth, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and strategic business development.

Work Experience 

  • Founder & Chairman

    2021 - Current

    Gameto is a new breed of biotechnology company focused on understanding and eliminating infertility and menopause.

Gameto is a biotechnology company developing therapeutics of the female reproductive system using cell engineering.

Raised $73,000,000.00 from Yes VC, Jack Abraham, Two Sigma Ventures, SALT Fund, Myelin VC, Plum Alley, Chelsea M.R. Hirschhorn, FJ Labs, Insight Partners and TA Ventures.

  • Founder & CEO

    2018

  • Founder & Chairman

    2017

    Overture is a company that will revolutionize embryology equipment.

Overture Life is a biotechnology company committed to making vitro fertilization more accessible to everyone.

Raised $45,000,000.00 from What If Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Evolution Ventures, Wisdom Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Google Ventures, Felicis, Khosla Ventures and Marc Benioff.

  • Chairman and Founder

    2015

Prelude Fertility is a network of top-tier fertility clinics offering comprehensive fertility care.

Raised $200,000,000.00 from West.

  • Chairman

    2006 - 2016

  • CEO

    2006 - 2015

    I founded the company in 2005, came up with the patented invention of the global federation of routers who share WiFi and the concept that if you share WiFi at home you can roam the world for free connecting to other people who do the same. Fon has grown to be the largest WiFi network in the world. As of January of 2014 we had 12.3 million active hotspots. Our investors are a phenomenal global group including Google Index Atomico Sequoia Microsoft BT DT and lately Qualcomm.

  • CEO

    1999 - 2003

    In 1998 I started Jazztel, now Spain's second largest publicly traded telecom operator.

  • CEO

    1990 - 1997

    I founded Viatel in 1990 on the back of Call Back, an invention of mine that allowed international phone calls to be routed via the USA. In 1996 I came up with the idea of building the first privately owned Pan European fiber optic network. Overall invested $200K in the company and when I sold my shares in 1999 Viatel was worth $1.2bn

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