Marte Martin
My name is Marte Martin, I’m an independent Venture Associate doing business as Marte Martin Venture Associates, where I specialize in entrepreneurial finance.
Since 2014, I fulfill project-based needs, often acting on an interim basis or as Virtual/Fractional CFO, to help business managers and investors build great companies.
While based in Madrid (Spain), I run pop-up offices in London and New York City throughout the year.
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Early Years
Grew up in Madrid, Dublin, and Geneva
Middle child with seven siblings
Son of a medical doctor and a packaging & logistics professional
Fluent in Spanish and English, get by in French Ok
School
Middle School SEK International School Madrid - Dublin
High School Collège du Léman International School Versoix, Geneva
BS in Finance Concentration: Financial Management and Corporate Finance Scott College of Business Indiana State University
BS in Accounting BS in Economics Concentration: Public Accounting W. A. Franke College of Business Northen Arizona University
MBA IE Business School IE University Madrid
Pre Venture Associate Career
Indiana State University IT Department (three years): IT consultant, IT senior consultant, help desk, network management.
Dba Roma Pizza Restaurants, Flagstaff, AZ (4 years): co-founder and co-owner , general management, food service management (sold).
Grant Thornton (1 year): assurance associate, financial auditor.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)(Non-Active): Arizona Board of Accountancy, Arizona, USA.
Eisner Amper (3 years): financial auditor, senior financial auditor, financial advisory, corporate finance associate.
Family Office (4 years): financial controller, operations manager, real estate, student-housing, hospitality & catering.
Dba Marte Martin Venture Associates
Started practice in 2014 managing the finance & accounting of a handful of new companies / startups. Since then, I have provided finance support to more than 20 companies in different industries, with bureaus in Spain, UK and US, often on an interim basis or on-demand (fractional) as a Virtual CFO.
Notable engagements include mundoestudio.es, soydata.net, thinkyoung.eu, monocle.com, kioskafe.com, startupguide.com, ciudadanos-cs.org, eu-startups.com, akora.com. Priorly and as a CPA, engaged with dozens of companies in various industries while employed by firms Grant Thornton LLP and EisnerAmper LLP.
First Virtual CFO practice established in Spain and one of the first in Europe, with a focus in entrepreneurial finance.
Financial models and unit-economics frameworks developed for numerous new ventures that do work on the edge of product & enterprise innovation.
Assisted numerous ventures and organizations with fundraising.
Marte Martin Research and Articles
Guest writer and contributor for Think Young Think Tank, Startup Guide, EU Startups, HDMarte, and others (contact@martemartin.com for features).
Created applied market-research on hospitality & convenience retailing, publishing, data analytics talent, EU x youth talent, real estate tokenization, flexible living, and VR x sports.
Provided with research and advisory on innovation & entrepreneurial ecosystems to various organizations and governments.
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