Martin Repetto
Small Business Owner, Studio Lead, and Manager in Barcelona, Spain
At 40+ years old I consider myself a software industry veteran. I have been working for the past 25 years in the development of e-commerce platforms, dynamic web development, mobile applications and video games. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from UAI (Universad Abierta Interamericana) and a very extensive technical background with a laser focus business driven mindset that allowed me to level up my career from middle management to the executive level in a very short amount of time. After that great experience and a lot of knowledge acquired I moved to Buenos Aires and joined Sabarasa Entertainment as COO to help lead and grow a studio of over 50 developers and artists that shipped over 10 games in 2 years for PC, Nintendo and Playstation.
Following that experience I joined Minor Studios as a project manager for the development of Atmosphir. I’ve become the CEO and closed an initial funding round of 2M USD to build a team of 35 developers in the creation of Atmosphir, a video game creation tool that ended up as a runner up on TechCrunch 50 in 2008 and won numerous awards. Atmosphir was a pre-minecraft user generated content platform that allowed anyone to create and share worlds online. 285k worlds were created and the game was played by 4 million people.
After Minor Studios I joined Making Fun, Inc. as VP of Product with the task of overseeing the success and creation of the company games with some notables such as Hidden Express and Eternium. Making Fun games were featured many times by Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple with combined downloads of well over 90 million.
In the same innovation line and after studying a lot about Bitcoin since 2010 and the massive power of the Blockchain technology it was a no brainer for me to match Voxelus with the blockchain and thus creating a new digital currency. The Voxel was introduced in 2015 and was received with critical acclaim by the gaming and crypto world. It initially got over 1365 bitcoins in a cryptocurrency fundraising, known as an ICO.
I’ve decided to move permanently to Spain in 2019 with the goals of making new business investments in different areas aside from technology innovation. I’ve co-founded BlackPony Ventures SL, for this reason and we currently own two Centros Ideal beauty salons employing over 20 people and have plans to launch new companies in 2020.