# Javier Marti

> Javier Marti is a Spanish telecommunications engineer, space-systems veteran, and the founder and CEO of Boulder-based Divirod. After working on European Space Agency missions, the ALMA observatory in Chile, and the U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network, he turned decades of radar, infrastructure, and environmental-monitoring experience toward a real-time platform for measuring water levels, floods, snow, and terrain change.

- **Role:** CEO and Founder at Divirod Inc.
- **Organizations:** Divirod Inc., National Ecological Observatory Network, European Southern Observatory, European Space Agency, ALMA Observatory, VSur - The Art of Spanish Wine
- **From:** Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
- **Nationality:** Spanish
- **Education:** Telecommunications Engineering, University of Málaga, PhD, time-domain electromagnetics for antenna and radar cross-section measurements, summa cum laude, Delft University of Technology
- **Known for:** Earned a PhD summa cum laude from Delft University of Technology., Named on U.S. Patent 6,469,672 for time-domain antenna measurement work., Named as an inventor on Divirod's reflectometer sensor patent application.

## Career timeline

- **1969** — Born in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain; he later grew up in Granada.
- **2001** — Served as head of the Technical Evaluation Unit at the European Space Agency.
- **2005-2009** — Co-founded VSur, a direct-to-customer Spanish wine importing venture, with his wife.
- **2007-2009** — Worked as Solar Orbiter system engineer at the European Space Agency.
- **2009-2012** — Worked in Chile as a lead system engineer for the ALMA observatory.
- **2011-2012** — Worked as an E-ELT project engineer at the European Southern Observatory.
- **2013-2016** — Led construction work for the National Ecological Observatory Network, serving as project manager and Head of Observatory.
- **2016** — Founded Divirod in Boulder to build real-time water-risk monitoring and analytics.
- **2021** — Divirod announced a seed round of more than $1 million led by Thin Line Capital and GoHub Ventures.
- **2023** — Divirod raised $3.6 million in bridge funding from GHD, TDK Ventures, and Thin Line Capital.
- **2026** — Divirod completed a GNSS-R terrain-monitoring demonstration with OKI in Fukuoka Prefecture and added Michael R. Dyson and Nicolas Sauvage to its board.

## Achievements

- Earned a PhD summa cum laude from Delft University of Technology.
- Named on U.S. Patent 6,469,672 for time-domain antenna measurement work.
- Named as an inventor on Divirod's reflectometer sensor patent application.
- Received an ESA Award for Corporate Team Achievement in 2010 for the Herschel-Planck satellites.
- Shared in the 2015 AIAA Space Systems Award given to the Herschel and Planck project team.
- Led major construction work for the U.S. National Ecological Observatory Network.
- Built Divirod into a water-intelligence company operating across multiple countries and serving infrastructure, public-sector, and industrial use cases.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Divirod appointed water-infrastructure executive Michael R. Dyson and TDK Ventures president Nicolas Sauvage to its board as it pursued broader commercial adoption.
- **2026-03** — Marti outlined plans to expand Divirod in Spain and said the company aimed to produce 2,000 to 3,000 devices annually during its 2026-2027 expansion phase.
- **2026-02** — Divirod and OKI completed a GNSS-R terrain-monitoring demonstration in Fukuoka Prefecture that detected small terrain movements for disaster-prevention use.
- **2024-07** — Divirod joined the SAS IoT partner ecosystem to combine its water data with AI and IoT analytics.
- **2024-04** — Marti appeared on the Category Visionaries podcast to discuss Divirod's market, partnerships, and his goal of building a Google Maps of water.

## Links

- Website: https://divirod.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiermarticanales
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/divirod
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4NdnLAXmUWpR37w3b_g3PA
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divirod_inc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/Divirod/

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Last updated: 2026-08-25