Varza was born in 1985 in Palo Alto, California, in a Zoroastrian Family. Her parents emigrated from Iran in 1979 during the Islamic Revolution. Varza obtained a bachelor's degree in French literature from UCLA, after an exchange year in Bordeaux. She enjoyed reading great French authors and philosophers such as the playwriter Molière, poet Baudelaire, philosophers Voltaire, Rousseau and humanist Rabelais.https://www.lesinrocks.com/actu/roxanne-varza-start-up-loveuse-de-palo-alto-a-paris-74430-05-03-2016/ At UCLA, her professors include Alain Mabanckou, a French-Congolese writer, known in Paris as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa","Prince of the absurd", The Economist, 7 July 2011. who won the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for his book Mémoires de porc-épic, a book that impressed her. In 2007, she joined Business France, then known as the French International Investment Agency. She advised Silicon Valley companies wishing to set up in France. Later, Varza decided to move to France for further studies. From 2009 to 2011, she pursued a dual degree between Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics, obtaining a master's degree in International Business and a degree in International Economic Policy.
