The venture builder for programmable money.

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The Counter

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The Vault

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The Road

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The Handshake

MONTEYAMA

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THESIS

Everything By Our Hands.

LUGANO · SWITZERLAND

Monteyama is a venture builder. We originate, structure, brand, and build our own companies, and we stay in control from the first sketch to the exit. We do not pick winners from a deal flow. We make them, one at a time.

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STABLECOIN RAILS

$33T

Settled over stablecoin rails in 2025, up 72 percent in a single year.

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VISA, SAME YEAR

$16.7T

The new rail already out-settles the old one.

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STABLECOIN RAILS

$33T

Settled over stablecoin rails in 2025, up 72 percent in a single year.

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VISA, SAME YEAR

$16.7T

The new rail already out-settles the old one.

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GLOBAL PAYMENT FLOWS

<1%

Volume without usability. Scale without experience.

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GLOBAL CRYPTO OWNERSHIP

741M

Global crypto owners in 2025, with everyday merchant acceptance still limited.

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GLOBAL PAYMENT FLOWS

<1%

Volume without usability. Scale without experience.

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GLOBAL CRYPTO OWNERSHIP

741M

Global crypto owners in 2025, with everyday merchant acceptance still limited.

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DIRECTION

The rails disappear. The experience stays.

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THE STACK

The Full Stack.

The Full Stack.

Most builders make apps. We build the layer beneath a category. Programmable money needs four things to disappear into daily life, so we are building all four. Some layers are live. Some are on the bench.

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The Counter

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The Counter

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The Counter

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The Vault

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The Vault

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The Vault

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The Road

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The Road

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The Road

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The Handshake

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The Handshake

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The Handshake

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THE PRISM

The Monteyama Prism.

We do not guess. Every opportunity refracts through four signals, reverse engineered from what already works in our portfolio. Four signals. One veto. If any signal fails, we pass.

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REVENUE

Flow

Real paying customers from the start. First invoice inside ninety days of launch. Cash in the door, not projections on a slide.

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REVENUE

Flow

Real paying customers from the start. First invoice inside ninety days of launch. Cash in the door, not projections on a slide.

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REVENUE

Flow

Real paying customers from the start. First invoice inside ninety days of launch. Cash in the door, not projections on a slide.

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MOAT

Product

Solves a sharp problem at the root. Category-creating or vertically deep, with a moat of its own. Incremental does not pass.

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MOAT

Product

Solves a sharp problem at the root. Category-creating or vertically deep, with a moat of its own. Incremental does not pass.

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MOAT

Product

Solves a sharp problem at the root. Category-creating or vertically deep, with a moat of its own. Incremental does not pass.

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REVENUE

Flow

Real paying customers from the start. First invoice inside ninety days of launch. Cash in the door, not projections on a slide.

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CAPITAL

Funding

A clear path to aligned capital, or economics that stand on their own early. Serious backers who respect sovereignty and execution.

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CAPITAL

Funding

A clear path to aligned capital, or economics that stand on their own early. Serious backers who respect sovereignty and execution.

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CAPITAL

Funding

A clear path to aligned capital, or economics that stand on their own early. Serious backers who respect sovereignty and execution.

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CAPITAL

Funding

A clear path to aligned capital, or economics that stand on their own early. Serious backers who respect sovereignty and execution.

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PEOPLE

Team

Serial operators and domain experts who have shipped before. Never first-timers learning on our capital.

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PEOPLE

Team

Serial operators and domain experts who have shipped before. Never first-timers learning on our capital.

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PEOPLE

Team

Serial operators and domain experts who have shipped before. Never first-timers learning on our capital.

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PEOPLE

Team

Serial operators and domain experts who have shipped before. Never first-timers learning on our capital.

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MOAT

Product

Solves a sharp problem at the root. Category-creating or vertically deep, with a moat of its own. Incremental does not pass.

Lugano is the laboratory. The only city running a full crypto economy in production, and we live in it.

400+

400+

MERCHANTS

In Lugano, accepting BTC and USDT at the counter.

No limit

No limit

MUNICIPAL PAYMENTS

Every invoice, from tax to parking fine, payable in crypto.

2,500+

2,500+

PLAN B FORUM

Attendees each October, in our city.

CHF 5M

CHF 5M

COMMITTED

By Tether and the city for Plan B phase two.

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PRESS

Press

PRESS RELEASES, NEWS AND THINKING FROM THE ATELIER. COMING SOON.

PRESS RELEASES, NEWS AND THINKING FROM THE ATELIER. COMING SOON.

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CLOSING

The mountain is climbed slowly. Nothing forced. Everything by our hands. Steady consistency over bursts.

Monteyama SA

Location

Lugano, Switzerland

Contact

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