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Ivan Maryasin

GM, Growth for Business Banking, OakNorth. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Ivan Maryasin co-founded and served as CEO of Monite, an embedded finance startup providing APIs for invoicing, accounts payable, and expense management workflows. Prior to Monite's acquisition by OakNorth, he led growth at German B2B neobank Penta and worked at People.ai.

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Maryasin: Fintech infrastructure has no viable low-cost MVP
“For us, what we see is that there is no real MVP in this market. Like if people come to us and say, Hey, I want to be a build.com for my clients. I can't give them like a scrappy little solution that doesn't really work. I have to give them something a lot mor…”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 16:42 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Maryasin: Monite charges per active SME per module, plus take rates
“We don't price based on API calls. We price for active SME customer per module per month. So it's basically a scalable SaaS model. And then if people buy payments and some financial services for months, we also have a take rate in that.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 4:46 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Monite relocates engineering talent to Georgia to avoid Western tax burdens
“We usually relocate people to Georgia also from, you know, like, ex-Ukrainians, ex-Russians, ex-Belorussians, like, from all across, very strong tech talent and no crazy European or US Texas, that would basically mean that we can only run half of that size of …”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 12:29 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Maryasin: Monite has spent over $5M developing its product
“I think a bit over five for sure.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 17:54 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Maryasin: Capital on Tap is Monite's Largest Signed Customer
“And for example, the biggest customer we signed so far is actually Capital and Tap. I'm a credit card provider for SME in the UK, and they already have all this, like, 300 SME customers.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 2:21 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Maryasin: Monite typically signs deals above $30,000 per year
“I would say we typically sign deals now ever, ever, everywhere above 30,000 per year, and we'll be growing this very, very quickly as we grow in customer accounts.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 4:12 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Monite raised a $10M seed across two tranches from Point72 and Third Prime
“And then we raised a larger seed around the two portions, five and five in 21 and 22. And so our total seed was ten million dollars led by .72 ventures and third prime. And the last portion of seed came in in December, 2022.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 8:51 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Monite has about 20 platform customers after tripling base in six months
“So we have about 20 platform customers and basically growing, I wouldn't say exponentially, but we have a very good growth rate. We basically three X customer base in the last six months.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 9:42 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
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Maryasin: Monite employs 50 people with 80% in product and tech
“So we have 50 people full-time, and 80% of the team is actually product and tech.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 11:26 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR
Maryasin: API infrastructure revenue lags due to sales cycles and integrations
“In infrastructure, real revenues always lag behind because there is a longer sales cycle, then people have to integrate, then minimal commitments kick in, and only then they start seeing sort of excess usage.”
Ivan Maryasin Aug 30, 2023 ▶ 13:15 Why He Spent $5m on Fintech API MVP, 20 Customers Today and $20k in MRR

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