- An organic cosmetics brand selling direct across the Baltics and into the Nordics and Germany.
- A replatform underway plus cross-border growth is the textbook checkout moment. Cosmetics Design
- Baltic and multi-market, exactly Montonio's merchant.
Six merchants that are ready for Montonio right now.
Each one is expanding across borders or replatforming its shop, which is the moment a merchant needs local payment methods and a better checkout. That is what Montonio does. The names are real and the reason to call each one is public and linked. The deal sizes are estimates, and every assumption on this page is adjustable.
Why Montonio, and why now.
Shoppers abandon a checkout that does not feel local: the wrong payment methods, an awkward flow, no option to pay later. Montonio fixes that, with local payment methods, a cleaner checkout, and buy-now-pay-later in one place, worth most the moment a merchant expands or replatforms. Reaching those merchants, built in-house, is three roles, an analyst to find them, a rep to book the meetings, and a head of business development to set the plan, which across your Vilnius and Tallinn teams runs roughly €120,000 to €200,000 a year all in, before tooling and before anyone has ramped.
Private BD Agency was founded on the experience inside the GTM team that grew Glia into a $1 billion valuation, and we run business development the way that experience taught us, built around the goal that matters to you, the growth in your valuation.
We do that part, without the headcount. The most useful thing we can do first is be useful, so the work below is already done: six merchants worth your time, each with a public reason to call.
The six below are each expanding across borders or replatforming, the exact moment checkout gets decided. They are where we would begin.
- A secondhand-fashion marketplace, profitable and scaling into new markets.
- A marketplace scaling cross-border is exactly where local checkout decides conversion. Tech.eu
- Estonian, on Montonio's doorstep.
- A prefab-buildings seller, around €75M revenue, with high-ticket products across many markets.
- High-ticket items are a perfect fit for buy-now-pay-later at checkout. Ecommerce News
- Cross-border and expanding.
- A listed multi-brand fashion retailer with a heavy multi-market CEE footprint.
- Every new market needs local payment methods, which Montonio provides. Answear
- A public growth push underway.
- A house of DTC brands running many Shopify stores across the Nordics and Baltics.
- One checkout layer across a brand portfolio is a strong fit. EU-Startups
- Finnish, with fresh capital.
- A Baltic sportswear brand pushing its direct e-shop and export.
- An export push benefits from better Baltic checkout and payment coverage. Enterprise Lithuania
- Lithuanian, mid-market.
Where it starts, and how far it goes.
- 01
The GTM Diagnostic
Step one is a read of your last twelve months that shows you what is working and worth more investment, what is quietly leaking, and how much of your growth is engineered rather than circumstantial, so the business-development decisions after it are sharper. It is yours to keep, and if we go further, the fee comes off your first month.
- 02
The Engine
We run your business development as part of your team, reaching the expanding and replatforming merchants every month so the pipeline fills and the meetings land, and you never hire the three roles it would otherwise take.
- 03
The Pathway
After a strong first quarter, if there is a mutual fit, the retainer halves and we move onto an equity pathway, taking a stake so our own money rides on the same growth yours does. The full read on how the work carries into your valuation comes with it.
A strong next round and a strong valuation are built on business development that is well built and well directed. What you get is a funnel built around the goal that matters at the phase you are in, judged on the meetings it books. The thirty-day exit runs through the first ninety days, the quarter we use to earn your trust and prove the value. If you would rather own it in-house from day one, there is also The Transfer: ninety days where we build the motion with your team and hand it over.
What we would show you next.
These six are a sample. We have mapped more merchants the same way, each cross-border or replatforming, and the full set is yours in a conversation.
What decides a fintech’s next valuation is no longer the product, it is reach: companies stall on getting to market and getting outcompeted, rarely on engineering, and software that grows efficiently trades at roughly double the revenue multiple of the rest. The knowledge is based on experience from being part of a GTM team that grew Glia into a $1 billion valuation. We are not your finance team. We do not advise on your valuation; we build the distribution that defends it.
If this is useful, we would like to open a conversation about how we could best serve you.
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