Ivan Maryasin

Overview

Ivan Maryasin is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Monite, a Berlin-based embedded-finance company that provides APIs letting software platforms, neobanks and marketplaces add invoicing, payables automation and related payment workflows to their own products. Before founding Monite he worked in growth and go-to-market roles at startups in several countries and then led growth at the Berlin business neobank Penta, per his own account in a Startuprad.io interview and per Startbase reporting.

Why this entity matters

Maryasin represents a pattern that recurs in the DACH fintech scene: an operator from a fast-scaling consumer or SME finance product who turns a back-office pain point into an infrastructure business sold to other platforms rather than directly to end customers. His company's API-first, white-label approach is a useful reference for how embedded finance is moving from banking-as-a-service towards workflow tools such as accounts payable and receivable. His public commentary on startup funding conditions, including his contributions to Startuprad.io's annual Fintech Review, also gives a founder's-eye view of how 2023 changed investor expectations towards unit economics.

Career, company, or institutional background

According to the Startuprad.io founder interview, Maryasin grew up in Moscow, started a small business early, taught himself marketing, and later worked in marketing and project roles in Moscow, Santiago de Chile, Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area before settling in Berlin. The interviewer's introduction states that he holds a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA; the awarding institutions are not clearly stated in the available transcript and are not asserted here. In Berlin he joined the early team of the business neobank Penta as head of growth. Startbase reported in March 2021 https://www.startbase.com/news/fintech-von-ex-penta-manager-sammelt-eine-million-euro-ein/ that he had left Penta to found Monite together with Andrey Korchak, and EU-Startups' May 2023 interview https://www.eu-startups.com/2023/05/the-rise-of-b2b-saas-super-apps-powered-by-embedded-finance-interview-with-ivan-maryasin-co-founder-and-ceo-of-monite/ describes the company as founded in 2020 and moving from a direct B2B product to an API-first model.

Funding reported for Monite includes a pre-seed round of about 1.1 million euros in March 2021 (Startbase), a 5 million US dollar round in early 2022 led by Point72 Ventures and a further 5 million US dollar seed round in March 2023 led by Third Prime, bringing the reported seed total to 10 million US dollars (TechCrunch, https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/20/berlins-monite-raises-5m-seed-for-its-embedded-b2b-payments-platform/ ). A further 5.5 million euro raise was reported by EU-Startups in February 2024; the details of that round were not independently re-verified for this record. Maryasin is named as CEO and co-founder in all of these reports, with Korchak named as chief technology officer by TechCrunch.

Role in the ecosystem

As CEO of Monite, Maryasin sits in the embedded-finance and fintech-infrastructure segment of the Berlin and wider DACH startup ecosystem. In the 2022 interview he described Monite's two live products as payables automation and receivables automation, delivered as building blocks that partners can integrate within roughly three to five weeks, and said the long-term ambition was to become the default API provider for financial-document workflows. These statements are the founder's own and describe the company's positioning at the time of the interview. In the Fintech Review 2023 he gave an outlook for 2024 that anticipated tougher capital conditions, a migration of talent between companies and incumbents becoming stronger in embedded finance.

Selected relationships and affiliations

Maryasin is publicly associated with Monite (catalogued as a separate Startuprad.io entity, monite) and, earlier, with Penta (catalogued as penta), where he worked as head of growth. Reported Monite backers and angels include Point72 Ventures, Third Prime, Runa Capital, Tomahawk and several fintech angels named in TechCrunch and Startbase coverage; these relationships belong to the company rather than to Maryasin personally and are listed here only as context. In the Fintech Review 2023 episode he appeared alongside other guests; no business relationship between them is asserted. No other board or advisory roles were identified in the sources reviewed.

Startuprad.io relevance

Startuprad.io interviewed Maryasin in autumn 2022 about Monite, its embedded-finance products, its funding and its hiring approach. He returned as a guest in the annual Fintech Review for 2023, published in December 2023, giving his reflections on the year and predictions for 2024. Both posts were refreshed in September 2026 and the Monite interview was migrated from Startuprad.io's earlier Medium publication.

Public source context

This record draws on Startuprad.io's own interview and Fintech Review posts, Startbase, EU-Startups and TechCrunch reporting on Monite and its funding, and Maryasin's public LinkedIn profile as linked in Startuprad.io's show notes. Educational details come from the interviewer's introduction and are hedged accordingly. Personal details beyond his professional career were not collected and are not included. Funding figures are as reported by the cited outlets and were not independently verified.

Startuprad.io coverage

Meet Monite — They Make the Life of CFOs Easier — Founder Interview
Published: 15 March 2026
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Interview
https://www.startuprad.io/post/meet-monite-they-make-the-life-of-cfos-easier-founder-interview

Fintech Review 2023: Predictions and Outlook for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Published: 22 December 2023
Last updated: 20 September 2026
Coverage type: Analysis
https://www.startuprad.io/post/fintech-review-2023-predictions-and-outlook-for-germany-austria-and-switzerland

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