Ideas in Flight
TurnIdeasIntoYourNextBusiness
We partner with successful mid-market companies, typically $20M to $500M in revenue, to build their next business: from discovery and validation through launch, build, scale, and value realization.
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Most New Ideas Never Make It to Market.
We fix that.
The system that lets an established company move like a startup, without the chaos of one.
START THE CONVERSATIONResults That Speak for Themselves
$14M ARR
Under 24 Months
Helped a company scale from 0 to $14M ARR and grow from 3 to 135 employees in less than 24 months.
Acquisition
SaaS · Healthcare · Agencies
Guided SaaS, Healthcare, and Agency businesses through successful acquisitions.
+22%
Enterprise Value
Supported a professional services firm in building a new digital platform that added 22% to enterprise value.
18 & 22 Mo.
Electric Platform · Investment Bank
Electric Software Platform
Concept to first paying customer in 18 months.
Investment Bank Growth Division
New bank growth division, profitable by month 19.
Trusted by Leaders Who Move Fast
Josh challenges our team to dream bigger and push back on the status quo. From creative software solutions to helping us better understand human connection, Josh makes all we do better!
Keren Yakolev
HP
Josh unlocks the creativity and passion of others in terms of helping them maximize their own potential. Every time he speaks to our company, we get better!
Adam Samples
Atrium Staffing
Josh is leading the way in bringing diverse stakeholders together to advance one another. His energy, ideas, and perspective foster dynamic and reflective encounters.
Sarah Alter
The Network of Executive Women
Josh encapsulates the essence of wisdom and its untapped potential to unleash creativity. His life and leadership reflect qualities that rest on a higher purpose and moral authority.
Thomas Debass
US State Dept
Josh is one of the most inspiring, insightful, and truly alive humans I know. He has a deep understanding of the human psyche and has a track record of getting stuff done that matters.
Will Kennedy
United Nations
Josh brought a clarity of vision and relentless drive that transformed how we thought about growth. He doesn't just advise. He builds alongside you and raises the standard of everything he touches.
Jason Burns
HealthTrack
From Idea to Operating Venture
We partner with established mid-market companies to build their next business through a disciplined venture partnership that takes new opportunities from discovery and validation through launch, build, scale, and value realization.
The Economics
This is not traditional consulting. It's a venture partnership: a retainer funds the work; an equity stake aligns us around the enterprise value we create together.
IDEA-TO-MARKET
BLUEPRINT
Opportunity Assessment & Market Entry Strategy
COMMERCIALIZATION
SPRINT
Build, Launch & First Revenue Activation
GO-TO-MARKET
PARTNERSHIP
Ongoing Commercialization & Market Execution
We Don't Take Every Idea. We Take the Ones That Can Fly.
Montgo partners with a limited number of companies at a time. Before anything else, every opportunity is evaluated against a simple test: our working criteria for whether a venture deserves our time, your capital, and a place in the portfolio.
Healthy Core Business
A stable, profitable core that funds the venture without betting the company.
Committed Capital
Real investment capacity, sized for the journey rather than a one-time experiment.
Meaningful Unfair Advantages
Distribution, brand, data, or expertise that a startup can't buy its way into.
Opportunity Over Bandwidth
A market opportunity bigger than the entrepreneurial bandwidth you can spare.
What a selected partnership delivers
Faster Time to Market
Structured processes. Less friction. Faster commercialization.
Higher Success Rate
Proven go-to-market architecture built to scale.
Stronger Valuation & Exit Potential
Positioning that attracts investors from day one.
The bar is deliberately high. Selectivity is what makes the partnership work
"Strategy is not enough. Execution without architecture is expensive."
Built by Partners Who Know How Ideas Become Market Momentum
Most consulting stops at recommendations. Montgo sits in the gap, bringing strategic clarity, venture-building experience, and hands-on execution support.
Josh Hotsenpiller
FOUNDER & PARTNER
Josh Hotsenpiller is a venture architect and growth advisor who has built and launched companies across technology, finance, media, and professional services.
He is a TEDx speaker, a U.S. State Department Global Ambassador for Entrepreneurship, and an operator with multiple exits. Josh is also a Partner at Stone Canyon Advisors Investment Bank and a Senior Partner at Fortune Advisor Partners.
Over the years, Josh has partnered with Fortune 500 organizations, including Estée Lauder, GoPro, Unilever, the NFL, Staples, and HP, to design and ship innovative technologies that reshaped how those companies operate.
He has raised millions of dollars from top-tier venture capital firms, led high-performing teams through multiple exits, and taken several companies from zero to successful acquisitions.
At Montgo, Josh focuses on turning ideas into market-ready businesses. He helps companies identify new opportunities, uncover market fit, validate ideas, define positioning, and build the strategy to commercialize and take them to market.
Josh helps established companies turn their advantages into scalable new ventures and meaningful enterprise value.
Edward Hughes
PARTNER
Edward Hughes is a seasoned company builder, CEO, board advisor, and investor with more than 30 years of experience creating enterprise value across industrial technology, advanced materials, specialty chemicals, and consumer products. As Chairman and CEO of Aculon, he helped build a pre-revenue specialty-materials startup into a global business, and across a 20+ year operating career he has built, scaled, turned around, and transacted companies, including roughly a dozen M&A transactions representing approximately $2 billion in value.
Today he is also a Senior Partner at CEO Coaching International, advising CEOs, boards, and leadership teams on growth, governance, and enterprise-value creation.
At Montgo, Edward's focus is on determining which opportunities can become exceptional businesses, then shepherding them through the disciplines required to create durable enterprise value. It complements Josh's strengths in opportunity discovery and early commercialization, and the two span the full journey from idea to scalable enterprise.
From Grounded Ideas to Businesses in Flight
In 1782, Joseph Montgolfier watched sparks rise from a fire and saw possibility. If heat could lift sparks, perhaps it could lift people. That spark became the hot air balloon.
That's how we see every Montgo engagement.
We pair your spark with your unfair advantages — customers, market position, capital and domain expertise — then bring venture-grade discipline to discovery, validation, launch, build and scale.
And we stay in the basket.
Because the destination isn't first revenue. It's a scalable new business that creates meaningful enterprise value.
MONTGO. IDEAS IN FLIGHT.
Not a firm. A curated network of builders.
Every engagement is partner-led. Josh and Edward bring complementary venture-creation and enterprise-value experience, then activate exactly the specialists the opportunity requires, from go-to-market specialists to commercialization operators. No bench assignments, no generalists filling gaps.
"Big agencies give you whoever's available. We give you whoever's best."
Specialists activated by need, not availability
Strategy & Venture Design
Market entry, revenue models, and a clear view of where you actually win.
Market Intelligence
Competitive teardowns and white-space analysis so you know exactly where you stand before you move.
Brand & Positioning
Naming, messaging, and the narrative that makes the venture stick.
Engineering & Product
MVPs, platforms, and infrastructure built to hold up when it scales.
Go-to-Market & Growth
Demand generation, sales motion, and the systems that keep momentum after launch.
Finance & Operations
Financial modeling, fundraising prep, and the operational spine to scale on.
Venture Readiness Assessment
7 targeted questions. A personalized risk profile. A clear path forward.
This assessment evaluates your company's venture readiness across strategy, leadership alignment, talent, and market positioning. Takes less than 3 minutes.
Ready to Build Your Next Breakthrough?
Take the assessment to get your personalized venture readiness report, or book a strategy session to identify your biggest risks and opportunities.
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