A Venture Partnership for Your Next Business

Montgo Ventures is a venture partnership firm built for successful mid-market companies, typically $20M to $500M in revenue, with a healthy core business, capital to invest, and meaningful unfair advantages. We don't do generic consulting. We partner with established companies to build their next business, from discovery and validation through launch, build, scale, and value realization.

Our clients are executives, founders, and operators who have the resources to move but need the discipline and architecture to move correctly. Too many internal ventures fail not because the idea was bad, but because the execution lacked venture-grade rigor. Montgo closes that gap.

We work across financial services, SaaS, media, professional services, and technology, building go-to-market systems, revenue models, and organizational structures designed to scale from day one. Every engagement is tailored, operator-led, and built for measurable outcomes.

Montgo was founded by Josh Hotsenpiller, 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, an operator with multiple exits, 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, At Montgo, Josh focuses on turning ideas into market-ready businesses, helping established companies turn their advantages into scalable new ventures and meaningful enterprise value.

Edward Hughes joins as a Partner: 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; he was Founder and CEO of PowerMetal Technologies and held senior operating roles at TaylorMade-adidas Golf and Maxfli, and he has participated in roughly a dozen M&A transactions representing approximately $2 billion in value. He is also a Senior Partner at CEO Coaching International, an Adjunct Professor in the MBA and Executive MBA programs at UC Irvine, and President of the Harvard Business School Club of San Diego. At Montgo, Edward focuses on determining which opportunities can become exceptional businesses and shepherding them through the disciplines required to create durable enterprise value, complementing Josh's strengths in opportunity discovery and early commercialization across the full journey from idea to scalable enterprise.