ESTERNA HOLDING
Esterna Holding is a privately held group of companies that invests in early stage startups within financial technology sector.
ABOUT
Esterna Holding is privately held group of companies. It was founded back in 2016 with its head office in Oisterwijk, The Netherlands. The group of companies has been actively investing in early stage financial technology startups ever since. The portfolio consists of various assets with key focus on Payment cards, Cryptocurrency and ATM industries. Esterna Holding is utilising European networks of entrepreneurs and fin-tech enthusiasts, latest market intelligence together with local expertise to make informed investment decisions.
TEAM
Alexey Shternshis
Managing Director
Alexey is a serial entrepreneur with humongous experience in financial services industry. His experience is ranging from founding a system integration holding company in mid 90's; to being a VP executive at leading at that time industrial service company in the '00s; to recent times successfully investing into financial technology eco-systems. Alexey graduated from mathematics faculty of Novosibirsk State University, and recently from Blockchain Strategy program by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Pavel Vilensky
Director of Business Development
Pavel has a diverse background in Fortune 500 companies as well as hyper-growing startups since 2010. Thanks to that he developed his expertise in marketing, consumer intelligence, partnerships relations as well as high-tech business development. After graduating from Rotterdam Business School in 2012 he worked together with some top-notch tech companies i.e. Samsung, Facebook, Google, Amazon and PayPal to name a few.
Portfolio
GlobalCloudPayments
GlobalCloudPayments™ (GCP) believes that the next wave of technology (cloud, Next-Gen) is ready to go to market and will positively impact the ATM industry through increased efficiency and a better time to market. We have set our standards high, and our goal is to make cash payments as cost-efficient as card payments.
www.gcp.one
ARISA
ARISA S.A. is a young dynamic company headquartered in Spata, Greece. It was founded in 2020 and has an ambition to become a Pan-European leading ATM deployer. ARISA provides both hardware and software for wide range of industries maintaining their successful ATM business.
www.arisa-atm.eu
IIZI PAY
iizipay™ helps individuals to send money, get paid and spend when studying or working abroad. This is a niche offering of payment cards with IBAN marketed for students and immigrants. This is a white-labeled solution for integration with various payment services as well as loyalty programs.
www.iizipay.eu
EXPi
Bertes Invest (ExPi™) has its strong focus on crypto processing service. The advantage of crypto processing is coming from exchange of EUR/Crypto currency transactions via its' very own stable coin EUPi. In addition to processing EUPi stand alone is used for savings and money transfers.
www.expi.trade
Contact us:
Dorpsstraat 27a
5061HJ Oisterwijk
The Netherlands