For more than 20 years, we have helped organizations turn software into a competitive advantage — guiding startups through growth, modernizing aging platforms, and building systems that have processed hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions.
We embed as your senior technical partner — owning strategy, architecture, and execution so you can build the right things, the right way.
We embed as your senior technical leader — owning strategy, roadmap, team leadership, and board communication while your company scales. All the executive depth, none of the overhead.
We design and modernize the systems your business runs on — cloud-native migrations, scalable infrastructure, and platforms built to sustain significant transaction volume and user growth.
Before you acquire or invest, we assess the technology risk — codebase quality, team capability, architecture soundness, and the liabilities that won't show up in a spreadsheet.
We build engineering organizations — recruiting, mentoring, establishing CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices that let teams scale without descending into chaos.
We've architected and led engineering for platforms across crowdfunding, civic tech, e-commerce, and education. Here's a sample.
$873 million raised. One platform. Built by us. We architected the payment infrastructure, Kubernetes systems, mobile applications, and analytics platform that scaled LaunchGood from startup to global impact in more than 100 countries.
Civic crowdfunding for local governments and nonprofits. We served as lead architect across platform modernization, search infrastructure, analytics systems, and deployment automation over many years of sustained partnership.
A mission-driven sustainable commerce marketplace. We led platform architecture, payment systems, product catalog infrastructure, and cloud deployment — enabling the company to grow its catalog and customer base reliably.
Martell Ventures was founded by Ryan Martell, a 30-year engineering veteran who has designed and led platforms across crowdfunding, fintech, healthcare, education, and mobile. Alongside business strategist Bob Weins, we bring both the technical depth and business clarity that helps organizations solve the right problems — and build systems that last.
Our clients don't hire us to write code. They hire us because they need an executive-level technical partner who has done this before — at scale, across industries, and under pressure.
Meet the team →Whether you need a fractional CTO, a platform architecture review, or a technical partner for an M&A transaction — we'd like to talk.
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