Team

Omar, Andrés, James, Roman.

Four founders, one job each. Ask any of us the hard questions and you will hear the same answers.

01 · Co-founder and CEO

OmarGarcia

Leads the technology and the lab: the models, the loop and the machines they run on.

Thirteen years of production systems where mistakes cost money. Founding engineer of the LemonCash exchange backend, the backbone of one of Latin America’s largest crypto on-ramps, through a 40× user spike at launch. Founding engineer of Summon at Game7: more than 100 smart contracts on three virtual machines and one of the first production MCP integrations.

Sole engineer of 0xMonaco’s Rust matching engine, at 12,500 transactions a second. Co-author of the draft Ethereum standard ERC-7537 and of the paper Block Update Digests (2026). He builds Vesper, an open source local-first agent runtime, and works from Madrid.

2021 to 2023: LemonCash, founding engineer of the exchange backend
2023 to 2025: Game7, founding engineer of Summon
2025: 0xMonaco, sole engineer of the matching engine
2026: Vesper, an open source local-first agent runtime

02 · Co-founder and CBO

AndrésSoltermann

Owns every route to market: own sales, partners, embedded and ventures.

Andrés trained as a software developer (Swiss federal diploma, 2019) and co-founded the online marketing firm SocialM the same year, working across websites, advertising and e-commerce.

He moved into decentralised finance, building partnerships at DeFi Franc and contributing to LoopFi in the Ethereum ecosystem from 2023 to 2025, and speaks on podcasts about tokenised markets and AI. At Eigna he owns the routes to market: own sales, partners, embedded and ventures.

2019: Swiss federal diploma as an application developer
2019: SocialM, co-founder
DeFi Franc: Partnerships and business development
2023 to 2025: LoopFi, contributor

03 · Co-founder and CFO

JamesSherborne

Owns the plan, the round, the compute budget and the infrastructure partners.

James runs finance, investor relations and the company’s numbers. He comes from traditional finance and banking, moved into institutional blockchain infrastructure and trading, and runs blockchain validators.

He is a hands-on developer: he built a complete market-data platform for the Canton Network on his own, with REST and WebSocket APIs, TypeScript and Python SDKs, on Google Cloud with Terraform. At Eigna he owns the plan, the round, the compute budget and the infrastructure partners.

Banking: Traditional finance, then institutional blockchain infrastructure
Validators: Runs blockchain validators
2026: A market-data platform for the Canton Network, built on his own

04 · Co-founder and CTO

RomanFritschi

Leads product, brand, go to market and the apps, and how the company runs.

Roman studied computer science and worked as a software engineer at ABB on industrial systems close to the hardware. Years before the LLM wave he built a conversational AI agent for brack.ch, one of Switzerland’s largest online retailers.

He has founded and led companies since 2015, from a creative studio to fintech, and is co-founder and CTO of Lobster Money and hodlr. At Eigna he leads product, brand, go to market and the apps, and how the company runs.

BSc: Computer science
ABB: Software engineer on industrial systems
brack.ch: A conversational AI agent, before the LLM era
Since 2015: Founder; co-founder and CTO of Lobster Money and hodlr

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