About

Why we built Transio.

Origin

The use case had already arrived.

Transio began at the Kenya Blockchain & Crypto Conference, 2025. Mik Ruberl — then at Chain4Travel (now Travel Token Marketplace) building Camino Network, the travel-industry blockchain — went to argue that travel was blockchain's real-world use case. Instead, he found the use case had already arrived: on the ground in Nairobi, people and businesses were already settling with each other in stablecoins — which, through the second half of 2025, became a payment method worldwide and blockchain's current real-world use case.

So rather than evangelise the technology, he set out to build the settlement layer the moment required — bringing together the competences it needed: a hospitality-technology operator in Italy, a web3 software house in Croatia, a travel-fintech legal expert with projects already through MiCA, and local fintech partners in-market, starting in Kenya.

Founding team

Co-founders, assembled by competence.

Each leg of the platform is held by a co-founder who has run it before — the competences the corridor demands, built across the markets it connects.

Co-founder
Twice a startup founder (one exit), with an enterprise career across both the IT-vendor and operator sides: CTO at Sandos Hotels & Resorts → Head of Enterprise Architecture & Integration at Alpitour Group (€2B+, Italy's largest tour operator) → VP Product at Chain4Travel / Camino Network. ECB digital-euro Pioneer and EUDI APTITUDE Large-Scale Pilot use-case lead. Works across five languages.
Co-founder
CEO of a hospitality-tech company · Italy
Runs distribution and channel management for thousands of hotels.
Co-founder
CEO of a web3 software house · Croatia
Delivers production blockchain and dApp systems.
Co-founder
Senior legal advisor · EU
Travel-fintech legal expert with projects already through MiCA.
Partners

Co-founders build the platform; partners anchor it in-market.

Partner
Licensed in-market fintech · Kenya
Anchors the on/off-ramp at the corridor endpoints, under the local VASP regime.
Partner
Italy–Africa business network
Connects European companies with African markets — opening demand for the corridors.
Why now

The rails finally exist.

Stablecoins became real money in 2025. Travel settles across the world's hardest borders. And the rails finally exist to do it cheaply and provably — between licensed institutions, with a record that holds up.

The system expects difference — and works anyway.

The mark
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Value moves → Value arrives.

The wordmark is the message. Each letter gathers weight as it goes — value building momentum through the system toward settlement — and the final letter resolves into a coin: the destination, where value arrives. In the animated mark a dot travels from that coin to the tittle of the i, and the hole it leaves behind rhymes with where it lands — origin becomes destination.

Infrastructure that disappears: you read the word, not the trick.

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