Our thesis
The infrastructure that powers the travel industry was not designed for this era. It was inherited - built for a world of lower velocity, narrower reach, and manual intervention at every layer.
Operating divisions

Where we operate today

Each division enters a vertical where the infrastructure is most broken — and becomes structural to it.

I

Entravel

White label & agentic travel infrastructure

AI-native travel platforms. White label and agentic travel infrastructure for platforms that want to offer travel without owning the complexity. Purpose-built for AI-native distribution — delivering structured, instantly bookable inventory to AI agents via MCP, with conversion rates up to 5x industry benchmarks.
Live · Travel

II

Ratestellar

Travel API distribution infrastructure

Powerful supply and distribution layer for the $1T+ travel market. Aggregates fragmented global hotel inventory into a single, unified API with market-leading room-level mapping and content enrichment — giving platforms access to best-in-class NET rates, margin optimization, and the ability to connect their own supply through one infrastructure layer. Invisible to consumers, transformative for partners.
Live · Travel

III

MocatravelX

Direct hotel contracting & supply

Strategic direct hotel contracting layer securing competitive hotel rates at scale. Builds and manages relationships with hotels globally — bypassing traditional distribution intermediaries to access the most competitive inventory. Strengthens Ratestellar's supply advantage with differentiated, directly contracted rates, while creating qualified hotel partner lead opportunities for Expereon's payment and settlement infrastructure. Every contract won is a rate improvement felt across the entire ecosystem.
Live · Travel

IV

Expereon

Global payments & settlements

AI-native B2B stablecoin-based payment orchestration. Applied AI across the full B2B payment stack — automating invoicing, payments, settlements, refunds, and reconciliation end-to-end. Stablecoin rails with local fiat payouts eliminate cross-border friction while the AI layer eliminates the operational complexity that makes B2B payments so costly to run. Launching in travel, expanding industry by industry.
Pilots · Fintech
Operating divisions

Proof of
the model

Numbers from Ratestellar, our first operating division. Live today.

$23M

ARR achieved
Reached in under one year of operation at the supply layer of the travel market.

Conversion rate
Outperforms the industry benchmark by a factor of five. Infrastructure advantage, not marketing spend.

$1T+

Market served
Sitting at the supply and distribution layer of the global travel market. Invisible to consumers.

4

Active divisions
Entravel, Ratestellar, MocatravelX live. Expereon launching. The model proved. The playbook repeating.
The name

Foremost,
at the threshold

Always at the edge of what is possible.
Preeminent

A pure status adjective. No object, no modifier, no context required to complete its meaning.

The name declares position without explaining it. Self-contained authority.
IX — The Roman Numeral

Nine is the last single digit. The point of completion just before transformation.

In mathematics, every multiple of nine reduces back to nine — a self-closing system, a loop that compounds without escaping itself. That is the infrastructure model.
Together

Elite. Slightly mysterious. Permanently at the frontier.

The more volume flows through the platform, the stronger it becomes. The network effect is not additive — it is recursive. IX makes that signal visible in the name itself.
The team

The people building
what comes next

Mathias Nielsen

Group CEO
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Markus Nielsen

Group COO
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Derk Aalbers

Group CFO
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Yevhenii Bezuhlyi

Group CTO
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Jon Peters

CEO Expereon
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Ben Moss

CEO Ratestellar
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Alex Pedret

CEO MOCATRAVELX
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Operating divisions

The infrastructure
playbook

Each division enters a vertical where the infrastructure is most broken — and becomes structural to it.

I

Identify

Identify the broken layer

Enter a vertical where the underlying infrastructure is architecturally declining — where the supply side was built for a previous era and cannot support the velocity of the modern demand side.

II

Build

Build the layer beneath

Build the foundational platform at the supply and distribution layer. Not the product businesses sell to consumers — but the infrastructure those businesses cannot operate without. Become structural before anyone notices.

III

compound

Compound across verticals

Each vertical deepens the architectural core. Every new division makes the platform more defensible. The network effect is recursive — the more volume flows through, the stronger the system becomes. Then move to the next industry.
Our Foundation

Vision, Belief & Thinking

Vision
To build the infrastructure that the travel industry runs on.

To build the foundational platforms across distribution, supply, payments, and data that power the next generation of global travel — replacing legacy infrastructure with programmable systems built to last.
What we believe
The defining infrastructure companies in any industry are not the ones consumers see - they are the ones that industries cannot operate without. Infrastructure compounds differently than products. It deepens with scale rather than fragmenting under it.

The infrastructure that powers travel was not designed for this era. It was inherited - built for a world of lower velocity, narrower reach, and manual intervention at every layer. We are building the next generation from scratch, vertical by vertical, across the full stack of what the industry depends on.

Travel was not built on consumer apps. It was built on systems - systems that no one sees, no one questions, and no one replaces. Until someone does.
How we think
The travel industry changes. Its infrastructure endures. We build the latter.

Most of the travel industry is still running on infrastructure designed for a different era. The gap between what exists and what is possible is where we operate.

We are not a product company that found traction. We are a platform company - one that builds the layers beneath products. The infrastructure that becomes structural to the travel industry rather than optional within it.

Every platform we build shares an architectural core. Every vertical we enter makes the next one more defensible.

Mathias Nielsen

Founder & CEO, Preeminent IX
Contact

Work with
Preeminent IX.

We work with businesses building on or within our infrastructure platforms, institutional investors aligned with the long-term thesis, and exceptional people who want to build what comes next.
Direct contact

mathias.nielsen@preeminentix.com

We welcome enquiries from
  • Institutional investors aligned with the long-term thesis
  • Businesses seeking infrastructure partnerships
  • Builders who want to work on what comes next
  • Strategic partners across travel and fintech verticals
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