About

A founder-owned venture studio building for the AI century.

The AI transition will reshape how we live & work. Cyans exists to build for that transition, not as hype, but as a long-horizon bet we can stand behind across generations.

We are a founder-owned venture studio. We build AI-era software, do research and consulting, and acquire sovereign physical assets (forest, water, land) we intend to own for generations. As AI and automation compress labor and manufacturing costs, we want exposure to what we think becomes scarcer and more valuable, and we deploy our own capital, not only our advice. Three pillars (Build, Research, Assets), one thesis.

That track record is grounded in experience: 10+ ventures built, $100M+ raised, products used by 10M+ people, and multiple businesses scaled to serious revenue, with small teams and high conviction, not noise.

The founders

Johanna Pasila

Legal and strategy. Johanna is a lawyer with 15+ years in international arbitration, working on complex, high-stakes cases across borders.

Antti Pasila

Product and technology. Antti is a tech founder with an economics background, focused on building and scaling international software companies.

10+ companies built$100M+ raised10M+ users worldwide

Anguilla-based. Global by default.

Cyans operates from Anguilla (the home of the .ai TLD) in the Special Economic Zone, with time zones that overlap cleanly with Europe and North America.

Strong infrastructure, access to international hubs, and a sensible setup for foreign-source income make it a quiet, effective base for building global products.

The name Cyans nods to cyan, green and blue: grounded in earth and ocean, with an eye on the horizon, and science-backed judgment.