Peter Monteza

Peter Monteza is the co-founder and CEO of MyARC, the operating system for online fitness, and one of the UK tech ecosystem’s most compelling examples of a founder building from lived experience. Born to a half-Arab, half-Peruvian background, he grew up in a household shaped by South American and Middle Eastern culture — a heritage that has informed both his personal resilience and his drive to democratise access to health and fitness.

Monteza’s relationship with fitness is personal and formative. Having been obese for years, he transformed his health through sport, eventually reaching national athlete level, and that journey became the founding conviction behind MyARC. He studied Management Science at UCL’s School of Management, graduating in 2019, where he developed his first idea — a computer vision solution to track exercise form — through the UCL Hatchery programme. When the pandemic shut down gyms, he pivoted and MyARC was born.

With co-founders Nikhil Shah and Arohan Subramonia, Monteza built MyARC into a platform that enables fitness creators to deliver adaptive, personalised training and nutrition programmes at global scale. The company was accepted into Techstars in 2022 and went on to achieve more than seven figures in annual recurring revenue with a team of four and less than $280,000 raised — a capital efficiency rate that won it recognition as the UK’s best SEIS company by the Enterprise Investment Scheme Association. MyARC was also selected for Morgan Stanley’s EMEA Inclusive Ventures Lab.

In January 2026, MyARC raised more than $2 million in funding from Araya Ventures, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Techstars, G Fund, and NoBa Capital. Monteza has described fitness as having saved his life, and his goal is to make personalised health accessible to millions through the creators who inspire them.