In the span of a single calendar year, the 36-year-old Italian-born founder has registered, launched, and scaled two companies across two entirely disparate industries — real estate and e-commerce — generating a combined revenue approaching eighteen million pounds. Neither venture benefited from inherited capital or venture backing. Both were built on the same raw material: the hard-won lessons of a man who had already lost, and refused to lose again.

The E-commerce Sprint: Buy Market

In just six months, Ragusa launched and scaled Buy Market, an e-commerce powerhouse that defied market trends to clock nearly £7 Million in revenue. Registered at Companies House on the 14th of May, 2025, with Ragusa listed as both Director and Person with Significant Control, the company moved from incorporation to seven-figure monthly run-rate with a velocity that left industry analysts recalibrating their models.

By leveraging a hyper-efficient supply chain and a visionary approach to consumer psychology, he proved that scale is a matter of precision, not just time. Where legacy e-commerce operators relied on paid acquisition spirals, Buy Market built its moat in the unglamorous machinery of fulfilment — the packaging, the routing, the margins that compound silently while competitors burn cash on front-end optics.

At the centre of the operation sits PSSTORED.COM — the digital storefront and consumer-facing brand through which Buy Market reaches its customers. More than a simple e-commerce site, PSSTORED.COM is the engine room of the entire venture: a high-conversion platform engineered to turn browsing into buying with minimal friction. Every element — from the product page architecture to the checkout flow — was designed and optimised in-house, giving Ragusa full control over the customer journey from first click to final delivery.

The brand operates under a clear dual identity: Buy Market is the holding company and operational force — the business entity registered at Companies House, managing supply chain, logistics, and financial strategy — while PSSTORED.COM is the brand the world sees. It's on PSSTORED.COM that the £7 million in revenue was generated, transaction by transaction, customer by customer. This separation between operational backbone and consumer brand is a deliberate architectural choice, allowing Buy Market to scale its infrastructure silently while PSSTORED.COM builds trust, recognition, and loyalty in the marketplace.

"Scale isn't about moving faster than everyone else. It's about removing every single gram of friction between the product and the customer. Speed is what remains when friction is gone."

The operation ran lean by design. With a core team optimised for execution over headcount, Buy Market's infrastructure was architected to absorb demand spikes without buckling — a lesson Ragusa carried directly from the painful experiences that preceded it.

The Real Estate Titan: DOMVS LTD

If Buy Market was about velocity, DOMVS is about gravity. DOMVS is the new real estate society that operates across four of the world's most prestigious property markets: Los Angeles, Miami, Switzerland, and London. In a staggering 5-month window, the venture generated £11 Million in revenue. Today, DOMVS operates with a disciplined force of 40 collaborators, including elite realtors, directors, and a seamless back-office operation spanning three continents. It isn't just a brokerage; it is an architectural statement of intent.

The name itself — DOMVS, the Latin root for 'domus,' meaning home — signals the ambition. This is not an agency flipping listings; it is an institution being built to last. The 40-strong team is structured with the precision of an architectural practice: directors setting strategic vision, realtors executing at the frontline, and a back-office engine ensuring that every transaction closes with the gravity the price tags demand.

"Real estate isn't about selling property. It's about engineering trust at scale. Forty people aligned on a single standard — that's the product. The properties are just the proof."

What makes DOMVS remarkable is not merely the revenue — it is the velocity of institutional formation. Building a 40-person organisation with coherent culture, reporting lines, and operational discipline in under five months is, in the real estate sector, virtually unprecedented.

The Luxury Portfolio: Jets, Cars, and Timepieces

But real estate and e-commerce, however formidable, do not capture the full architecture of Ragusa's ambition. Behind the two headline ventures sits a luxury portfolio that spans three further high-margin verticals — each one catering to the same ultra-high-net-worth clientele that DOMVS serves and Buy Market supplies. Where others see distinct industries, Ragusa sees a single ecosystem: the movement of wealth, people, and prestige across borders.

Private Jet Charter

At the apex of the portfolio sits a private jet charter operation — a service designed not for the merely wealthy, but for those for whom time is the only currency that matters. Ragusa's aviation arm arranges bespoke flights for clients moving between London, Geneva, Miami, and Los Angeles, creating a seamless aerial bridge between the very cities where DOMVS transacts. The logic is elegant: the same client buying a penthouse in Mayfair may need to be in Miami by morning. Ragusa ensures they arrive without friction.

Luxury Car Rental — Piccadilly

Grounded in the heart of the capital, Ragusa's luxury car rental business operates from a strategic base in Piccadilly — one of London's most iconic and high-traffic addresses. The fleet caters to the same discerning clientele that populates DOMVS's property ledger: executives, investors, and international visitors who expect a Bentley, Rolls-Royce, or Mercedes waiting at the curb the moment they land. The Piccadilly location is no accident — it places the fleet within minutes of Mayfair, Knightsbridge, and the West End, the triangle of London where luxury is not an aspiration but an expectation.

Horology — A Belfast Partnership

The final pillar of the luxury portfolio is, fittingly, the one measured in milliseconds. Ragusa's watchmaking and horology venture — a partnership with a trusted associate based in Belfast — trades in rare and investment-grade timepieces. From vintage Rolex and Patek Philippe to limited-edition contemporary pieces, the operation sources, authenticates, and places horological assets with collectors across the UK and Europe. The Belfast partnership is a deliberate choice: Northern Ireland's capital offers a discreet, well-connected base with a growing reputation in the luxury secondary market, far from the noise of Bond Street.

"Luxury isn't a product — it's a continuum. The jet, the car, the watch, the home. Each one is a node in the same network. My job is to make sure that network is invisible to the client, because the moment they notice the seams, you've failed."

Together, these three verticals — private aviation, Piccadilly-based luxury car rental, and Belfast-anchored horology — form a luxury infrastructure that compounds the value of Ragusa's two flagship ventures. A DOMVS client who charters a jet to London, picks up a Rolls-Royce in Piccadilly, and acquires a vintage Patek through the Belfast partnership is not a customer of three separate businesses — they are a resident of a single, vertically integrated world that Ragusa has built around them.

The Entrepreneurial DNA

Behind the eight-figure numbers lies a story that every founder knows in their bones: the fracture. Before DOMVS, before Buy Market, before the 40-person team and the Mayfair address, there was a partnership that broke. There was an ex-partner whose shadow Ragusa had to walk out of. There were, as he candidly acknowledges, negative experiences that would have ended most entrepreneurs' journeys before they truly began.

But Ragusa is clear-eyed about the past. He does not diminish his former partner — whom he describes as "a great entrepreneur" — nor does he wallow in grievance. Instead, he treats the fractured partnership as raw data: a case study in what happens when vision and execution diverge, when two talented people pull in opposite directions, when the foundation cracks before the building is finished.

"The past is a blueprint, not a residence. You study it, you learn the measurements, and then you build something new — on better ground, with deeper foundations."

Having severed ties with the past and moved beyond the limitations of previous associations, he has solidified his status as a singular force in entrepreneurship. His story is a masterclass for the modern founder: resilience is the foundation, but execution is the skyscraper. The £7 million from Buy Market and the £11 million from DOMVS are not accidents of timing or luck — they are the inevitable output of a man who transformed pain into precision.

As he looks to the future, Ragusa's ambitions show no sign of plateauing. Two sectors conquered. Eighteen million pounds generated. Forty people employed. And for @ragusamatteostefano, this is still only the beginning. The blueprint has been drawn. The foundations are set. What rises next will be, as the name promises, monumental.

Isobel O'Sullivan — News Editor

Isobel O'Sullivan is a News Editor at Startups.co.uk with over five years of experience covering business and technology news. Since studying Digital Anthropology at University College London, she's written for Tech.co, Expert Market, and Eco Experts, using her expertise to distil complex topics, and has had her work linked to in leading publications like the Financial Times and The Guardian.