HEVN, inc

The automated USD account for global internet companies

Spring 2026ActiveFintechAIOpsFinanceNeobankAutomationAISan Francisco, CA, USA

Company

HEVN is the automated USD account for global internet companies, built for humans and AI agents. Every international company today runs a fragmented finance stack: Mercury for US banking, Wise for FX, Deel for payroll, and Stripe for revenue. Legacy banks can't be automated, can't move at internet speed, and can't be operated by software. We believe every modern company will need a second account - one built on stablecoin rails, accessible via API, secure by design for autonomous code, and covering all operational primitives of a global business. HEVN is that account: receive USD globally, hold treasury in USD/USDC, and run every payment operation a global business needs - invoices, contracts, contractor payouts, vendor payments, payroll - in local currencies through local banks worldwide, with a single click or API call. Team previously built HOT Labs - 15M users, $100M TVL, #1 crypto app on DappRadar for 8 months. Operated companies across SF, UAE, BVI, and HK, and felt all the pain of global payments automation ourselves.

Note: This is a preliminary assessment based on limited publicly available information. We did not have access to LinkedIn profiles or live product screenshots for this analysis. We will update this entry with a more thorough review soon.

Verdict

High Signal

Market Opportunity

Global B2B fintech for cross-border payments is a massive, proven TAM — Mercury, Wise, Deel, Stripe, and Brex together represent tens of billions in market cap. ICP is clear: international internet companies needing USD accounts with API-native, stablecoin-based operations. AI agent-operated finance stacks is an emerging but real wedge that legacy banks cannot serve, giving HEVN a differentiated timing argument.

High Signal

Founder Signal

All four founders previously co-built HOT Labs together — a crypto wallet with 15M users, $100M TVL, and 1.2M YouTube subscribers. Andrei (CTO) built the infrastructure securing those wallets, started coding at 15, CS at ITMO. Pavel scaled marketing to #1 app on DappRadar. The team has directly operated companies across SF, UAE, BVI, and HK, giving them first-hand pain-point validation. No LinkedIn data available, but YC bios are specific and consistent — this appears to be a repeat founding team with meaningful prior exits/scale, not first-timers.

Medium Signal

Competition

Named competitors include Mercury (US banking), Wise (FX), Deel (payroll/contractor), and Stripe (revenue) — all large incumbents with fragmented offerings. Direct API-native stablecoin-based unified account competitors are less obvious but Brex, Ramp, and newer players like Bridge (acquired by Stripe) and Parafin occupy adjacent spaces. The stablecoin-rails + AI agent angle is differentiating but not fully defensible — Stripe already acquired Bridge and could replicate this; incumbents have distribution advantages.

Medium Signal

Product

No live demo, pricing page, or named customer logos visible in the data. The product concept is well-articulated — USD account on stablecoin rails covering invoices, payroll, vendor payments, and FX — but no concrete traction metrics, revenue, or waitlist numbers for HEVN itself are provided. Prior HOT Labs product (15M users, $100M TVL, #1 on DappRadar) is strong evidence the team can ship at scale, but that's team signal not product signal for this company.

OverallB Tier

Strong repeat founding team with proven ability to ship and scale consumer crypto products — 15M users and $100M TVL is real and rare. However, HEVN is pivoting into a brutally competitive B2B fintech space where Stripe, Mercury, Wise, and Deel already own the stack they're trying to replace. No traction metrics, customer logos, or revenue data for HEVN itself are present, making this a bet on team pedigree and thesis rather than demonstrated product-market fit. The AI agent + stablecoin rails angle is timely and differentiating, but Stripe's Bridge acquisition and Mercury's API expansion mean big players are moving into this exact space. Needs to show early enterprise customers and revenue to graduate from interesting thesis to fundable business.

Active Founders

Peter Volnov

co-founder & CEO

Co-founder & CEO @ HEVN, ex co-founder HOT Labs - Web3 infrastructure company behind a 15M-user wallet, and HERE Wallet - mobile wallet for NEAR Protocol (1M+ app downloads).

Nik Briuzgin

Founder

CPO & Co-founder at HEVN, ex co-founder HOT Labs, ex design lead at Zurp, ex product design at Humble Team

Pavel Mitsevich

Founder

Co-founder and CMO at HEVN. Former CMO at HOT Labs, where I helped scale a crypto wallet to 15M MAU and become #1 crypto app by users for 8 month, with 1.2M followers on YouTube. I joined HOT Labs as CMO in 2022, leading marketing, support, and operations, and later became a co-founder. Now we are building HEVN together.

Andrei Zhevlakov

Co-Founder CTO

Co-founder & CTO at HEVN. Ex CTO at HOT Labs, where he built infrastructure that secured wallets for 15M users and $100M+ TVL. Ex CTO at HERE Wallet and Software Engineer at Dasha AI. Got my first Software Engineer job when I was 15. CS at ITMO University.

HEVN, inc

TierB Tier

BatchSpring 2026

Team Size4

StatusActive

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

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