Andrei Zhevlakov is Co-Founder and CTO at HEVN, a Y Combinator-backed (P26) B2B fintech platform enabling international companies to operate in USD without a US entity, offering named accounts in EU, US, Hong Kong, and UAE banks.

Andrei co-founded HOT Labs, a Web3 infrastructure company, and HERE Wallet, a mobile wallet for the NEAR Protocol that surpassed 1 million app downloads.

As a seasoned blockchain entrepreneur, Andrei has consistently focused on removing friction in financial infrastructure, from cross-chain DeFi to global business banking.

At HOT Labs, Andrei served as CTO and was the main contributor to core open-source NEAR blockchain tooling, helping scale the wallet ecosystem to 15 million users and over $100M in total value locked.

HEVN, backed by Y Combinator, allows global tech companies to open local bank accounts in under a day with 0% FX fees, directly addressing a gap left by US-only platforms like Brex, Ramp, and Mercury.