Nikita Briuzgin is Co-Founder and CPO at HEVN, a YC-backed neobank giving global tech companies access to US, Swiss, and UAE bank accounts and stablecoins without needing a US entity.

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

Nikita brings deep expertise in product design and Web3 ecosystems, having scaled crypto-native financial products to tens of millions of users globally.

At HOT Labs, Nikita helped build a crypto wallet and ecosystem that reached 15M monthly active users and over $100M in total value locked, demonstrating his ability to drive massive product adoption.

HEVN, accepted into Y Combinator in 2026, is solving a critical gap in global fintech by enabling non-US companies to open named bank accounts in the EU, US, and UAE in as little as one day.