HEVN, inc

API primitives to automate global payroll

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveFintechAIOpsArtificial IntelligenceFinanceNeobank

What they do

Problem

Companies lack flexible, automatable infrastructure to pay global contractors and run payroll workflows across many countries without relying on expensive, rigid SaaS platforms.

Solution

HEVN provides API primitives for global payments and payroll automation that developers use to build custom internal tools for paying contractors in 100+ countries.

Who it's for

Developers and finance/operations teams at companies that need to automate global contractor payments and payroll with custom workflows.

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).

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Nik Briuzgin

Founder

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

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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.

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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.

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