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API primitives to automate global payroll

Spring 2026Founded 20264 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Global Payroll APIAPI/InfraEnterprises and startups paying global contractorsHigh competition
Moat
Banking relationships across 100+ countries and API-first architecture defensible; integrates with codegen tools.
Key risk
Regulatory complexity per jurisdiction; competition from Wise, Stripe Connect, Rippling; unit economics pressure.
Why now
Rise of remote work and AI codegen driving demand for programmatic payroll and contractor payment APIs.
Competitors
Rippling, Deel, Wise

About

HEVN is API primitives for global payments. Companies use our API to build internal tools for paying contractors in 100+ countries, replacing Deel and Rippling with custom workflows tailored to their business. The opportunity is that AI codegen made internal tools cheap to build. A company that used to pay $50 per contract in huge SaaS can now build their own version in days, if they have the financial primitives. We provide those primitives. 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.

Founders ยท 4

Peter Volnov
Peter Volnovco-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
Nik BriuzginFounder

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

Pavel Mitsevich
Pavel MitsevichFounder
Google

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
Andrei ZhevlakovCo-Founder CTO
๐ŸŽ“ ITMO University

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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