"Brex" for international companies
HEVN: Brex for non-US companies
**Tl;Dr;**
Banking for non-US internet companies is hard. HEVN provides an alternative: open virtual bank accounts in 1 day, get USD cards with 0% FX, and send/receive ACH, SEPA, wires, and USDC.
The problem
For non-US companies, USD banking takes months, requires travel, and often breaks after the first transactions — making it hard to get paid via Stripe, Apple, or run global payroll.
In practice:
- 2-20 weeks to open an account in UAE or Hong Kong
- Founders have to fly in-person just to pass KYC
- $20K+ per year in legal and banking fees
- Accounts get frozen after first SWIFT transfer
- Visa charge 2-3% FX fee on USD payments
At the same time, Brex, Ramp, and Mercury only support US companies with an EIN.
What HEVN does
HEVN is a B2B financial platform that lets global internet companies operate in USD — without needing a US entity.
- Run your business in USD with corporate cards and global payments with 0% FX fees
- Get named local accounts in EU, US, HK and UAE banks in 1 day
- Send and receive ACH / SEPA / USDC / wires worldwide
- (soon) Store USD in FDIC-insured US accounts, even without an EIN
Video Launch
https://youtu.be/RBr87D4AZKk
Backstory
We previously built HOT Labs, a Web3 infrastructure company behind a 15M-user wallet.
While operating globally, we kept running into the same problem: banking didn’t work.
- One of us spent 6 months opening a UAE account — only to face an AML check right after the first transaction
- Another had to fly twice just to open an account
- We paid ~$24K/year through a law firm just to maintain banking access — without card support
We worked with dozens companies, and most of them ended up using stablecoins because traditional banking failed. Now 12 of them - our customers.
We built HEVN to help global internet companies focus on running and scaling their business, with the same access to US financial services as US companies.
Today, we’re fully ready to serve cumpanies in the UAE and are looking to onboard pilot customers in Hong Kong and Singapore.
Asks
- Do you know any non-US internet company? - maybe a design studio in Serbia, marketing agency in Hong Kong, or a law firm in the UAE. All of them can start receiving local payments via ACH and run global payrolls.
- Did you work at Stripe or Apple Store before? Any introductions to the team that could help us set up Stripe/Apple payouts to virtual bank accounts would be very helpful.
- Are you a YC company based internationally? you can use HEVN for global baking or stablecoins completely free
Book a demo or contact: pv@hevn.finance
** HEVN is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by regulated partner institutions.
