BVNK

Founders

• Jesse Hemson-Struthers (South Africa · ♂) — A serial entrepreneur with e-commerce and gaming exits (to Naspers and Sportradar), he co-founded cross-border crypto-payments firm Coindirect and then BVNK in 2021 to make stablecoin payments enterprise-grade.
• Donald Jackson (South Africa · ♂) — An enterprise-systems and blockchain engineer who co-founded Coindirect with Hemson-Struthers, he co-founded BVNK as CTO to build its stablecoin payments infrastructure.
• Chris Harmse (South Africa · ♂) — A South African fintech entrepreneur who co-founded BVNK in 2021 to make crypto and stablecoin payments as accessible and resilient as the internet.

Team & hubs

Around 448 people on the team.

In the network

BVNK, a London stablecoin payments-infrastructure firm bridging fiat and stablecoins across 130+ countries, has raised $1890M across 2 rounds backed by Tiger Global, Avenir, Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, and DRW VC. Through shared capital it connects to a cluster of crypto-infrastructure and digital-asset companies, sharing two investors each with Agora, Blockchain.com, thirdweb, Qredo, Zora, and Amber Group. That investor overlap places BVNK in a crypto-native funding cluster anchored by Coinbase Ventures and Haun Ventures rather than a generalist fintech one. With a team of 448 and main hubs in London (15%) and New York (10%), and a network centrality score of 55, it sits as a moderately connected node in this digital-asset financing graph.