Hey, I’m Balazs!
I’m a builder.

I built five banks & fintechs, two crypto exchanges, three brokerage platforms, two L1 blockchains, a perpetual futures exchange and a couple of SaaS endeavors. I love to build. My story started after dropping out of my CS undergrad at 18 to build in fintech. With my first company, Herdius, I wanted to revolutionize how cross-chain assets move in the digital money space — we raised $7m and ultimately after many pivots ended up shutting down.

Pile followed thereafter as a second tour ($3m raised from absolutely awesome people!) to build better fintech and banking rails. We coined the term crypto-as-a-service and proceeded to build out a crypto as an API provider across Europe. Due to Luna and FTX we pivoted to treasury management and built a B2B fintech as such that ended up being acquired by fintech unicorn Vivid.

After spending most time in Europe, I wanted to experience building in the US. I joined Crescent as a CTO. Had a hand in building a best in class US B2B neobank competitor and caught up with incumbents while having significantly less resources. During my tenure we 100x’d revenue, growth across all verticals, managed hundreds of millions in AuM and $Bn in payment volume across rails.