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Prashanth Balasubramanian

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Founder, CEO & CTO at Striga
📍 Estonia

Prashanth is the Founder of Striga, a crypto and banking infrastructure platform (YC W21) that was acquired by Lightspark, where he is now the General Manager for Europe. He left his Masters in Computer Science at ETH Zürich to build the company, successfully obtaining the first VASP license under Estonias new regulatory regime.

His motivation for Striga stemmed from his personal frustrations with cross-border payments as an immigrant student from India living in Switzerland. Outside of fintech, he is a passionate musician who started coding at a young age and has a strong interest in building real-world products with his own hands.

While studying at ETH Zürich, Prashanth toured Europe as a semi-professional drummer for a German metal band.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Founder, CEO & CTO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Estonia
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Crypto & Fiat Payments
Founded Striga to build an infrastructure layer that bridges the gap between traditional banking and crypto, enabling compliant cross-border payments through a single set of APIs.
Fintech Regulation
Heavily focused on compliance, leading Striga to become the first company to obtain a VASP license under Estonia's new, stricter regulatory framework.
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Career

Work history

3-2018
Founder, CEO & CTO
Striga
1-2021 - 4-2021
CEO @ Striga
Y Combinator
7-2019 - 2-2020
CEO @ Striga
Berkeley SkyDeck
2-2017 - 9-2017
Research Assistant
ETH Zurich
4-2016 - 6-2017
Head of IT
SONECT
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Education
2016 - 2017
Master of Science (MSc)
ETH Zürich
2016 - 2016
Big Data Summer Camp
Tsinghua University
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