01About Rehive

Ten years shipping fintech. Now the platform behind stablecoin neobanks.

Ten years building and running fintechs in production taught us where the hard parts are. We turned that experience into a platform, so the teams we work with skip the years we spent and launch on fundamentals that hold up.

2015
Founded
10+
Years shipping fintech
02Our story

We stayed with the hard part for ten years.

We have been at this since 2016: a ledger, our first clients, then full white-label neobanks built long before the infrastructure was ready for them. We watched products stall at pilot for want of solid rails, outlasted a key partner shutting down, and kept building.

A decade in production teaches you what a demo never will. When the stack came together, with stablecoins, virtual accounts and cards, we already knew exactly what to build. What took us years is now something a founder can launch on in weeks.

012016

Rehive v1: ledger, users, auth

We launched the core building blocks as a service: a ledger system, user management and authentication. The idea from the start was that launching a financial product should be as straightforward as opening an online store.

022016 to 2018

First clients in production

Our first set of clients went live: the largest crypto gift card marketplace, an SME neobank in Africa, a voucher system in South Africa, and more.

032018 to 2021

Up the stack, to full neobanks

We moved up the stack to build end to end white-label crypto neobanks. The demand was real, but many projects stalled at pilot. The infrastructure layer underneath was simply too hard to navigate.

042022

Demand proven, the hard way

We worked closely with Wyre on a ready-made integration and proved the demand for a crypto neobank. When Wyre shut down, the lesson was clear: the provider underneath has to be one that cannot disappear.

052023 to 2024

Focus on existing clients

We kept our focus on existing clients who had their own partners in place, and waited to relaunch until the rails deserved it, banking what a decade of pilots had taught us.

062025

The stack arrived

When Stripe acquired Bridge, the path was clear: every building block in place, carried by a provider that could not disappear. We shipped our full Bridge integration in July 2025.

07Now

Now the operating layer and apps

The operating layer and apps behind a stablecoin neobank: identity, compliance and money composed into one program, with branded apps on top, live on providers like Bridge and Privy.

03What we believe

The best money products come from teams who go narrow.

01

An open financial system creates opportunity

We believe money that moves freely and openly, without gatekeepers, creates more opportunity for more people around the world.

02

Open innovation delivers better products

We believe that when more people can build in finance, better products reach the customers and markets that large institutions overlook.

03

Focused teams serve people best

We believe the strongest financial products come from teams close to a single market and its customers, not from one-size-fits-all giants.

05The founders

Meet our founders.

Helghardt Avenant
01

Helghardt Avenant

Co-founder & CEO

Leads product and the business. Has spent the last decade turning fintech infrastructure into products people can actually launch.

Michail Brynard
02

Michail Brynard

Co-founder & CTO

Leads engineering and the platform. Architect of the core that has processed real money for real programs since 2015.

06Backed by

Backed by people with shared mission.

Boost VC · FundStellar Development Foundation · FundTim Draper · Early investor in Tesla, Skype, TwitchJed McCaleb · Co-founder of Ripple and StellarJesse Powell · CEO of Kraken
07Work with us

We are ready to help you launch.

Talk to the team that has been shipping this for ten years — and see the platform on your use case.