Founder Breakfast with Yuri Alekseev: $5 Billion in Payments, Zero Venture Capital
In 2016, Yuri Alekseev started building the payment infrastructure that Central and Eastern Europe's export-driven tech companies were missing. Today Solidgate connects 100+ payment providers, serves 500+ merchants including Bolt and Nova Post, and has processed over $5 billion across 150+ countries. Not one dollar of venture funding went into it.
When Solidgate was growing 150–170% a year, the team was 60 people. Then the war came, and the company kept growing anyway, with people now spread across Kyiv, Lviv, Warsaw and Nicosia. Yuri is now based in Dubai.
Dubai Founders HQ and Endeavor are bringing him to the room for a Founder Breakfast. Yuri is an Endeavor Entrepreneur and a Forbes Technology Council member.
Expect a candid conversation on:
Scaling without venture funding: how pricing, cost discipline and product sequencing change when the business has to fund its own growth.
Building through the war: what resilience under geopolitical shock looks like in practice, from keeping a team together to keeping customers served.
Taking payments global from the UAE: licences, local payment methods, approval rates and tax compliance, and what founders here should know before they go cross-border.
If you're building something here that has to work abroad, this is the conversation to be in.
Please Note: Places are limited, so please register only if you can attend. We start at 10:15 AM sharp!
About:
Founders Breakfast: An intimate gathering that brings founders and builders together for honest, practical conversations with high-impact entrepreneurs from the Endeavor network, followed by Q&A and breakfast.
Solidgate: A global payment orchestration platform founded in Ukraine in 2016. Solidgate connects 100+ PSPs and payment methods through a single API, with built-in acquiring, antifraud, subscription billing, dispute recovery, tax and treasury. It has processed over $5 billion in transactions across 150 currencies and 150+ countries, serves 500+ merchants including Bolt, Ajax Systems, Nova Post and Headway, and partners with J.P. Morgan Payments.
Endeavor: Endeavor is a global network of, by, for high-impact entrepreneurs innovating Elsewhere. Operating in more than 50 markets and supporting over 3000 founders globally, Endeavor advances entrepreneurship by selecting, mentoring, and investing in the world's most promising entrepreneurs.