Stijn Paumen is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder and CEO of Helio, the leading Web3 payments platform. He co-founded Helio with Jim Walker with a vision to build a "Stripe" for the Web3 economy that makes integrating blockchain-native payments as simple as setting up a Gmail account. Prior to founding Helio in 2022, they have built, scaled, and exited two successful SaaS companies for $600M.
HELIO
Today, Helio’s solution provides a secure and convenient way for merchants, dApps, and creators to accept instant crypto payments across multiple blockchains, including Solana, Polygon, and Ethereum.
Helio helps merchants & apps connect with a fast growing community of digital natives who love transacting with their Phantom, MetaMask, Coinbase & other crypto wallets.
The platform offers built-in content paywalling features that allow creators, such as podcasters, YouTubers, artists, NFT projects, media, or platforms to monetize content in a new way and reach a new audience with watch-to-earn models.
EARLY CAREER
Founders Stijn and Jim have worked together for 20 years building SaaS start-ups with two successful exits for a total of $600M.
They have co-founded successful companies like ScanSafe and Wandera.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Stijn has been featured or quoted in Yahoo! Finance, Cointelegraph, Blockworks, and Real Vision.