Andrew Sever

I come from a family of artists and grew up with my twin brothers (another way of saying I've been in business with the same people all my life). At seven, my first company was a bank: a red plastic castle I convinced my brothers to keep their pocket money in. The bank eventually went bankrupt. Somehow, they still agreed to keep working with me. For the past 12 years, the four of us (my brothers Peter and Jacob, our CTO Vyacheslav, and I) have built Sumsub. We started as a few people squeezed into a tiny office with a rooftop view, selling a KYC tool to car-sharing, classifieds and other on-demand services. From there, we expanded into fintech, gaming, trading and new markets. It has since grown into a full-cycle verification, compliance and fraud-prevention platform, and is now evolving into an AI-powered trust layer infrastructure. Today, we're more than 1,000 people across 80+ countries, with offices in 10+ countries. Sumsub works with thousands of businesses worldwide, with one platform covering identity and business verification, fraud prevention, ongoing monitoring and risk management. It helps companies streamline operations, adapt to evolving regulations, enter new markets and grow securely. As Sumsub became more international, my own life followed a similar path. I moved abroad in 2020; two years later, we helped many colleagues do the same. I now divide my time between Cyprus, Spain and the UK.A lifelong night owl, I’m also dyslexic, with ADHD on top (apparently very on-brand for a founder these days), which means I disappear into oddly specific rabbit holes: at work, in sport, in books, or wherever my attention lands. Sometimes that's hyperfixation; sometimes my attention wanders off without me. The useful part is spotting a pattern before it's obvious, then getting people far cleverer than me moving on it together. Some call it luck, but I'd call it being responsible for momentum: creating the conditions for people and ideas to meet. I absolutely love animals and can't walk past a dog without stopping to say hello, so naturally, every Sumsub office is dog-friendly. I’m also into endurance sports: long-distance swimming and triathlon. So far, I’ve completed one full OCEANMAN and two half-distance ones, plus two IRONMAN 70.3 races, and that has found its way into Sumsub too: we share coaches and train together. I post about what we're building at Sumsub, what we're seeing in fraud and identity, and whatever else pulled me in that week: neurodivergence, sport, a study, a book, or something odd I've noticed about how people work together.