Prashanth Balasubramanian

Founder @ Striga (YC) | Acquired by Lightspark⚡

Founder

Striga· Winter 2021🇪🇪 Estonia

in LinkedIn

2025Lightspark Payments Europe (Formerly Striga)· Lightspark

Founder · since 2018

Company

Lightspark

Role

Lightspark Payments Europe (Formerly Striga)

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

Estonia

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Striga

Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure

Winter 2021

Experience

Career

Lightspark
Chairman of the Management Board - Lightspark Payments Europe (Formerly Striga) · Estonia · 2025 – Present
2025
Striga
Founder
Founder, CEO & CTO · San Francisco Bay Area, Tallinn · 2018 – Present
2018
Y Combinator
CEO @ Striga · 2021
2021
Berkeley SkyDeck
CEO @ Striga · Berkeley, United States · 2019 – 2020
2019
ETH Zurich
Research Assistant · Zurich, Switzerland · 2017
2017
SONECT
Head of IT · Zürich Area, Switzerland · 2016 – 2017
2016
L3S Research Center
Research Student · Hannover, Germany · 2016
2016
Tata Elxsi
Android Developer · Bangalore, India · 2015
2015

Bio

Passionate early Bitcoin-er and developer. Left ETH Zurich mid-way through my MSc to build Lastbit/Striga. Working with bitcoin and playing a European tour with a German band, evidently illustrated the horrors of only legally having access to an Indian bank account but attempting to use multiple currencies on a daily basis, whilst bitcoin was promised to solve this problem. Striga solves this and enables businesses to solve this. In my "free" time - semi-pro drummer & full time metalhead