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Boyko Karadzhov

Unicorn founder

Founder at Payhawk

Sofia, Bulgaria

FoundedPayhawk$2B

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Boyko Karadzhov co-founded Payhawk in 2018 with Hristo Borisov and, as CTO, built the platform beneath Bulgaria's first unicorn — a company valued at $1 billion in 2022 and past $100 million of annual recurring revenue by 2026, serving customers in 33 countries. He spent seven years at Telerik as a principal software engineer building enterprise software before leaving to start the company, and has since grown Payhawk's engineering organisation past seventy full-stack engineers, organised around cross-functional autonomy. His stated ambition is a software company whose culture makes it a global leader in fintech.

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Co-founded Payhawk in 2018 with Hristo Borisov, his long-time Telerik colleague.
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Spent seven years at Telerik building enterprise software, rising to principal software engineer, before leaving to found Payhawk. Grew Payhawk's engineering organisation past seventy full-stack engineers, organised around cross-functional autonomy. His stated ambition is to build a software company that nurtures performance and innovation to become a global leader in fintech.

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Payhawk's investors · 8

Earlybird Venture CapitalBerlin · $540K – $12M checksEleven Bulgaria ADEleven VenturesSofia · $270K – $1.6M checks · since 2019GreenoaksSan Francisco · $1M – $50M checks · since 2021HubSpot VenturesCambridge · $500K – $5M checksLightspeed Venture PartnersMenlo Park · $1M – $5M checksQED InvestorsAlexandria · $30K – $20M checks · since 2021Sprints CapitalLondon

Co-founders at Payhawk

HBHristo Borisov
Hristo BorisovFounder
KDKonstantin Dzhengozov
Konstantin DzhengozovFounder
KD
Konstantin DjengozovFounder

Experience

  1. Payhawk - Тhe paperless corporate cardCo-founder & CTOcurrent2018 — presentSofia, Bulgaria
  2. TelerikSoftware Engineer, Principal2014 — 2018Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria
  3. TelerikSenior Software Developer2014Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria
  4. TelerikSoftware Developer2011 — 2014Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria
  5. MarvenaSoftware Developer2010 — 2011Sofia, Sofia City, Bulgaria

Skills & more

C#24.NET18Object Oriented Design18JavaScript14SQL14OOP11LINQ11Visual Studio14Web Development11Design Patterns7ASP.NET7jQuery6
+12 moreHTMLSitefinityWeb ApplicationsCUDAGitMQLMachine LearningDelphiMSBuildProgramming LanguagesSoftware DesignSoftware Development

Languages Bulgarian · English

  • Data Science at Scale Specialization — Coursera Course Certificates
  • Communicating Data Science Results — Coursera Course Certificates
  • Practical Predictive Analytics: Models and Methods — Coursera Course Certificates
  • Data Manipulation at Scale: Systems and Algorithms — Coursera Course Certificates
  • Computational Neuroscience — Coursera Course Certificates
  • Introduction to Neuroeconomics: How the Brain Makes Decisions — Coursera Course Certificates
  • Security Awareness Training — SANS Institute
  • High-Quality Programming Code — Telerik Academy
  • MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional — Microsoft
  • MCTS: .NET Framework 4, Web Applications — Microsoft

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Podcasts & interviews

featuring Boyko Karadzhov

How Payhawk's 70+ full-stack engineers align and collaborate

The Software House · tsh.io

Frequently asked questions

Who is Boyko Karadzhov?
Boyko Karadzhov co-founded Payhawk in 2018 with Hristo Borisov and, as CTO, built the platform beneath Bulgaria's first unicorn — a company valued at $1 billion in 2022 and past $100 million of annual recurring revenue by 2026, serving customers in 33 countries. He spent seven years at Telerik as a principal software engineer building enterprise software before leaving to start the company, and has since grown Payhawk's engineering organisation past seventy full-stack engineers, organised around cross-functional autonomy. His stated ambition is a software company whose culture makes it a global leader in fintech.
Where does Boyko Karadzhov work?
Boyko Karadzhov is Founder of Payhawk.
What companies did Boyko Karadzhov found?
Boyko Karadzhov founded Payhawk.
Where did Boyko Karadzhov go to school?
Boyko Karadzhov studied at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science); "M.V. Lomonosov" Sofia (High School, Optics/Optical Sciences).
What podcasts and interviews feature Boyko Karadzhov?
Tracked appearances include "How Payhawk's 70+ full-stack engineers align and collaborate".

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