Adrien Stern

About

I'm a Swiss-American founder based in New York, and my career runs through music, finance and technology. I started as a professional musician, touring across Europe with Najavibes, playing Montreux Jazz and Les Eurockéennes de Belfort. I co-founded Bridge Music (now Fruits Records), where I produced Grammy-nominated artists and learned firsthand how badly money moves across borders. I went on to build new ventures for Wells Fargo, Banco Sabadell and Munich Re at Deloitte Digital Ventures and throughout my MBA at ESADE and UC Berkeley Haas, and I led digital transformation at BNP Paribas. In 2022 I founded Reveel, backed by Binance Labs and Moment Ventures, building AI-powered stablecoin payments infrastructure used in over 160 countries. Every chapter has taught the same lesson: spot the opportunity early, bring the right people together, and turn conviction into execution. As a founder, advisor or investor, I bring creative ambition, commercial judgment, and firsthand experience getting people to believe in, and back, something new.