Ferdinand Dabitz is Co-Founder & CEO of AUGUSTUS, one of Europe's newest unicorns.
Ferdinand Dabitz founded Augustus, formerly known as Ivy, in Berlin in 2022. In May 2026 Augustus received conditional approval from the OCC to become a nationally chartered bank. Two months later they closed a $180M Series B at a $1B valuation, making it one of Europe's newest unicorns.
Augustus is rebuilding bank clearing on a stablecoin- and AI-native core, betting that legacy correspondent banking can be replaced outright. As a Thiel Fellow, Ferdinand represents a new generation of founders reimagining financial infrastructure from the ground up.