Edvinas Šeršniovas

The list of officers of TransferGo Ltd at Companies House, the UK company registrar, records that he was born in March 1989 and that his nationality is Lithuanian.⁠[1]

In the education section of his public LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry profile, he lists a foundation year in science at Kingston College from 2007 to 2008.⁠[2]

His LinkedIn education section records a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in pharmacology and business at Kingston University from 2008 to 2011, with the Kingston University Entrepreneurs Society as his activity.⁠[2]

In his LinkedIn experience section he writes that from 2009 to 2010 he was IT Director of the Kingston Entrepreneurs Society in Kingston upon Thames, and that his team won Kingston University’s Enterprise Champion award of the year.⁠[2]

His LinkedIn experience section records that from November 2011 to May 2012 he was a fellow of the DigitalCity Innovation fellowship in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, where he developed their start-up TransferGo; he writes that TransferGo joined the DigitalCity Business community during this time and went through North East Access to Finance’s business growth workshops and routes-to-investment programme.⁠[2]

On LinkedIn he lists himself as a co-founder of TransferGo from January 2012. Companies House records show that TransferGo Ltd was incorporated in the United Kingdom on January 18, 2012, and that he and Justinas Lasevicius were appointed directors of the company on the same day.⁠[2][3][1]

In a blog post of September 16, 2016 marking its fourth anniversary, TransferGo thanked its four founders, Justinas Lasevičius, Daumantas Dvilinskas, Arnas Lukoševičius and Edvinas Šeršniovas; a 150sec article of January 20, 2016 and the portfolio page of the early investor Practica Capital name the same four co-founders, and the Practica Capital page states that it invested in TransferGo at the seed stage in 2012.⁠[4][5][6]

TransferGo’s blog post and the “story” page on its website describe the company’s origins: the co-founders had run a traditional import and export business and sent money abroad constantly, with every transfer slow and expensive; their bank then closed their business and personal accounts without giving a reason, and when they looked for a new bank the transfer fees were still too high, which gave them the idea of creating TransferGo. The website says that regulatory licensing took six months and finding a bank willing to work with them another four. The 150sec article states that TransferGo launched in 2013.⁠[4][7][5]

In its fourth-anniversary blog post of September 16, 2016, TransferGo wrote that it had grown to 47 employees of seven nationalities and more than 200,000 customers, that customers could send and receive money in 45 countries, and that it had raised more than €5.5 million from investors.⁠[4]

In December 2018, TransferGo, a London-based international money transfer company founded in 2012, raised just over $17.6 million in a Series B round (including a tranche closed that May), led by Vostok Emerging Finance and Hard Yaka with Revo Capital, U-Start Club and Practica Capital participating, about $830,000 of it through equity crowdfunding on Seedrs. TransferGo then claimed 833,000 customers, operated in 47 countries and had offices in London, Vilnius, Berlin, Warsaw and Istanbul; it had launched to let people in the UK send money to Central and Eastern Europe, where it claimed a 20% market share. Its co-founder and chief executive at the time was Daumantas Dvilinskas.⁠[8]

Companies House records show that he resigned as a director of TransferGo Ltd on November 7, 2022. His public LinkedIn profile still lists his role as co-founder of TransferGo from January 2012 to the present.⁠[1][2]

His LinkedIn experience section records that since May 2025 he has worked full-time at SurfsharkSurfsharkSurfshark is a cybersecurity company founded in Lithuania in 2018 and headquartered in the Netherlands. Founded by Vytautas Kaziukonis, it makes products including Surfshark VPN, Antivirus, Alert and the data removal service Incogni; in 2022 it merged with Nord Security under one holding company, and the two operate independently.Open the full entry as a Business Development Officer, a role he lists as current. Surfshark’s website describes it as a cybersecurity company offering online privacy and security tools such as a VPN and antivirus software.⁠[2][9]

His LinkedIn experience section records that he has been chief executive officer of HeyPolo full-time since October 2025, and his profile headline reads “CEO at HeyPolo.” The “About us” page on HeyPolo’s website says the app is built by the team behind Surfshark; as of November 2026 its team list still names him as CEO, alongside engineering manager Algirdas Dumskis, senior product manager Šarūnas Šereika and chief marketing officer Sinead Lambert. Surfshark’s website lists HeyPolo under “Other products.”⁠[2][10][9]

When HeyPolo launched on March 23, 2026, Tom’s Guide, TechRadar (March 24) and GB News quoted him as HeyPolo’s chief executive. He described his personal motivation for the app: “As a father myself, I wanted to create an app that could help me ensure my family’s safety,” “while respecting and protecting their data at the same time.”⁠[11][12][13]

He also said: “People want safety, but they don’t want to sacrifice their autonomy or feel controlled by those they trust,” and “We are changing the perception that location sharing must equal surveillance.”⁠[11][12][13]

On August 19, 2026, HeyPolo published a press release on its website announcing that it had earned the Mumsnet Rated badge after testing by members of Mumsnet, the UK parenting community. In the release he said: “As a parent myself, it means a lot to be recognised by fellow parents in the Mumsnet community.” He added: “We built HeyPolo to help families stay connected and reassured while giving everyone control over what they share, and this result shows us parents feel the difference.”⁠[14]

In October 2026 he posted on LinkedIn about National Teen Driver Safety Week and HeyPolo’s driving insights; he also wrote: “When we started building HeyPolo, one of the questions we kept coming back to was: why should families have to choose between staying connected and protecting their privacy?”⁠[2]

As of November 2026, Companies House shows TransferGo Ltd as active, with its nature of business registered as financial intermediation not elsewhere classified (SIC 64999); TransferGo’s website says that since 2012 it has served more than nine million people in over 160 countries, that TransferGo is an electronic money institution authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and that its Lithuanian entity, UAB TransferGo Lithuania, is authorised and regulated by the Bank of Lithuania. The website’s “About” page names Daumantas Dvilinskas as co-founder and chief executive and also presents co-founder Justinas Lasevicius.⁠[3][15]

Companies House records the United Kingdom as his country of residence; his public LinkedIn profile gives his location as London, United Kingdom.⁠[1][2]

LinkedIn: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esersniovas/ (opens in a new window).⁠[10][2]

HeyPolo: Official website: https://heypolo.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[10]

TransferGo: Official website: https://www.transfergo.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[15]

Surfshark: Official website: https://surfshark.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[9]