Post by Santiago Ferro

This weekend at HackLBS 2026, our team (Gilad Samuels, Angela C., Aditya Chawla, MinGwan P.) built Zendio, think a flight search engine, but for international money transfers. We went from not knowing each other to a working prototype and business model in under 24 hours. The MVP compares currencies across major platforms and gives you step-by-step instructions to execute the cheapest route. The problem is personal. As international students and professionals, we move money across borders constantly — rent, tuition, expenses — yet there is no single place to compare options. Hundreds of apps, no clear paths. Zendio fixes this. Enter origin, destination, currencies, and amount. In the backend, we pull live rates and fees from multiple platforms and map every possible route — including multi-hop paths and intermediate currencies — as a network graph. Then we use algorithms to surface the best combinations, ranked by cost and convenience, with price trend tracking to help you time your transfer. We didn't win the hackaton. But we validated real demand… every international student and expat we spoke to immediately said "I need this." HackLBS was an incredible experience. Two days of bootstrapping ideas, listening to amazing pitches across healthcare, finance, sustainability, and AI, and working alongside people building the future of tech in real time. Big thanks to the Entrepreneurship and Private Capital at London Business School for putting it together. #HackLBS #Fintech #Entrepreneurship #Hackathon