Nikhil Srinivasan

Cofounder & CEO

2025

Helping businesses embed stablecoins Backed by Y Combinator

Angel Investor & Advisor

2018

Select investments include Nova (acq. AngelList), Dharma (acq. OpenSea), Poparazzi (acq. Meta), Join (acq. Eco), R.A.R.E Art (acq. Coinbase), FTW (acq. Samsung), Sphere, Codex, Rain AI, Regent, Varda, Paradromics, Colossal, Vial, Tavus, Anthropic, OpenAI, Circle, Beehiv, Immi, Infinite Games, Superplastic, Lore & Fomo Select coinvestors include Floodgate, Benchmark, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Electric Capital, Dragonfly & Y Combinator

Founding Product Lead, Platform

2022 - 2024

Founding Product Leader building FinCrime AI platform, spearheading 0-1 products, including Compliance (KYC/KYB/KYT/AML), Case Management, Suspicious Activity Reporting, Generative AI Workflow Automation, GRC for Sponsor Banks, and supporting the Risk, Consortium and Payments verticals. Led a team of 6 engineers, forward deployed with 200+ customers and managed platform-wide product and vendor roadmap. Backed by a16z, Visa, Activant, XYZ Ventures, Google Ventures and more.

Cofounder & CPO/COO

2020 - 2022

Enabling established creators to monetize their content and community onchain. Led product engineering team responsible for developing a superfan monetization platform with fiat/crypto payment rails and on/offchain social graphs. Helped raise Seed and Series A financing. Backed by Forerunner (Kirsten Green), 776 (Alexis Ohanian), Harrison Metal (Michael Dearing) and founders/leaders from Coinbase, Solana, Snapchat, Twitch, Notion and more.

Cofounder & Board Director

2018 - 2020

Helping the largest F500 brands and market research firms reach, research, and retain Gen Z customers through digital communities. Led product engineering team to build mobile web, iOS and Android apps with paid surveys and enterprise dashboard for survey management. Backed by Michael Dearing (Harrison Metal) and eventually pivoted to Islands.

New Assets & Ventures

2018 - 2019

Working alongside asset issuers and ecosystem builders to grow the crypto economy.

Product, Crypto Platform

2018 - 2019

Scaling Coinbase's crypto platform to support any blockchain, unlocking the addition of new blockchain networks (XRP, EOS, XLM, XTZ, ALGO, ZIL, ATOM, and more) and capabilities (Coinbase Staking) representing 90% of market cap by trading volume and billions of dollars in assets under custody across consumer, institutional, and non-custodial products.

Cofounder & CEO

2015 - 2018

Managed trust, safety & risk AI infrastructure for content moderation, identity verification and payments compliance. Partnered with leading UGC marketplaces like Teespring. Backed by Floodgate (Ann Miura-Ko) and Version One Ventures (Angela Tran) and acquired by Coinbase (2018).

Product, Search & Monetization

2014 - 2015

App search and deeplink monetization platform supporting leading consumer businesses.

Researcher (Church Lab)

2009 - 2014