# Jenil Thakker

> Connecting builders with capital. Founder & CEO of Tokenfi Inc. Based in India.

## Work

- [EarnKit](https://earnkit.com): builders earn from what they ship. Current focus.
- [Jenil's EA](https://jenil.ai): an AI executive assistant.
- [The Next Frontier](https://x.com/nextfrontierpod): a short weekly podcast with Jenil Thakker on ambitious founders and solo builders at the AI frontier.
- [Tokens](https://tokens.fun): tokenize everything.
- [Minidev](https://github.com/minidevai): open source AI app builder.
- [Coinvise](https://coinvise.ai/growth): onchain growth protocol.

## Capital

- Raised $2.6m+ for Tokenfi Inc. from IDEO CoLab Ventures, Galaxy Digital and others.
- Pioneer winner (accelerator founded by Daniel Gross and Rishi Narang).
- Angel investor in CoinList, Cyber, Zerion and 15+ others.

## Talks and papers

- Guest on Superteam (Tanmay Bhat, Akshay BD) and Mint (Adam Levy).
- Talks on how to build at IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Gandhinagar and IAR.
- IEEE papers: token locking (DAPPCON 2019), threshold-based consensus and secure data management (ICCE 2020).

## Elsewhere

- Table tennis: Nationals, North-West India champion.
- Rocketry: crowdfunded and built a rocket that crossed 100k ft at SJSU.
- Open Water Diver.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.jenil.com)
- [Writing](https://www.jenil.com/blog): posts and notes. RSS at https://www.jenil.com/rss
- [Goals](https://www.jenil.com/goals): daily heatmaps for building, moving and reading.

## Contact

- Email: j@jenil.com
- Book 15 minutes: https://www.jenil.com/chat
- Short links: https://www.jenil.com/pod (podcast), https://www.jenil.com/earnkit
- X: https://x.com/jenilt
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenilthakker/