Jenil Thakker
Building companies at the intersection of AI and crypto.
Work
- Founder & CEO, Tokenfi Inc.
- Building tokens.fun: launch tokens for ideas. If demand hits, the app gets built. Revenue flows back.
- Raised $2.6m+ from IDEO CoLab Ventures, Galaxy Digital & others.
- Won Pioneer: an accelerator founded by Daniel Gross & Rishi Narang.
- Previously: Coinvise (onchain growth), Minidev (AI app builder), EarnKit (monetization SDK).
- Built Jenil AI: my AI co-founder.
- Handles marketing, sales, strategy, and operations.
- Claims protocol fees autonomously onchain.
- Published papers on token locking, a threshold-based consensus algorithm & secure data management.
Interviews & Talks
- How to Build at IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Gandhinagar & IAR.
- Superteam Podcast with Tanmay Bhat & Akshay BD on Social Tokens.
- Mint Podcast with Adam Levy: Tools for Airdrops, Membership NFTs, Web3 Creator Economy.
- Behind the Builder with Lindsay Gaziano.
- The Encrypted Economy with Eric Hess on DAOs & Social Graphs.
- Crypto Native with Future Alisha on Creators & Communities.
Other
- Pro Table Tennis: Nationals, North-West India Champion.
- Started Network for Environment & Energy Development.
- Crwodfunded $8.5k & built a rocket crossing 100k ft in space.
- Open Water Diver.