Nikhil Srinivasan
Building Infinite | Previously Sardine, Distributed Systems (acq. Coinbase) | F30U30
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Cofounder & CEO
2025 - Current
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.
Sardine is fraud prevention and compliance software company for the digital economy.
Raised $75,600,000.00 from Visa, Andreessen Horowitz, Activant Capital, Nyca Partners, ING Ventures, ConsenSys, The General Partnership, XYZ Venture Capital, Eric Schmidt and Cross River Digital Ventures.
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.
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
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).
Distributed Systems is a digital identity startup and a full-stack machine intelligence.
Raised $1,700,000.00 from The House Fund, Floodgate, Rough Draft Ventures, The House Fund and Dorm Room Fund.
Product, Search & Monetization
2014 - 2015
App search and deeplink monetization platform supporting leading consumer businesses.
Researcher (Church Lab)
2009 - 2014