Youngstown, Ohio, United States
Kyle focuses on removing barriers to success through collaborative partnerships to grow long-term brand impact and business success. With 2 successful exits, Kyle now is in the top 1% of all Techstars mentors while managing Investor Relations for CoreNest Capital, with over $100m AUM. Kyle is an experienced Investor Relations Executive completing over 20 deals for private equity, family offices, venture capital, and corporations, totalling over $1.5 billion as well as leadership experience with industry giants like Zillow and Vail Resorts. The market cap of the companies exceeds $21B. Product operations lead from 0-1 for 12 projects, gaining over 100 partners, thousands of investors, and authoring business strategy plus whitepapers. Kyle's passion currently lies within early-stage startups, DAO structuring, and mass adoption strategies to help grow the global crypto market. Kyle has worked directly with Draper Venture Network, Nobel Prize Winners, the previous Chairman of the SEC, the previous Vice Chairman of the NASDAQ, founder of Visa, the previous Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of State, Founder of CIS, the CFO of Yahoo, the co-creator of Bitcoin’s prototype and other luminaries.
● Listed as a Top 10 Emerging VC by the Venture Network ● Closed a $25m fund with an additional $100m co-investment ● Strategy and sourcing to fulfill a $150 million fund with $40m soft commits ● Led deals from sourcing to execution including co-investment with the NFL ● Investing across Fintech, AI, Robotic, and Military technology pre-seed to Series A startups
● Techstars 2024 All-Star Mentor ● Sourced over 20 projects, with 3 receiving final reviews ● Evaluated startups for the Web3 program based on team, market, product, and traction ● Work cross-functionally across organizations to bring projects from 0-1 ● Focus on lean scalability ● Go-to-market strategy for product, operational, and marketing campaigns
● Manage communications between 200 VC funds and family offices ● Launched the Cointelegraph Accelerator Mentor program from zero to one, reaching 50 mentors in 1 month ● Produced market news for 23M monthly viewers. ● Analyzed top-risk assets, equities, and commodities and performed detailed on-chain analysis. ● Set the record for the most read and shared article in Cointelegraph's history. ● Top article in America in 24-hours on June 14, 2023
● Raised over $15M in pre-sale funds from top blockchain VCs in 2 weeks. ● Signed partnerships with more than 30 entities as part of business development. ● Increased community membership to over 150,000 through digital marketing techniques.
● Implemented full lifecycle M&A deals for China and Europe based companies, ranging from $50M to $100M.