Keynote20 to 45 min
Where early-stage money goes next.
RequestVenture Investor · Steel Valley
Fifteen years across the venture table.
Finds founders early. Helps them raise.
- Cointelegraph
- Techstars
- CoreNest Capital
- Venture Forum
- Interstellar Digital
- Carnegie Mellon
- WKBN 27
- Muck Rack
60accelerator investments
$125Mfollow-on for the portfolio
$600M+raised by founders he advised
2companies built and sold
About
Youngstown made. Built for founders.
Kyle White grew up in the Steel Valley and never left. He built Cointelegraph's accelerator from its first cohort to its fourth, then went to work on the other side of the table, helping founders tell their story to investors.
- Now
- Head of Investor Relations, CoreNest Capital. CIO of a single-family office.
- Before
- Founded and sold Interstellar Digital, a PR firm for startups.
- Writes
- 315 articles, most for Cointelegraph.
On stage and judging.
Judge
BNB Chain pitch, Bitcoin 2024
Largest Bitcoin conference ever held. RFK Jr. and Donald Trump spoke the same weekend.
Panelist
Crypto Invest Summit
Tokenization, with Jor Law. Hosted by Alon Goren.
Keynote
Greater Bay Area Blockchain Investment Summit
Called tokenization as practiced “not scalable,” lacking inherent liquidity.
On WKBN 27
When you're in Youngstown, everyone is a Youngstowner, and they all want to support one another.
Finally being able to see it pay off, both financially and professionally, is very rewarding.
Market calls, then and now.
From his Cointelegraph market coverage.
Called it
Bitcoin enters a ‘transitional phase’
“There are positive signs that the transition out of the deepest phase of the bear market is near.”
- BTC then
- ~$22,000
- BTC now
- $82,660
as of Oct 9, 2026
Institutions lift Bitcoin sentiment at $28K
“Comments from institutional investors and amendments to the spot Bitcoin ETF applications could be behind the recent improvement in investor sentiment.”
Flagged Fidelity, ARK, Invesco refilings. ETFs live Jan 11, 2024.
- BTC then
- $28,516
- BTC now
- $82,660
as of Oct 9, 2026
Long-term holder supply hits a record
“Illiquid coins, given Bitcoin's finite supply, are typically a bullish market indicator.”
- BTC then
- $34,000
- BTC now
- $82,660
as of Oct 9, 2026
Shanghai sell pressure: a likely non-event
“Since a majority of the locked Ether is through LSD, investors currently have access to liquidity, which could reduce sell pressure post-Shanghai.”
- ETH then
- ~$1,687
- ETH after
- $2,130
Feb 16, 2023 to Apr 13, 2023, post-Shanghai.
+26%in 8 weeks16.6M ETH ($28B) staked. No sell-off; highest since May 2022.
Solana still 4x below its high
“Despite reaching a 2023 high on Nov. 10, Solana's price is still over 4x below its all-time high of $259.96.”
- SOL then
- <$65
- SOL after
- $263
New all-time high, Nov 22, 2024.
4x+in 12 monthsPrice change after publication. Not investment advice.
Interviews
Hester Peirce
If you are not sure about where your business stands, come talk to us at the SEC. The best way to approach us is through FinHub, and while we will not give legal advice, we will give you things to think about. So, give us a call and have a conversation.
Then Since
2025: named head of the SEC's Crypto Task Force.
John McAfee
The Chinese, and all corporate and government coins will be nothing more than surveillance systems for your financial transactions. Don't use them.
Then Since
CBDC privacy became a mainstream policy fight.
- Anthony Pompliano
- Alon Goren Draper Goren Holm
- Miko Matsumura Evercoin
Early bets
A $1.5 billion bid for the Chrysler Building.
An offer to tokenize the 77-story tower, Feb 25, 2019. The sellers passed. BlackRock launched a tokenized fund five years later.
Globe Newswire·Mar 8, 2019
Jointer.io weighs in on its $1.5 Billion offer to tokenize the Chrysler Building
Contact: Kyle White, Chief Make-It-Happen Officer, Jointer
Press and reach
Covered by the outlets that move markets.
- 1,000+media placements for his companies and clients
- 40M+monthly readers reached at Cointelegraph
- 124stories in 91 outlets on a single company
- 250Kcommunity members built
Also New York Business Journal, GlobeNewswire, Calcalist, Finextra, Propmodo and Digital Journal.
Community
In the room with the people who built modern finance.
- 200+funds and family offices
- 70VC partners
- 50mentors
- 300ecosystem partners
Thanks for all that you do for our web3 founders!
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Hester Peirce
SEC Commissioner
Interviewed, 2020
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Michael Saylor
Executive Chairman, Strategy
Bitcoin 2024, Nashville
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David Weild IV
Former Vice Chairman, NASDAQ
Advisor
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Dee Hock
Founder, Visa
Advisor
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Ken Goldman
Former CFO, Yahoo!
Advisor
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Alon Goren
Goren Holm Ventures
Advisor
Also in the room Robert Neivert, 500 Startups. Mike Lorrey, co-creator of a Bitcoin prototype.
Built early
Live token auction on Binance Smart Chain
- BNB then
- ~$26
- BNB high
- $1,375
Binance BUIDL award. First one-click ETH-to-BEP20 swap, Dec 2020.
Auction testnet on Ethereum
- ETH then
- ~$395
- ETH high
- $4,957
First tokenized launch on Ethereum as Blok CMO, 2018.
The $33M BnkToTheFuture token sale
- Platform then
- $260M
- Platform now
- $1.75B
Total invested on BnkToTheFuture, Jan 2018 to today.
BNB and ETH: token price, build date to all-time high. BnkToTheFuture: GlobeNewswire 2018, PR Newswire 2020, bnktothefuture.com. Not investment advice.
Most Promising Venture, Carnegie Mellon
Apr 12, 2019, Pittsburgh. 8th Annual CMU Summit on U.S.-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Awarded by the CMU U.S.-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Association.
Kyle's write-upFeatured takes
Bylines
- Cointelegraph MagazineCrypto Industry Divided Over Introducing Circuit Breakers on Exchanges
- CointelegraphCrypto Crime Doubled in 2019, but Still Under 1% of Transactions
- CointelegraphDo Lawmakers Use AML as an Excuse to Centralize Crypto and Blockchain?
- Cointelegraph MagazineCanada Pushes to Regulate Crypto Adoption, Forgoing Volatile BTC Past
- Cointelegraph3 metrics DeFi traders can watch to spot the next crypto bull market
Talks
- 01
What investors see that founders miss
Screening 400+ companies, and what earns a second meeting.
- 02
The accelerator playbook
How to pick founders and build the investor bench behind them.
- 03
How founders actually raise
What closes a round, seen from the founder's side.
- 04
From $10M to $5B, and the collapse
Running a crypto company through both.
- 05
Family offices and venture
How family offices approach startups and direct deals.
Recognition
- Techstars All-Star Mentor2024
- Top 10 Emerging VCVenture Network
- Featured InvestorVenture Forum 2026
- Honorary AlumnusUSCIEA
Professional certificates
Operational Leadership 
Private Banking and M&A 
Investment Management 
M&A for AI Innovation 
Agentic AI and RAG 
Facilities Management 
Lean Six Sigma and 9 more 
Ethical Hacking
Plus NASBA (Treasury Management, Entrepreneurship) and IIBA (Business Analysis, Cybersecurity, Predictive Analytics).
Book Kyle
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- Virtual or in person
- Youngstown, Ohio. Travels nationally.
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