Kyle Samani
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Multicoin Capital
Austin, United States
Kyle Samani is a seed investor at Multicoin Capital in Austin focused on Blockchain and Software. Kyle Samani is based out of Austin, Texas and is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Forward Industries. Kyle Samani previously worked at Pristine as a Co-Founder, CEO. Kyle Samani attended NYU Stern School of Business.
- Total investments:
- 41
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 59%
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Industries Kyle Samani invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 18 (44%)
- Software 10 (24%)
- Cryptocurrency 10 (24%)
- Internet 6 (15%)
- Information Technology 6 (15%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (51%)
- Series A 11 (27%)
- Initial Coin Offering 3 (7%)
- Series B 1 (2%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- United States 18 (44%)
- Canada 3 (7%)
- Singapore 2 (5%)
- United Kingdom 2 (5%)
- India 1 (2%)
Investments
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| Forward is a fully integrated design, development, and manufacturing solution provider to top tier medical and technology customers worldwide. Through its acquisition of Intelligent Product Solutions (“IPS”), the Company has expanded its ability to design and develop solutions for our existing multinational client base and expand beyond thediabetic product line into a variety of industries with a full spectrum of hardware and software product design and engineering services. In addition to our existing design and distribution of carry and protective solutions, primarily for handheld electronic devices, we are now a one-stop-shop for design, development and manufacturing solutions serving a wide range of clients in the industrial, commercial and consumer industries. | $1.7B / Post-IPO Equity / Sep 08, 2025 | ||
| The Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network (GEODNET) is a decentralized network of Space Weather mining stations that report the real-time influence of the Sun’s solar winds on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. This data is commonly used to accurately correct GNSS (GPS and other navigation satellite) signals to providecentimeter level positioning accuracy and improve absolute time accuracy to nano-second level. Traditional applications for these data services include Automotive/Autonomous Navigation, Agriculture/Construction Vehicle Machine Control, Earthquake/Geohazard Monitoring, and traditional Land Survey. Blockchain applications include decentralized Mapping, Metaverse Digital Twins, Location-Aware Smart Contracts, and Proof-of-Location and Time. GEOD is the native utility token that is used for: Fees for providing GEODNET data streams and services. Rewards to Space Weather Miners. Used for governance votes to determine how network resources are allocated. Gas for future native GEODNET blockchain location/time proofs. | $8M / Initial Coin Offering / Feb 25, 2025 | ||
| zkMe operates as a zero-knowledge Identity Oracle provider. | $4M / Seed / Aug 20, 2024 | ||
| Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield. | $21M / Seed / Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips. | $73.4M / Series A / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Helius accelerates the adoption of crypto-powered software. | $9.5M / Series A / Feb 22, 2024 | ||
| Glif builts and maintains essential Filecoin apps. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 06, 2024 | ||
| Tableland is a permissionless relational database designed for web3 developers. Tableland is based on the popular SQLite engine and allows developers to create complicated relational data models for decentralized games, apps, NFTs, and other applications. To begin constructing with Tableland | $8M / Series A / Apr 20, 2023 | ||
| Spindl develops a blockchain-based attribution system to help businesses accelerate user growth. It also provides data analytics of customer behavior and retention rates and ROIs on token drops, customer acquisition costs on advertising spend and wallet conversion rates. | $7M / Seed / Oct 20, 2022 | ||
| Clockwork schedules tasks and automates on-chain workflows directly with the Solana validator network. | $4M / Seed / Aug 30, 2022 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Multicoin Capital
Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests long term in tokens that reshape entire sectors of the global economy. It is on a mission to accelerate the transition from the centralized institutions of the industrial age to the decentralized institution of the internet age. By accelerating the transition from permissioned to permissionless financial systems, Multicoin aims to accelerate humanity’s ability to achieve its full potential. Multicoin Capital was established in 2017 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Multicoin Capital Contacts
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Gregory Xethalis
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
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General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
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Kyle Samani
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Ryan Emmick
Blockchain Engineer
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Tushar Jain
Managing Partner
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What does Kyle Samani invest in?
Kyle Samani invests primarily in Blockchain, Software and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Kyle Samani closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 41 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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