Jake Brukhman is the Founder, CEO & Managing Partner of CoinFund, one of the first blockchain-focused investment firms in the United States, which he founded in July 2015; Aleksandr Bulkin was also an original co-founder. Jake Brukhman's Twitter Score is 597 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, placing him at rank #197 (top 0.1%) out of 389,587 accounts tracked on this platform, with 53,591 followers as of July 2026 and 35,468 posts since 2008.
Jake Brukhman previously worked at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager & Engineer, at Highbridge Capital Management, and at Triton Research as Partner & CTO. He championed the concept of "generalized mining," active blockchain network participation as an investment strategy, since 2018, co-presenting the thesis alongside Tushar Jain of Multicoin Capital at DevCon in Prague.
Jake Brukhman led CoinFund's launch of CoinFund Ventures I, a $300 million fund in August 2022 targeting early-stage web3 companies including layer-1 blockchains, DeFi, NFTs, and gaming. CoinFund followed this with CoinFund Seed IV, which raised $158 million in July 2023, exceeding its initial $125 million target, focused on pre-seed and seed-stage startups across scalability, AI x crypto, data coordination, and consumer applications. The firm was also an early backer of Ethereum, reported to have invested at approximately $0.60, and has supported projects including Aragon, Balancer, The Graph, Rarible, and Dune Analytics. Jake Brukhman serves as a board member at Metaversal and at Rarible, and as an advisor to Fair Launch Capital. Tracked portfolio accounts include Dune, Syndicate and SEED CLUB.
Jake Brukhman publicly advocates for decentralized AI as a counterweight to centralized AI control, and CoinFund has backed decentralized AI projects including Prime Intellect, Gensyn, Bagel, Nous Research, and Macrocosmos AI, among others. He also founded First Edition (FIRSTEDITION.XYZ), a digital art gallery supporting blockchain-focused NFT creators, and has spoken at industry events including Consensus 2025 and Consensus Hong Kong 2026.
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