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Name and title

Nikhil Srinivasan

Cofounder & CEO, Infinite

San Francisco, CA

He goes by nvs online and is @nvs on X.

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Cofounder & CEO of Infinite (YC W25), the global financial network for stablecoin payments.

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Nikhil Srinivasan is the cofounder and CEO of Infinite (YC W25), the global financial network for stablecoin payments, built on a compliance system of intelligence. He previously led the compliance and risk platform at Sardine and led product for Coinbase's crypto platform after Coinbase acquired his first company, Distributed Systems, in 2018. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and an angel investor in Anthropic, OpenAI, and 50+ startups.

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Nikhil Srinivasan is the cofounder and CEO of Infinite (YC W25), the global financial network built on a compliance system of intelligence. Infinite gives businesses unified fiat and stablecoin accounts and global payment rails, with counterparty review done once for the whole network instead of once per relationship, so every dollar moves faster and cheaper as more companies connect. In 2026 the company launched Infinite Accounts, dedicated bank accounts that bring fiat and stablecoins together for B2B payments. Infinite is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Coinbase Ventures, 468 Capital, and Y Combinator.

Before Infinite, Nikhil led the compliance and risk platform at Sardine, the fraud prevention and compliance company used by fintechs and banks. He joined Coinbase in 2018 when it acquired Distributed Systems, the digital identity company he cofounded with Alex Kern, to build Login with Coinbase; he went on to lead product for Coinbase's crypto platform. Earlier, he did research at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

Nikhil was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Enterprise Technology (2019) and to Stablecon's Stablecoins Most Influential 2026 list. He is an angel investor in more than 50 companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Circle, Varda, Hadrian, and Colossal Biosciences.

He writes about stablecoins, payments, and building companies on Substack, is an Eagle Scout, and lives in San Francisco.

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Infinite

Infinite (YC W25) is the global financial network built on a compliance system of intelligence. Businesses use Infinite for unified fiat and stablecoin accounts and global payment rails, with counterparty review done once for the whole network, so every dollar moves faster and cheaper the more companies connect. Infinite is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Coinbase Ventures, 468 Capital, and Y Combinator, and is headquartered in San Francisco.

Fast facts

Role
Cofounder & CEO
Company
Infinite
Y Combinator batch
YC W25
Founded
2024
Cofounder
Raj Lad, Cofounder & CTO
Based in
San Francisco, CA
Previously
Sardine, Coinbase, Distributed Systems, Wyss
Recognition
Stablecoins Most Influential 2026; Forbes 30 Under 30 (2019)
Investing
Nikhil writes small angel checks at pre-seed and seed into founders building infrastructure: payments and financial rails, AI, and occasional bets in bio, space, and hardware.
Contact
n@nvs.xyz

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