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Dealflow
by Keira Nesdale
Dealflow Podcast is where founders, VCs, and operators say the quiet stuff out loud. No PR fluff, no safe answers, just the real stories behind how deals get done and companies actually grow.Hosted by Keira Nesdale (MH Ventures), a VC and builder in the arena, DealFlow goes past the pitch deck into what works right now in AI, Web3, and frontier tech. Each episode breaks down how top founders find customers, structure raises, survive bear markets, and turn messy product experiments into something investors will fight to back.
Episodes
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Everyone Else Has Crypto Rules. Why Doesn’t America?
Keira sits down with Adrian Wall, Managing Director of the Digital Sovereignty Alliance, a nonprofit in Washington DC that helps write the crypto laws senators vote on.Adrian explains why America is at risk of losing the dollar's place at the centre of world finance, not to a war or a crash, but…
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Anyone Can Build Now. So What Actually Makes a Startup Win?
In this episode, Keira sits down with Mike Taylor, Co-Founder of GTM Ventures, a firm that has publicly refused to pick a thesis. Mike explains why attaching yourself to a narrative becomes a filter that quietly stops you from reading the market, and why the only red thread in their portfolio is...
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Why Most Crypto Tokens Go to Zero, and What Founders Should Build Instead
In this episode, Keira sits down with Will Patterson, Founder of Third Earth Capital and Head of Ventures at Hashgraph Ventures, where he is deploying a new $100 million fund. Will came to crypto through banking. He took his first bonus, put all of it into Bitcoin at $22,000, and watched it fall....
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He Quit Cancer Research at Oxford to Bet on Crypto. Then Everything Crashed.
In this episode, Keira sits down with Simon Dedic, Co-Founder of Moonrock Capital. Simon spent years in a lab at Oxford working on one of the deadliest cancers there is, on a clear path to a career in science. Then he walked away from all of it. He took a bank loan at the bottom of the 2018 bear...
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Why OpenAI and Anthropic Cannot Hold the Lead Forever
In this episode, Keira sits down with Greg Schvey, Chief Operating Officer at Yuma and one of the most credentialed repeat founders in crypto. Greg walked away from a fixed income job at Citibank for Bitcoin in 2012, built the first institutional crypto data platform and sold it to DCG, then…
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Inside One of Crypto's Biggest Funds | Multicoin Capital
In this episode, Keira sits down with Spencer Applebaum and Shayon Sengupta, the newly appointed general partners and co-heads of ventures at Multicoin Capital, one of the oldest and largest funds focused entirely on crypto.They break down, in plain language, how Multicoin actually picks winners,...
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The Real Reason Crypto Is About to Go Mainstream
In this episode, Keira sits down with Lane Kasselman, co-CEO and president of Blockchain.com, one of the longest-standing companies in crypto.Since launching in 2011, Blockchain.com has processed more than $1 trillion in transactions, reached over 42 million users across 200 countries, and…
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Why Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Control AI and What IO.net Is Doing to Break That Stranglehold
In this episode, Keira sits down with Gaurav Sharma, CEO of io.net, a decentralized GPU network that allows gamers, individuals, and data centres around the world to contribute computing power to a global marketplace.Gaurav has spent more than 16 years building internet infrastructure. His career...
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Why There Is Too Much Money and Not Enough Good Projects in Crypto
In this episode, Keira sits down with Richard Chen, founder and solo GP of Varrock VC, a $30 million crypto seed fund raised during the 2024 bear market and backed by institutional LPs. Richard co-founded the Stanford Blockchain Club in 2015, joined One Confirmation in its earliest days, and has...
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He Sold Porn at 13. Now He Scales Billion Dollar Companies.
In this episode, Keira sits down with Bob Chien, investor, serial founder, and one of the most eclectic minds in Web3. Bob scaled Galaxy from zero to 220 million users, onboarded over 600 partners, co-founded ethical gold mines in Colombia, built and exited two companies at billion-dollar...
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He Is Not a Finance Guy. He Is the Computer Scientist Who Backed the Right Projects First.
In this episode, Keira sits down with Praneeth Srikanti, co-founder and technical investment partner at Ethereal Ventures, a $150 million fund born out of the ConsenSys ecosystem and co-founded alongside Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin. Praneeth is not a finance person who learned crypto. He is…
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The Legal Side of Crypto Nobody Talks About: Tokens, Term Sheets, and the Clarity Act
In this episode, Keira sits down with Ryan McRobert, Partner at Fenwick & West, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected law firms, to unpack the legal side of crypto most founders ignore until it is too late.Ryan has spent over 13 years advising founders and investors from pre-seed formation…
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He Bought His House With Crypto and His Car That Dances
In this episode, Keira sits down with Chung, Investment Partner at ArkStream Capital, an $80M venture and liquid fund based in Singapore that has backed 100+ Web3 companies since 2020, including more than five unicorns.Chung’s path into crypto is anything but typical. He discovered Bitcoin in...
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Lost Everything in the 2018 Bear Market. Now Running Crypto's Most Selective Founder Accelerator.
In this episode, Keira sits down with Pareen, the founder accelerator lead at Monad and the architect behind Nitro, the first Web3 accelerator that accepts founders building on any chain. Pareen's journey is unlike almost anyone else in crypto: from building a self-sustaining SaaS product in PHP...
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Tokenize or Die: The Warning Every Business Needs to Hear
In this episode, Keira sits down with David Ching, Investment and Partnership Director at Animoca Brands, to unpack one of the boldest predictions in Web3 right now: tokenize or die. David explains why every business, from a local coffee shop to a global financial institution, will eventually…
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Three Scenarios for Humanity and Why peaq Is Building Toward the Only Good One
In this episode, Keira sits down with Martin El-Khouri, Chief Business Officer at EoT Labs, the team behind peaq Network, the leading layer-1 blockchain built for the machine economy.Martin’s path into Web3 is unconventional. He started as a news reporter, moved into conflict-resolution…
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The VC Who Passed on Coinbase and What He Learned From It
In this episode, Keira sits down with Brad Holden, Managing Partner at PL Capital, the venture fund within the Protocol Labs ecosystem, the R&D network behind Filecoin, IPFS, and early infrastructure in decentralized compute and zero-knowledge technology.Brad brings 15+ years of venture…
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What If Your Brain Was Worth Money?
In this episode, Keira sits down with Daniel Pratl, founder of Quadron, to unpack his thesis on the future of work.Dan believes we are moving into a post-job universe where AI replaces most tasks and individuals risk becoming commodities. Quadron is his answer: verification infrastructure that...
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Wall Street Assest Are Coming To Crypto
In this episode, Keira sits down with Wish Wu, co-founder and CEO of Pharos, a high-performance EVM-compatible L1 blockchain being built specifically to bring institutional-grade assets onto chain. Wish shares the story behind Pharos, which grew out of years building consortium blockchain...
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Your AI Agent Knows Everything About You. Who Else Does?
In this episode, Keira sits down with Christian Pusateri, CEO and co-founder of Mind Network, to tackle one of the most important and least understood problems in the entire AI and crypto stack: privacy. Christian is building around Fully Homomorphic Encryption, FHE, which has been called the…
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From Roblox to the Next Generation: How Avalon is Using AI to Let Anyone Build Their Dream Game
What if you could build your dream game just by describing it? In this episode, Keira sits down with Sean Pinnock, Co-Founder and CEO of Avalon, the AI-powered Web3 gaming platform that lets anyone create, play, and own their own game worlds. No coding. No barriers. Just your imagination.Sean...
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This Is Fast Money Like Bitcoin But Better
In this episode, Keira sits down with Quai Network co‑founder and CEO Alan to unpack how Quai is picking up where Bitcoin left off and rebuilding money from first principles. Alan explains, in simple language, what a blockchain actually is, why Bitcoin became "digital gold" instead of everyday...
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Spend Crypto, Save Crypto, and Earn Crypto at Your Local Shops
In this episode, Keira sits down with Parth, co-founder of Tria, to break down how crypto is becoming usable for everyday people, not just traders and tech natives.Parth explains what a self-custodial neobank actually is, why stablecoins are becoming a serious payment rail, and how Tria lets…
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What If Your Laptop Could Make Money While You Sleep?
In this episode, Keira sits down with Hiroshi Harada and Bernd Hollerith from Jasmy, Jasmy Labs, and JANCTION to unpack how data ownership, decentralized compute, and AI infrastructure are starting to converge.Hiroshi and Bernd explain, in simple language, how Jasmy began with a mission to…
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This Is Fast Money Like Bitcoin But Better
In this episode, Keira sits down with Quai Network co‑founder and CEO Alan to unpack how Quai is picking up where Bitcoin left off and rebuilding money from first principles. Alan explains, in simple language, what a blockchain actually is, why Bitcoin became "digital gold" instead of everyday...
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Stop building for humans. Start building for AI Agents.
In this episode of DealFlow, Austin Baggio explains why Ensue is building a shared memory network so agents can build a shared memory together instead of starting from zero every time.We dive into what a “memory layer” actually is, how Ensue lets agents store and share context across tools and...
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Stop building for humans. Start building for this.
Ensue wants your AI agents to stop waking up with amnesia. In this episode of DealFlow, Austin Baggio explains why Ensue is building a shared memory network so agents can build a shared memory together instead of starting from zero every time.We dive into what a “memory layer” actually is, how...
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This is the GIANT human experiment.
In this episode, we sit down with John Paller, the Founder and Executive Steward of ETHDenver. We explore how ETHDenver evolved from a scrappy meetup in a sports castle to the world's largest Web3 #BUIDLathon and innovation festival,. John explains why the industry is moving away from the…
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This Game WON: Game of the Year + Best Multiplayer + Best Shooter + Best eSports + Best Action Game
When a game is good enough, gamers don’t care what tech is under the hood. They just play.In this episode of DealFlow, I’m joined by Theodore Agranat, Director of Web3 at Gunzilla Games, the studio behind Off The Grid, a cyberpunk battle royale/extraction shooter that’s been stacking momentum...
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This is what crypto is missing
When a game is good enough, gamers don’t care what tech is under the hood. They just play.In this episode of DealFlow, I’m joined by Theodore Agranat, Director of Web3 at Gunzilla Games, the studio behind Off The Grid, a cyberpunk battle royale/extraction shooter that’s been stacking momentum...
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This is why Micro-Creators will dominate 2026
Quack. Creators don’t need more “brand deal spreadsheets.” Brands don’t need more agencies spraying money and praying. They need a clean system that matches the right product with the right voices… at scale. In this episode of DealFlow, Yurii “Quacker” Kyparus breaks down how Wallchain is...
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Fortnite Is Dead… Watch Out for This Game!
When a game is good enough, gamers don’t care what tech is under the hood. They just play.In this episode of DealFlow, I’m joined by Theodore Agranat, Director of Web3 at Gunzilla Games, the studio behind Off The Grid, a cyberpunk battle royale/extraction shooter that’s been stacking momentum...
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Sports gambling is BROKEN, RareBet Sports is fixing it
Most sports betting platforms aren’t “better.”They’re just locked to North America.Rarebet Sports is building an onchain alternative to the traditional sportsbook stack — starting with Daily Fantasy Sports (Pick’em-style over/unders), instant stablecoin rails, and global access from day one.In…
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Build $1M App with NO Code + Earn Crypto
When you start in Web3 doing tokenomics stress tests… you’re not supposed to end up leading a vibe-coding product that lets 15,000 people build apps by chatting to AI.Alex did.And the bigger twist?DreamSpace is not “another AI website builder.”DreamSpace is a bridge where creators can ship Web2...
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He Started College With NO Computer… Now He Built A Blockchain
When you start university without a computer… you’re not supposed to end up at Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft.Bulent Tustan did. Then he went solo-founder mode.In this episode of DealFlow, Bulent breaks down what he’s building with UMI (Unified Multi-VM Infrastructure), a Layer 2 on Ethereum…
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From Refugees to Remote Workers: Decaf and the Future of Digital Money
When your bank freezes, your app crashes, or Wise ghosts your transfer… life doesn’t stop.Rick Martin is building Decaf for those moments.The purpose of Decaf is simple: getting money, fast and cheaply, to people and places banks can’t reach.Rick is the co-founder of Decaf, a self-custodial…
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From Side Hustle Bots to a $100M Crypto Startup
Sam Battenally is trying to fix the two things everyone hates about trading:it’s slow, and it’s full of hidden costs. Sam is the co-founder and CEO of RISE, a new blockchain built to feel like modern web apps: instant, smooth, and (on their new exchange RiseX) zero gas fees. He’s also just…
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Why Stablecoins Were Just the Warm-Up: Theo's Plan to Rewire Global Finance
Most people think crypto is about coins, memes, and speculation. Iggy thinks it’s about something much bigger: rewiring a $1.5 quadrillion financial system onto better rails… and letting anyone in for as little as $1. Iggy is the Chief Investment Officer at Theo Network, a protocol that takes...
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Why Crypto Still Doesn’t Work and How Muriel is Fixing it.
Web3 keeps calling itself the “global computer”.Muriel Medard is the MIT professor actually making that true.In this episode of DealFlow Founder Stories, I sit down with Professor Muriel Medard, co-founder and CEO of Optimum, inventor of Random Linear Network Coding, and one of the core minds...
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The Next Internet Won’t Be Built by People. It’ll Be Built by AI Agents (DAIN)
In this episode of DealFlow: Founder Stories, Keira sits down with Donny Solana, founder of DAIN, the Decentralized Autonomous Intelligence Network that’s redefining how AI works, learns, and earns. DAIN is building the Autonomous Internet, a world where intelligent agents represent you, your...
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This Company Is Building the Amazon (& Uber) of 3D Printing
What if factories disappeared?In this episode of Dealflow, we sit down with John Dogru, founder and CEO of 3DOS, to explore how decentralized manufacturing could disrupt trillion-dollar supply chains and unlock a new creator economy for physical products.3DOS is building the world’s first open...
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Rebuilding the Internet: Faster, Fairer, and Owned by the People (DoubleZero)
In this episode of DealFlow, Keira sits down with Austin Federa, co-founder of DoubleZero, to unpack how they’re building a faster, fairer, and user-owned internet, from the ground up. This isn’t another Web3 buzzword session. It’s the operator’s playbook for turning the hardest problem in tech,...
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Big Tech Sells Your Data. Vana Lets You Get Paid Instead.
Big Tech sells your data. Vana lets you get paid instead. In this episode of DealFlow: Founder Stories, Keira sits down with Art Abal, Managing Director of Vana, the Web3 data protocol putting people back in control of the data that powers AI. This isn’t just another Web3 pitch it’,s a revolution...
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Inside the $2B Bet on Decentralized AI: The 0G Labs Story
In this episode of DealFlow, Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G Labs, joins to break down how he’s building the world’s first modular Layer-1 designed to make AI a public good, open, verifiable, and unstoppable. This isn’t another hype cycle chat. It’s the real founder story behind one of...
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Humanoids Are Coming: How XMaquina Lets You Own a Piece of the Robot Economy
Humanoids are coming and for the first time, you can own a piece of them. In this episode of DealFlow, Keira sits down with Mauricio, co-founder of XMaquina, to unpack how Physical AI is moving from sci-fi to cash-flowing reality. This isn’t another crypto hype session — it’s the operator’s...
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From Web3 Idea to $25M Reality: Miden’s Founder Playbook
In this episode of DealFlow, Keira sits down with Azeem Khan to unpack how Miden evolved from a bold Web3 idea into a $25 million blockchain powerhouse. This isn’t another fluffy crypto convo... it’s the real founder story behind one of the most ambitious projects in decentralized tech. 🔍…
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Dealflow Podcast is where founders, VCs, and operators say the quiet stuff out loud. No PR fluff, no safe answers, just the real stories behind how deals get done and companies actually grow.Hosted by Keira Nesdale (MH Ventures), a VC and builder in the arena, DealFlow goes past the pitch deck into what works right now in AI, Web3, and frontier tech. Each episode breaks down how top founders find customers, structure raises, survive bear markets, and turn messy product experiments into something investors will fight to back.
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