About Capkindle

Building the Infrastructure Layer for Institutional Private Asset Tokenization

Founded in 2023 in New York's Financial District. We identified a specific infrastructure gap — the distance between how private credit originators structure deals and how those deals could settle more efficiently on-chain. That gap is what we are building across.

Our Story

Founded at 55 Broadway, Built for the Institutional Desk

Capkindle was incorporated in 2023 by Marcus Whitfield and a small team with backgrounds spanning private credit origination, financial infrastructure engineering, and securities law. The founding observation was precise: blockchain settlement infrastructure had matured enough to handle complex private assets, but no compliance-native issuance layer existed to meet the KYC/AML, accredited investor verification, and transfer restriction standards that institutional desks require.

From our office at 55 Broadway in New York's Financial District — two blocks from the NYSE — we work with private credit originators, family offices, and fund administrators who need on-chain rails without sacrificing the compliance controls that define institutional finance. We are not a crypto startup that learned about private credit. We are a capital markets infrastructure company that chose on-chain settlement because the audit trail, transfer restriction enforcement, and distribution mechanics are materially better than the off-chain alternatives.

55 Broadway and surrounding Financial District streetscape in New York City, stone facade buildings, institutional architecture

Founder

Marcus Whitfield

CEO & Co-Founder

Marcus spent eight years in the Financial District working on structured credit and capital markets infrastructure before founding Capkindle in 2023. The founding observation was specific: private credit originators were carrying the full weight of deal administration — cap tables, investor accreditation records, distribution waterfalls — in off-chain systems that created audit exposure and slowed secondary activity. On-chain settlement was technically available, but no compliance-native infrastructure existed to bridge the two worlds at the standards institutional desks require. He founded Capkindle to build that infrastructure. His background spans structured finance, fintech platform architecture, and securities regulation — the three disciplines the problem actually requires.

The Team

Small Team, Institutional Focus

We are a focused team of infrastructure builders, compliance practitioners, and capital markets professionals. Depth over breadth — every member works directly on the product.

Priya Nair

Head of Compliance

Regulatory compliance practitioner with background in securities law and financial institution compliance programs. Leads the design of Capkindle's KYC/AML framework and issuer compliance workflows.

Daniel Hartmann

Chief Technology Officer

Smart contract and financial infrastructure engineer. Leads the technical architecture of the issuance engine, token standards implementation, and platform security design.

Celeste Morrison

Head of Capital Markets

Structured finance background with experience in private credit origination and institutional distribution. Leads originator relationships and deal structuring advisory for Capkindle clients.

Funding $1.775M

Backed by angel investors in 2025. Capital is deployed against one objective: building the issuance, compliance, and secondary infrastructure that institutional private asset tokenization requires. We are not optimizing for growth-at-any-cost metrics. We are building infrastructure that institutional GPs, LPs, and fund administrators can rely on — the kind of reliability that requires patience, not a Series timeline.

How We Work

Three Principles That Govern Every Decision

Precision

Private markets operate on exact terms: face value to the dollar, coupon rate to the basis point, lock-up expiry to the day. A waterfall that runs incorrectly on one distribution event is a compliance event, not a UX problem. Our infrastructure reflects that discipline from the contract level up.

Compliance First

Compliance is not a layer on top of the product. It is the architecture. Every feature is designed with the assumption that a fund administrator or securities attorney will review it. This discipline is non-negotiable.

Builder Ethos

We are infrastructure builders, not concept pitchers. We measure our progress in working code, deployed contracts, and issuances that complete without incident — not in slide decks or feature roadmaps.

Work with the Capkindle Team

We are building infrastructure for a small number of institutional originator and investor relationships. If you are evaluating tokenization infrastructure for private credit or real assets, let's talk.

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