Blake Janover

Capital markets. Frontier technology. National security.



Now

DeFi Development Corp Nasdaq: DFDV · Board of Directors

Founded the predecessor company (Janover Inc., Nasdaq: JNVR). Took it public. Co-architected the transition transaction that pivoted the company into a digital asset treasury strategy. One of the top-performing Nasdaq-listed stocks of 2025.

Deep Fission Board of Directors

Advanced small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) company selected for the U.S. Department of Energy Reactor Pilot Program. Technology for defense installations, remote power, and industrial decarbonization. Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Compensation Committee.

J2 Labs Founder & CEO

Evergreen holding company acquiring cash-flowing businesses with durable competitive advantages.

Janover Capital Founder

Commercial real estate capital markets. Billions originated across multifamily, industrial, office, and mixed-use.


Two IPOs

Janover Inc. Nasdaq: JNVR · Founder, Chairman & CEO

Founded in 2018. Bootstrapped and crowdfunded through a traditional S-1 IPO onto the Nasdaq — no institutional or venture capital. Later co-architected a transaction that transitioned the company into DeFi Development Corp (Nasdaq: DFDV), resulting in one of the top-performing Nasdaq-listed stocks of 2025. Currently serves as Director.

Soulpower Acquisition Corp NYSE · Board of Directors

Founding board director. $250 million IPO underwritten by Cantor Fitzgerald. Navigated the vehicle from listing to an approximately $8.5 billion business combination agreement. Member of the Audit Committee and Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee. Board term completed April 2026.

Audit Committee Financial Expert · NYSE & Nasdaq qualified

Capital Markets

Billions in capital formation across debt, equity, and real estate. Direct principal experience across public equity, PIPEs, convertible notes, registered directs, real estate debt, real estate GP and LP equity, Reg CF, SPACs, and digital asset treasury structures.


National Security & Policy

National War College Alumni Association NATSEC Fellow

Bringing a commercial and capital-markets perspective to defense conversations on artificial intelligence — helping practitioners think about AI from new directions. Active in U.S.-Israel strategic partnership work, informed by generations of family history in the region and deep engagement with Israel's technology and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Engaged in great-power competition discussions.

Focus areas: practical applications of artificial intelligence, U.S.-Israel strategic partnership, great-power competition, capital formation for critical technologies.


Affiliations

Harvard Business School OPM 60 · Alumnus

Owner/President Management Program — the HBS executive program for principals of founder-led and owner-operated companies.

Young Presidents' Organization Palm Beach Board · YPO Member

Member of YPO. Board Director of the YPO Palm Beach chapter.

National War College Alumni Association NATSEC Fellow
Zell Entrepreneurship Program Lecturer & Mentor

Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel.

Florida Atlantic University Entrepreneur-in-Residence & Guest Lecturer

Perspective

I've spent my career building from zero. No venture capital, no safety net, no institutional permission. Bootstrap, crowdfund, figure it out, take it public. Built companies with employees, offices, and infrastructure across continents. That's not a philosophy — it's what I've actually done.

The things I work on now — defense, nuclear energy, capital allocation, Israel tech and entrepreneurship, public company governance, & AI governance to name a few. A lot of what I work on and think about share a common thread: they're hard problems, often where the gap between policy talk and actual execution is enormous. Operators who've built companies, taken them public, and sat in the boardroom during real capital formation decisions bring something different to those conversations. That perspective remains underrepresented in the rooms where these decisions get made. Strategic thinking starts with cognitive diversity and intellectual honesty — these things can't exist in echo chambers.

Delray Beach, Florida. Father of two. Loves America. Loves Israel.


Selectively open to advisory roles and one additional independent board seat.

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