Summary
Jeet Raut is a business development and strategy leader with 11 years of experience building partnerships and go-to-market programs across blockchain, AI, and edtech. As Head of Business Development at Shinzo Network and Executive Director/co-founder of the New York Blockchain Council, he designs partnership motions from first principles and scales validator and indexer adoption without relying on sales engineering. He previously led ecosystem and BD efforts at Agoric and Hyperweb and co-founded AI diagnostics startup Behold.ai, which was acquired, giving him operator and fundraising chops alongside technical fluency. Jeet blends cognitive-psychology-informed product thinking with practical ecosystem-building—he's comfortable representing projects at major industry stages and translating builder feedback into product priorities. Based in New York, he’s active in hackathons, policy forums, and community programming, often surfacing unconventional partnership angles that accelerate multi-chain adoption.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization Foundations and Applications of Financial Technologies, Specialization Foundations and Applications of Financial Technologies at Wharton Online
Specialization Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance, Specialization Decentralized Finance (DeFi): The Future of Finance at Duke University
Master of Arts (M.A.) Instructional Technology and Media, Master of Arts (M.A.) Instructional Technology and Media at Columbia University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Cognitive Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Cognitive Psychology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign