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Jonathan Kirkwood, MD, MBA, serves as Independent Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of BTC Development Corp. (NASDAQ: BDCI), a blank-check company formed to identify and acquire businesses in the bitcoin ecosystem or companies that can integrate bitcoin into their capital structures, balance sheets, and operations. BTC Development Corp. completed its initial public offering on the Nasdaq Global Market, raising approximately $253 million, with units trading under the symbol BDCIU and separated Class A ordinary shares and warrants trading as BDCI and BDCIW, respectively. The SPAC's sponsor entity, BTC Development Sponsor LLC, is managed by Kirkwood alongside Betsy Z. Cohen and Bracebridge H. Young, Jr., with Cohen serving as Chairman, Young as President and CEO, and Kirkwood as Vice-Chairman. The management team's stated thesis is to merge with a profitable private company and allocate substantial proceeds to Bitcoin as a treasury asset, leveraging the network effects of the Ten31 portfolio while offering the target company a fast track to a public listing. The company has a completion window extending to October 1, 2027, with a possible extension to January 1, 2028 if a definitive business combination agreement has been executed by that earlier date.
Kirkwood co-founded Ten31 LLC in 2020 and has served as its Managing Partner since inception, building it into a venture capital firm that exclusively invests in the bitcoin ecosystem. Over approximately four years, Ten31 has deployed more than $100 million across 30-plus portfolio companies, writing checks ranging from as small as $200,000 for early-stage founders through Series B rounds. Notable investments include leading Strike's $80 million Series B, as well as backing Unchained Capital and Fold. Kirkwood and his partner Grant Gilliam collectively sit on seven portfolio company boards, and the firm's broader partnership includes Marty Bent and Matt Odell. Ten31's investment thesis spans vertically integrated miners, financial services firms leveraging the Lightning Network, consumer applications, and infrastructure plays across the bitcoin stack. Kirkwood also serves as Lead Director at Fold, a bitcoin rewards platform that became the first pure-play bitcoin company listed on NASDAQ, an event he attended at the closing bell ceremony. He has been a public advocate for the concept of bitcoin as "digital capital," arguing that companies adopting bitcoin as a treasury asset will gain a durable competitive advantage and that S&P 500 survivors over the coming decades will be those that add bitcoin to their balance sheets.
Kirkwood holds MD and MBA degrees and is a graduate of Ball State University. His professional background prior to Ten31 includes experience in investment, real estate, and energy advisory through Kirkwood & Company, where he was involved in sourcing, structuring, and principal investment activities. Through his roles at Ten31 and BTC Development Corp., Kirkwood has been featured in Forbes and on industry podcasts discussing bitcoin-focused venture capital strategy, the evolution of the bitcoin ecosystem, and the operational and financial benefits of corporate bitcoin treasury adoption. He is based in the United States and continues to divide his time between his venture capital responsibilities at Ten31 and his board duties at BTC Development Corp., where he works alongside Cohen, Young, directors Andrew Hohns and Grant Gilliam, and other board members to identify a qualifying business combination target.
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002057403 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
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