Trevor Koverko’s journey began on the ice. In 2005, he was drafted by the NHL’s New York Rangers—an early milestone that reflected his discipline, grit, and high-performance mindset. But everything changed in 2011. Trevor Koverko’s Trevor Koverko’s While driving on Toronto’s 401 highway to a business meeting, Trevor was involved in a devastating car accident with a transport truck. He was airlifted to Hamilton Health Sciences Centre with a brain hemorrhage, contusions, lacerations, and severe trauma to his parietal lobe. He remained in a coma for days and faced temporary paralysis on his left side. It could have ended there. But as Trevor describes it, even a catastrophic brain injury and going through it all, somehow “became a blessing in disguise,” and if you can survive that, you’ve got “nothing to lose.” So, while his sports career may have come to an end well before its time, he didn’t let that keep him down; instead, he focused on what's next. Taking up all his passion, hard work, and determination and putting them into his work, Trevor reinvented himself in the tech world, quickly becoming a pioneer at the intersection of crypto, blockchain, and AI. His path was far from smooth. His first startup failed—an experience he embraced as part of the learning curve. But Trevor was prepared for that as he stated in an interview several years ago, “Bake failure into your algorithm in advance… It’s how you learn.” stated stated And while his second creation did get acquired by a private equity fund, it wasn’t until Polymath that he really experienced the joy of success. Polymath is a real-world asset tokenization platform that raised $65 million for its grand ambitions. While today everyone from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, to JPMorgan wants in on this tokenization trend projected to be worth multi-trillion dollars, back in 2017 when Polymath was launched, it was one of the first security token projects that recognized the massive potential of RWA tokenization early on. At its peak, it had a run rate of eight-figure revenue while its token was among the top 50 coins with a $1 billion market cap. Then over the years, Trevor helped co-found and incubate L1 Polymesh, a public Web3 investment firm, Tokens.com, DeFi Technologies, Matador, and others. His latest project, however, may be the most ambitious and distinguished of them all. Sapien is a decentralized data marketplace designed to fuel AI training through expert human labeling. With 80,000 contributors in over 165 countries and 30+ languages, Sapien provides trusted training data to clients like Alibaba, Amazon, Toyota, Lenovo, Midjourney, and top universities. Sapien Sapien With its decentralized data foundry, Sapien aims to ensure that humans are at the core of the AI mania, driving transformation across industries. Notably, the platform allows anyone from anywhere in the world to contribute to AI development right through their phones and, in exchange for that, earn rewards. This way, humans from all walks of life help train cutting-edge AI models for real-world impact, ensuring that the future of AI is driven by humans in a completely transparent manner. Beyond building, Trevor invests actively in next-gen platforms like Ethereum, EigenLayer, EtherFi, SEI, and Ritual, while supporting causes such as Africa Inland Mission and Brynn Children’s Home. He also mentors fellow brain injury survivors, sharing hard-won wisdom from a life lived at full intensity. From the NHL draft to AI innovation, Trevor’s story is about resilience, reinvention, and relentless forward motion.
