At Bleeding.Technology we track over 100,000 web 3.0, NFT, DeFi & crypto startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Australia based Founder operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Kain Warwick
Founder of Synthetix
Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft
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About blueshyft, Synthetix: A cryptoasset-backed network that enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets.
Loong Wang
CTO and Founder of Ren
Loong Wang is the Chief Technology Officer of Ren. He attended the Australian National University.
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About Ren: Ren is an open protocol that enables the movement of value between blockchains.

Rupert Hackett
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Caleb & Brown
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About Bitcoin.co.uk, Buy A Bitcoin, Caleb & Brown: Caleb and Brown is a digital currency exchange that provides personal cryptocurrency brokerage services.
Michael Spain
Co-Founder of Lyra Finance
Michael Spain is a Co-Founder at Lyra.
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About Lyra Finance: Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum.
Nick Foster
Co-Founder of Lyra Finance
Nick Foster is the Co-Founder at Lyra.
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About Lyra Finance: Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum.
Ryan Zhou
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of CoinJar
Ryan cofounded CoinJar in May 2013 after successfully raising venture capital investment and over $500 million in trades. Coinjar is a bitcoin exchange personal finance account which uses a service that allows customers to send money to 196 countries, in six minutes, for $0. CoinJar has over 350,000 members and over $785 million in trading turnover to date. With a strong passion for solving problems with technology, Ryan is also a hands-on full-stack software engineer and has been accredited as a Chartered Financial Analyst by the CFA Institute.
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About CoinJar: CoinJar is an Australian bitcoin platform that enables the buying and selling of bitcoins and allows merchants to accept bitcoin payments.

Leon-Gerard Vandenberg
CTO & Founder of Fuzo Limited
Leon Gerard Vandenberg is the founder and CTO for Rights Commerce Ltd Solara Systems Inc. Solara Australia Ltd. Fuzo Limited and GET IT Systems (Family Investments under The Novous Trust) He earned his degree at the University of Waterloo (Systems Design Engineering 1988 and Wilfrid Laurier Unversity (MBA) 1989
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About Fuzo Limited: Financial Inclusion As a Service – Open Transaction & Identity Platform for Mobiles
Damien king
CTO and Founder of PUML Better Health
Damien is an experienced technologist and advisor with a rich heritage in platforms and mobile application development. He has more than 18 years of experience in technology and engineering and has recently become a BlockChain advocate, founding both Blockchainers.co and PUML.io, a healthtech BlockChain company in Singapore. He acts as a Technology Advisor and Mentor for many startups and innovative corporates in Australia and the UK. He has his own nearshore boutique Startup Studio, Adaptive Media, that is based in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and has founded 2 startups, Possible Fitness and Beeliked Media, a SaaS based a Social Promotions Platform in London. He spent 7 years at Virgin Media in the UK as Head of Development, Digital Entertainment helping to deliver their STB VOD and onDemand video and music streaming services and was also the Chief Technology Officer for music streaming service Guvera. At Guvera he scaled and delivered a sophisticated global delivery platform to support 40 Million tracks across 20 Countries with over 10 Million app downloads. Damien previously worked for BHP Billiton and has experience working with major UK companies such as The BBC, British Telecom and GlaxoSmithKline. Damien is a qualified ScrumMaster an Agile Practitioner and a Senior member of the Australian Computer Society (MACS Snr CP).
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About Adaptive Media, PUML Better Health: Gamified health and wellbeing challenges for Corporates, Brands and Fans. Play to Earn Crypto and Athlete NFTs now and in the Metaverse
Voidan Kardalev
Co-Founder of bron.tech
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About bron.tech: bron.tech is a company that specializes in decentralized infrastructure for data sharing and identity management.
Simon Berman
CEO & Founder of Kosmonotes
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About Kosmonotes: Kosmonotes is a AI-driven research, authoring and collaboration tool which simplifies the creation and navigation of complex information.
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