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 Austria based Founder operating in the Blockchain 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.
Daniel Lenikus
Co-Founder and CEO of BlockExpo
Daniel Lenikus is Co-Founder and CEO of BlockExpo GmbH. He believes in the power and change that comes with emerging technologies. Understanding their impact is a fundamental necessity for humanity. To support this process, he and his team organize large blockchain conferences and weekly tech meetups in Vienna, Austria. He also has a background in finance and e-sports and is currently exploring the world of tokenization.
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About BlockExpo, VAIOT LIMITED: BlockExpo is believe in the power and change that comes with emerging technologies.
Paul Polterauer
Co-Founder & CEO of HEROcoin
Before he founded herosphere with a current user base of more than 200k users, Paul has worked at PwC Advisory for Corporate Finance, M&A and Deals. At PwC he worked on one of the largest deals in Austria at this time and projects like the asset quality review for the European Central Bank’s stress tests. He studied business administration in Austria, Hong Kong and Hawaii. Passionate soccer, tennis and Star Craft II player.
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About HEROcoin, HeroSphere: HEROcoin is a decentralized betting token that rewards players, game creators and the community.
Philip Peinsold
Co-Founder & CTO of HEROcoin
Philip is one of the founders of herosphere and as CTO responsible for the technical background of the start-up. Before that, he worked as Software Developer and Project Manager in the field of eHealth. He studied eHealth at the university of applied science in Austria. He was a semi-professional volleyball player and early adopter of Dota.
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About HEROcoin: HEROcoin is a decentralized betting token that rewards players, game creators and the community.
Florian Wimmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Blockpit GmbH
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About Blockpit GmbH: Blockpit has developed SaaS products for monitoring, analyzing and investigating digital assets based with focus on TAX and AML compliance.
Gerd Karlhuber
COO & Co-Founder of Blockpit GmbH
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About Blockpit GmbH: Blockpit has developed SaaS products for monitoring, analyzing and investigating digital assets based with focus on TAX and AML compliance.
Michael Salhofer
Founder and CFO of Apollon Core
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About Apollon Core: Apollon core is an economically viable for their investors and customers and transparent according to the current austrian legislation.
Rudiger Albrecht
Founder and CEO of Apollon Core
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About Apollon Core: Apollon core is an economically viable for their investors and customers and transparent according to the current austrian legislation.
Stefan Warecka
Co-Founder of Cryptouniverse
Stefan Warecka is a technically skilled problem solver and marketing specialist. Many years of experience in the field of consumer electronics and computers as well as implementation of marketing campaigns for international corporations. Original mechanical engineer and TU process engineering student, but since 2012 successfully self-employed in the field of marketing and online projects.
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About Cryptouniverse: Cryptouniverse’s goal is to revolutionize the offline exchange market for BTC.
Kenneth Otalor
Founder of Calero Technologies
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About Calero Technologies: Calero is a decentralized platform that implements leading edge Artificial intelligence and blockchain to improve.

Daniel Horak
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of CONDA Crowdinvesting Österreich
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About CONDA Crowdinvesting Österreich: CONDA is Full-service Crowdinvesting-Platform to boost up Austrian StartUps
René Pomassl
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Salamantex
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About Salamantex: Salamantex develops payment software – from cryptocurrencies to loyalty points, and integrates these into existing payment processes
Attila Oravecz
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Salamantex
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About Salamantex: Salamantex develops payment software – from cryptocurrencies to loyalty points, and integrates these into existing payment processes
Tony Willenberg
Founder of Neocapita
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About Neocapita: Welcome to Neocapita. We are the inventors of Stoneblock. Stoneblock is an innovative decentralized & highly disruptive blockchain platform.
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