Meet Brazil’s 10 Top Founders in the Cryptocurrency Startup Space

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 Brazil 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.

Serguei Popov

Founder of IOTA Foundation

Serguei Popov is a research mathematician working in the field of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. He graduated from and attained his Ph.D. at the Moscow State University under the supervision of Professor Mikhail Menshikov. Around 20 years ago he moved to Brazil to do a postdoc, and then progressed to professorship first in the University of Sao Paulo, and then in the University of Campinas. Serguei began his interest in cryptos in late 2013 when, after stumbling upon an article about Bitcoin, he became an avid reader of bitcointalk.org and discovered an innovative project called Nxt. He achieved notoriety in the Nxt community after publishing a short note with calculations on the block generating process in Nxt (a revised and expanded version of these notes can be found here). Together with the founder of the Nxt and other people from the Nxt community, he co-founded IOTA in 2015.

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About IOTA Foundation: IOTA Foundation develops an open-source protocol that supports data and value transfer between devices and humans.

João Canhada

CEO & Co-Founder of Foxbit

Founder at FoxBit 29 years old, Founder and CEO of Foxbit, and the father of Julia. I started working with Bitcoin in 2013 during my 2nd year of business school. I co-founded Foxbit, which has grown into the largest Bitcoin exchange in Latin America, with over 750,000 registered clients.

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About Foxbit: Foxbit is a cryptocurrency exchange operating in Brazil with trading in bitcoin, ether, litecoin, TrueUSD and XRP.

Mauricio Chamati

Founder of Mercado Bitcoin

Mauricio Chamati is the founder of Mercado Bitcoin and 2TM.

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About Mercado Bitcoin: Mercado Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows people to trade cryptocurrency, digital assets, and other tokens.

Gustavo Chamati

Founder and Board Member of Mercado Bitcoin

Gustavo Chamati is the Founder of Mercado Bitcoin, 2TM, and Gear Ventures.

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About Mercado Bitcoin: Mercado Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows people to trade cryptocurrency, digital assets, and other tokens.

Roberto Moretto

CEO and Founder of Sportcash One

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About International Surfing Association, Sportcash One, Surf Camp Pipa: Sportcash One is a blockchain company for the sports industry, built with a loyalty program for customers.

JULIANA ASSAD

Co-Founder & COO of CoinWISE

Entrepreneur. Co Founder CoinWISE. TOP 100 Women in Fintech (’18) /Fintech Influencer Iberoamerica (’17) / Women in Fintech Powerlist (’17) / 30 most Fintech Influencers Brazil (’16)

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About CoinWISE: A Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Company