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 Canada 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.
Vitalik Buterin
Founder & Inventor of Ethereum Foundation
Vitalik Buterin is a co-founder of Bitcoin Magazine who has been involved in the Bitcoin community since 2011, and has contributed to Bitcoin both as a writer and the developer of a fork of bitcoinjs-lib, pybitcointools and multisig.info, as well as one of the developers behind Egora. Now, Vitalik’s primary job is as the main developer of Ethereum, a project which intends to create a next-generation smart contract and decentralized application platform that allows people to create any kind of decentralized application on top of a blockchain that can be imagined.
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About clearmatics, Ethereum Foundation: Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that helps developers to build and publish next-generation distributed applications.
Erik Svenson
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Blockstream
Erik is responsible for operations, budgeting, managing growth, investor relations, financial systems and product strategy. His past experience includes 10 years in the finance industry and nearly another 10 years as a co-founder, consultant, and employee of multiple start-ups.Prior to joining Blockstream, Erik co-founded Dan’s Plan, a health technology company, and he consulted for dozens of early-stage companies on fundraising, strategy, and operations. Erik holds a degree from Stanford University and is a former CFA charterholder. He’s also a little league coach, amateur DJ and Quantified Selfer.
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About Blockstream: Blockstream provides Bitcoin and blockchain technology solution for financial markets.
Virgile Rostand
Founder of Coinsquare
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About Coinsquare, eCrute Inc.: Coinsquare is a cryptocurrency trading platform for trading Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and other digital currencies.
Alex Wick
Founder/CEO of Cascadia Carbon
Alex Wick is a forester, data scientist and visionary, working at the intersection of climate change, carbon, cryptography, and coding. Living a conscious, low-carbon lifestyle since 2009.
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About Cascadia Carbon, Woodstock Chai: Building CODEX: A carbon-neutral blockchain cryptocurrency for carbon offset generation and storage
Dieter Shirley
Founder & CTO of CryptoKitties
CTO and co-creator of CryptoKitties. A proud member of the Axiom Zen family!
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About CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, Flow Blockchain: CryptoKitties is a game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain.
Michael Gord
Co-Founder & CEO of GDA Capital
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About GDA Capital, Metaverse Group, MLG Blockchain Consulting: GDA Capital is a global firm that provides vertically integrated fin-tech services to institutions and disruptive technology companies.
Zachary Friedman
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of GDA Capital
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About GDA Capital, Metaverse Group: GDA Capital is a global firm that provides vertically integrated fin-tech services to institutions and disruptive technology companies.
Anthony Zelen
VP Corporate Development / Director / Co-Founder of Blockchain Intelligence Group
Anthony has over 17 years of experience in finance, investor relations, and corporate development. He is the owner of the full-service corporate communications firm, Senergy Communications Inc, providing investor relations, public relations, and marketing solutions.
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About Blockchain Intelligence Group, New Destiny Mining Corp., QMC Quantum Minerals Corp.: Real-time search and data analytics for companies
Ryan Breen
Founder & CEO of Alkemi
Ryan Breen is the CEO and Founder of Alkemi. As a web and data technology engineer with over 15 years of experience in multi-system integration working with real-time data and content optimization. Ryan’s forte is developing complex, enterprise-scale, and data-driven platforms.
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About Alkemi: Alkemi Network provides a solution that equitably incentivizes various stakeholders to collaborate by putting their coins to work.
Michael Koral
Co-Founder of CoinSmart
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About CoinSmart, Needls.com, WeSellYourSite: CoinSmart is a Toronto-based crypto trading platform that allows users to buy, sell, and track their crypto.
Darren Franceschini
Co-Founder & CEO of Blockchain Technologies Consulting
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About Blockchain Technologies Consulting: Blockchain Technologies Consulting provides information and opinions in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain tecnhology.
George Bordianu
Founder, CEO of Balance
George Bordianu is the founder and CEO of Balance.
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About Balance, Felix Health: Balance is the safest way to custody, trade, and manage digital assets.
Scott Llewellyn
Co-Founder & CTO of FreeBitcoins.com
Founder and creator of the cryptocurrencies Clamcoin (CLAMS) and Digitbyte. CLAMS and Digitbyte had a market cap that exceeded $1.2 billion USD in 2017. Scott is considered one of the top expert in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency wallets.
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About FreeBitcoins.com: We are a Universal Income Company (UIC).
Bin Zhu
Founder of Stratos Network
• 13+ years of software development across multiple platforms and technologies. • Results-oriented leader with a strong track record of delivering business solutions in an efficient manner. • Excellent technical skills, capable of analyzing & resolving complex issues. • Successfully designed and delivered cloud products. • A wealth experience with PaaS and SaaS technologies • Expertise in team build and management, project management
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About Stratos Network: Stratos is the next generation of decentralized infrastructure solutions providing storage, database and computing services.
Adam O’Brien
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Director and President of Bitcoin Well
Adam O’Brien is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Director and President of Bitcoin Well.
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About Bitcoin Well: Bitcoin Well is a bitcoin ATM company headquartered in Edmonton
Chris Housser
Co-Founder of Polymath Network
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About Polymath Network: Polymath is the interface between financial securities and the blockchain.
Kevin Zhang
Co-Founder of DFX Finance
Kevin Zhang is a seasoned blockchain developer, and is the technical lead for PayTrie. Most recently, he served as a senior blockchain architect at ConsenSys where he led blockchain scaling for the firm. During his time at ConsenSys, Kevin built a number of proof of concepts for enterprise clients. Previous to ConsenSys, Kevin was the first technical staff on TD Bank’s blockchain team. Kevin graduated with an engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. Kevin also Co-Founded PayTrie and DFX Finance.
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About DFX Finance, PayTrie: DFX Finance is a new decentralized finance exchange protocol optimized for non-U.S. dollar stable coins.
Adrian Li
Co-Founder of DFX Finance
Adrian Li is the Co-Founder of DFX Finance.
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About DFX Finance: DFX Finance is a new decentralized finance exchange protocol optimized for non-U.S. dollar stable coins.
David Keefe
Co-Founder, COO of Mintroad
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About Mintroad, Up My Game: Mintroad is an Algorand blockchain-based NFT marketplace.
Andrei Poliakov
CEO and Co-Founder of Coinberry
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About Coinberry: Coinberry is the fastest growing FINTRAC-registered cryptocurrency trading platform in Canada, with 0% withdrawal and funding fees.
Yavar Mirza
Founder and CEO of JPEGs Digital Holdings
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About CrazyChairsNFT, JPEGs Digital Holdings, Mirza Canada, UMMAH1, Zaeem Mirza: We just right-click “and save image as” your NFTs!
Jack Krosinski
Co-Founder of Oceidon Corporation
Jack Krosinski is the Co-Founder at Oceidon Corporation.
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About Oceidon Corporation: Blockchain Technology Solutions
Earl Mai
CTO, Co-Founder of ePIC Blockchain Inc.
Earl is the CTO of ePIC Blockchain. He has 16 years of experience designing and architecting industry leading products that have shipped over 50 million units such as 10 generations of AMD GPUs and 6 generations of game consoles including the new Playstation 5. Under his leadership at ePIC, the team has completed 2 blockchain ASICs featuring industry leading performance and efficiency. Both ASICs are in production based on first silicon (no revisions).
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About ePIC Blockchain Inc.: Blockchain Semiconductors and Systems for Cryptocurrency and Enterprise Applications
Ton Bi
Founder & CEO of NVO
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About NVO: NVO are building a secure and fast decentralized exchange and wallet.
Nicolas Cloutier
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Kryptopy
Since 1998, Nicolas is a serial-entrepreneur on a non-stop start-up binge. From the video game industry to e-commerce, Nicolas was and is currently an advisor on many different projects. He is the former owner of Perfica3 an e-commerce agency who did realize an annual growth of more than 200% per year between 2009 and 2012. Amongst other thing he did pioneer the mobile video game industry between 1998 and 2003 and invented new concepts to cut costs and make web servers more affordable for the web hosting industry (2004-2006). Since 2013, Nicolas developed a strong interest for the world of cryptocurrencies, facial recognition and artificial intelligence for the purpose of improving human to human interactions. It did grow to a passion and led to the founding of Kryptopy with Cody McBryan in 2017. Nicolas is dedicated full-time to this new venture.
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About Kryptopy: Cryptocurrency related social network who wants to bring cryptocurrency mainstream.
John-Alan Simmons
CTO, Co-Founder of Source
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About Source: Source is an interoperable data management layer of Web3.
Vivek Jain
Co-Founder, Co-Owner of FCFL
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About FCFL, LOKO, Project Fanchise: FCFL (Fan Controlled Football League) is the first fan-run professional sports league.
Daria Generalova
Founder and Managing Partner of ICObox
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About ICObox: ICOBox is a service provider for companies seeking to sell their products via ICO crowd sales.
Tracy Leparulo
Founder & CEO of Untraceable
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About Untraceable: Untraceable is the first event management and marketing agency within the blockchain and cryptocurrency community in Canada.
Brent Lane
Chief Executive Officer / Founder of HeyAuto
Brent Lane’s entire life has been rooted in hard work and innovation. After studying business and entrepreneurship with a double major in marketing and accounting, Brent began applying his knack for problem-solving to start and sell successful businesses across multiple different fields. Brent’s versatility speaks to how skilled he is at managing cohesive relationships between different departments and viewing strategies from every angle. His rich experience as an entrepreneur and seemingly effortless method of bringing concepts to life is what makes him an outstanding leader and innovator. Currently, Brent’s guidance is contributing to the ongoing success of Vivid Theory and its newest product, HeyAuto.
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About HeyAuto: Pure SAAS platform to facilitate modern day car buyers and sellers to dealership customers.
Brett Jones
Director and Co-Founder of HeyAuto
Before joining Vivid Theory in its early stages, Brett made his name in the music industry. Touted as one of the top studio drummers in Western Canada, he shared the stage with some of the biggest musical acts on the planet before proving himself as a jack of all trades. From growing a successful crystal bar soap company to managing civil construction contracts to becoming the general manager of a Large Auto group, generations of experience all led to this moment: Brett contributing to Vivid Theory’s success as a true leader in the product development space and the growth of HeyAuto.
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About HeyAuto, Vivid Theory: Pure SAAS platform to facilitate modern day car buyers and sellers to dealership customers.
Matthew Black
Co-Founder and CTO of Atomic Loans
Matthew Black is the Co-Founder and CTO of Atomic Finance.
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About Atomic Loans: Protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen.
Tony Cai
Co-Founder and CEO of Atomic Loans
Tony Cai is the Co-Founder and CEO at Atomic.Finance.
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About Atomic Loans: Protocol for bitcoin and crypto-backed loans on your terms, without middlemen.
Pablo Eder
Founder of Bountey Inc.
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About Bountey Inc.: Bountey is a monetization platform for content creators. It works like a poll, but instead of locking votes, the audience locks money.
Ahmad Hassan
Founder & CEO of GorillaDiamond
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About GorillaDiamond: Gorilla Diamond Inc. launched their deflationary token with a reflection rate of 6%.
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