Meet Canada’s 8 Top Founders in the Ethereum 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 Canada based Founder operating in the Ethereum 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.

Luke Zhang

Co-Founder of Loom Network

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About Loom Network: Loom Network is a Platform as a Service built on top of Ethereum that allows developers to run large-scale decentralized applications.

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.

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.

Vijai Karthigesu

Founder, CEO of Swarmio Media

Vijai is an innovator, entrepreneur and visionary IT executive who has been helping organizations to create unique and ahead-of-the-curve technologies and IT strategies to adapt, change and lead major market transitions, and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. Vijai is the Founder of Nudpam Inc., and Co-Founder of Cloud Dynamics Inc. and SpectraVoice. Vijai also held senior technology leadership positions in multi- billion dollar Public and Private sector companies in Canada, including Bell/Shaw, Rogers and eHealth. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. Vijai has also been a speaker at major technological events and has espoused the need for technology to be human focused in the emerging Internet of Things (IOT) era.

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About Swarmio Media: Ubique Networks is an innovative technology company delivering a network intelligence and optimization platform