Meet Germany’s 11 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 Germany 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.

Björn Wagner

Co-Founder of Parity Technologies

As Parity’s CCO, Björn drives the development of commercialisation, partnership, and product. Björn has expertise in industrial automation and digitisation and holds a MSc. in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from RWTH Aachen University. He has also studied at University of California Santa Barbara and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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About Parity Technologies: Parity aims to enable businesses and organisations to capitalize on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities.

Gavin Wood

Founder, CEO and Lead Developer of Parity Technologies

Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains. Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state-of-the-art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-founded several technology startups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.

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About Parity Technologies, Polkadot: Parity aims to enable businesses and organisations to capitalize on blockchain technology and benefit from the new opportunities.

Stefan George

Co-Founder & CTO of Gnosis

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About Gnosis: Gnosis provides a decentralized platform for prediction markets.

Heiko Rauch

Co-Founder & Supervisory Board of UFOstart

Co-Founder of UFOstart

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About Learnlife, UFOstart: We are building the future of marketing for a decentralized world.

Thomas Hessler

Co-Founder of UFOstart

Thomas is serial entrepreneur and angel investor focussing on blockchain businesses. Together with his two partners Heiko Rauch and Jens Hewald, Thomas has founded zanox, Globumbus, UFOstart and is invested in about 200 startups. With UFOstart they believe in decentralized startups and help Entrepreneurship to meet the Blockchain. Prior to Globumbus, a foundation to support Entrepreneurship, Thomas co-founded zanox, grew it to a global market leader for performance-based online marketing with 400 employees and USD 300 million turnover. In 2007, the company was acquired by a German newspaper publisher Axel Springer and Swiss PubliGroupe.

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About Nori, UFOstart: We are building the future of marketing for a decentralized world.

Lars Schulze

Co-Founder & Board Member of UFOstart

Co-Founder UFOstart AG – Digital Marketing & ICO Advisor

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About needs, Scaleswap, UFOstart: We are building the future of marketing for a decentralized world.

Hilmar Maximilian Orth

Co-Founder of Gelato Network

Hilmar Maximilian Orth is the Co-Founder of Gelato Network.

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About Gelato Network: Gelato Network is a contract automation tool that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum and beyond.

Joshua Scigala

Founder & CEO of Vaultoro

Josh is an award-winning designer, animator & entrepreneur. He has co-founded 5 technology startups as well as leading large technical teams. He was a pioneer in the sharing economy as well as in the blockchain space.

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About Vaultoro: Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading.

Philip Scigala

Founder & CTO of Vaultoro

Born in Berlin, Philip has run his own web development agency for 7 years and has been coding for almost 15 years. Started working closely with the gold industry and made revolutionising the sector his mission.

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About Vaultoro: Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading.