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 CEO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Marco Streng
CEO & Co-Founder of Genesis Digital Assets
Marco Streng is the CEO & Co-Founder of Genesis Digital Assets.
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About Genesis Digital Assets, Genesis Mining, Logos Fund: Genesis Digital Assets is an industrial-scale bitcoin mining operator.
Brian Fabian Crain
Co-Founder & CEO of Chorus One
Brian Fabian Crain is a Berlin-based economist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and co-host of the blockchain podcast Epicenter (250+ episodes, 4m+ downloads), founder and ​organizer of Blockchain Meetup Berlin. He is also co-founder & CEO of Chorus One. ​He has degrees in economics, philosophy and cognitive science from the University of Chicago, London ​School of Economics​ and University ​College ​London.​
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About Chorus One, Epicenter, Epicenter: Chorus One is building validation and staking infrastructure for Proof-of-Stake networks.
Patrick Lowry
CEO & Managing Partner of Iconic Holding
Patrick Lowry is the CEO and Managing Partner of Iconic Holding and the CEO of Cryptology Asset Group. Iconic Holding is a global crypto asset management group. Iconic launched Iconic Lab in early 2017, a global crypto VC and accelerator, and a series of crypto asset index vehicles under the Iconic Funds brand. Cryptology is a Malta based investment company investing in crypto assets and companies around the world with portfolio companies including Block.one, nextmarkets and Iconic. Previously, Patrick was an auditor at PwC and worked many years in private equity and in venture capital, most notably for the German stock exchange, Deutsche Börse. He holds an MBA degree, a BS in Finance and Accounting and a CPA license.
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About Cryptology Asset Group, Iconic Holding: Iconiq Holding is a decentralized venture capital group that builds a premier digital asset management ecosystem.
Zoe Adamovicz
Co-founder & CEO of Neufund
Zoe Adamovicz, CEO and co-founder at Neufund. With a diverse academic background spanning computer science, sociology, and Ayurvedic medicine, Zoe is a pioneering tech entrepreneur, a serial founder and CEO. Over the past 20 years, she has co-founded multiple startups, raised countless rounds of venture capital, and driven a number of exits. Her most recent venture, Neufund.org, is a fintech firm for securities tokenization that aims to democratize access to global innovation capital. The venture has raised 7 million USD and deployed 20 million USD to date through its groundbreaking blockchain platform. A mindful entrepreneur and leader, Zoe believes that every founder’s fundamental duty should be to avoid the weaponization of technology at all costs. Named by Forbes as one of 2018’s five female rock stars in blockchain, and FORBES top 50 women in tech Zoe has been profiled in a number of high-profile publications such as TechCrunch, Investing.com or Berlin Valley. She’s also involved in a number of ecosystem building projects, such as advisory to Liechtenstein and German governments on creating DLT frameworks and also joined the Innovation Board advising to Minister of Digitalization in Germany.
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About Concise Software, Neufund, Xyo: Neufund is a fintech startup that connects innovative companies seeking capital with progressive investors.
Abdullah Orkun Kaya
CEO & Co-Founder of Coinradar
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About Coinradar, Symanto: Coinradar is an innovative AI-powered social and on-chain analytics platform.
Benjamin Jones
CEO , CTO & Co-Founder of Nuri
Benjamin Jones is a self-taught programer with over 5 years of experience in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. A London School of Economics graduate, Ben previously taught programming in Ghana, founded a web agency for early-stage startups, and was an economist in the UK civil service.
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About Nuri: Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.
Benjamin Bilski
Group Founder & CEO of The NAGA Group
Benjamin Bilski is the Group Founder & CEO. He is a serial entrepreneur and a former professional swimmer. At the age of 21, he co-founded angelplatz.de, one of Germany’s leading e-commerce shop for fishing equipment. During his entrepreneurial career, he studied and graduated from EBS University with an M.Sc. in Management. Benjamin Bilski is strongly technology-focused and has a deep understanding of eCommerce, finance, mobile and affiliate-based models. He got included in the famous “FORBES 30 under 30 – Europe talent list.
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About Naga, Swipy, Switex, The NAGA Group: NAGA AG Group is a German-based fintech company founded in 2015 and publicly listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
Christopher May
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Finoa
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About Finoa: Finoa is a regulated custodian for digital assets offering custody and staking services to institutional investors and corporations.
Radoslav Albrecht
Founder & CEO of Bitbond
Radoslav is the founder & CEO of Bitbond, the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about financial innovation and financial inclusion. Before founding Bitbond he worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and advised financial services providers in Europe and Western Africa in restructuring and post-merger integrations. Prior to that Radoslav was with Deutsche Bank London in sales & trading of structured products.
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About Bitbond: Compliant tokenization and digital asset custody enterprise software.
Maksim Balashevich
Founder, CEO of Santiment
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About Santiment: Santiment aims to create market standards for cryptocurrency market data, best practices, and project transparency.
Michael Mertens
Founder and CEO of CryptoTec
Michael Mertens holds a diploma from the University of Aachen, Germany, as a computer scientist specialized in mathematics, IT security and cryptography. Mertens is one of the most important pioneers in the development of central (trust centre) and decentral (web of trust) authentication systems. Already while at university, he studied PKI-based encryption solutions. In his diploma thesis he developed a concept for Identity Management for blockchain technology. During his studies, he has worked with Wei Dai. The exchange concerned the cryptographic possibilities with regard to the idea of a cryptographic currency that was implemented as a b-money by Wei Dai in 1998 and formed the basis for the bitcoin idea and blockchain technology. Mertens became an independent businessman in 1992 and has been securing the digital communication of companies using the PGP software since then. Since 1995, he has been securing the electronic transfer of sensitive flight data for airports. Mertens has been doing extensive work in the Internet-based securities trade since 2000. His task in the establishment of one of the very first portals for online trading ever was ensuring the encrypted and legally binding transfer of data. In 2004 Michael Mertens founded the iDev GmbH, a company for individual software solutions in the area of secure, distributed systems. Already two years after its founding, iDev was the market leader in the field of POS solutions and, in 2009, a leader in self-service terminals. In 2014, Mertens and Dr. Michael Raumann founded the CryptoTec AG. The aim of the foundation was to make cryptographic encodings usable for companies of all sizes and to expand the cyber security. The technology company now offers high-security solutions for connected distributed computer systems. Mertens is a recognized expert on cryptography, blockchain, agile development and usability. He advises companies in the healthcare sector and he regularly gives lectures at conferences and universities.
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About CryptoTec: CryptoTec provides high-security solutions for connecting decentralized computer systems.
Christopher Nigischer
CEO of Blockchain Research Lab
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About Blockchain Research Lab, CHAINSTEP: Blockchain Research Lab provides research and development services on the blockchain industry.
Jonathan Maycock
Co-founder & CEO of Margin
Jonathan worked as a software developer at Scottish Equitable International before returning to academia to complete a PhD in Optics and Computer Science. Afterwards he set up and ran the Manual Intelligence Lab at CITEC in Bielefeld University for over 8 years. It took bitcoin to entice him back to finance.
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About Margin: Margin is a bitcoin trading terminal.
Mike Kirillov
CEO, Founder of Hito Wallet
An experienced geek-entrepreneur with strong hardware-software development skills and proven one-man-band startup launcher
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About Hito Wallet: Hito Wallet is a stylish device for ultra secure crypto storage and software wallet
Benjamin Bommhardt
CEO of skalex
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About skalex: skalex is specialized in developing Blockchain Applications and Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Exchange Software for businesses.
Martin Kreitmair
CEO of Tangany
Graduated a Master (M.Sc.) in Economic computer science at the University of Munich in 2013. During a phase of the search for meaning in various industries, he finally found his home in Online Marketing at Catbird Seat GmbH. After 7 years he decided to leave the industry and moved on to Blockchain by founding his own Start-Up.
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About Tangany: Tangany is a regulated European blockchain custody provider for companies (B2B SaaS).
Jan Heinrich Meyer
Founder and CEO of Dash Embassy D-A-CH
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About Dash Embassy D-A-CH: Dash Embassy DA-CH has made it its mission to educate people about cryptocurrencies in general & Dash in particular.
Werner Hoffmann
CEO & Co-Founder of Pekuna
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About Pekuna: Wir helfen bei der Versteuerung von Kryptowährungen. Wir bieten Gutachten, Trainings & Online-Kurse für Krypto-Anleger.
Werner Hoffmann
CEO & Co-Founder of Pekuna
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About Pekuna: Wir helfen bei der Versteuerung von Kryptowährungen. Wir bieten Gutachten, Trainings & Online-Kurse für Krypto-Anleger.
Matthias Klees
CEO of Federated Blockchains Initiative
Matthias Klees is an entrepreneur and consultant with a long history within the blockchain and crypto space. He is the founder of EuropeCoin, which is the first officially approved professional group of advisors on cryptocurrencies in Brussels. EuropeCoin is not to be mixed up with the cryptocurrency bearing the same name. Matthias is also European Advisor and CEO of the Federated Blockchains Project, who are developing the Financecloud API Device.
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About Federated Blockchains Initiative: Federated Blockchains Initiative aims to make cryptocurrencies more accessable, easy and secure, while keeping the user in control.
Michael Duttlinger
CEO of Cashlink
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About Cashlink: Cashlink enables you to offer & manage digital securities in a legally compliant manner with its holistic Tokenization-as-a-Service solution
Lars Olsson
CEO of Cashlink
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About Cashlink: Cashlink enables you to offer & manage digital securities in a legally compliant manner with its holistic Tokenization-as-a-Service solution
Dimitri Haußmann
Founder & CEO of Crypto comparison
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About Crypto comparison: Crypto comparison provides comparison and evaluation services for crypto currencies and blockchain technologies.
Florian Fiedler
CEO & Co-Founder of Blockbay
Florian Fiedler has 15 years of profound expertise from positions in banking, top management consulting, technology corporations and startups. Prior to founding Blockbay, Florian was Senior Vice President Strategy/M&A at HSH Nordbank. As Head of Digital, he was responsible for the bank’s digitization strategy and established the institute as selective innovation leader in areas such as Blockchain. Furthermore, Florian gained comprehensive experience in top management consulting and was leading projects on board level for international banks. In addition to that, he has worked for IBM Corporation as their Head of Strategic Projects as well as for a startup company of Deutsche Telekom.
 During his international career, Florian successfully worked on founding a bank, acquiring a bank as well as selling a bank. He holds an MBA degree after studying at the Universities of Hamburg and Istanbul and is author of scientific papers about Mobile Commerce.
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About Blockbay: Blockbay provide a platform for traders of cryptocurrencies, which enables a new era of trading.
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