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 Ethereum 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.
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.
Ewald Hesse
CEO of Grid Singularity
Ewald Hesse is Chairman of the Energy Web Foundation and leads the Grid Singularity venture, rooted in his extensive experience in the energy sector and acute interest in distributed business models. Grid Singularity, established in early 2016, has become globally recognized as a leading blockchain technology developer in the energy sector, featured in relevant industry reports and events, including the Clean Energy Ministerial Conference (San Francisco, USA, June 2016), European Utility Week, (Barcelona, Spain, October 2016), the CleanTech Forum Europe (Lyon, France, April 2016), the International Smart Grid Action Network workshop (Yokohama, Japan, March 2016), the DENA TechFestival (Berlin, March 2017) the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge (February 2016), and many others. Prior to founding Grid Singularity, Ewald served as Regional director for business development and strategy in Southeast Europe at Andritz Hydro, one of the world’s largest hydropower technology providers. Earlier in his career, he explored technology transfer and joint ventures in China and the European automobile sector, working in management positions at Metzler and ABB. He then also co-founded several companies in the area merchandise and distribution such as Trend Visions Trading.
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About Grid Singularity: Grid Singularity is a creating an open Internet-based decentralized energy data exchange platform built on the blockchain technology.
Vijay Pravin Maharajan
CEO of bitsCrunch
Founder & CEO – bitsCrunch | Entrepreneur | Angel Investor | TEDx Speaker | Data Analytics Expert | ‘40 under 40 Data Scientists’ in India | Blockchain | NFT
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About bitsCrunch: A Blockchain Analytics company which is headquarted in Munich, Germany – uses AI & ML to secure the NFT Ecosystem.
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.
Michael Reuter
CEO of Datarella
Michael Reuter is co-founder of Datarella, CrowdstartCapital, RAAY and Baltic Data Science. Before he founded AppAdvisors, appstar., YiGG and trvelgate.
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About Datarella: Datarella – The Industrial Blockchain Company

Chris Heinze
CEO and Co-Founder of Authoreon.io
Blockchain Architect, CEO & Co-Founder Authoreon.io
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About Authoreon.io: Authoreon solutions prevent fraud, cyber attacks, material and immaterial identity theft.
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