Meet Israel’s 15 Top CTO’s in the Cryptocurrency 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 Israel based CTO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CTO’ 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.

Yehuda Levi

CTO of Bancor

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About Bancor: Bancor is crypto company protocol for the creation of Smart Tokens that touts a decentralized exchange service.

Dan Yadlin

Co-Founder & CTO of Curv

Dan Yadlin is co-founder and CTO of Curv, using his expertise in operating systems, networking and software infrastructure to lead the team to technological breakthroughs that are helping secure the new digital economy.

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About Curv: Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets.

Erez Shapira

Co-Founder & CTO of Simplex

Erez Shapira is the chief technology officer of [Simplex](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simplex-3#/entity), a cyber-security company that enables crypto currency businesses to accept credit cards with zero chargeback risk. Previously, he worked at [PayPal](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/paypal#/entity), holding various leadership roles related to real-time risk automated decision system and DSS tool development. Prior to PayPal, Shapira worked at IDF as the chief architect in a SOA project, architect and lead developer of a data-warehouse project, and development team member. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from Bar-Ilan University and an MBA from Tel-Aviv University.

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About Simplex: Simplex is an EMI licensed Fintech company providing fraudless payment processing solutions to online merchants

Alex Romanov

CoFounder and CTO of BEAM

Alex Romanov is Chief Technology Officer at Beam Development.

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About BEAM: BEAM is an one layer privacy blockchain scalable confidential cryptocurrency based on Mimblewimble and Lelantus-MW.

Omer Caspi

CTO of LedgerTech

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About LedgerTech: Ledgertech is an InsurTech innovator, leveraging blockchain technology to revolutionize the insurance value chain.

Nir Haloani

CTO of COTI

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About COTI: COTI is the world’s first DAG-based blockchain protocol optimized for use by payment dApps, merchants and stable coin issuers.

Or Garbash

CTO & Co-founder of WAVE BL

Or Garbash is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Wave™ (by OGYDocs). He has 11 years of experience in network engineering, information security, cyber security and software development. Or’s career began in IDF’s Intelligence Corps and continued as a tech & cyber team manager for different projects in the business and defense sectors. Mr. Garbash was Technical Manager Cyber Security Unit and Information Security Engineer at 2BSecure. He earned Engineer’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering.

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About WAVE BL: Digital Document Courier

Tal Asa

CTO and Co-Founder of Kirobo

Tal Asa is the co-founder and CTO at Kirobo.

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About Kirobo, MIDIMood: Making Blockchain As Simple As Online Banking. Kirobo adds a logic layer into the blockchain that protects users from human error

Asaf Azulay

CTO, Co-Founder of Crypto Next PLC

A software developer by profession, Asaf is Co-Founder and CEO of the OMC Group. OMC was established in 1995 and operates several subsidiary companies with activities in computing, cloud computing, Internet, software development and real estate. OMC started as an IT service provider and a small computer store but with the combination of its advanced technology platform and cloud business thinking, OMC has become one of the top leading cloud computing providers in the world.

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About Crypto Next PLC: Digital currency platform and service provider