Meet Israel’s 9 Top CEO’s in the Bitcoin 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 CEO’ operating in the Bitcoin 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.

Gideon Greenspan

Founder & CEO of MultiChain

Dr. Gideon Greenspan is the founder and CEO of Coin Sciences Ltd, a company developing a suite of technologies for public and private blockchains. Our flagship product is MultiChain, an open source platform for private blockchains, optimized for R&D in the finance sector. MultiChain includes features such as permissions management, native asset support and simple configuration and deployment. Prior to founding Coin Sciences, Gideon conceived and built many profitable web services with a deep algorithmic element, including Copyscape, the leading plagiarism search engine, and Web Sudoku, the most popular sudoku website. Gideon has a BA and PhD in Computer Science (Cambridge and Technion) and an MA in Philosophy (London). As a hobby he teaches software entrepreneurship at two universities in his home town of Tel Aviv.

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About Copyscape, MultiChain, Web Sudoku: MultiChain helps organizations to build and deploy blockchain applications with speed.

Nimrod Lehavi

Co-Founder & CEO of Simplex

A self confessed ‘geek’, Simplex founder Nimrod Lehavi’s career spans two decades of expertise and knowledge. He’s well-respected in Israel’s startup scene for his proven capabilities at leading large scale top notch software projects. Nimrod is a board member at the Israeli Bitcoin Association and a co-founder of GeekCon, the annual un-conference for “Hacking the Digital Lifestyle”.

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

Roy Sheinfeld

Co-founder & CEO of Breez

Roy Sheinfeld founded Breez in 2018 in order to transform Bitcoin and turn it into a functional currency. Using Lightning Network, Breez provides a platform for instantaneous Bitcoin payments. Previously to Breez, Roy co-founded and served as the CTO of harmon.ie, an enterprise software company with over 1000 customers around the globe. With a strong software engineering background, he was responsible for product strategy, management and implementation, building a development team and personally leading strategic business initiatives with Microsoft, IBM, Blackberry, Check Point, and others. Before joining harmon.ie, Roy worked as a team leader and developer at Sela Software Labs, building products and solutions in different software stacks such as .NET Framework, Java and Object-Oriented C++.

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About Breez: Lightning fast Bitcoin payments