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 Japan based CEO’ operating in the Blockchain 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.
Yoshinori Fukushima
CEO of LayerX
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About LayerX, Parallel: LayerX is a company that commits 120% to the blockchain.
Sakuro Imayama
Founder and CEO of DAOLaunch
Sakuro Imayama is the Co-Founder and CEO at DAOLaunch.
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About DAOLaunch: Decentralized Venture Capital
Makoto Tominaga
Founder & CEO of Credify
Entrepreneur & investor with a passion for disruptive technologies, Makoto started his career pushing the envelope of wireless handset operating system design at Symbian and Nokia, then joined AuthenTec to lead applications engineering and integration of their embedded biometrics devices with global Tier-1 notebook PC and handset brands. After AuthenTec, Makoto made the transition from engineering to marketing & business development at Validity Sensors, where he spearheaded their embedded product as Technical Marketing Manager and eventually Director of Business Development, APAC. Both companies enjoyed successful exits; following which Makoto began a consultancy and early-stage investment firm whose portfolio now includes some of the leading technology companies in the blockchain space. Makoto is a polyglot with mastery of several East Asian languages, has managed ~60K followers on StockTwits and enjoys diverse subjects, including Finance, Economics, Philosophy and History.
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About Credify: Credify ushers in the age of embedded finance through self-sovereign digital identity and privacy-first cross-service offering technologies.
Daisuke Katano
Representative Director, President, CEO of A.L.I. Technologies Japan
Daisuke graduated from the University of Tokyo Engineering department. After experiencing strategic consulting and management support for more than 10 years at a global consulting company such as Boston Consulting Group, in July 2018 he took on ALI representative director COO.
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About A.L.I. Technologies Japan: A.L.I. Technologies focuses on research and development of UAV (unmanned miniature aircraft).
Komatsu Shuuhei
Founder & CEO of A.L.I. Technologies Japan
In 2008, he completed the Department of Advanced Energy Engineering, University of Tokyo. 2008 – Foreign Investment Bank and Hedge Fund trading in London, Singapore. In February 2017, he participated in Airi Alu Lab (now ALI). Appointed as CEO of ALI. (Other) Received the Best Paper Award of the 2007 International Aerospace Society.
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About A.L.I. Technologies Japan: A.L.I. Technologies focuses on research and development of UAV (unmanned miniature aircraft).
Makoto Takemiya
Co CEO of Soramitsu
Makoto Takemiya is the co-founder and CEO of Soramitsu, a Japanese fintech company specializing in blockchain technology and digital identity. He is a computer scientist and one of the lead programmers and architects of Hyperledger Iroha, a distributed ledger project.
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About Soramitsu: Fintech company based in Tokyo, specializing in blockchain technology. Main contributor to Hyperledger Iroha.
Jonathan Hope
CEO and Co-Founder of keychain
Jonathan is a technologist and entrepreneur with rare breadth and depth of experience in financial and blockchain technology. With over 15 years of experience building and deploying high-performance trading systems in New York and Tokyo at companies such as Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg, Jonathan is focused on applying blockchain technology in novel ways to fortify operational integrity in the finance, IoT, and enterprise spaces.
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About keychain: Keychain is the decentralized authentication blockchain platform for finance, IoT, and enterprise.
Lloyd Lee
Chief Executive Officer, Founder of Hyperithm
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About Hyperithm: Hyperithm is a private digital asset manager based in Tokyo and Seoul, serving institutional investors and high net-worth individuals.
Noriyuki Hirosue
Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of bitbank
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About bitbank: Bitcoin wallet, payment processing, bitcoin reward service and news media
Sota Watanabe
CEO of Stake Technologies
Sota Watanabe is the Founder of Shiden Network.
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About Astar Network, Shiden Network, Stake Technologies: Stake Technologies is a technology company that provides blockchain solutions to enterprises.
Ryuta Kawada
Founder & CEO Board Director of WealthPark
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About WealthPark: WealthPark is a digital asset management platform that connects investors and managers of real estate.
Yoshimitsu Homma
Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of United Bitcoiners
Yoshimitsu Homma is the CEO and co-founder of United Bitcoiners. He is also the president of the Japan Digital Money Association. Yoshimitsu graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering.
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About United Bitcoiners: United Bitcoiners
Hironobu Ueno
CEO & CTO of double jump.tokyo
Participated in the construction of various financial system infrastructures at Nomura Research Institute. Former executive officer and technical fellow of Mobcast Co.,Directed the design and development of platforms and game servers, and the development of smartphone game development platforms.
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About double jump.tokyo: double jump.tokyo is a blockchain game developer and NFT solution provider for large-scale enterprises in the gaming & entertainment sector.
Mayumi Hara
CEO of FRAME00
Mayumi is a serial entrepreneur has been creating businesses and developing brands for 10 years with a vision in various industries. In 2014 she found that Japanese traditional artisans dealing with national treasures were undervalued, then founded FRAME00. Crypto startup project “Dev” makes the creator’s challenges sustainable.
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About FRAME00: FRAME00 is a blockchain technology startup developing a decentralized funding platform.
Hideaki Imoto
Co-founder&CEO of warashibe
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About warashibe: warashibe engages in the development and operation of blockchain-related products.
Hiro Shinohara
Founder and CEO of Hulor
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About Hulor, Messaliberty, SIVIRA: Hulor specializes in decentralized ecosystem using blockchain and financial structure on crypto assets.
Tetsuhiko Saito
CEO of LINE Financial Corporation
Tetsuhiko entered Fuji Bank (now Mizuho Bank) after graduating from Keio University in 1983. He has over three decades of experience at Mizuho bank’s various roles: EC business.
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About LINE Financial Corporation: LINE Financial Corporation provides a wide range of financial services.
Tomoyuki Miyahara
CEO & Owner of Estyle
Tomoyuki Miyahara is the CEO & Owner of Estyle.
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About Estyle: Estyle is developing its business centered on media related to AI and machine learning.
Lele Xu
Co-Founder, CEO, and Representative Director of CoinJinja
Focused on driving growth for CoinJinja.com, a top ICO search engine, and CoinView, the world’s best all-in-one cryptocurrency portfolio management app available for iOS and Android.
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About CoinJinja, MOMO, Rakunew: Japan’s top crypto media: CoinJinja.com (ICO listing site) and CoinView (free, all-in-one crypto investment portfolio management app).
Noritaka Okabe
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Representative Director & President of Crypto asset market
Noritaka Okabe is the Representative Director JPYC Co., Ltd.
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About Crypto asset market: Crypto asset market engages in the development of a trading market for settlement of trading value with crypto assets.
Fukushima Shinji
CEO of Crypto goen
Fukushima Shinji is the CEO at Crypto Goen.
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About Crypto goen: Crypto goen focuses on the construction and operation of mining farms.
Akinori Adachi
Representative Director, CEO / Founder of STANDAGE
Adachi Akinori is the Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of STANDAGE.
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About STANDAGE: STANDAGE is a developer of next-generation infrastructure based on Blockchain & AI technologies.
Shey Hakusui
Representative Director and CEO of Uni
Shey Hakusui is the Representative Director and CEO of UNI.
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About InterVault, Uni: Uni provides an IoT platform that has big data utilization by AI, high-speed blockchain, and high-level security environment.
Jose Alejandro Patino
CEO of CacaoShares The Chocolate blockchain
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About CacaoShares The Chocolate blockchain: AgTech Project that aims to Transform the Fine Chocolate Industry through information and science via a proprietary traceability platform
Hiroyuki Kato
Representative Director & CEO of iChain Japan
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About iChain Japan: iChain is Japanese InsurTech startup that innovates the insurance industry based on Blockchain Technology (Distributed Ledger Tech).
Morikawa Muuto
Founder & CEO of Ginco
He founded AltaApps while studying at Kyoto University. We are developing virtual currency wallet apps and consulting related to blockchain.
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About Ginco: A multi-cryptocurrency wallet app.
Morikawa Muuto
Founder & CEO of Ginco
He founded AltaApps while studying at Kyoto University. We are developing virtual currency wallet apps and consulting related to blockchain.
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About Ginco: A multi-cryptocurrency wallet app.
Taiki Maki
CEO of BlockBase
Taiki Maki is the CEO of BlockBase.
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About BlockBase: BlockBase provides consultation on blockchain-related technology.
Kazuhisa Inoue
Founder & CEO of GoodLuck3
Kazuhisa Inoue is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer of GoodLuck3. University of Tokyo Degree NameFaculty of EngineeringField Of StudyProgram for Social Innovation Dates attended or expected graduation2000 – 2004
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About GoodLuck3: GoodLuck3 propose and produce TV drama, commercials, corporate promotion videos, music videos, etc.
Yoshi Nagase
CEO of RABLOCK
Yoshihide Nagase is the CEO of Rablock.
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About RABLOCK: RABLOCK is a rapid system development platform based on blockchain technology.
Kenichiro Kawasaki
Representative Director / CEO / Founder of Centaur Works
Kenichiro Kawasaki is the Representative Director, CEO, and Founder of Centaur Works.
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About Centaur Works: Centaur Works was established by a group of lawyers belonging to a general law firm and engineers working on blockchain and AI.
Kenichi Kurimoto
CEO of Nayuta
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About Nayuta: Nayuta is an IoT and blockchain company that focuses on lightning network, a micropayment technology.
Yasuhiro Kameyama
CEO of VIPSTAR
Yasuhiro Kameyama is the CEO at VIPSTAR.
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About VIPSTAR: VIPSTARCOIN (VIPS) is a virtual currency (cryptographic asset) that originated in a 5channel new speed VIP board.
Koichiro Abe
CEO of Crypto Square
Koichiro Abe is the CEO at Crypto Square.
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About Crypto Square: Crypto Square operates “REVOL,” an initial coin offering platform for a company.
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