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 Netherlands based Founder operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Founder 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.
Rick Schmitz
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LTO Network
Rick Schmitz is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at LTO Network. He was one of the co-founders of LegalThings and FIRM24. Before Rick gave in to his true nature as an entrepreneur, he worked at PwC and Deloitte as a tax specialist. His personal mission is to simplify and streamline software processes using LegalThings, providing customers with the best race possible.
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About LTO Network: LTO Network enables organizations and governments to collaborate on equal footing by using trustless business processes.
Burcak Tokgoz
CEO & Founder of Priogen
Burcak Tokgoz is Priogen’s Chief Executive Officer. Since the liberalization of power and gas in Europe in the early 2000s, Burcak has been fascinated by developing concepts for bringing order and structure in exceedingly complex electricity systems and markets. As founder and CEO of Priogen he enjoys inspiring our team and our partners to enable the energy transition together. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Burcak is an avid reader of non-fiction books and enjoys travel and skiing
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About Priogen: Priogen is platform for future proof and profitable energy decisions.
Kristjan Kangro
Founder & CEO of Change
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About Change: Change is an investment solution on a mission to enable everyone to take part in the world’s success.
Faisal Mirza
Co-Founder & CTO of Tradebits
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About Tradebits: Tradebits is a scalable, reliable, high-performance & highly configurable digital currency exchange.
Duco Hiensch
Co-Founder & CEO of FEEV
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About cosquare, FEEV: Social wayfinding guided by feevers.
Patryk Skoczylas
Co-Founder & CTO of FEEV
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About FEEV: Social wayfinding guided by feevers.
Khalid Maliki
Co-Founder & COO of Tykn
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About Good Health Pass Collaborative, Sovrin Foundation, Trust Over IP Foundation, Tykn: Tykn is an award-winning startup developing Self-Sovereign Identity solutions. Creating a future of opportunity through digital identity.
Rutger van Zuidam
Founder of Odyssey
Rutger van Zuidam is the Founder of Odyssey and DutchChain.
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About DutchChain, Odyssey: Odyssey is the maker of metaverse stack for collaboration based in The Netherlands.
Dhiveshan Govender
Founder of ATMA
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About ATMA: The ATMA protocol is an end-to-end blockchain pension protocol, delivering critical transparency and privacy guarantees.
Alex Tran Qui
Co-Founder of Katalysis
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About Katalysis: Katalysis makes ownership and real-time consumption of content transparent across the entire value chain.
Eveline Klumpers
Co-Founder of Katalysis
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About Katalysis: Katalysis makes ownership and real-time consumption of content transparent across the entire value chain.
Adriana Truong
Co-Founder of Truong.vc
She is a former entrepreneur and a startup ecosystem builder who has lived and fostered communities around the world, including San Francisco, Santiago, Berlin, London, and Amsterdam. Previously, she raised €7M as an EU funds consultant, founded the first pre-accelerator in Romania, founded an international network of events called Creative Coffee, and has raised funds for her own remote talent startup. Also, she has enjoyed the ride of being a Manager for Rockstart (Amsterdam), a Community Ambassador and Program Manager for Startup Institute (London and Berlin) and a Global Program Manager for Philips. She is a mentor and advisor for several NGOs and accelerators helping entrepreneurs grow, most notably for Rubik Hub, the largest entrepreneurial initiative in the North East of Romania.
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About Truong.vc: We use our own capital to invest in, consult, build, coach, and contribute to cryptocurrency and decentralised projects.
Nienke Budde
CEO and Co-Founder of Zezame
Nienke Budde is the CEO and co-founder of Zezame. She has a background in strategy consulting & telco, with degrees from INSEAD, Harvard & Stanford.
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About Zezame: Zezame is a decentralized virtual internet service provider providing open, net neutral, uninterrupted secure, and private access to anyone.
Mentor Palokaj
CTO and Co-Founder of Zezame
Mentor Palokaj is the CTO and Co-founder of Zezame.
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About Zezame: Zezame is a decentralized virtual internet service provider providing open, net neutral, uninterrupted secure, and private access to anyone.
Joachim De Koning
Founder of Internet of Coins
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About hybrix, Internet of Coins: Internet of Coins is the source of this content. Virtual currency is not legal tender.
Ryan Gill
Founder of Open Meta
Ryan Gill is the Founder at Open Meta.
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About Open Meta: Open Meta is a community-driven DAO
Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt
Founder of The Fork
Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt is the Founder of The Fork.
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About The Fork: Fork offers in-house Blockchain courses and training that assist companies in agri-food industry.
Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt
Founder of The Fork
Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt is the Founder of The Fork.
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About The Fork: Fork offers in-house Blockchain courses and training that assist companies in agri-food industry.
Jeroen de Leijer
CEO & Founder of Brickex
Double degree in Business Economics and an MBA, has spent almost 20 years either consulting on or self-starting new business. Jeroen’s latest real estate venture grew from zero to $20M in assets within one year.
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About Brickex: BrickEX will be a full functional blockchain powered digital asset exchange for real estate.
Jana Petkanic
Founder, Event Manager of Blockchain Talks
Jana is a Blockchain Consultant and supports the think-tank which is heavily focused on blockchain applications for supply chains, brings many Dutch companies together and delivers solutions for improving settlement times, liquidity and provenance within supply chains. Besides that she’s the co-founder of Blockchain Talks, the Amsterdam-based monthly 100+ meetup delivering the quality from blockchain and cryptocurrency space (conferences, AMA sessions, ICO Shark Tank). She’s very interested in token valuation and different token economy models, believes that equation of exchange applied to utility tokens is not the best solution and is very eager to meet more professionals with a focus on token valuation.
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About Blockchain Talks: Blockchain Talks organizes independent blockchain & crypto conferences in Amsterdam.
Johan de Groot
CTO & Co-Founder of Faktor
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About Faktor: A blockchain based Identity Management Platform for publishers, brands and people.
Olivier Rikken
Founder of Emerging Horizons
Olivier Rikken is the Founder of Emerging Solutions.
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About Emerging Horizons: Emerging Horizons provides services to help companies be prepared for upcoming technologies.
Arun Kumar
Founder & CEO of Lynked.World
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About Lynked.World: Information Technology and Services
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