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 Singapore 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.
Julian Hosp
CEO of Cake DeFi
Dr. Julian Hosp, born 1986, is a professional athlete, doctor, entrepreneur, blockchain expert, speaker, and best-selling author. After spending his high school years in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, he pursued his studies in medicine in Innsbruck, Austria. During that time, Julian was a professional kitesurfer for 10 years and was among the top 10 kitesurfers in the world. In 2011 he wrote the top book on the subject, Kite-Trickionary. After graduating from his medical program, he decided to become a trauma surgeon. But after getting a feel for hospital life, he decided to follow his entrepreneurial dreams. In 2015 he published a book on his experiences at the time, a best-seller, 25 Stories I Would Tell My Younger Self, followed by The Be Limitless Program in 2016. In 2015 he became a co-founder of FinTech-Startups, located in Singapore, from which he stepped down after four years of being responsible for 100 million US dollars in funding and 100 employees. Besides that, Julian also became one of the best-known blockchain and cryptocurrency experts in the world. He is often invited to be a keynote speaker at events around the globe and is a regular guest on television, radio, and in print on subjects such as current blockchain trends, the future of cryptocurrency, and entrepreneurship.He lives with his wife Bettina in Singapore but travels the world for business and private functions.
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About Cake DeFi, I-Unlimited: Generate cashflow out of crypto assets by bringing decentralised finance to the people.
Enrique Dubois
Co-Founder & CEO of Real Estate Asset Ledger
Enrique is a serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of online experience. He is the founder of www.Mola.com incubator and accelerator based in Spain. His track record includes founding and managing the following ventures: -Accelerator and Incubator Mola.com -The social gaming company Playspace.com -The online bingo company Bingos.com -The social network Wamba.com -The telecom company Premium. -The development company Crea Labs (previously SX networks). -The gambling media network Mediagambling.com (sold to CMEDIA early 2009).
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About Hoods, Real Estate Asset Ledger: REAL is a crypto-crowdfunding platform that focuses on real estate investments.
Zen Yong
Co-Founder and CEO of Web3Auth
Zen Yong is the founder and CEO of Torus Labs. Prior to this, Zen worked as a developer at Ethereum, a platform for building and publishing decentralized applications. In addition, Zen has worked in comp[anies such as Akomba Labs, Visa, and Accenture. Zen Yong holds a bachelor’s degree in business finance from Singapore Management University.
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About Web3Auth: Web3Auth makes cryptographic key management easy for users and applications
Zac Cheah
CEO & co-founder of Pundi X
Zac is the CEO and Co-founder at Pundi X, a leading global provider of blockchain-powered solutions, including the world’s first point-of-sale device called the XPOS and the world’s first true blockchain phone, the XPhone. Prior to his role at Pundi X, Zac was formerly the W3C Chair of the HTML5 Interest Group as well as a scholarship recipient at KTH in Sweden (M.Sc Computing) and Norway’s NTNU (M.Sc Security).
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About Pundi X: Pundi X is a blockchain company that’s creating a new era of decentralized world to improve your everyday life.
David Waslen
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Wilder World
David Waslen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wilder World.
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About Wilder World: Wilder World is a multilayered immersive 3D platform that allows users to collect and experience 3D augmented reality artworks.
Julian Kwan
CEO and Co-Founder of InvestaCrowd
Julian is founder and CEO of InvestaCrowd, an online real estate capital marketplace. Based in Singapore, with 18 years of experience travelling, living and working in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia & USA, he is a massive proponent of alternative and online investing, specifically for real estate. In 2000 he co-founded the Mailman Group. In I 2006 co-founded Space Development a real estate investment and development business and successfully “crowdfunded” several of my own real estate developments. In 2007 he built, operated & sold China’s leading boutique property, URBN hotel. He is also an early investor in Element Fresh a leading food business in China and invests his own family capital and maintains advisory roles with multi-family offices investing into real estate and proptech. He was elected President of the Shanghai Chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) from 2012-2014, a global network of 8,000 business owners in 38 countries. I am invited and speak at all major conferences worth attending on real estate crowdfunding and online investment. Born in Sydney Australia holding degrees in Construction Management from University of New South Wales Australia, Mandarin from Beijing University and Finance from U21 Global Singapore.
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About InvestaCrowd: InvestaCrowd is an online platform that offers real estate investment solutions for members to access private mid-market.
Kai C. Chng
Co-Founder & CEO of Digix
Kai Chng is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Digix. He worked on Wall Street as an EMFX trader in a global investment bank for the past 4 years. He was an International Program student at Upenn – Wharton and graduated with honors from NYU – Stern.
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About Digix: Digix is a smart asset company that uses Blockchain technology to represent physical gold with tokens.
Darshan Bathija
Co-founder and CEO of Vauld
Darshan is a blockchain entrepreneur and is passionate about the financial domain. He is the co-founder and CEO of Bank of Hodlers, a blockchain based platform which aims to be the decentralized bank for the 21st century. A capitalist turned social-enterpriser, Darshan started off as an investment professional with Piramal Finance. He moved onto head partnerships for TapChief – an early stage startup funded by Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm and Apremeya Radhakrishnan of Taxi for Sure. During his one-year stint, TapChief’s partnerships driven revenue grew 100x and moved from a team of one to a team of five. He’s always looking to work with intelligent people in the start-up and blockchain space.
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About Officepulse, Vauld: Vauld is a Singapore-based crypto platform. It enables customers to buy, lend, borrow and trade crypto assets from one unified platform.
Laurent Dedenis
CEO and Co-founder of Chainstack
Laurent Dedenis is the CEO and co-founder of Chainstack. He has more than 20 years of global experience managing teams and technology companies such as Microsoft Dynamics and Acumatica, both at start-up and growth stages in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. He was until recently the Chief Growth Officer of Acronis, a large B2B data protection software company. Laurent has marketed blockchain based solutions since 2016. Engaging with dozens of pioneering enterprises exploring decentralized technologies has placed Laurent at a vantage point. He has an in-depth understanding of the technical and business challenges inherent in blockchain adoption and the significant business value it offers. Laurent believes that simplifying blockchain adoption is key to unlocking its true potential for enterprises. Laurent holds a PhD in International Business Administration from the International University of America in San Francisco and a Master’s Degree in Economics and Management from the University of Paris XI, France. He currently resides in Singapore, where Chainstack is based.
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About Chainstack: Managed blockchain services making it simple to launch and scale decentralized networks and applications.
Oliver Wu
Co-Founder & CEO of PRIMAS
Mr. Wu Peng is an expert in Blockchain technology and online products. He is a member of the China Association for Promoting Democracy. Mr. Wu Peng holds a Master’s Degree in Personal, Mobile and Satellite Communications from the University of Bradford, UK. After graduation, he joined the Lenovo Group where he was responsible for the operating system and software product planning. In 2008, he lead the software design for Lenovo ideapadU8. Since 2011, he has been responsible for the design and planning of various online products that have been used by tens of millions of users for Lenovo and Baidu. In 2016, he founded Shanghai QiYin Information Technology Co., Ltd(上海七印科技) and in 2017, he launched the Primas Foundation. He also acts as an expert consultant for many other blockchain projects.
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About PRIMAS: Primas is an open ecosystem for the publishing, recommendation and transaction of content.
Ethan Ng
CEO Southeast Asia of BiKi.com
Ethan Ng is the CEO of Southeast Asia operations at BiKi.
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About BiKi.com: BiKi.com is a provider of digital currency trading services.
Ilia Maksimenka
CEO & Founder of PlasmaPay
Ilia is CEO and Founder of PlasmaPay, a global payment and remittance platform for consumer and commercial use. Prior to building neo-bank PlasmaPay in 2018, Ilia was Head of International Business Development at open online education platform, Coursmos. With expertise in IT, Blockchain, Business Development, Product Development, Growth Hacking, Cryptocurrency, and Portfolio Management, Ilia is dedicated to implementing financial infrastructures that bring together both traditional and decentralized finance. Ilia was awarded a Master in Economics from Plekhanov Russian University of Economics as well as a Master of Arts in Business Management from McGill University.
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About Me, PlasmaBank, PlasmaPay, Whitney’s Academy: PlasmaPay is a crypto/fiat payment system and fintech platform for new financial services
Valentin Preobrazhenskiy
Founder & CEO of LATOKEN
Founder of the multi-asset trading and tokenization platform LATOKEN.Chairman of the BEF organizing committee. Ex Managing Partner of Avega Capital hedge fund. Founder of the global communities Founders Developers and WorldModel.co.
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About LATOKEN: LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.
Pavel Bains
CEO of Bluzelle
Pavel is an entrepreneur, futurist, designer and investor in exponential technologies. He is the CEO of Bluzelle Networks, which builds blockchain and distributed ledger solutions for the finance industry. Pavel also provides advisory, M&A, and capital raising services for companies in digital media and technology. Pavel is an investor in fintech startup Bench and virtual reality startup VR Chat. In addition, Pavel often speaks on panels and conferences about where digital media, finance and technology are heading. Pavel also is a contributing writer to Fast Company, Venture Beat, Forbes and The Huffington Post. Pavel was the co-founder of Storypanda, a digital book platform that empowered kids to read, create and share books. Storypanda published critically acclaimed titles by the world’s best independant authors and media brands. Storypanda had licensing deals with DreamWorks, Warner Bros, CBC, MGA, Peanuts and many more. Storypanda’s mandate was turning kids from content consumers to content creators. Through Storypanda, Pavel became a part of 500 Startups, the world’s leading early-stage startup accelerator and VC. Based in Silicon Valley, 500 Startups now has a presence in all major regions of the globe and is repsonisble for investing into and inspiring the next wave of entrepreneurs. Prior to Storypanda, Pavel was in GM and CFO roles for video game studios, including leading multplayer independant developer, Threewave Software and Disney Interactive Studios. At Threewave, Pavel was involved in the production of AAA titles from EA, Activision and Atari. At Disney, Pavel was the Financial Manager for seven studios, overseeing budgets of $150M. Pavel is a former NCAA Academic-Athlete Honour Student, having competed on the UCLA Track & Field team. Pavel also is the Level Chartered Financial Analyst and graduate of Simon Fraser University
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About Bluzelle: Bluzelle offers a complete and fully integrated stack of blockchain applications, middleware and data services.
Zee Zheng
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SpaceChain
An early adopter in Bitcoin and blockchain, Zee Zheng believes that the combination of space and blockchain technologies will broaden the frontier of our future economy, making seamless global collaboration possible. Prior to SpaceChain, he founded an education startup and ran it 4½ years until it was acquired. Zee Zheng has worked at Hilton, Cathay Pacific, Swire group, YongAn Brokers and a hedge fund, and is the founding partner at HQ Capital, a VC that focuses on investing disruptive technology. He is a Columbia University graduate and Draper University alumnus.
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About SpaceChain: SpaceChain is a community-based space platform that combines space and blockchain technologies.
Jean-Pierre Koolmees
CEO of BlueMeg
Based in Singapore, JP is responsible for the strategy and growth plans accross our offices in Singapore and Hong Kong. Originally from The Netherlands, JP holds a LLM from Leiden University and has over 17 years experience in trust and corporate services, with a track record of setting up and growing profitable businesses and a proven ability to maintain growth in competitive environments. JP was the founder of Vistra Singapore and partner of the Vistra Group, one of today’s leading and largest international providers of corporate, fiduciary and company formation services. Having lived in Asia for more than a decade, he has developed a rich understanding of the business dynamics of the region.
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About BlueMeg: BlueMeg builds governance software to manage legal entities in a digital world.
Zhuling Chen
Chief Executive Officer of RockX
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About RockX: Digital Assets Service Platform
Alexi Lane
CEO & Co-Founder of Everex
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About Everex: Blockchain-powered coop banking for global SMEs, digital entrepreneurs and internet merchants
Prakash Somosundram
CEO & Co-founder of Enjinstarter
Prakash Somosundram is an Entrepreneur from Singapore. He has built and exited successfully with a few businesses and has had a fair share of failures along the way. He has been involved in the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency world since 2016 and believes that Blockchain companies will be the key economic drivers in the Financial Renaissance that we will see in the years ahead. Built on the rapid progress that we have experienced with Digital Disruption and Transformation the next phase of growth powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning we will see a new era of wealth creation and distribution to bring about Happiness and Prosperity. Prakash currently is the Head of Acceleration at XSQ Global, a Singapore based digital assets firm focused on investing and accelerating talented founders who have a passion for Token based models for Fund Raising and Corporate Development.
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About Enjinstarter, Pealo PTE: Enjinstarter is a blockchain gaming launchpad focused on growing the Enjin ecosystem and the metaverse.
David Moskowitz
Co-founder & CEO of Indorse
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About Indorse: Indorse is a skills validation platform which helps candidates validate their tech skills and helps companies match with better candidates.
Navin Suri
CEO of Percipient
Navin co-founded Percipient in 2014 with three senior ex-banking colleagues.Prior to Percipient, Navin was hired by Bank of New York Mellon in Hong Kong (2012-14) with a remit to build out the retail distribution of their asset management business in the Asia Pacific region. He was listed in the Movers & Shakers column of The Financial Times.Earlier, as MD and CEO (2009-12) of the asset management unit of ING Group in India, Navin turned around the loss making company, making it one of India’s top-30 best places to work.Prior to this (2003-08), he led the Sales & Distribution function for Citibank’s Asia-Pacific Retail Bank. Based out of Singapore, he helped deliver sales results of over 2000 staff in 12 markets.Navin currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Nomura Asset Management Taiwan Limited. He gained his MBA from Mumbai University.
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About Percipient: Percipient is a data technology and analytics company based in Singapore
Christian Hsieh
Co-founder & CEO of Tokenomy
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About Tokenomy: Blockchain
Julian Svirsky
CEO of ATLANT
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About ATLANT, ilike.cash: Blockchain Real Estate Platform | Tokenized Ownership | P2P Rentals
Hui Jie Lim
Founder and CEO of ITF Corporation
Hui Jie Lim is the founder and CEO of ITF Corporation.
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About ITF Corporation: ITF Corporation provides financial services.
Justin Park
CEO of Metadium
Justin Park is the CEO of Metadium, a next-g eneration blockchain protocol. He is a former venture capitalist at GS Shop and Gobi Partners overseeing SEA region. He also served as the CEO of Smilegate SEA, the subsidiary of Korean game company Smilegate. During his time at Kionix as Country Manager, he introduced MEMS technology to Korea and successfully led the acquisition of Rohm. Justin began his career as a software engineer at Serome Technology, which developed a VoIP service called Dialpad. He earned his degree in Mathematics from SUNY Binghamton.
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About Metadium: Metadium is an ecosystem built on a public identity blockchain. Our vision is to create a free world through self-sovereign identity.
Christopher Yeo
Founder and CEO of Sentient.io
Serial technopreneur
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About Sentient.io: Sentient.io is an AI and Data platform helping to deploy AI solutions and integrate AI into existing businesses.
Manav Singhal
CEO of Velix.ID
Manav has 13+ years of experience in entrepreneurship & leadership in a wide variety of sectors—technology, e-commerce, luxury consulting, insurance and marketing. He is an executive Board Member at Blockchain Foundation of India, and has been one of the earliest pioneers of Blockchain Technology in India.
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About : A global platform for frictionless identity verification
Victor Lee
CEO of Bitcurate
Victor is the CEO of Bitcurate.com, Data Intelligence for digital asset. They analyze millions of real-time data-points from exchanges, GitHub, social media, news and blockchains for data-driven insights and prediction signals. He is a digital 1st native, early crypto adopter with experience in technology, finance and marketing based in Singapore and China. He believes in creating value, making stuff better and empowering people to their potentials. He can be reached for coffee at @victorleejw.
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About Bitcurate: Data Intelligence for Crypto. Data analytics, data science, machine learning, AI, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Saas, fintech
David Ritter
CEO and Co-Founder of PENTA
David Ritter is the CEO of Penta Global Blockchain Foundation. David Ritter received his degree in financial and sociopolitical history from the University of Southern California. Fluent in Chinese and French, he spent ten years in private equity, doing fund management and cross-border investment. He served as Project Director of Donghu Group Invetsment, where he managed a variety of fund projects with a portfolio value of more than 1 billion (USD), with marquis projects in Melbourne and New York. David also managed a Hollywood P&A Fund in partnership with major Hollywood studios. David Ritter was invited by MIT as the blockchain expert at its Global Startup Workshop forum in 2018. An early-phase investor in Bitcoin, David has also served in an advisory capacity to many projects in the blockchain space. In 2018 Penta became the first blockchain project to successfully use a token to purchase shares of a publicly listed company in Australia. David currently sits on the board of ASX listed CCP Technologies. David is also an active philanthropist.
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About PENTA: a next generation platform for both public and private blockchain projects.
Eva Foo
CEO of Scry.info
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About Scry.info: Scry.info is the world’s first blockchain-based quantitative data providing and exchanging platform for storage, verification.
Praphul Chandra
Founder & CEO of Koinearth
Praphul Chandra is the Founder of Koinearth.
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About Koinearth: Koinearth is a blockchain startup that offers supply chain solutions for invoice financing, contract enforcement, and inventory visibility.
Hayden Hughes
Founder and CEO of Alpha Impact
Hayden Hughes is the Founder and CEO at Alpha Impact.
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About Alpha Impact: Alpha Impact is a social trading platform for cryptocurrencies that lets users keep funds in their own accounts.
Yuki Sawada
CEO and Founder of Time Innovation
Yuki Sawada is the CEO and Founder at Time Innovation.
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About Time Innovation: Time Innovation engages in the development of applications and blockchain.
Yu Xiong (Ben)
CEO / CTO of Sharder
15 years of experience in programming, B.E. in software from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Architect of Seachange, Chief Architect of Yiji Pay, Co-founder and CTO of Taogushen.com, Founder of Conch Chain.
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About Sharder: Sharder Protocol is a cross-chain distributed storage protocol based on blockchain.
Hai Ho
CEO of Triip
Former product manager at Misfit Wearable, Founded and grew his own online community from 0 to 500,000 members within 1.5 years when studying at the University of Buffalo, SUNY. Up to now, Hai Ho has more than 10 year experience in building up Startups with a diverse range of products including payment gateways, social networks, wearable hardware, community and ebook apps.
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About Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA), Triip: Triip is the blockchain travel platform that reward travellers for sharing travel plans ahead to enjoy the best offers from local suppliers
Jin Hui
CEO of Shinechain
Jin Hui is a senior economist and graduated from the Department of Economics at Sichuan University. He is an EMBA graduate from the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He has been a firm believer and practitioner of bitcoin since its emergence. He served as the executive at China Life, PICC Life Insurance Company Limited, and Sunshine Insurance Group as well as the founder of Chexiaobao.com, an online insurance agent vehicle insurance platform. He now serves as the Chairman and CEO of Sunshine Insurance Agency Co., Ltd. and the Director of the Internet Finance Club 1000 Insurance Special Committee. With more than 20 years of experience in insurance sales and management, he is an expert at team building and also the innovation of insurance products. Especially, he has rich experience in the field of life insurance, property insurance and Internet insurance. Now, he is committed to the exploration and application of blockchain insurance.
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About Shinechain: Shinechain is a Public-beneficial Mutual Insurance Company.
Seokgu Yun
CEO of SovereignWallet Network Pte. Ltd.
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About SovereignWallet Network Pte. Ltd.: SovereignWallet is a Messenger-style cryptocurrency wallet with banking grade security.
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