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 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.
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.
Etienne Tatur
Co-Founder of Request
Chief Technology Officer in Europe. Created his first blockchain project with Moneytis.com. INSA Lyon Engineering School Alumni and YCombinator Alumni. Member of La Chaintech. Speaker at the International Money Transfer Conference (Miami), Blockchain France (Paris) and Visa Europe (Paris).
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About Request: Request is a decentralized network for transaction requests.
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
Leonard Tan
Co-Founder of Web3Auth
Leonard Tan is the co-founder of Torus Labs, a company that builds frictionless logins for DApps. Leonard also serves Ethereum as developer relations. Prior to this, Leonard spent one year working with Visa as a software engineer. Leonard Tan holds a double degree in economics and business finance from Singapore Management University.
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About Ethereum Foundation, Web3Auth: Web3Auth makes cryptographic key management easy for users and applications
Anselm Schmucki
Co-Founder of Tangem
Anselm Schmucki is the Co-Founder at Tangem.
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About Tangem: Secure silicon solutions for blockchain applications
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.
Anthony Eufemio
Co-Founder & CTO of Digix
Anthony Eufemio is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Digix.
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About Digix: Digix is a smart asset company that uses Blockchain technology to represent physical gold with tokens.
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.
Shaun Djie
Co-Founder & COO of Digix
Shaun Djie is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Digix. He is the lead coordinator of the largest Ethereum Meetup group in Asia, contributor to the Smart Nation Research for Ministry of Trade and Industry and graduates from Singapore Management University.
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About Digix: Digix is a smart asset company that uses Blockchain technology to represent physical gold with tokens.
Kiana Shek
Co-Founder of DigiFinex
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About DigiFinex: DigiFinex is a digital assets trading platform, focusing on cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin etc.
Eugene Aseev
Co-Founder and CTO of Chainstack
Eugene Aseev is currently CTO at Chainstack, a cloud platform helping businesses leverage blockchain technology. He has worked with blockchain for years, building production-grade data protection solutions and investigating blockchain scalability approaches. Eugene has vast experience in building top global R&D teams, and passion for leading research and creating new products.
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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.
Miles Carroll
Co-Founder & COO of Opulous
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About Opulous: Opulous connects parties, allowing anyone to inject capital into the music industry through collateralised loans.
Hugh Sutherland
Co-Founder of BTP
Originally from Glasgow, Hugh is Singapore-based, with many years of business development, sales management and executive leadership across Asia Pacific. Prior to Singapore, Hugh lived in Hong Kong and Australia. He has built the Asia Pacific operations for a number of companies, including BMC Software, and FileNet, and is the founder of two other companies. Hugh is an active investor in emerging technology companies, holds British and Australian citizenship, and is a graduate of Strathclyde University. H
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About : Blockchain Technology Partners is an enterprise blockchain company.
Ju Jianhua
Founder of Bhex.com
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About Bhex.com: BHEX is the next generation digital asset trading platform.
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.
Anson Zeall
Co-Founder & Chairman of IDAXA
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About IDAXA, Singapore University of Social Sciences: IDAXA gathers different groups from the blockchain and crypto trade industry.
Andy Lim
Chairman & Founder of Tembusu Partners
Mr Andy Lim is the Founder and Chairman of private equity firm Tembusu Partners and the Chairman and controlling shareholder of a publicly listed company Viking Offshore & Marine Limited. He is also the Executive Director of Associated Leisure International, a family holding company and Chairman of MoneyWorld Group of Companies. His other Board appointments include Chairman of the Overseas Experts Council (Singapore Branch) of Peking University’s China Centre for Strategic Studies, President of the Enterprise 50 Association, a leading association of the top 50 privately held companies in Singapore and a member of the Home Affairs Uniformed Service (HUS) INVEST Board of Trustee. He was the Chairman of Alpha Singapore (2002 – 2013), Council Member of the National Council for Anti-Drug Abuse (NCADA) (2005 – 2012) and as Chairman of government cooperative for ex-offenders, ISCOS (2006 – 2012). In September 2004, Mr Lim was appointed Honorary Consul to the Republic of Lithuania. The Shanghai-Pudong Branch of the China Overseas Friendship Association also appointed him as one of its Council members in May 2005. Mr Lim took an Overseas Merit Scholarship to study Engineering in Cambridge University where he graduated with First Class Honors in 1979. After an 8 year stint with the Singapore government, he went on to receive an MBA Degree at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1989.
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About Tembusu Partners: Tembusu Partners is a Singapore-based private equity firm focused on investments in growth stage companies.
Frederic Jumelle
Founder of Ydentity Organization
Dr. Jumelle is an academic entrepreneur with a strong background in Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences. Doctor of Medicine with 15 years of business experience, he founded Ydentity.org with the vision that AI can serve consumers if Machine Learning is personalized.
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About Ydentity Organization: Ydentity NFT is the world’s first risk identity token for value transfer
Kay Woo
Founder of MVL Chain
Kay Kyeongsik Woo is the Founder of MVL Chain.
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About easi6, MVL Chain: MVL Chain is a blockchain-based ride-hailing service.
Xavier Ekkel
Founder of prePO
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About prePO: prePO is a decentralized pre-IPO and pre-token trading 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
Saurabh Goyal
CTO and Co-Founder of Delta Exchange
Saurabh Goyal is the CTO and co-founder at Delta Exchange.
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About Delta Exchange: Delta is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that offers futures on Bitcoin and leading altcoins.
Gaurang Torvekar
Co-Founder and CTO of Indorse
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About Indorse, SGRECX: Indorse is a skills validation platform which helps candidates validate their tech skills and helps companies match with better candidates.
Willy Wong
Co-Founder, Product Development & Technical Operations of DataVLT
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About DataVLT: Secure, Affordable, Easier – DataVLT is an on-demand data analytics platform integrated with blockchain
Michelle Yeo
Co-Founder, Business Ops & Strategic Development of DataVLT
Michelle is a seasoned strategist to some of the world’s most popular brands. At DataVLT, she oversees Business, Product and Strategic development work. She believes in rolling up her sleeves and taking a personal approach in helping to change the world.
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About DataVLT: Secure, Affordable, Easier – DataVLT is an on-demand data analytics platform integrated with blockchain
Eric Pang
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Mezzofy
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About Mezzofy: Mezzofy is the On-Demand Digital Coupon Platform Provider for Business, Marketer and Developer.
Gokulakrishnan R
Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Mezzofy
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About Mezzofy: Mezzofy is the On-Demand Digital Coupon Platform Provider for Business, Marketer and Developer.
Maverick Tan
Co-Founder and Chief Operation Officer of Mezzofy
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About Mezzofy: Mezzofy is the On-Demand Digital Coupon Platform Provider for Business, Marketer and Developer.
Sasidharan Thiruvengadam
Co-Founder & CTO of Octowill
#Entrepreneur – Co-Founder Assetfinx Exchange (Crypto and Tokenized asset Exchange) Octowill (Wills & Trust Management)
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About Assetfinx, Nexconz Inc, Octowill: Octowill is the next generation distributed and decentralised blockchain solution for Inheritance.
Deli Gong
Co-Founder of Automata Network
Deli Gong is the Co-Founder at Automata Network.
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About Automata Network: Automata Network is a decentralised protocol that provides middleware-like traceless privacy services.
Zheng Leong Chua
Co-Founder of Automata Network
Zheng Leong Chua is the Co-Founder at Automata Network.
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About Automata Network: Automata Network is a decentralised protocol that provides middleware-like traceless privacy services.
Glenn Tay
Founder of Gigworks
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About Gigworks, Plexure Singapore: Works is a decentralised talent marketplace that connects businesses with the top 3% freelance talent in engineering and design professions.
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.
Floyd DCosta
Co-Founder of Block Armour
Floyd DCosta is the co-founder of Block Armour and Blockchain Worx. With a background in Management Consulting, Floyd has over 19 years of professional experience in setting up and growing international business practices as well as advising senior client executives on decisive topics. His previous experience includes eleven years at Capgemini and spans a variety of high-tech industry sectors and technology platforms. A regular writer and speaker at events, Floyd advises multiple organizations on harnessing the potential of emerging technologies for Digital Transformation. Floyd holds a Masters in Computer Information Systems from ITM, Mumbai, and the Exec General Management Program from IIM-Bangalore. And, when he is not traveling, Floyd enjoys spending time with his family in Singapore.
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About Block Armour, Blockchain Worx: Accelerated by Airbus. Offers integrated Zero Trust Cybersecurity for Enterprise, Cloud and IoT; powered by SDP and Blockchain technology
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.
Jason Inch
Founder and Co-Lead of Genaro Network
As a key contributor to the Genaro, Jason brings a depth of knowledge and experience from more than 20 years in the technology industry as an executive and entrepreneur. He has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and also studied at CEIBS. Jason is also an accomplished writer with several books about China’s economy.His most recent book is called China 4.0 and he is also founder of the China Business Events meetup community.
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About Genaro Network: Genaro Network is the first blockchain 3.0 ecosystem built on a Turing-complete public chain with decentralized storage…
Gary Loh
Founder & Chairman of DiMuto
Gary Loh is the founder and Chairman of DiMuto Pte Ltd, a trade technology firm providing end-to-end supply chain visibility for global businesses, ensuring traceability and trackability of business documents, goods and services. Since late 2018, DiMuto has successfully tracked and traced over millions of pieces in produce and millions in dollars of trade value on their platform. Mr Loh is the Vice Chairman of SunMoon Food Company Limited. He joined the company’s Board as Non-Independent Director and Deputy Chairman in 2007 and was Chairman of the Executive Committee from 2007 to 2013, before serving as Executive Chairman of the Board until 2017. Mr Loh is also the Executive Chairman of First Alverstone Capital Ltd, a private equity firm he co- founded in 2005. He started his career as a venture capitalist for Pacific Capital Pte. Ltd. from 1992 to 1995, before joining Merrill Lynch 1995 to 1997. Subsequently, he was with UOB Kay Hian and BNP Paribas. Mr Loh possesses a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science & Economics) from National University of Singapore (NUS), a Master in Applied Finance from NUS Business School and has also attended the Owner/President Management Executive program at Harvard Business School.
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About DiMuto: DiMuto is a platform facilitating collaborative commerce that provides supply chain visibility.
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.
Alexander Tsyglin
Co-Founder and CMO of Zeus Exchange
Alexander Tsyglin is the co-founder and CMO at Zeus Exchange.
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About Zeus Exchange: Zeus Exchange is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of blockchain, financial exchanges, and information technology.
Akshay Mehra
Founder of Genie ICO
Marketing@P&G | Innovation consulting@ Innosight | CEO@India startup
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About Crowd-Genie, Genie ICO: Singapore licensed Crowd Genie to build the first Asia wide Blockchain Asset Exchange (SME lending focused)
Chuang Pei-Han
Founder of Morpheus Labs
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About Morpheus Labs: A platform that Enables organisations to build solutions and validate blockchain use cases atop reference applications and solutions.
Bruce Lu Yang
Co-Founder and CTO of Morpheus Labs
Bruce Lu Yang is the CTO and Co-Founder at Morpheus Labs.
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About Morpheus Labs: A platform that Enables organisations to build solutions and validate blockchain use cases atop reference applications and solutions.
Frederic Verin
COO, Co-Founder of CVProof
Entrepreneurial CFO with 10+ years experience in business set-up/acquisition and expansion in MNC’s and in start-ups (Healthcare, Bio-pharma, e-commerce). Frederic successfully scaled up an e-commerce start-up in South East Asia over the past two years as head of finance and of organization. Purpose driven, Frederic’s expertise emcompasses strategic planning and execution, business process re engineering and risk management.
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About CVProof: CVproof is a platform made to secure all types of credential documents used in the job market.
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.
Esther Hu
Co-Founder of Taxa
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About Taxa: Taxa is a performance, Privacy and Usability for Every blockchain.
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.
Austin Chaird
Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer of Alpha Impact
Austin Chaird is the Founder, Chief Product, and Technology Officer 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.
Conrad Lin
Co-Founder & COO of FintruX Network
Conrad Lin is a dynamic entrepreneur passionate about building next-gen solutions by leveraging on smart technologies. Dedicating his efforts towards initiatives that impact the world positively and benefit the global community, Conrad believes that technology empowers individuals to take control of their own future. Conrad excels at managing distributed teams and delivering phenomenal results in a short amount of time.
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About FintruX Network: Smart Business and Financial Solutions Built On The Blockchain.
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.
Mervyn Chng
Co-Founder of StakeWith.Us
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About StakeWith.Us: Secured Staking Made Easy: Staking-as-a-service provider building reliable infrastructure for non-custodial staking services.
Mark Le
Co-Founder of Niftex
Mark Le is the Co-Founder at Niftex.
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About Niftex: Niftex is a platform for fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).
Amit Sharma
Co-Founder of SPREAD.Energy
A seasoned consultant, entrepreneur, angel investor and self-proclaimed impact activist, Amit has spent two decades in the IT and mobile industry advising Fortune 500 companies in transforming their business for a connected future. With a passion for clean, renewable and green, Amit lends Ecosystm his expertise in blockchain, mobility and payments among other technologies. Previously Vice President and Global head of Business Development at Indian technology giant, Tech Mahindra, Amit managed, coached and cultivated a global team of digital evangelists/digital sales associates. He also established and managed numerous partnerships covering technologies as diverse as blockchain, AI, machine learning, IoT, big data, cloud, analytics, AR/VR and mobile payments. Beyond his role at Ecosystm, Amit serves as Founder & CEO at SPREAD – a digital B2B renewable energy funding and trading platform with a mission to invest in and champion green energy projects in developing economies across Asia Pacific. He is also a regular keynote speaker, and has published a number of academic papers on how blockchain could resolve climate change. Amit holds a management degree from the ICFAI Business School in India. Outside the working world, Amit describes himself as a change agent and avid traveller who loves to meet people and uncover cultures from around the world.
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About Ecosystm, SPREAD.Energy: SPREAD.Energy developer of a renewable energy funding and trading platform.
Ashley Loo
Co-Founder of KYCK
Ashley Loo is a co-founder at KYCK, a platform that allows users to access financial markets with blockchain-based identities. Previously, Ashley held a designation of an associate at DBS Vickers Securities and was responsible for retail equity dealing and equity portfolio management. Ashley is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Fintech program and its Asia Pacific community.
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About KYCK: KYCK is a platform that allows users to access financial markets with blockchain-based identities.
Liam James Nguyen
Founder of MetaWars
Liam James Nguyen is the Founder of MetaWars.
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About MetaWars: MetaWars is a revolutionary, multiplayer technique blockchain-based recreation.
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