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 Sweden 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.

Henrik Hjelte
Co-Founder & CEO of ChromaWay
Henrik Hjelte is the Co-Founder and CEO of ChromaWay, a company focused on implementing blockchain solutions. They have currently working with the Swedish Land Registry to use blockchain for selling houses.
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About ChromaWay, Chromia: ChromaWay is a relational blockchain platform designed to enable a new generation of enterprise applications.

Astyanax Kanakakis
CEO & co-founder of norbloc
Astyanax has spent more than 10 years in Finance and Consulting, most recently as Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company, specializing in banking and corporate finance. During the last 3 years he has been closely following the bitcoin blockchain and since end of 2015 has been the Chief Commercial Officer in KnC Group, the bitcoin blockchain pioneer. He is passionate about technology, cryptography and financial markets. Astyanax holds a BSc. In Computer Science and Electronic Engineering from University College London, an MSc in Advanced Computing from Imperial College, an MSc in Information Systems Management from London School of Economics and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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About norbloc: KYC platforms on distributed ledgers
Ivan Liljeqvist
Founder & CEO of Moralis
Ivan is a Blockchain advocate, software developer and data scientist. To educate the community about Blockchain & Crypto, he has created the Ivan On Tech Youtube channel, which gained success and popularity. Ivan On Tech is a truly global phenomenon spreading knowledge about the blockchain technology to hundreds of thousands of viewers all over the world. Ivan makes the complex simple by delivering entertaining and exciting talks.
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About Moralis, Stockholm Blockchain: Blockchain projects use Moralis software and APIs to build & scale their dApps without the cost & complexity

Peter Bunus
CEO & Co-Founder of CyStellar
Peter has vast experience in conducting research activities with the ability to bring research ideas into production and development. He enjoys acting as liaison between sales, marketing, and technology groups to support product positioning and customer demand as part of new product development.
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About CyStellar: CyStellar is a geospatial intelligence company on a mission to deliver real-time insights for the insurance sector.
Jiao David
Co-Founder & CEO of NuLink
Jiao David is a Co-Founder and CEO of NuLink.
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About NuLink: NuLink provides privacy-preserving technology for decentralized applications

Lone Fonns Shroder
CEO of Concordium
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About Concordium: Concordium is a next-gen privacy-focused, public and permissionless blockchain architecture with an ID Layer at the protocol level.
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