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 United States based Product operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Product 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.

Juan Pablo Bedoya
Vice President Product and Design of Civic
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About Civic: Civic is a blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities.
Qiao Wang
Head of Product of Messari
Qiao Wang is a believer in decentralized technologies such as cryptocurrencies that shift the balance of power from the elite to the commoner.
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About Messari: Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy.
Ryan Nichols
Chief Product Officer, Founding Member of Theta Labs
Ryan Nichols currently works as Chief Product Officer at Theta Labs.
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About Theta Labs, THETA.tv: The leading decentralized video delivery network powered by users and a native blockchain

Dan Flanegan
Vice President Of Product of Snowball Money
Entrepreneur, product guy, mobile expert, gamer, dad & film nut. Co-founder at Butter, an app to make new friends through photos and messaging. The app creates meaningful friendships by connecting people from all over the world who share similar interests. In 2007 founded Brand Anywhere, a mobile marketing agency that managed the mobile campaign strategy and execution for brands including Comcast, Qualcomm, UC Berkeley Fund, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and Meguiar’s Auto to name a few. Also directly managed mobile campaigns for P&G with an emphasis on youth focused female brands including CoverGirl, Tampax and Herbal Essences. In 2005 co-founded Soapbox Mobile, a mobile marketing platform provider. As CEO was responsible for the company’s vision and mission of helping companies improve customer engagement through mobile. Instrumental in creating a next generation mobile marketing and CRM platform that has powered the mobile campaigns of numerous brands including Levis, MobiTV, Guinness, The Vans Warped Tour, Procter & Gamble, W Hotels, General Motors and many others. Soapbox was acquired in 2007.
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About Butter, SHEnetics, Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Eric Saraniecki
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Digital Asset
Eric was part of the founding team for Digital Asset. Eric joined DRW Trading Group in 2006 and has more than six years of experience managing a commodities trading desk. Eric began trading bitcoin in 2011 and is one of the Cumberland Mining founders, one of the largest crypto-asset liquidity providers in the world for bitcoin.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Alex Carusillo
Head Of Product of Roll
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About Roll: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
Nick Allen
Head of Product Development of Blockchain Technologies Corp
Nick has been active in the blockchain space since 2010, where he bought his first bitcoins and has since then been active in the community. Nick has a background in product management, User Experience and quantitative marketing strategy. Due to his extensive knowledge about the blockchain space combined with a strong understanding of how to convey the technologically complexity to the everyday user, Nick is in charge of product development.
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About Blockchain Technologies Corp: Blockchain Technologies Corp. is a blockchain and cryptocurrency software technology company and startup accelerator.
Rafael Cosman
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering and Product of TrustToken
Rafael graduated from Stanford where his focus was on artificial intelligence and cryptography. He got interested in cryptocurrency after studying with Professor Dan Boneh, one of the world’s leading experts in applied cryptography. Rafael went on to work at Palantir and Google Brain before leaving Google to found TrustToken. TrustToken is creating a platform that bridges blockchains and the $256 trillion of real-world assets. Rafael holds multiple patents in machine learning.
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About TrueFi, TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
Luca Cosentino
Product and Go To Market Lead of Oasis Labs
Product & G2M | prev @Google @AmEx @P&G
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About Oasis Labs: Oasis Labs is a privacy-first cloud computing platform on blockchain technology.
Irina Lebedeva
Crypto Product Manager of Immutable
Entrepreneur, Product Manager with 10+ years in creating customer-facing products and leading full stack dev teams. Well versed in strategy, early-stage startups, fundraising, mobile apps, blockchain.
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About Immutable: Immutable provides a blockchain infrastructure that transforms digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry.
Wills de Vogelaere
Co-Founder and Head of Product of SpankChain
Co-founder @ SpankChain.
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About SpankChain: SpankChain is an adult entertainment ecosystem powered by blockchain technology.

Ryan Arriaga
Global Head of Products of Safemoon
Ryan Arriaga was one of the original founders of SeatNinja. In early 2014, Ryan left Seatninja to explore other new and exciting opportunities.
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About Safemoon, Spydergrip Enterprises, LLC.: SafeMoon is a product and service company that focuses on blockchain technology.
Justin Giudici
Founder & Head of Product of Telos
Justin Giudici is the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Telos. With a decade of experience in a variety of roles leading product, marketing, and design efforts Justin has a strong reputation for delivering emerging technology solutions.
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About Telos: Telos provides the third-generation blockchain platform.
Forrest Browning
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Audius
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Audius. Previously Co-Founder at StacksWare (Acquired by Avi Networks). Forbes 30 Under 30
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About Audius: Audius is creating a fully decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating to share and defend music.
Magatte Wade
VP of Product of Atlas Holdings
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About Atlas Holdings: Atlas provides mobile banking online.
Ophelia Snyder
Chief Product Officer of 21Shares
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About 21Shares: 21Shares makes investing in cryptocurrencies easy by using conventional brokers or banks.
Joshua Kliot
Co-Founder and Product of Airtm
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About Airtm: Airtm is a a blockchain and bank-connected digital wallet and peer-to-peer exchange platform.
Ashu Swami
Chief Product Officer – Blockchain of Core Scientific
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About Core Scientific: Core Scientific is a Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence hosting, transaction processing, and application development company.
Todd McDonald
Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder of R3
Todd is Co-Founder and Head of Product and Marketing for R3. Todd co-founded R3 in 2015 and was one of the first to uncover the promise of blockchain technology for the financial services industry and beyond. In his current role, Todd is responsible for R3’s product and marketing strategy, aligning key markets and customers to drive the longer term strategic roadmap for Corda. He also served on the Hyperledger Governing Board where he oversaw all project business and marketing matters. Todd, alongside fellow leaders in the crypto assets sector, founded The Global Digital Finance (GDF) industry body to release an industry code of conduct to drive sustainable crypto assets innovation. Prior to R3, Todd spent fourteen years at Standard Chartered Bank as a Managing Director in their financial markets group where he held positions such as Global Head of Electronic FX Trading and Head of FX for the Americas. Todd holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Colgate University, NY.
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About R3: R3 is a financial innovation firm dedicated to the design and deployment of DLT to build the new operating system for financial services.
Jon Farjo
Founder and Chief Product Officer of LunarCrush
Jon Farjo is the Co-Founder and CPO at LunarCRUSH.
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About LunarCrush: Social Intelligence for Crypto
Thomas Emmanuel
Chief Product Officer of YellowHeart
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About YellowHeart: YellowHeart is a ticketing blockchain that has the full transparency for the fans and also the artists.

Tegan Gaan
Founder, CEO, Chief Product Officer of Ecoverse
Tegan monique gaan is the Head of Ideation & mTech Partnerships at Hifi Labs.
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About Ecoverse: Ecoverse provides eco-friendly proof of stake blockchain experiences.
Pavel Lagutin
Senior Product Director of Tron
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About Tron: Tron is a decentralized content entertainment protocol based on blockchain technology.
Thomas McInerney
VP of Product of Vertalo
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About Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.
Thomas McInerney
VP of Product of Vertalo
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About Vertalo: Vertalo is a SaaS solution connecting and enabling the digital asset economy.

Kevin Hopkins
Chief Strategy Officer & VP, Product Development of Crowdz
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About Crowdz, Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation: Nasdaq for Receivables

Tamara Adlin
Chief Product Officer of Blockchange Ventures
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About Adlin, inc., Blockchange Ventures, INTURN: Blockchange Ventures is an investing firm that invest in early-stage blockchain companies, protocols, and applications.
Kurt Kumar
Product & Token Sales of Distributed Machines
Kurt Kumar is a Business Architect, entrepreneur and process transformation specialist with proven ability in bringing to life custom enterprise strength applications with features/functions and agility that cannot be matched by big firms.
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About Distributed Machines, RocketFuel: Distributed Machines, Inc. serves as a parent company for ventures in the blockchain, distributed ledger and education industry.
Adam Ghahramani
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Bison
Adam is a partner at ICv2, a 35-year old media company covering the business of geek culture. Prior to that he was head of digital for a creative agency, an indie game developer, and founder/manager of one of the world’s biggest anime and video game communities (1 million members). He is a frequent contributer to VentureBeat, covering areas like the blockchain and VR. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Hacker News, Polygon, Fast Company, Engadget, and The New York Times.
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About Bison: Bison is the blockchain to reimagine how fans engage with esports live events.
Jon Lewis
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of Emerging Impact
Jon Lewis is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Emerging Impact and Circa Victor.
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About Emerging Impact: Emerging Impact modernizes financial services in emerging markets through blockchain technology.
Kevin Dean Pettit
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Proof of Impact
Kevin Pettit currently works as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Proof of Impact. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
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About Proof of Impact: Proof of Impact is a data intelligence company that bridges the gap in ESG and impact data.
Anzor Nishnianidze
Co-Founder, Product Architect & CTO of Reddocoin
Anzor Nishnianidze is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Product Architect at Reddocoin.
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About Reddocoin: Reddocoin is a decentralized all in one e-commerce platform that provides full automatization in dropshipping.
Michael Ohde
Head of Product of Findable
Driven by curiosity and customer success, Michael enjoys implementing simple and creative solutions. When he is not diagraming, writing code, or talking to customers, he loves spending time with his wife and son. He enjoys time at the lake, wakeboarding whenever possible, going for walks, and listening to books.
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About Findable: Findable is an internet company that specializes in the fields of renting, lending, sharing, and smart contracts.
Alex Vorobiev
VP, Product Management & Customer Success of HyperProof
Alex Vorobiev is the Vice President Of Product Management and Customer Success at Hyperproof.
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About HyperProof: Hyperproof is a cloud-based compliance operations software that collects evidence automatically and manages a compliance program.
Andrew Storms
Vice President, Security and Product of New Context
Andrew Storms is an Information Technology & Security executive with over 20 years of achievement delivering solutions that optimize performance, security, and efficiency for industry-leading companies. Andrew’s current work with New Context Services involves providing leadership in the areas of Information security and product development. He serves as a project lead for CES-21 – an initiative researching methods to perform automated cybersecurity threat detection and response within electrical utility operational networks. His past roles include Senior Director of DevOps at CloudPassage and Director of Information, Technology & Security at nCircle. He is a CISSP, a member of Infragard and a graduate of the FBI Citizens’ Academy and a member of the open standards technical committee for STIX,TAXII and OpenC2.
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About New Context: New Context is a provider of multi-cloud DevSecOps services to large enterprise, infrastructure and government cloud customers.
Thomas D’Eletto
Product of TassatPay
Fintech Product Manager, Head of Product at trueDigital
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About TassatPay: TassatPay is a developer of a digital blockchain platform for digital payments and exchange markets.
Korby Parnell
Head of Product of UPGRADED
Technologist and product leader with a passion for delivering global B2B and B2C products that rock markets, change lives, and inspire loyalty beyond reason. His domain expertise spans ticketing, social software, streaming analytics, web services and developer tools at companies such as Ticketmaster, Yahoo!, Myspace, and Microsoft. Prior to joining UPGRADED, Korby spent 4 years delivering the backbone web services that power Ticketmaster’s commerce order processing, fulfilment, delivery, fraud analysis, financial reporting and customer support for Resale inventory. He is a former Planning Commissioner for the City of Redmond, WA and holds a B.A. in Politics from the University of Puget Sound.
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About UPGRADED: UPGRADED tickets bring trust to ticketing. Leveraging cryptographic algorithms, we support secure transactions while enabling smart tickets.

Stoyan Stoyanov
VP of Product & UX of Propellr
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About Propellr: Propellr is a creation, management, and servicing platform for digitally held assets.

Mikel Lago
Product Manager of Alisys
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About Alisys: AI, blockchain and telecom technological solutions
Taciana Doria
Chief Product Officer of Owl Docs
Taciana Doria is the Chief Product Officer at Owl Docs.
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About Owl Docs: Owl Docs focuses on helping companies achieve productivity in the management of work related documents within the cloud.
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