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 Founder operating in the Ethereum 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.
Robert Leshner
Founder and CEO of Compound
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About Citywide Special, Compound, Robot Ventures, Safe Shepherd: Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Geoffrey Hayes
CTO and Founder of Compound
Maintainer of Exthereum, technology founder of two startups, led Core Services at Postmates
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About Compound: Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Jesse Powell
Co-Founder and CEO of Kraken
Jesse Powell is an expert in virtual currencies, online/international payments and fraud, as well as co-founder and CEO of Kraken, the most trusted and one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges in the world with no.1 EUR market share. He is a 15-year veteran of the virtual currency industry.
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About Kraken: Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that provides spot and futures trading between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and 40+ other digital assets.
Sheldon Xia
Founder & CEO of BitMart
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About BitMart: BitMart is a digital asset trading platform that focuses on cryptocurrency.
Michael Wuehler
Co-Founder of Infura
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About ConsenSys, Infura: We strive to deliver the best infrastructure and tools for developers to build amazing Web 3.0 applications.
E.G. Galano
Co-Founder of Infura
E.G. Galano is the Co-Founder and Chief Infrastructure Engineer of INFURA, a service providing scalable Ethereum infrastructure and developer APIs. He previously was the Director of Site Reliability at Los Angeles based hotel software start-up KEYPR, and an early employee of cloud gaming company Gaikai which was acquired by Sony in 2012.
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About ConsenSys, Infura: We strive to deliver the best infrastructure and tools for developers to build amazing Web 3.0 applications.
Bradley Miles
CEO and Co-Founder of Roll
Bradley previously led research for CoinDesk, the world leader in news and information on digital currencies, and architected their State of Blockchain report and spotlight study on ICOs. He is the CEO of Turing Advisory Group, a sell-side advisory firm for token sales with an emphasis on research and best practices. Bradley is the best selling author of #BreakIntoVC: How to Break Into Venture Capital and Think Like an Investor and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Techstars in New York City.
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About Roll, Techstars: Roll is building blockchain infrastructure for social money on Ethereum.
Jai An
CEO & Co-Founder of TrustToken
Jai is the CEO and co-founder of TrustToken
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About TrustToken: TrustToken is a platform to create asset-backed tokens that can be used for buying and selling around the world.
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.
Bulent Tekmen
Co-Founder & Global CEO of Colendi
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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About Colendi, Ininal, Next Ventures: A multifunctional banking as a service platform that democratizes banking services for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions
George Melika
CTO / Co-Founder of SFOX
George Melika is a fintech expert with over 20 years of software development experience building algorithmic, proprietary, and cryptocurrency trading platforms. He is the Co-Founder and CTO of SFOX, a cryptocurrency trading platform backed by Social+Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. He holds an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Loyola Marymount University.
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About SFOX: SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer for professional traders and institutional investors.
Jake Vartanian
Founder of Native
Currently based in Denver, CO, Jake has spent the last few years garnering insights on global economies and emergent communities. A self-taught stock trader in his youth, Jake entered the cryptocurrency arena in early 2011 at age 17, inspired by community currency visionary Robert Swann, the works of counterculturist Hakim Bey and connecting his yoga practice – specifically the cultivation and distribution of attention – to understanding the nature of value. As he observed networks creating value over time through on individual and collective participation and emotional connection, Jake worked as a community evangelist for the Synereo project, which monetizes original content posted on the web. He then led the marketing efforts for the SingularDTV Token Launch, which provides artists applications to manage projects from development to distribution. In 2016, Jake founded Cryptodex, the first ever token launch consulting firm. He was involved in a series of successful cryptocurrency launches and projects including Tokencard and Primalbase. He also supported Bancor, which enables instant liquidity and convertibility for tokens of any size market cap. He currently advises Constellation Labs, Dispatch, Swytch and Electron. With the success of Bancor and its framework opening the doors to new possibilities of marketing making, Jake began to envision Native, which enables emergent communities to express their ethos, make collective decisions and utilize their own currencies.
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About Cryptodex, Native: Blockchain Platform for Community Based DAOs
Ameen Soleimani
Co-Founder and CEO of SpankChain
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About SpankChain: SpankChain is an adult entertainment ecosystem powered by blockchain technology.
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.
Kosala Hemachandra
Founder and CEO of MyEtherWallet | MEW
With 8 years of experience as a computer engineer under his belt, Kosala dabbled in crypto during his senior year at college. He later applied his technical programming skills to develop a storage solution for Ether which became MEW: one of the most popular and widely used cryptocurrency wallets in the space.
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About MyEtherWallet | MEW, Nanopuppet: MyEtherWallet is a free, open-source, client-side tool for easily and securely interacting with the Ethereum blockchain.
Alexis Gauba
Co-Founder of Opyn
Alexis Gauba is the Co-Founder at Opyn.
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About Opyn: Opyn allows users to earn a premium or take views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20s.
Amir Bandeali
Co-Founder & CTO of 0x
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About 0x: 0x is an open protocol that enables peer-to-peer trading of assets.
Zaki Manian
Co-Founder of Sommelier
Zaki Manian is the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol.
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About Iglusion, Sommelier, Trusted IoT Alliance: The new coprocessor for Ethereum. Move your DeFi assets into higher yields faster and cheaper.
Kristi Poldsam
Co-Founder of Sommelier
Kristi Põldsam is the co-founder of Sommelier Protocol.
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About Iglusion, Sommelier: The new coprocessor for Ethereum. Move your DeFi assets into higher yields faster and cheaper.
Tony Arcieri
Co-Founder of Sommelier
Tony Arcieri is the co-founder of Sommelier.
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About Iglusion, Sommelier: The new coprocessor for Ethereum. Move your DeFi assets into higher yields faster and cheaper.
Deborah Simpier
Co-Founder of Sommelier
Deborah Simpier is the co-founder of Sommelier.
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About Althea, Sommelier: The new coprocessor for Ethereum. Move your DeFi assets into higher yields faster and cheaper.
Justin Kilpatrick
Co-Founder of Sommelier
Justin Kilpatrick is the co-founder of Sommelier.
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About Althea, Sommelier: The new coprocessor for Ethereum. Move your DeFi assets into higher yields faster and cheaper.
Andrey Zamovskiy
Founder & CEO of Ambisafe
Andrey is one of the leading experts in the Bitcoin field and a pioneer of one of the decentralized digital currencies in 2009. He has more than 10 years in commercial web development and started writing his own software at the age of 9. He released his own open source CMS, when he was 14. Andrey was awarded 2 nd place in 2011 best software architect competition in Ukraine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and created his own cryptocurrency for his thesis project.
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About Ambisafe, Inchain Limited, Orderbook, Propy, Scrobl: Ambisafe is an ethereum-based financial instruments, blockchain solutions, and ICO/STO related services.
Tony Tran
Co-Founder, CTO of Beenest
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About Beenest: Beenest is a home sharing platform for hosts to list their homes and for guests to find accommodations.
Simon Yu
CEO & Co-Founder of StormX
Simon started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 19. After his family declared bankruptcy, he was forced to drop out of college at the University of Washington and find a full-time job to pay for rent and food. His full-time wage was still not enough for him to go back to school so he started selling Korean tacos out of his apartment to students studying late night on campus. The tacos went viral, and he was able to start a food truck with two friends after returning and graduating with a full-time scholarship. He quickly turned and scaled that business into a $500,000 business with ten employees in less than two years before joining Calvin at StormX. During his time at StormX, Simon has helped grow revenue more than 800%, user growth of 3000%, and raised funding to scale a small start-up started in a dorm room to a seven-person company. He is a visionary who is able to see the long-term potential in every aspect of scaling a multi-billion dollar business opportunity.
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About CakeCodes, StormX: StormX is a Blockchain and micro-task company that provides crypto cashback.
Kevin Owocki
Founder of Gitcoin
Kevin is the founder of Gitcoin.co .
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About Gitcoin, Gitcoin: Gitcoin is a platform that enables open source developers to monetize their work when it is used.
Sky Guo
Founder of Cypherium
Sky Guo is a Founder at Cypherium.
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About Cypherium: Cypherium is a highly scalable blockchain infrastructure based on hybrid proof-of-work and Byzantine fault tolerance consensus.
Ryan Gittleson
Co Founder of Virtue Poker
Ryan Gittleson is the Co-Founder of Virtue Poker.
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About Virtue Poker: Virtue Poker is a multi-chain, Ethereum-based decentralized poker platform.
Jim Berry
Co-Founder / Programmer of Virtue Poker
Jim Berry is the Co-Founder and Programmer of Virtue Poker.
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About Virtue Poker: Virtue Poker is a multi-chain, Ethereum-based decentralized poker platform.
Serra Wei
Founder & CEO of Aegis Custody
Serra Angel Wei is a cryptocurrency finance executive, investor and entrepreneur with a blend of experience in both legacy & blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. Ms Wei has worked with Goldman Sachs, Passport Capital on building investment strategies, structuring M&A deals, cryptocurrency trading and custody solutions.
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About Aegis Custody: Digital asset custody company offering a hybrid hardware-software solution with state-of-the-art security standards.
Jeremy Goodwin
Founder & CEO of SyncFab
Jeremy is an international fintech executive fluent in Chinese and French and social impact entrepreneur passionate about technologies improving on the human condition including Additive and Advanced Manufacturing, AI (artificial intelligence), Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cleantech, Crypto, Decentralization, DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), Ethereum and ML (Machine Learning). Currently, Jeremy is CEO of SyncFab an IIoT Industry 4.0 Blockchain Manufacturing Industry Partner to the $140MM US D.O.E. & D.O.C. Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Initiative (CESMII) appointed by the White House and US Departments of Energy and Commerce National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). SyncFab is also the San Francisco Mayors Office of Civic Innovation – 2016 Startup in Residence (STIR) in partnership with the Cities of San Leandro, Oakland and West Sacramento. From 2008 to 2012, Jeremy served as Executive President and CFO of China Advanced Construction Materials Company leading it to peak performance of 2,000 employees and NASDAQ IPO. As the only bilingual member of the company board of directors, he was responsible for negotiating large international contracts, implementing SOX 404 compliance, managing international accounting audits, SEC and shareholder communications. Jeremy successfully clinched a $100M Private Equity investment offer in support of company expansion plans and NASDAQ listing before board decision to privatize.
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About Forbes Business Council, SyncFab: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
Andy Tong
Co-Founder of SyncFab
Andy Tong is serial entrepreneur well known for his success in the video game industry as CEO and Founder of top online game portal MMOABC which at its peak garnered millions of monthly MMO gaming visitors from North America with zero spent on advertising before the proliferation of social media. In addition, he achieved great success in the eCommerce referral industry by securing thousands of advertiser partnerships through his portfolio of web portals that leveraged state of the art search engine marketing and deployed browser based advertising technologies with online sales totaling over $50 million USD in the last decade. Besides being active as an entrepreneur Andy also serves as President of IMEX VP Investment Group an early stage investor in biotech, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, eCommerce, education, gaming, hardware, mobile apps, monetization platforms, real estate and virtual currency companies. Prior to IMEX VP Investment Group he served as Venture Partner for venture capital firm Webplus Ventures focused on gaming, internet and mobile technologies. On his free time, Andy regularly advises and mentors various startup companies. He regularly donates to and sits on the Advisory Board for Senhoa Foundation a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization represented by famous supermodel Coco Rocha that combats human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Andy earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in computer information systems from the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, California. He is a supporter of the 2nd amendment and currently resides in Dallas, Texas with his children, wife and pet dog.
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About MMOABC.com, New Gen Entertainment, SyncFab, Webplus Ventures: OEM Parts Supply Chain Blockchain Procurement Platform and ERP Add-On for Aerospace, Automotive and Medical
James Prestwich
Founder of Summa
James Prestwich a founder at Summa, a blockchain interoperability and cross-chain communication company. Formerly, he was a founder at Storj; an open-source project building decentralized, secure, and efficient cloud storage service.
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About Summa: Blockchain Interoperability, Cross-Chain Architecture, Interoperability as a Service, Blockchain Architecture, Cryptocurrency Architecture
Matthew Hammond
Founder at Summa of Summa
Matthew is a founder of Summa, the premier provider of cross-chain architecture and interoperability as a service solutions for the blockchain industry. Formerly, Matthew was head of marketing at Storj and was worked on enterprise demand generation and strategy at Adobe.
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About Summa: Blockchain Interoperability, Cross-Chain Architecture, Interoperability as a Service, Blockchain Architecture, Cryptocurrency Architecture
Shelby Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Prysm
Shelby Thomas is the Co-Founder & CTO at Prysm.
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About Prysm: The group ownership platform — Own anything, together.
Thomas Scaria
Co-Founder and CEO of Prysm
Thomas Scaria is the Co-Founder & CEO at Prysm.
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About Prysm: The group ownership platform — Own anything, together.
John Lee
Co-Founder & CEO of SZNS
John Lee is the Co-Founder of SZNS.
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About SZNS: SZNS is the NFT fragmentation service platform for collectors, curators, and creators.
Jack Dille
Co-Founder & CDO of SZNS
Jack Dille is the Co-Founder and CDO of SZNS.
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About SZNS: SZNS is the NFT fragmentation service platform for collectors, curators, and creators.
Pete Wassell
CEO & Founder of Augmate
Founder at AUGMATE CORPORATION.
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About Augmate, Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance: Augmate offers an IoT and wearable device management platform that allows organizations to develop end-point solutions.
Angelo Adam
Co-Founder and CEO of Bounty0x
Angelo Adam is the co-founder and CEO at Bounty0x.
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About Bounty0x: Bounty0x is a global bounty hunting network.
Fazri Zubair
Co-Founder, CTO of Lucid Sight
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About Lucid Sight: Lucid Sight is a computer software company that specializes in blockchain, augmented reality, and virtual reality.
Venkat Nallapati
Founder & CEO of KryptoPal
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About Beaconstream, KryptoPal: KryptoPal is a platform with easy to use tools and resources for building blockchain functions into applications, websites, or devices.
Alexandr Larionov
Co-Founder / CTO of RealtyReturns
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About RealtyReturns: Investment Platform Providing Real Estate Investments Using Cryptocurrency (ETH)
Andrew Stanford
Co Founder of Asset Token ERC20
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About Asset Token ERC20: World’s First Tranferrable Credit Card Rewards Point Token that Truly Never Expires.
Roman Molla
Founder of AirBase.Network
Founder at http://www.AirBase.network and http://www.FlyWorx.co
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About AirBase.Network, FlyWorx – Aerial Drone Services: Distributed, secure and validated drone pilot identity on the blockchain.
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