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 CTO’ operating in the Cryptocurrency space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Justin J. Moses
CTO of Synthetix
Justin is a software engineer from Australia, having moved to NYC back in 2010. He’s been working as a software engineer since the Dotcom days, most recently as Director of Engineering at MongoDB before joining Synthetix as CTO full time in 2018.
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About Synthetix: A cryptoasset-backed network that enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets.
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.
Timi Ajiboye
CEO & CTO of Buycoins
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About Buycoins: Buycoins is a cryptocurrency exchange that allows Africans buy and sell cryptocurrencies instantly using their local currency.
Daryl Puryear
CTO of Abra
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About Abra: Abra is a digital wallet that makes it easy to access, manage, and earn interest on cryptocurrencies.
Andy Milenius
CTO of MakerDAO
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Shaul Kfir
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Digital Asset
Shaul is a software engineer with a background in research cryptography, implementing Zero Knowledge Proof protocols for Secure Computational Integrity and Privacy (SCIP). He served as CTO for two previous startups in Tel Aviv. Prior to his involvement in cryptography, Shaul served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Israeli Navy, leading diverse professional teams across challenging environments. Shaul was also a team member of the SCIPR cryptography lab and a visiting scientist at MIT CSAIL.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
Francesco Agosti
CTO & Co-founder of Phantom
CTO & Co-founder Phantom | Engineering at 0x, Yelp | Computer Science at Duke
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About Phantom: Phantom is a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi and NFTs.
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.
Matthew Johnson
CTO of Bakkt
Matthew Johnson is the Chief Technology Officer at Bakkt.
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About Bakkt: Bakkt is a trusted digital asset platform that enables its customers to buy, sell, spend, send, and redeem digital assets.
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Hong Kim
Cofounder and CTO of Bitwise
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About Bitwise: Bitwise is a crypto index fund manager for individuals, investment managers, and institutions navigating cryptocurrency.
Izaak Meckler
CTO of O(1) Labs
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About O(1) Labs: O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain.
Mark Miller
CTO and Chief Scientist of Agoric
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About Agoric: Agoric provides a framework for programming smart contracts securely and with ease, beyond anything available today.
Marco Peereboom
Chief Technology Officer of Decred
Marco Peereboom is currently the New Systems Development Lead for Decred, a cutting-edge crypto currency that provides advancement in blockchain technology while also offering true governance. He is an avid open source developer who has been actively involved in Decred since its inception. Prior to Decred he worked on and around several Bitcoin projects. He originated several innovations such as on-chain voting which set Decred apart from other digital currencies. He serves as the CTO of Company Zero and continues to hack on Decred’s next generation digital governance tools. When not plastered in front of a screen Marco enjoys cooking, brewing, baking and farming chickens.
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About Decred: Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.
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.
Matt Senter
Co-Founder and CTO of Lolli
Matt Senter is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lolli. Prior to that, he was the Co-founder and CTO of Cosmic, Founder and CEO of Phream, Co-Founder and CTO of SeedMatrix, Founder and CEO at Kungfuters, and Founder and CEO at Senternet.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
Christopher Jeffrey
CTO of Purse
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About Purse: Purse provides real incentive to use Bitcoin to the largest selection at the lowest price points.
Tanooj Luthra
Founder / CTO of Elph Network
Founder/CTO @ Elph • Ex-Crypto Eng @ Coinbase (launched SegWit & BCH) • Founder/CTO at @ Streem (Y Combinator S12, acquired by Box ) • UC Berkeley B.S. EECS
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About Brex, Elph Network, Khushi Baby, Pioneer Fund: Elph is a decentralized network of scalable Plasma sidechains that achieve high transaction throughput on top of Ethereum.
Bryan Starbuck
CTO of ZenLedger
Bryan is the co-founder and CEO of Empower.me. Empower.me is for teenagers to discover and pursue their interests and life’s passion. Empower.me creates a visualization of the teenager’s future. It then has videos for the teens to pursue everything they are interested in currently, as well as everything they are interested in around building their best future self. Parents love it because every video contains real learning towards building something important in the teenagers future. Empower.me is the ultimate building system to build 5th to 12th graders into their best future self. Bryan Starbuck was the founder and CEO of TalentSpring, a $2.7m private investor funded B2B SaaS startup. TalentSpring was acquired in October 2010. TalentSpring allows employers to select one of their job openings and go immediately to the best active and passive resumes, with access to over 100 million resumes. TalentSpring uses semantic matching algorithms to find resumes that match all of the criteria for a specific job opening. TalentSpring ranks resumes by their quality within their industry (from unqualified to qualified to A-Player). TalentSpring believes recruiters must have powerful tools that gives them “1 click†access to the top 100 resumes nationwide that are both the best match to the open position, and the top quality candidates nationwide. Bryan Starbuck’s former career came from managing engineering teams at Microsoft on Internet Explorer, Windows operating systems, and Windows Live. Bryan’s focus has been on utilizing data mining algorithms in mass market products to solve real world problems faced by consumers or an industry. He has worked with Microsoft Research (MSR) on several products. Bryan has 39 patents (between pending and issued). Specific Areas of Interests: – B2B SaaS Sales & Marketing: Managing inside sales reps, lead marketing, etc. – Engineering: Semantic search, machine learning, data mining, neural networks, semantic latent analysis, natural language processing, clustering, regression analysis, graph theory, web crawling (Hadoop) – Company Building: Building/growing SaaS companies, engineering, product UI design, machine learning, data mining, semantic search, online marketing, branding, enterprise sales, web services, entrepreneurship
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About ZenLedger: ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management.
Caleb Tebbe
CTO of RADAR
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About RADAR: We build products for our next financial system
Michael Jannain
CTO of Pei
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About Pei: Unlock automatic cashback in Bitcoin or USD on your debit or credit cards!
Daniel Robenek
Co-Founder & CTO of BitOasis
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About BitOasis: BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform offering a digital asset wallet and exchange to buy, sell, and trade.
Dennis Stücken
Chief Technology Officer of Blockworks
Blockworks is the Chief Technology Officer at Blockworks.
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About Blockworks, Token Daily, Wavechat: Delivering breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors.
Mark Harding
Chief Technology Officer of Minds
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About Minds: Minds is a crypto social network and secure messaging app that rewards users with crypto for their efforts online.
Garrett Hughes
Co-founder & CTO of Mint Songs
Technical entrepreneur focused on building influential software. Relentless passion to learn all things while facilitating growth within the company. Proficient in a variety of back and front end technologies, technical product management, marketing third party frameworks, SEO initiatives and growth hacking. Currently building in the blockchain space.
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About Mint Songs: Mint Songs is the largest music NFT marketplace helping music artists build web3 communities
Alex Bilichenko
Co Founder and CTO of Opporty Inc.
Alex Bilichenko is the co-founder and CTO at Opporty. Prior to that, Alex served as a quantitative researcher at Teza Technologies and Tower Research Capital. He also served as vice president of Goldman Sachs. Alex holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in applied math and physics
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About Opporty Inc.: Opporty is a three-layered business relationships ecosystem
Andreas Antonopoulos
CTO of Third Key Solutions
Andreas Antonopoulos is a technologist and serial entrepreneur, who works on bitcoin. As an engaging public speaker, teacher, and writer, he makes complex subjects accessible and easy to understand. As an advisor, he helps startups recognize, evaluate, and navigate security and business risks. Andreas Antonopoulos started his first company, an early BBS and proto-ISP, as a teenager in his home in Greece. After moving to the U.S., he co-founded and managed a technology research company, and in that role advised dozens of Fortune 500 company executives on networking, security, data centers, and cloud computing. More than 200 of his articles on security, cloud computing, and data centers have been published in print and syndicated worldwide. He holds 2 patents in networking and security. In 1990, Andreas Antonopoulos started teaching on various IT topics in private, professional, and academic environments. He is also a public speaker and teacher. In 2014, he was appointed as a teaching fellow with the University of Nicosia, the first university in the world to offer a Masters Degree in Digital Currency. In this role, he helped to develop the curriculum and co-taught the Introduction to Digital Currencies course, offered as a MOOC, through the University. As a bitcoin entrepreneur, Andreas Antonopoulos has founded a number of bitcoin businesses and launched several community open-source projects. He serves as an advisor to several bitcoin and crypto-currency companies. He is an author of articles and blog posts on bitcoin, is a permanent host on the Let’s Talk Bitcoin Podcast, and a frequent speaker at technology and security conferences worldwide. Andreas Antonopoulos earned degrees in computer science, data communications, and distributed systems from University College London, recently ranked in the world’s top 10 universities. He currently resides in San Francisco.
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About Third Key Solutions: Third Key Solutions offers consulting and cryptographic key management solutions for companies using decentralized digital currencies.
Praveen Kumar
Co-founder & CTO of Solidus Labs
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About Solidus Labs: Solidus Labs is a crypto-tracking company that provides tailored compliance and risk monitoring solutions for digital assets.
Shannon Holland
CTO of CipherTrace
Shannon Holland is a founder and CTO of CipherTrace where he leads research and development of CipherTrace’s advanced cryptocurrency forensics tools. He has 20 years of experience in developing secure and scalable computer technology. He is a distinguished software engineer with a broad range of experience, ranging from low-level software and hardware design to large-scale application servers. Additionally, He was an early bitcoin miner. Prior to CipherTrace Senior, He was the Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer at Marble Security where he led the R&D of mobile app threat intelligence and analyzed over 2 million IOS and Android apps across various marketplaces. He also led the research and development of the IronKey security devices, including their cryptography, key management, firmware and hardware design. Shannon is the co-inventor of numerous security and cryptography patents, and produced the first certified tamper-proof, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 mobile device.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Jake Mertel
CTO of TMGcore
In addition to co-founding TMGcore, Jake is an accomplished business professional with over 10 years of executive experience in the Information Technology and Telecommunication fields. He specializes in network administration, systems administration, and information systems security. Jake has years of experience designing, building, and operating high performance, highly scalable platforms for both internal business needs and in consultation with customers to meet their unique requirements. Jake is the ideal person to develop, implement and maintain a highly efficient and innovative strategy for the operation of efficient and profitable cryptocurrency mining platforms.
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About TMGcore: TMGcore develops and commercializes emerging technologies which support global Blockchain stability, growth, and long-term sustainability.
Zak Cole
Co-founder & CTO of Slingshot Finance
Zak Cole is a Web3 developer, protocol engineer, and software entrepreneur currently operating in the DeFi space. He received his training as a cyber network engineer in the United States Marine Corps. In Iraq’s Al Anbar province during Operation Iraqi Freedom 07-08, he and his unit were responsible for building mission-critical data infrastructure and managing the implementation and distribution of cryptographic assets. After retiring from the Marine Corps, Zak worked as a web developer, network engineer, and applied cryptographer. He also built several companies spanning the fields of ad tech, web hosting, and cyber security prior to delving into the Web3 space with a focus on decentralized financial technology.
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About Slingshot Finance: Slingshot Finance is a fintech company that offers a next generation decentralized trading platform.
Jake McGraw
Co-Founder & CTO of The Block
Jake McGraw is the public policy coordinator at the William Winter Institute and the editor of Rethink Mississippi.A native of Oxford, Jake studied public policy and economics at the University of Mississippi and economic history at the University of Oxford.
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About The Block: The Block is the first and final word in digital assets.
Joanes Espanol
CTO of Amberdata
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About Amberdata: Amberdata is a blockchain and cryptoasset data company that offers tools for exchanges, wallets, traders, and developers.
Konstantin Kladko
Co-Founder & CTO of SKALE Labs
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About SKALE Labs: SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.
Alex Bazhanau
CTO of Linen App
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About Linen App: New experience that allows our members to earn high yield on their cash.
Yuri Lobyntsev
co-founder, CTO of Cindicator
Out of the box inventor. Beginning investor, serial entrepreneur, digital products leader, mobile applications developer, events coordinator, round-the-world traveler, surfer. 20 years in IT. Built award-winning Mobile Apps Development studio — Octabrain, traveled the world, won competitions in sailing sports, math & informatics, highly skilled in rapid nonclassical problem-solving with unorthodox & novel approaches. Passionate about new challenges and revolutionary Ideas. Higher education background in math and computer science whilst having the professional background in software technologies. Involved in the spheres of deep psychology, human and machine consciousness, complex systems interaction, neuro-communications and explorations beyond rational limits. Current main points of interests: innovations, FinTech, Neuro-Technologies, Decentralised Systems, Hybrid Intelligence and deep experiences.
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About Cindicator: Hybrid Intelligence for effective asset management
Etan Mizrahi-Shalom
Co-Founder & CTO of ZenSports
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About ZenSports: Mobile sports betting against the house or peer-to-peer, using fiat or cryptocurrencies
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.
Dmitry Grinberg
CTO of Funding Wonder, Inc.
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About Funding Wonder, Inc.: Funding Wonder, Inc. is a holding company that has aggregated investments in FinTech ventures.
Dmitry Grinberg
CTO of Funding Wonder, Inc.
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About Funding Wonder, Inc.: Funding Wonder, Inc. is a holding company that has aggregated investments in FinTech ventures.
Joe Ventura
Co-Founder & CTO of AlphaPoint
Joe Ventura is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at AlphaPoint. He has over 15 years of software architecture experience specializing in secure, scalable, and high performance financial systems. Joe previously worked for Mantara, where he successfully designed and implemented multiple large, complex, high speed, and low latency software systems for multiple financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Merrill Lynch, connecting to all major equity venues, such as the NYSE, NASDAQ, and DirectEdge. In addition, Joe architected PhotonTrader, a futures and options trading front end for FuturePath, a Chicago based brokerage connecting to CME, CBOT, NYMEX, COMEX, Eurex, Liffe, and BATS.
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About AlphaPoint: AlphaPoint is a white-label software company powering crypto exchanges worldwide.
Ken Gaulter
Founder & CTO of Gilded
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About Gilded: Gilded aggregates crypto transactions from wallets, exchanges, and payment processors and syncs them to a company’s accounting system.
Matthew Wesly
Co-Founder and CTO of Shrimpy
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About Shrimpy: Shrimpy is the most trusted way to trade on crypto exchanges. APIs for exchange management, trade execution, and real-time data collection.
Soumya Basu
Co-founder & CTO of BloXroute Labs
Soumya Basu, bloXroute Labs CTO, is a member of the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts (IC3) group at Cornell University. He is most well known for creating the Falcon Network, which has been operational in the Bitcoin network since April 2016. Soumya’s work aims to remove trust without reducing performance in cryptocurrency systems. He was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a paper award at ACM SIGCOMM.
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About BloXroute Labs: BloXroute is a blockchain distribution network to help your blockchains scale to thousands of transactions/second on-chain.
Chris Tse
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Verifi Media
Chris Tse is a technologist and designer who has been working to humanize blockchain technology since its early days. In 2014 he founded Cardstack, where he leads a team of blockchain architects and open-source contributors to build the experience layer of the decentralized Internet. He is also a co-founder of blockchain companies Monegraph and Dot Blockchain Media, and has more than a decade of experience leading R&D and innovation teams for Fortune 500 companies. Chris has a degree in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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About Cardstack, Verifi Media: Verifi Media is a rights management solution for media creators and businesses, leveraging the power of distributed ledger.
Allen Cryer
Chief Technology Officer of Fanpage
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About Fanpage: The boutique NFT platform bringing the metaverse to the masses – easy to buy(cc), easy to sell(OpenSea), and where Creators make more money.
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.
Everett Carney
Chief Technology Officer of Buttrfly
Founder of Postcentive
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About Buttrfly: Tinder for Influence Buttrfly is a blockchain marketplace for brands to scale influencer marketing campaigns
Chris Seckler
CTO – Founder of ReceiptChain
Chris is a Software Engineer with 10 years of industry experience. Having worked for corporate clients (AutoMD), startups (College Rental Listings), government (US Army) and ad agencies (Trailer Park Inc), he has developed order management software, websites for movie studios, analytics platforms, and led teams of soldiers as a sergeant in the military.
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About ReceiptChain: ReceiptChain keeps track of ownership on the blockchain.
Philip Kubat
Founder and CTO of PAYMYNT Group
Philip Kubat is the Founder and CTO of PAYMYNT Financial.
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About Lyra Intel, PAYMYNT Group: PAYMYNT is a financial growth app that combines mobile commerce, investing, cash and crypto rewards all in one digital wallet.
Jacob Knobel
CTO of Clarity PR
Jacob Knobel is a software engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded 12seconds.tv, an online video service for sharing short-form video moments online. He was also part of the team behind Rally Up which made mobile applications and was acquired by AOL in 2010. At AOL, Jacob served as Lead Software Engineer at AOL Mobile in Palo Alto and New York City working on products including Editions, Patch, and Clucks. Most recently, Jacob worked with the team at Tomfoolery creating apps for work until the company was acquired by Yahoo in January of 2014. Jacob now is a Senior Software Engineer at Yahoo in the Comms group. Jacob was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA graduating from the University of California, Irvine’s school of Information and Computer Science in 2008. He was previously a Co-Founder and Lead Developer of Sticky Inc, a startup that specialized in software for USB flash drives.
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About Clarity PR: Clarity delivers tech PR campaigns for the world’s most exciting technology startups.
Adrian Giannini
CTO of dexFreight
Technology and software engineering expert CTO & Co-Founder of Fortune3 |Helped launch over 160 mobile apps and SaaS products| 20+ years in software engineering
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About dexFreight, Fortune3: FinTech-enabled market network for freight companies to handle shipments from booking to payment in one place using smart contracts.
David Zhao
Founder & CTO of InnoDT
CTO & Co-Founder at InnoDT Incorporated | Blockchain Investor | Innovator | Tech Advisor
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About InnoDT: InnoDT provides visibility and traceability into crypto transactions.
Faustino Castro
Co-Founder & CTO of gotmy
Faustino holds a MsC degree in Telecom Engineering with extensive experience in international project management, telecom networks deployment, and civil engineering projects since 1999. He’s co-founder and CTO of gotmy, the first full white label virtual events platform that can be embedded on any corporate website to easily create, manage, host and monetize interactive events.
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About gotmy: Experiences in the metaverse for web3 & media platforms
Eugene Teplitsky
CTO of WishKnish
20+ years hands-on dev experience 10+ years developing fintech solutions for the Forex industry 10+ years CTO experience deploying large-scale projects
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About VeeSee, Whampa, WishKnish: Blockchain Technology Company
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.
Oskar Duris
Founder/CTO of xDAC
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About xDAC: xDAC is a place to start and manage digital companies and their payments
Alexandr Larionov
Co-Founder / CTO of RealtyReturns
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About RealtyReturns: Investment Platform Providing Real Estate Investments Using Cryptocurrency (ETH)
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