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 Principal operating in the Blockchain space. If you think a Principal 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.
Baek Kyoum Kim
Principal, Director of Investments of Hashed
Lead strategic investment initiatives at Hashed. formerly at AWS and co-founder of a logistics startup
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About Hashed: Hashed is the crypto assets fund and community builder.
Conor Clifford
Investment Principal of Future Energy Ventures
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About Future Energy Ventures: Future Energy Ventures is a Venture capital and collaboration platform that brings together corporate partners and start-ups.
Sumeet Singh
Engineering Manager / Principal Architect, – VP Development of Gluon
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About Gluon: Platform to connect businesses, consumers, and automobiles using IoT, AI, and Blockchain.
Eric Grover
Principal of Intrepid Ventures
Eric Grover is Principal at Intrepid Ventures, advising firms in and serving and investing in payments. He’s a payments thought leader with a comprehensive understanding of the global payment network and processing space, including each stage in the value chain: credit, debit and prepay issuing, issuer processing, traditio
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About Intrepid Ventures: Intrepid provides integrated blockchain solutions for businesses.
Dev Bharel
Principal Cofounder & CEO of Spaceman ID
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About Spaceman ID: A turnkey solution that any app or service can use to make digital identities private, secure, and portable.

Matthew Carpenter
Principal of Grimm
Matthew Carpenter is a Principal Security Researcher with GRIMM (SMFS, Inc.)
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About Grimm: GRIMM is a forward-looking cybersecurity organization led by industry experts.
Eric Garvin
Founder, Principal of The LinkLab
He began consulting in 1994 focused on the IT needs of the Life Science industry. He founded Global Technical Partners (GTP) in 1997 with a revised mission to provide industry-best project management services to Pharmaceutical, Biotech, and Medical Device companies. And although GTP was not formed to be solely an IT services company, many of GTP’s biggest successes have had an IT component. Eric has managed project teams of more than 200 members with project budgets in excess of $100M USD. He has spent the last 3 years leading serialization implementation programs, both for the US and globally. His management savvy and technical understanding has resulted in early deliver of serialized products to market.
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About The LinkLab: The LinkLab is a unique supply chain consulting group founded to provide life science companies guidance.
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