Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million 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 Cryptocurrency space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
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.
Raj Chowdhury
Co-Founder and CEO of HashCash Consultants
Raj Chowdhury is the CEO of HashCash Consultants and a Blockchain pioneer. He is the author of the book The Dark Secret of the Silicon Valley. He is the co-founder of several high tech and web based companies. Chowdhury is an eminent voice in Blockchain and cryptocurrencies globally. He is a contributor to Economic Times, Business World and advises industry leaders in adoption of Blockchain. He is a member of Asha Silicon Valley chapter, a non-profit committed to the spread of education for children in emerging countries.
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About Bitrump, HashCash Consultants, Satoshi Angels: HashCash Consultants is a software company offering Blockchain, AI, Big Data and IoT products, platforms and services.
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Vlad Tenev
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Robinhood
Vlad Tenev is the co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood. A first-generation immigrant from Bulgaria, Tenev earned his B.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City, selling trading software to hedge funds. In 2013, Tenev and longtime friend Baiju Bhatt co-founded Robinhood, a zero commission brokerage dedicated to democratizing the finance system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $5.6 billion.
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Baiju Bhatt
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Robinhood
Baiju Bhatt is the co-founder and co-CEO of Robinhood, the fastest growing brokerage in the world. Bhatt earned his B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics at Stanford University before starting two finance companies in New York City. In 2015, Bhatt co-founded Robinhood with Vlad Tenev, aiming to democratize the financial system. The company has millions of users across the country and is currently valued at $5.6 billion.
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About Robinhood: Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Fred Ehrsam
Co-Founder of Paradigm
Fred Ehrsam is co-founder of Coinbase. He’s been named to both Forbes 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine’s 30 Under 30 Who Are Changing the World. Previously, he was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs in New York where he traded and managed Goldman’s electronic market making platform. Fred has also analyzed portfolios at BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world and worked in nanostructures research. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Economics with honors and distinction from Duke University.
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About Paradigm: Paradigm primarily invests in crypto-assets and businesses from the earliest stages of idea formation through to maturity.
Matt Huang
Co-Founder of Paradigm
The former founding CEO of Hotspots, a Y Combinator company acquired by Twitter in 2012, Huang spent time in Twitter’s ad analytics team before joining Sequoia Capital. The MIT grad works on investments like Reddit and Yik Yak for the firm. He’s an angel investor in companies including Instacart and Teespring. He is fascinated by new platforms: the internet, mobile devices, and whatever’s next. Matt holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.
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About Paradigm: Paradigm primarily invests in crypto-assets and businesses from the earliest stages of idea formation through to maturity.
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.
Matt Kennedy
Co-Founder & Customer Success of Public.com
Matt Kennedy is the Co-Founder at Public.com
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About Public.com: Public.com is the fractional investing platform where members build a modern portfolio of stocks & ETFs, crypto & NFTs, and collectibles.
Jed McCaleb
Co-Founder of Stellar Development Foundation
Jed McCaleb, Stellar cofounder, believes in consciously leveraging technology to reduce inefficiency and improve the human condition. He created eDonkey, one of the largest file-sharing networks of its time, as well as Mt. Gox, the first bitcoin exchange. In 2011, Jed founded Ripple. Recognizing that the world’s financial infrastructure is broken and that too many people are left without resources, he cofounded Stellar in 2014. Jed leads technical development of Stellar, a universal financial network that aims to increase economic participation for all individuals. The Stellar network is supported by Stellar.org, a nonprofit that couples technology with digital financial literacy and contributes to open-source software. Jed is also an advisor to MIRI, which researches artificial intelligence for positive impact.
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About Pantera Capital, Stellar Development Foundation: Stellar Development Foundation supports the development and growth of Stellar, a blockchain network that connects financial infrastructure.
Michael Gronager
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Chainalysis
Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintech companies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Jonathan Levin
Co-Founder & CSO of Chainalysis
Jonathan Levin is a Co-Founder of Chainalysis, the leading provider of AML solutions to Bitcoin companies, banks and government agencies. He was previously CEO at Coinometrics, where he led a team of data scientists to measure the activity and health of the Bitcoin network. Levin was a Postgraduate Economist at the University of Oxford where his research focused on virtual currencies, creating one of the first statistical models of Bitcoin transaction fees. He regularly consults governments, top-tier banks and payment companies on the future of digital currencies.
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About Chainalysis: Chainalysis provides blockchain data and analysis to governments, banks, and businesses worldwide.
Chris Wang
CEO & Co-Founder of ThunderCore
Chris spent two years as a Google engineer before founding Playdom. Before officially joining Google, Chris received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon—completed in a record-breaking two years and ten months—and interned at, you guessed it, Google. Chris also holds a BA in computer science from Berkeley. However, his knack for programming and obsession with gaming goes much further back: As a high schooler, Chris took 14th place in the USA Computing Olympiad and spent countless days trying to program his first 3D RPG.
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About Playdom, Sentri, ThunderCore: Thunder Token is a new crypto token that is high throughput and confirms transactions in seconds.
Tyler Spalding
Co-Founder of Flexa
Tyler Spalding is currently a Co-Founder at Flexa, a blockchain payments company based in New York City. Tyler is the former Chief Technology Officer at Raise, the world’s largest gift card marketplace with over $1B in sales and $150M in venture funding. Tyler has more than 20 years of technology experience, has founded and sold three software companies, and is an active seed-stage investor in 25+ startups. He is an author to more than 50 technology patents and was previously an aerospace engineering faculty member at two universities. Tyler is also a proud former engineer for the United Space Alliance, the United States Air Force, NASA Mars Crew Module, and the NASA Space Shuttle Program.
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About Flexa: The fastest, most fraud-proof payments network in the world.
Trevor Filter
Co-Founder of Flexa
Trevor Filter is a Co-founder at Flexa. Prior to that, he was the Head of Product and Design of Raise and the Co-founder and Head of Product at Slide. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Flexa: The fastest, most fraud-proof payments network in the world.
Zachary Kilgore
Co-Founder of Flexa
Zachary Kilgore is the co-founder of Flexa. Prior to co-founding Flexa, Zachary served as an engineering manager at Raise. He also held positions at Slide, Warby Parker, ZKTK Design, and Hearst Digital Media.
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About Flexa: The fastest, most fraud-proof payments network in the world.
MacLane Wilkison
Co-Founder & CEO of NuCypher
MacLane Wilkison is the cofounder and CEO of NuCypher, a Y Combinator and Polychain Capital-backed company that provides decentralized key management and cryptographic access controls for decentralized applications. He is a software engineer and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he provided M&A and financing services to enterprises in technology, media, and telecommunications. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and certified Financial Risk Manager.
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About NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Tammy Camp
Founder & CEO of Stronghold
Tammy is the CEO of Stronghold, an API platform that creates virtual payment networks that enable instant settlement and interoperability between legacy and new payment networks. Tammy served as the first Head of Growth at Stellar, helping the network grow to 4 million users in its first two months. A former partner at accelerator 500 Startups, she invested in portfolio companies and ran the growth and marketing curriculum for its flagship Silicon Valley location. She is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP11 in Exponential Technologies at NASA Ames where she first learned about Bitcoin from legendary cryptographer Ralph Merkle.
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About Action Factory, Stronghold: Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that give developers access legacy and next-generation payment networks through a simple API.
Dennis Zdonov
Co-Founder of Faraway
Dennis Zdonov is the Co-Founder at Faraway and Halo Kitchens. He earned a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Faraway: Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies.
Alex Paley
Co-Founder of Faraway
Alex Paley is a Co-Founder at Faraway and Halo Kitchens. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan – Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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About Faraway: Faraway makes hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies.
Jeffrey Byun
CEO, Co-Founder of BLADE
Jeffrey Byun is the CEO of BLADE – a new cryptocurrency derivatives exchange. Previously, he was the CEO of OrderAhead – a mobile ordering/payments startup that was acquired by Square. Prior to that, Jeffrey was a fixed income trader at Morgan Stanley and BofA Merrill Lynch. Jeffrey is a graduate of MIT and Penn.
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About BLADE: BLADE is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
Jon Lerner
Co-Founder and CEO of CoinTracker
Co-Founder and CEO of CoinTracker.
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About CoinTracker: CoinTracker is a portfolio and tax manager for cryptocurrency that enables seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.
Chandan Lodha
Co-Founder of CoinTracker
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About CoinTracker: CoinTracker is a portfolio and tax manager for cryptocurrency that enables seamless cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance.
Parul Gujral
Founder and CEO of Snowball Money
Parul Gujral is the founder and CEO of Snowball Money.
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About Snowball Money: Snowball Money operates as a crypto investment automation platform that provides access to professionally curated portfolios.
Tony Sheng
Co-Founder of Cozy Finance
Tony Sheng is the Co-Founder at Cozy Finance.
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About Cozy Finance: permissionless, peer-to-peer protection from smart contract failure
Yuval Rooz
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Digital Asset
Yuval was part of the founding team of Digital Asset. Yuval managed an electronic algorithmic trading desk for more than three years and has held positions at DRW Trading Group and Citadel. He has experience investing in successful startups and has significant experience managing large teams of developers in financial products and operations.
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About Digital Asset: Digital Asset develops ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.
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.
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.
Ivan Kan
Founder of Crowdcreate
I am the founder of Crowdcreate, a leading crowdfunding marketing agency specializing in ICO, Blockchain, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo. I have personally been involved on projects raising over $35 million in 2016 /2017 and have been covered by CNBC, CNET, engadget, and many more. Crowdcreate is based in Los Angeles, California and our services range from community engagement, branding, design and video production, earned and paid media management, and PR outreach and influencer marketing. I have been a guest speaker for Global Sources Launch Pad in Hong Kong and contributed as a thought leader on panels and discussions on crowdfunding innovation and blockchain initiatives
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About Crowdcreate: Data Driven Growth Marketing Agency
James Hutchins
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of North Island Ventures
James Hutchins is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at North Island Ventures.
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About North Island Ventures: North Island Ventures is a crypto-focused VC fund
Lee Huffman
Co-Founder, Technical Operations of Strix Leviathan
A decade of high availability infrastructure operations experience including six years running data center operations for GitHub, one of the world’s largest developer focused sites.
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About Strix Leviathan: Strix Leviathan builds a crypto-trading platform for large entities like hedge funds, banks and traditional enterprise companies.
Raullen Chai
CEO, Co-Founder of IoTeX
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About IoTeX: IoTeX is the leading decentralized network to power billions of machines at scale, drive the machine economy (machinefi) 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.
Edward Woodford
Co-Founder and CEO of Zero Hash
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About Zero Hash: Zero Hash is a B2B digital assets-as-a-service technology platform that offers turnkey solutions such as NFTs for its clients.
Jeremy Born
Founder & CEO of CoinGenius
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About CoinGenius, NFT Genius: CoinGenius is an advanced intelligence and analytics platform specifically intended for cryptocurrency traders.
Xavier Hawk
Founder CEO of Phireon
Xavier Hawk is an entrepreneur, block-chain expert, permaculture design expert, complementary currency consultant, renewable energy advocate, artist, and humanitarian. Key highlights in Xavier’s career include founding Permacredits, a vanguard digital currency whose main architecture provided solutions for a range of economic based challenges, while fostering growth in the clean energy, sustainable housing, and regenerative agriculture sectors. The success of Permacredits led to Xavier becoming C.E.O. and founding partner of Hermes Global Partners- alongside the chief architect of the Euro’s convergence and exchange mechanisms, Bernard Lietaer. A keen speaker and advocate of sustainability projects, humanitarian causes, and complementary currencies, Xavier has shared his vision and expertise across a range of key media platforms around the world, including; magazines, radio and television.
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About Phireon: Phireon is a decentralized autonomous corporation that supports regenerative businesses around the world.
Galia Benartzi
Co-Founder, Business Development of Bancor
Galia Benartzi is a serial technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the Bancor Protocol, a standard for the creation of Smart Tokens™, cryptocurrencies with built-in convertibility directly through their smart contracts. Smart Tokens™ interconnect to form automated token liquidity networks, allowing user-generated currencies to thrive. Galia has a BA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College and an MA in International Economics from SAIS Johns Hopkins. In 2005, Galia co-founded Mytopia, the first social gaming company for smartphones (acquired by 888), and in 2010, Particle Code, a cross-platform development technology for mobile applications (acquired by Appcelerator). In 2013, Galia moved from Silicon Valley to Tel Aviv to support and invest in Israeli technology as a Venture Partner at Founders Fund, where she also launched numerous local currency pilots to model, build and test software for community currencies. Galia is a founding member of Powder Mountain, permanent home of the Summit community in Eden, Utah, and creator of the Eden2Zion Reality trips by the Schusterman Foundation. She is passionate about decentralized technologies, women’s empowerment, consciousness, natural wellness and plants.
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About Bancor: Bancor is crypto company protocol for the creation of Smart Tokens that touts a decentralized exchange service.
Supriyo Roy
Founder of Hyype
Supriyo is a Designer with 10+ years of product design experience spanning multiple contexts, mediums, and industries. Currently, He is building Hyy.pe to enable the next generation of creative economy. He is a strong proponent of inclusive design, pushing for UX blurring the lines between offline and online.
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About Hyype: Hyype is an NFT based social network where communities will find a home to connect, share stories, and collaboratively build their history.
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.
Anthony Citrano
Founder & CEO of Acquicent
Citrano is founder & CEO of [Acquicent](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/acquicent) and a mentor at [Amplify](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/amplify-la), a startup accelerator and multi-faceted entrepreneurial campus in Los Angeles. He is also an angel investor and photographer. He was VP Communications & Chief Evangelist for Verizon’s digital unit, a position created when [Verizon acquired EdgeCast Networks](https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/07/verizon-edgecast/), where he was a key executive. He co-founded fama PR, a Boston-based communications agency. He served as chief technology advisor to Maine Governor Angus King (now US Senator) and was a member of Barack Obama’s 2008 finance committee.
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About Acquicent: Acquicent provides a marketplace for investing in digital and real-world collectibles via NFTs.
Jennifer Campbell
Co-Founder & CEO of Tagomi
Jennifer Campbell is the Co-Founder and CEO at Tagomi.
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About Tagomi: Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Martin Floreani
Founder and CEO of Rokfin
Martin Floreani is the Founder and CEO of Rokfin, a creator-first subscription media company and a (live) digital platform that rewards content creators for the full value they generate. Martin focuses on delivering a product that creates the world’s most efficient content network. He previously founded FloSports, a leading subscription-based sports media company. He ran the company for 12+ years as its CEO, and raised more than $40MM in funding through a combination of debt and equity rounds. He grew the company from zero to 250 employees while expanding the company’s network to more than 20 sports verticals.
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About Rokfin: Rokfin is a platform for creators and content owners to bundle their offerings in a subscription.
Rohit Goyal
Co Founder, VP DeFi of Mudrex
Rohit Goyal joined Mudrex as Co-Founder in 2018.
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About Mudrex: Mudrex is a cryptocurrency company that specializes in autopilot smart crypto investment.
Ricky Li
Co-Founder & Head Of North America of Altonomy
Ricky Li is the Co-Founder of Altonomy, a cryptocurrency trading, advisory and asset management firm. Now based in New York, he is a veteran trader in the emerging cryptocurrency market and traditional commodities markets. Li has experience in commodities quantitative trading, and research and advisory in investment banks, energy firms and management consulting firms, including CME Group, where he managed the energy derivative product and published various articles and insights about market fundamentals. Prior to Altonomy, Li held a senior trading position at a top Asian crypto hedge fund. Li holds a CFA Charter and Ph.D in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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About Altonomy: Altonomy is a trading, advisory, and asset management firm specializing in cryptocurrency and digital assets.
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.
Mason Jappa
Co-Founder & CEO of Blockware Solutions
Mason Jappa is the Co-Founder and COO of Blockware Solutions.
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About Blockware Mining, Blockware Solutions: Blockware Solutions is a blockchain infrastructure company that provides bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining services.
Hisham Khan
CEO & Founder of Cryptocurrencies.Ai
Hisham Khan currently works as the CEO and Co-Founder for Cryptocurrencies.Ai. He previously worked at Bloomberg LP as the Project Manager.
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About Aldrin, Cryptocurrencies.Ai: Cryptocurrencies.Ai is a cryptocurrency company that operates a trading platform with both centralized and decentralized components.
Anand Gomes
Co-Founder of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Sharaf Nassar
Co-Founder and CTO of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm automates OTC trading within chat for institutional traders
Jeremy Welch
Co-Founder and Advisor of Casa
Jeremy Welch is the Co-Founder and Advisor at Casa.
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About BedKin, Casa: Casa helps consumers and companies securely store cryptocurrencies and manage private keys.
Artur Schaback
COO – Co-Founder of Paxful
A native of Estonia, the land of Skype. Artur earned his stripes building out the tech around financial infrastructure.
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About Paxful: The global peer-to-peer platform building a financial system for the 100%— one Bitcoin at a time.
Ray Youssef
CEO & Co-Founder of Paxful
Ray is the co-founder and CEO of Paxful, the peer-to-peer global finance platform with over seven million users. Ray and his co-founder Artur started Paxful in 2015 to help everyone gain financial freedom through equal access to finance. Ray started out as an entrepreneur in 2001, when he founded a successful ringtone business and then had a series of start-ups before setting up Paxful. At Paxful, Ray is CEO and looks after growth, marketing, customer service and operations. Ray also founded the Built With Bitcoin Foundation that uses Bitcoin to create opportunity and thriving communities by providing access to clean water, quality education, and healthy food and a healthy environment via sustainable farming.
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About Paxful: The global peer-to-peer platform building a financial system for the 100%— one Bitcoin at a time.
Robert Dykes
CEO & Co-Founder of CASPIAN
Robert Dykes is the CEO at Caspian.
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About CASPIAN, The Carey School, Tora Trading Services: CASPIAN is a full stack crypto asset management solution.
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
James Wo
Founder & Chairman of Digital Finance Group
James is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in the digital assets space who founded DFG in 2015, where he oversees over $1 billion assets under management. He is an early investor in companies like LedgerX, Coinlist, Circle, 3iQ. James is also an early investor and supporter of Polkadot and Kusama Network. He contributes substantially to the ecosystem through capital allocation, donations and actively supporting the Parachain Auctions. Additionally James serves as the board and committee member of Chamber of Digital Commerce and acts as Chairman at UAE Licensed Matrix Exchange.
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About Digital Finance Group, Jsquare: Diversified investment group that manages $1B in digital & blockchain assets across multiple funds, an incubator and global projects
Joe Roets
CEO and Founder of Dragonchain
Joe Roets is a successful Software Architect with experience as CIO, CTO, and Senior Vice President in many industries. For over 25 years at such companies as Disney, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, FBI, DoD, and createTank, he has spearheaded new technology programs and led software teams large and small. He has contributed to blockchain and cryptocurrency projects since 2010 at Overstock, Coinbase, Symbiont, and the Walt Disney Company. Most recently, he founded the Dragonchain Blockchain Platform (open sourced from Disney).
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About Dragonchain: Dragonchain is the most flexible platform for hybrid blockchain solutions. Dragonchain is used by enterprises and developers to build blockchain applications, and connect their logic with distributed ledger technology. Benefits include increased automation, provide trust and proof, maintain transparency, enable chain of custody, and ensure privacy, with unparalleled security.
Neil Bergquist
Co-Founder and CEO of Coinme
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About Coinme: Coinme is a digital currency exchange on a mission to be the worlds trusted gateway to digital currencies and a better financial future.
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.
Jude Regev
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Jointer
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About Jointer: World’s first COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BACKED DeFi
Julien Genestoux
Founder & CEO of Unlock
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About Unlock: Unlock is an access control protocol built on blockchain that let creators monetize their content without relying on a middleman.
Brian Hoffman
Co-Founder & CEO of OB1
Brian Hoffman is the CEO and co-founder of OB1.He also the Founder and CEO of OpenBazaar.
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About OB1, OpenBazaar: OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace.
Washington Sanchez
Co-Founder & Mobile Product Manager of OB1
Washington Sanchez is the Founder at OpenBazaar. He also the Co-Founder and Mobile Product Manager at OB1.
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About OB1, OpenBazaar: OB1 is a developer of a peer-to-peer trading platform used to offer a cryptocurrency marketplace.
William Herrmann
Founder and Managing Partner of Wilshire Phoenix
Prior to establishing Wilshire Phoenix, Bill was with BNY Mellon (BNYM) for 10+ years across several global teams, most recently as Vice President of Dealing and Trading. Throughout Bill’s tenure at BNYM, he managed a credit risk portfolio of over $10Bn and led in the closing of 100+ large-scale corporate deals (structured credit, derivatives, and restructurings). Bill also managed teams, oversaw projects, and led bank-wide initiatives. In addition to his responsibilities at Wilshire Phoenix, Bill advises numerous companies and proudly serves as a Member of the Board of Directors for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), and as a Director for the Hedge Fund Association (HFA).
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About Wilshire Phoenix: Wilshire bridges the gap by introducing institutional-like investment products to the market and making them available to all investors.
Michael Feng
Co-Founder & CEO of Hummingbot
Co-founder & CEO of Hummingbot
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About Hummingbot: Hummingbot is an open-source crypto trading bot that enables decentralized market making; liquidity mining for centralized exchanges.
Carlo Las Marias
Co-Founder & COO of Hummingbot
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About Hummingbot: Hummingbot is an open-source crypto trading bot that enables decentralized market making; liquidity mining for centralized exchanges.
Rex Wong
CEO & Co-Founder of AIVON
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About AIVON, Famecast Media, Intelligent Video Solutions: AIVON is a decentralized blockchain platform and protocol built on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) network.
Hossein Azari
Founder, CEO of cmorq
My mission is to contribute to leveling the financial playing field. This involves developing financial management tools and novel products for establishing and maintaining ownership for consumers. I have been contributing to this space since 2015. Currently, I am Founder and CEO of cmorq. I was a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research where I initiated and led multiple projects in collaboration with product teams such as Ad-Exchange. I was also a co-founder at Clarity Money (Acquired by Goldman Sachs), building a trusted financial advocate. I have a PhD in Computer Science (EconCS group) from Harvard University, advised by Professor David Parkes, and a Siebel Scholar, Class of 2014. I have an MBA from Columbia University (2016), MA in Statistics from Harvard University (2012) and BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.
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About cmorq: cmorq organizes blockchain data into standard products that empower institutions and individuals.
Alexander Leishman
Co-Founder and CEO of River Financial
Alexander Leishman is a Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of River Financial. Prior to that, he was the Engineer and Investor at Polychain Capital and the Security Software Engineer at Airbnb.
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About River Financial: River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
Andrew Benson
Co-Founder and COO of River Financial
Andrew Benson is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer at River Financial.
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About River Financial: River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
Tron Black
Founder of Ravencoin
Tron Black is the Principal Software Developer at Medici Ventures.
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About Medici Ventures, Ravencoin: Ravencoin aims to implement a blockchain which is optimized specifically for the use case of transferring assets.
Joshua Goldbard
Founder of MobileCoin
Joshua is a founder at MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency technology company, and a founding partner at Crypto Lotus, a cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund. He really likes sound amplification devices.
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About Crypto Lotus, Crypto Lotus, MobileCoin, Secret Party: MobileCoin is a cryptocurrency platform that provides anti-fraud services and payment systems for merchants.
Kyle Samani
Co-Founder, Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital
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About Multicoin Capital: Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven cryptofund that invests long term in tokens that reshape entire sectors of the global economy.
Constantin Kogan
Co-Founder of GamesPad
Constantin is the Co-founder of BullPerks, a decentralized venture capital platform, and GamesPad, a blockchain gaming company. In addition, he is a Partner at BitBull and the Founder of Adwivo. He is a pioneering entrepreneur who has worked in the crypto and digital asset space since 2012. As a result of his work in the crypto and decentralized venture capital industries, Constantin has received invitations to contribute thought leadership to several media outlets, including Entrepreneur, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, Tech Radar, Hacker Noon, Benzinga and more. In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, Constantin has a Ph.D. in sociology, has co-authored three academic research papers, and is the host of a podcast on the technical aspects of the crypto industry titled “Holistic Investment with Constantin Kogan.”
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About BitBull Capital, BullPerks, GamesPad: The ultimate gaming, NFT and metaverse ecosystem.
Dillon Chen
Founder of Commonwealth Labs
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About Commonwealth Labs: Commonwealth Labs is a governance startup offering a new twist on token airdrops.
Dan Gunsberg
Co-Founder & CEO of Hxro
Daniel Gunsberg is Founder at HXRO
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About Gordian Block, Hxro: Hxro is a company that focuses on crypto trading and bitcoin for gaming and entertainment to its customers.
Rob Levy
Co-Founder of Hxro
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About Gordian Block, Hxro: Hxro is a company that focuses on crypto trading and bitcoin for gaming and entertainment to its customers.
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.
Tavonia Evans
Director, Founder & CEO of Guap Coin
Tavonia Evans is the founder of GUAP Coin, a cryptocurrency created to boost black and community economics (marginalized communities globally). She is a self proclaimed “mompreneur” and technology specialist with almost 20 years of experience in development, business analysis, marketing, and startups. She is the Co-Founder of Safe2meet, a peer-to-peer reputation platform. She was featured in the Glamour May Money Edition entitled ” Meet The women of Cryptocurrency “ and Black Enterprise for her work in blockchain. She is an avid crypto-evangelist and believes that blockchain/cryptocurrency can open up a new world of financial opportunities for underserved and underprivileged people globally. She has spoken at Blockchain conferences worldwide and is very passionate about participating in projects that can further the humanitarian aspect of Blockchain.
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About Guap Coin: Guap Coin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency created to promote economic growth and wealth.
Alex Adelman
CEO and Co-Founder of Lolli
Alex Adelman is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Lolli. Alex was previously the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cosmic (acquired by PopSugar, then Ebates). He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in New York, New York. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics.
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About Lolli: Lolli is a rewards app that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online.
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.
Meg Nakamura
Co-Founder and CEO of Apto Payments
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About Apto Payments, Hard Yaka: Apto Payments is a card issuance platform that helps companies issue new kinds of cards in new ways.
Zach Kelling
Founder and CEO of Hanzo
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About Hanzo: Hanzo enables businesses to launch and operate blockchain networks, develop decentralized applications and deliver compelling experiences.
Co-Founder of Elph Network
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About Elph Network: Elph is a decentralized network of scalable Plasma sidechains that achieve high transaction throughput on top of Ethereum.
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.
Ryne Saxe
Co-Founder and CEO of Eco
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About Eco: Eco provides a digital cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool for daily-use transactions.
Nicolás Arqueros
CEO / Co-Founder of dcSpark
Nicolás Arqueros was CEO and founder of one of the top app development companies in Chile. Within less than three years the company generated income over $1M and produced over 40 different projects. Additionally, he worked as a senior engineer for various Silicon Valley startups before joining EMURGO as an Entrepreneur in Residence.
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About dcSpark, Emurgo: DcSpark is a product-based blockchain company that builds products and solutions for crypto projects in the space.
David Cohen
Founder and CEO of Taekion
David A. Cohen is founder and Chairman of Taekion, a blockchain-based Cybersecurity company. He is internationally renowned for his pioneering work on Smart Systems Software platforms. In 2012, David was named as one of the Top 100 Movers and Shakers in the SmartGrid by Greentech Media. David was the founder and CEO of Infotility where he pioneered “the Grid Edge” and unlocked a multi-billion dollar SmartGrid market. David is founding Member Emeritus of the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC) which was instrumental in launching the vision for the SmartGrid industry. He wrote The Electrinet: A Communications Architecture for a Competitive Electric Power Industry. On June 13th, 2017, David was a member of the IOTA Foundation and the IOTA Token Cryptocurrency launch which broke all previous records by reaching a $1.7 Billion market cap on the first day of trading on the international exchange, Bitfinex as reported by Forbes. He also is advisor to several Cryptocurrency blockchain ventures (Wireline.io, FarmaTrust, Money Token, WePower, Patron, BandZ) and others. He is an Executive Advisor and early member of Hedera Hashgraph David has 24 years of management, software platform development, and business development experience for emerging energy technology companies. He has specialized in the areas of Decentralized Software Systems. David founded four start-up companies and has a track record in building, scaling, and selling innovative and profitable ventures. He has completed numerous joint ventures and partnerships in the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Australia, India, and Asia-Pac. David has developed and commercialized over 20 enterprise software products. He is an expert on decentralized software and control systems including AI-Based Analytics, Transactive Energy, Machine Learning, Embedded Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Peer-to-Peer (P2P), and Blockchain technology. David has presented at venues such as REFF Wall Street, MIT, TEDx, Singularity University, and other global conference venues.
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About Taekion: Blockchain-based Cybersecurity Software
David Smooke
Founder & CEO of HackerNoon
David Smooke is the Founder and CEO of HackerNoon, the technology publishing platform. He is a writer, designer, and entrepreneur.
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About ArtMap Inc dba HackerNoon, HackerNoon: Hacker Noon is a technology publishing platform.
Jesse Proudman
Co-Founder and CEO of Makara Digital
Jesse Proudman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Makara.
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About Makara Digital, Strix Leviathan: Makara Digital is a cryptocurrency investing platform that offers a secure proprietary trading technology that was built for digital assets.
Tux Pacific
Founder of Entropy
Founder @ Entropy
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About Entropy, Loki Network: Entropy is a trustless protocol for decentralized asset custody.
Gilles Gade
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of Cross River Bank
Gilles Gade is a founder of Cross River Bank (CRB) and has served as its Chairman, President and CEO since its inception in 2008. Gilles is steering CRB as an innovation-driven state-chartered bank and a provider of fully compliant financial solutions to the marketplace lending and payments sectors. Gilles possesses over 20 years of experience in investment banking and venture capital including Co-Founder and Managing Director of Chela Technology Partners and Chela Internet Ventures, a boutique investment bank and venture fund focusing on emerging technologies and telecommunications; technology investment banker at Barclays Capital; and FIG investment banker at Bear Stearns. Gilles started his career in 1990 at Citicorp Venture Capital. Gade graduated from the MBA Institute IMIP (Groupe IPESUP) in Paris with an MS in International Management.
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About Cross River Bank: Cross River is a financial institution that offers technology and banking services to consumers and businesses.
Amy Wan
Founder and CEO of Bling
Amy Wan, Esq., is CEO of Bling, a bitcoin rewards platform. Previously, she has been a Partner as securities law firms, general counsel at fintech platforms, and founded Bootstrap Legal, a real estate syndication legal document automation platform. She hosts The Law and Blockchain Podcast (a podcast through the American Bar Association) and has authored the Bloomberg Law practice guide to ICOs and Lexis Nexus’ Private Equity practice guide. Amy founded Legal Hackers LA, which programs around the intersection of law and technology; was named one of ten women to watch in legal technology by the American Bar Association Journal in 2014 and one of 18 millennials changing legaltech by law.com in 2018; and was nominated as a Finalist for the Corporate Counsel of the Year Award 2015 by LA Business Journal. Amy has also worked in international regulatory and trade policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce, and was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Transportation. She holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a JD from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, and a BA in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California.
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About Bling, Bootstrap Legal: Bling allows users to earn bitcoin rewards by playing games.
Matt Bailey
Founder and CEO of GameOn
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About GameOn: The future of engaging superfans. If it’s on, it’s on.
Dave Weisberger
Co-Founder & CEO of CoinRoutes
David Weisberger, CEO of CoinRoutes Inc has over 30 years of experience in market structure, quantitative finance, and trading automation. David Weisberger started his career in technology, where he built the first program trading system for Morgan Stanley before moving to the sales and trading business. He subsequently started the non-dollar program trading desk for Salomon Brothers, was the global architect of the firm’s equity trading platform where he designed their first trading algorithm and quantitatively managed central risk book before becoming responsible for the statistical arbitrage trading business. He later ran their smart order routing business before joining Two Sigma to develop their wholesale market making business, which he ran for several years. Most recently, David Weisberger joined ViableMkts to provide consulting services and co-founded CoinRoutes to provide Smart Order Routing and Consolidated market data for Crypto-Asset trading.
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About CoinRoutes: CoinRoutes is a crypto trading software provider.
Valerian Bennett
Founder of POP Network
Valerian Bennett is founder & CEO of PopChest. Mr. Bennett is a veteran television producer/editor having worked on hit TV shows for E!, MTV, A&E, and many more. Valerian is a Silicon Valley native and graduated from the University of Southern California film school.
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About POP Network: The POP Network is a decentralised solution to the delivery of monetised video using micro payments and token rewards.
Don Mosites
Co-Founder of AirSwap
Don Mosites is the Lead Product Manage of ConsenSys and Co-founder of AirSwap.
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About AirSwap, ConsenSys: AirSwap is a decentralized trading network powered by Ethereum.
Jonathan B. Handler
Founder and CEO of YINC
Jonathan B. Handler is the founder & CEO at YINC.
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About YINC: YINC leverages Blockchain technology to transform the service-to-hire industry for consumers & real estate mgmt companies.
Matt McKibbin
Founder of DecentraNet
Matt is the Founder of DecentraNet. Matt has been a blockchain evangelist since 2013 when he coordinated the DC Blockchain Meetup and was heavily involved in the BitAngels investment group. Matt is the former Co-Founder and Chief Decentralization Officer at d10e, the world’s leading conference on decentralized technologies, philosophies and social organization and Co-Founder of Amma Healing, a CBD and wellness brand. He serves as an advisor to Dispatch Labs, ImpactPPA, Humaniq, Securrency, and Loci and has been involved in several early-stage blockchain startups, including Ubiquity and Trive.news. Matt is a prolific and sought-after speaker as an expert on decentralization at leading conferences worldwide. He has been featured in dozens of media publications, including Bloomberg, Nasdaq, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, CoinTelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, and more. Matt received his Bachelor’s of Arts in Physics from West Virginia University.
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About AMMA Healing, d10e, DecentraNet: DecentraNet is an investment firm that provides expert advice to entrepreneurs in the marketing and financial sectors.
Blake Commagere
Co-Founder and COO of Vault12
Blake Commagere is a growth expert, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and an advisor to several companies in the SF Bay Area. In his career, he has raised over $12 million in VC/Seed funding, started 7 companies, and sold 5 of them. He regularly gives talks on a wide variety of subjects including: Growth Hacking/Viral Marketing, Fundraising, and Building a Positive Culture. He created the social gaming category by building some of the biggest apps ever (over 50 Million players) on Facebook, including the iconic games Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves. Blake wrote and designed the first version of Causes on Facebook, which has over 120 Million users and has raised over $80 million for various charities. Currently, Blake is the Founder & CEO of MediaSpike – a company that is building the first truly social applications for Virtual Reality.
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About Vault12: Vault12 is the first to deliver decentralized digital custody to protect your most precious digital assets.
