People
355 people
| Name | Role | Project | Now | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Lasher | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Aaron Voisine | Co-founder | Joined Brainwallet as an investor and adviser | Oct 2026 | |
| Abe Cambridge | Co-founder and CEO | Founder, Sun Exchange (not CEO) | Oct 2026 | |
| Aber Whitcomb | CTO at Jam City, later co-founder of the studio | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Adam Fern | Co-Founder & Product Lead | Head of Product, Onchain and DeFi, Robinhood | Sep 2026 | |
| Adam Traidman | Co-founder and CEO | Leaving the chair of VivoPower's board of advisors, held since May 2025 | Oct 2026 | |
| Adi Sideman | Co-founder and CEO | Founder and CEO, Popcorn, an AI video production company | Oct 2026 | |
| Alex Arias | Co-founder and CEO | CEO and co-founder of Treasure Play, the name Trailblazer Games took after Eternal Dragons | Oct 2026 | |
| Alex Bazhanau | Co-founder; CTO in the Republic campaign | Founder, AFR Foundation | Oct 2026 | |
| Alex Bessonov | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Alex Faliushin | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Alex Fleseriu | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Alex Godwin | Co-founder and CTO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Alex Mashinsky | Co-founder and CEO |
| In federal custody, projected release date 5 July 2035 | Oct 2026 |
| Alex Wlezien | CTO | Unknown | — | |
| Alexander Wu | Core team | UnknownNext: Coinbase (joined with the team, as reported in November 2024) | — | |
| Alexis Gauba | Co-founder | Founder, Raindrop, a monitoring tool for AI agents | Oct 2026 | |
| Allan Niemerg | Founder and CEO | Working with frontier AI in legal technology, prediction markets and open-source funding | Oct 2026 | |
| Alvin Lee | Co-founder | Founder, Prosper Digital | Oct 2026 | |
| Alwin Peng | Co-Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Amitt Mahajan | Co-Founder & CEO |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Andreas Risberg | Co-founder and Chief Product Officer | Co-founder, COO and CPO, Treasure Play, the name Trailblazer Games took after Eternal Dragons | Oct 2026 | |
| Andrew Cain | Mechanism Capital | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Andrew Leone | CEO |
| UnknownNext: Coinbase (joined in July 2025, as reported) | — |
| Andy Bromberg | CEO |
| Unknown | — |
| Andy Chorlian | Co-founder and CEO | Building @mnstr, a better way to collect trading cards | Oct 2026 | |
| Andy Gray | Co-founder |
| Founder of BlockRocket, a Manchester Web3 and AI consultancy whose founders built KnownOrigin | Oct 2026 |
| Anil Das-Gupta | Co-founder and co-CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Anthony Foy | Co-founder and CEO |
| CEO, Uberall, a location marketing platform | Oct 2026 |
| Anthony Tat | Core team | UnknownNext: Coinbase (joined with the team, as reported in November 2024) | — | |
| Arindam Roy | Co-founder and CEO | Head of product, Scapia (January 2025 to August 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| Arjun Bhuptani | Founder; later co-founder and Chief Researcher, Everclear Foundation | Helping solve humanity's hardest problems, @yukonresearch | Oct 2026 | |
| Aron Beierschmitt | Co-Founder and CEO, Laguna Games | Codex Venture Partners | Oct 2026 | |
| Artak Hamazaspyan | Founder; original CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Barney Mannerings | Founder (also described as co-founder) | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Benjamin Jones | Co-founder; CTO (2019) | Herita Technologies | Oct 2026 | |
| Benoit Pagotto | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Bertrand Lamarque | Co-founder and CTO | CTO of Treasure Play, the name Trailblazer Games took after Eternal Dragons | Oct 2026 | |
| Blake West | Co-Founder and CTO | Founder and CTO of Heron Finance, a private credit investment platform run by Warbler Labs | Oct 2026 | |
| Boaz Bechar | Co-founder and CEO | Senior vice president, Citi | Oct 2026 | |
| Bremner Morris | Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer, then CEO |
| Unknown | — |
| Brendan Forster | Co-founder and COO |
| Software engineer at Coinbase | Oct 2026 |
| Brian Deery | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Brian Fu | Co-founder | Wolver.io | Oct 2026 | |
| Brian Hoffman | Co-founder; project lead | Vice president of engineering, Arch Network | Oct 2026 | |
| Brian Moyer | Co-founder | Author and publisher, Unbound Books | Oct 2026 | |
| Brian Spector | Co-founder | CEO and co-founder, 2Real | Oct 2026 | |
| Brom Mahbod | Co-founder and director | Co-founder and director, Appiell.ai | Oct 2026 | |
| C. Rees Morgan | Founder and CEO | Senior program manager consultant, IT Consultant Link | Oct 2026 | |
| Calvin Hsieh | Co-founder and CTO | Product engineer and full-stack builder | Oct 2026 | |
| Cedric Dahl | Co-founder; CEO | Founder, The 1000x Group | Oct 2026 | |
| Celso Pitta | Founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Charlie Shrem | Co-founder | Co-founder, Druid Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris DeWolfe | CEO | Co-leads REACH Labs with Jeremy Horn; leads Rough House GamesBacked again by Andreessen Horowitz | Sep 2026 | |
| Chris Heatherly | Founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris Heron | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris Laurent | Co-founder; CEO in 2021 | Now building casino games for the modern internet, @Standout_Games | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris Le | Co-founder | Content Creator, Senior Copywriter, Wieden + Kennedy | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris Painter | Founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris Whinfrey | Co-founder | Founder and builder, Hop Protocol | Oct 2026 | |
| Chris Your | Co-founder and VP of Design | Ignition Industries | Oct 2026 | |
| Christoph Iwaniez | CFO and Managing Director | Unknown | — | |
| Christophe de Courson | Co-founder and Chairman | Co-founder and CEO, Mensis Capital | Oct 2026 | |
| Clinton Bembry | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Conlan Rios | Founder and CEO | Artist (specifically a writer) | Oct 2026 | |
| Craig Woida | Director of Art | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Daffy Durairaj | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Dan Khomenko | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Daniel Schatt | Co-founder and CEO | Sentenced on 29 August 2025 to 52 months in federal prison for wire fraud conspiracy, the sentence to begin on 28 October 2025 | Oct 2026 | |
| Daniel Shin | Co-founder |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Daniel Wang | Founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Dannie Chu | Co-founder and CEO |
| Growth, @coinbase | Oct 2026 |
| Darius Tabai | CEO and Co-Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Darlena | Head of Product Design | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Darshan Bathija | Co-founder and CEO | Founding team, Defx LabsNext funding: $2.5MBacked again by Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos Capital, CoinShares, Robot Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Dave Carlson | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| David Greenstein | Co-founder |
| Co-founder, Vault.fm | Oct 2026 |
| David Hoggard | Co-founder, strategy director | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| David Johansson | Co-founder and CEO, MetaKing Studios | Founder, Stealth (since May 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| David Johnston | Co-founder | Managing director, Yeoman’s Capital | Oct 2026 | |
| David Jones | Seed investor |
| Unknown | — |
| David Lim | CEO and Creative Director | Unknown | — | |
| David Moore | Co-founder |
| Strategic adviser to Cifr.io (contract), December 2025 to June 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| David Vorick | CEO | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Del Wang | Co-founder; CEO (2022) | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Denis Nazarov | Founder | Posted about "a new experiment from the @kiosk team"Next funding: $10MBacked again by Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Dennis Fong | Adviser and investor |
| Not established | Sep 2026 |
| Dennison Bertram | Co-founder and CEO |
| Currently building with AI | Oct 2026 |
| Derek Lau | Co-founder, Uncharted |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Dillon Rosenblatt | Co-founder and CEO | CEO and board member, Autograph | Oct 2026 | |
| Do Kwon | Co-founder and CEO |
| Sentenced on 11 December 2025 by Judge Engelmayer to 15 years' imprisonment | Oct 2026 |
| Dogberto | Founder and CEO |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Dom Hofmann | Individual investor | Unknown | — | |
| Donnie Dinch | Co-founder and CEO | VP of Strategy at Phantom | Oct 2026 | |
| Dragos Dunica | Co-founder | Now exploring AI and agentic systems | Oct 2026 | |
| Duncan Payne-Shelley | CFO, later CEO | UnknownNext: Fusion Labs, as chief financial officer (announced February 2024) | — | |
| Eduard Jubany Tur | Co-founder; announced the shutdown | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Eduardo DeCastro | Former CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Edwin Yen | Co-founder and COO, portto | Founder of Spotlight Protocol, which describes itself as an IP-backed memecoin launchpad on Story Protocol | Oct 2026 | |
| Egor Lavrov | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Emil Dalgård Rasmussen | Co-founder | Making Contentlist.io, "Goodreads for Entrepreneurs"; two-time co-founder | Oct 2026 | |
| Emile Dubié | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Emmanuel Owusu | Co-founder; Chief architect | Works at Thermo Fisher Scientific | Oct 2026 | |
| Eric Tesenair | Co-founder and VP of Engineering | Solutions Architect, Fireblocks (since October 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Erich Wood | Co-founder | CEO, Tibles | Oct 2026 | |
| Erik Voorhees | Founder and CEO | CEO, Venice AI | Oct 2026 | |
| Eunkwang Joo | Co-founder and former CTO | CEO, WASD3R (since December 2022) | Oct 2026 | |
| Evan Vandenberg | Co-founder and CEO | Co-founder and CEO of OneGC, a legal platform for startups | Oct 2026 | |
| Fariz | Co-Founder & Engineer | Building After School AI | Sep 2026 | |
| Fernando Martinelli | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Flex Yang | Co-founder; CEO (2021) | Leading efforts to restructure Babel Finance | Oct 2026 | |
| Flori Marquez | Co-founder; SVP Operations, later COO | SVP Crypto, SoFi (since June 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Gary Wang | Co-founder; CTO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Gautham Santhosh | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| George Cao | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| George Harrap | Co-founder; CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| George Harrap | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| George Macallan | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Giulio Xiloyannis | CEO |
| Unknown | — |
| Greg Schvey | Co-founder | COO, Yuma | Oct 2026 | |
| Guy Corem | CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Hannes Graah | Founder | Builder, Zeal | Oct 2026 | |
| Hannibal Soares | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Hanoch "Nuke" Goldstein | Co-founder; CTO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Haver Järveoja | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Henrique Matias | Co-founder | Software engineer and creative technologist | Oct 2026 | |
| Henry Ault | Co-founder and President | Co-founder, @eco; VC with @joeykrug at AK Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Hsuan Lee | Co-founder and CEO, portto | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Hugo Hyung-soo Lee | CEO | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Ian Lee | Co-founder | Founder, Stealth (since 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| Ioannis Giannaros | Co-founder; CEO, then Executive Chairman from January 2023 | CEO and co-founder of Axle, which builds AI agents for financial-compliance reviews | Oct 2026 | |
| Jack Lu | Co-founder | Founder and CEO, Wanchain | Oct 2026 | |
| Jack Wang | Founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Jackson Poon | Co-founder and CEO | Co-founder, @nara_usd | Oct 2026 | |
| James Alexander | Chief Capital Officer | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| James Moreau | Co-founder and COO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| James Morgan | Co-founder |
| Founder of BlockRocket, a Manchester Web3 and AI consultancy whose founders built KnownOrigin | Oct 2026 |
| Jan Goslicki | Co-founder; Chief Compliance Officer (2019) | COO & Co-Founder, Bitwala (since April 2014) | Oct 2026 | |
| Jane Ma | Co-founder | Strategy & Operations Manager, Securitize (since October 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Jason Chong | Core team | UnknownNext: Coinbase (joined with the team, as reported in November 2024) | — | |
| Jason Maier | Co-founder and COO | COO of Relay Protocol, the name Reservoir's company now operates under | Oct 2026 | |
| JayB Kim | Co-founder and CEO | "Back to zero—working solo, moving fast with AI, and building from first principles" | Oct 2026 | |
| JD Ross | Co-founder | Building WithCoverage, a company applying AI to insurance brokerage | Oct 2026 | |
| Jeff Marsilio | Co-founder and CEO | Head of Commercial, @Newton_xyz | Oct 2026 | |
| Jeff Schvey | Co-founder | CTO, Yuma | Oct 2026 | |
| Jeremy Drane | Co-founder and COO | Co-Founder, AUDIOPOOL (part-time, since 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Jeremy Horn | Co-founder, REACH Labs | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Jeremy Kauffman | Co-founder; CEO | Chair, Libertarian Party of New Hampshire | Oct 2026 | |
| Jeremy Longley | Co-founder | CEO and partner, FunFair Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Jessica Mulligan | Executive Consultant | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Jessica VerSteeg | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Jez San | Co-founder | Chairman, FunFair Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Joe Andrews | Co-founder | Founder and CEO of Aztec Labs, which describes itself as a privacy-product company created by the Aztec Network's original builders | Oct 2026 | |
| Joe Clark | Head of Research |
| UnknownNext: Coinbase (joined in July 2025, as reported) | — |
| Joey Krug | Co-founder | Partner at Founders Fund | Oct 2026 | |
| Joey Santoro | Founder; CEO of Fei Labs | Building at the Network School | Oct 2026 | |
| Johannes Tammekänd | Co-founder; CEO | CEO and co-founder, Galadriel | Oct 2026 | |
| John Clarke | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| John Linden | Co-founder and CEO, Mythical Games | Founder and CEO of Mythical Games, the studio that made Blankos Block Party | Oct 2026 | |
| John Monarch | Founder | Chief industry officer, Pesti Group | Oct 2026 | |
| John Palmer | Developer | Unknown | — | |
| John Quinn | Co-founder | Founder, general partner and CIO, Decentral Park Capital | Oct 2026 | |
| John Scianna | Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer | Web3.com Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Johnny Tan | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Joonatan Lintala | Co-founder and CEO | Co-founder of Phaver and of Shook Digital, a short-video advertising company | Oct 2026 | |
| Jordan Lyall | Co-founder and Chief Product Officer | CPO, Art Blocks | Oct 2026 | |
| Jordan Meyer | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Jörg von Minckwitz | Co-founder; President (2018) | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Joris Huijbregts | Co-Founder and Chief Development Officer | humanfeedback.ai | Oct 2026 | |
| Joseph Liu | Founder | Co-founder and product, @pacifica_fi, a perpetual-futures exchange; adviser to Orbio | Oct 2026 | |
| Joseph Perry | Interim CEO |
| Unknown | — |
| Joseph Podulka | CFO | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Josh Chen | Co-founder |
| Built Instant Expert with a partner, a service for paying people for a confirmed call or reply | Oct 2026 |
| Josh Goodbody | COO | Unknown | — | |
| Josh Yguado | COO, Jam City | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Julian Hosp | Co-founder | CIO @ Family-Office, with a focus on AI | Oct 2026 | |
| Julian Tescher | Co-founder | Vice president of engineering at Phantom | Oct 2026 | |
| Justin Blau | Co-founder | Makes electronic music and builds onchain | Oct 2026 | |
| Kaito Cunningham | CEO | UnknownNext: Coinbase (joined with the team, as reported in November 2024) | — | |
| Kamil Mafoud | Co-founder | Founder, Stealth Startup (since January 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| Kamil Ryszkowski | Co-founder | Building AI products | Oct 2026 | |
| Karl Flores | Co-founder; CEO from 2020 | CEO of Unikrn, reported to be joining Entain with Unikrn's other employees | Oct 2026 | |
| Karthik Balasubramanian | Co-founder | Vice president of software engineering, NCR Corporation | Oct 2026 | |
| Kartik Mishra | Co-founder | Co-Founder, M (since January 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| Kaspar Peterson | Co-founder | CTO, DOMIN8 Defence Solutions | Oct 2026 | |
| Kaspar Tiri | Co-founder | Angel investor and builder | Oct 2026 | |
| Katherine Liu | Co-founder | Product designer and artist, focused on her art and her clothing brand Meridrop | Oct 2026 | |
| Katy Drake Bettner | Co-Founder (co-CEO from 2025) | Co-Founder, Smartypants (since December 2024) | Oct 2026 | |
| Kento Inami | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Kenton Prescott | Co-founder; CEO | Building Rumpel Labs | Oct 2026 | |
| Kevin Chou | Founder; CEO until 2021 | Co-founder and executive director, Bright Saver, a nonprofit that sells plug-in solar kits | Oct 2026 | |
| Kevin Lin | Investor |
| Not established | Sep 2026 |
| Kipit | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Kristina Walcker-Mayer | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Larry Liu | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Lawrence Diao | Co-founder |
| Investor, @dragonfly_cap | Oct 2026 |
| Lee Parsons | Founder | CEO and co-founder, Ditto Music | Oct 2026 | |
| Lev Leviev | Co-founder | Founder, LVL1 Group | Oct 2026 | |
| Loong Wang | Co-founder and CTO | Founder, @metalntwx | Oct 2026 | |
| Loren Roosendaal | Co-Founder, Executive Producer | Founder and Chairman, Native Labs, Kanji and Galactic Entertainment | Oct 2026 | |
| Lorenzo Melendez | Co-inventor | President and CTO, Pudgy Penguins | Oct 2026 | |
| Lu Hua | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Luca Netz | Co-inventor | CEO, Pudgy Penguins; co-founder, Igloo | Oct 2026 | |
| Luis Cuende | Co-founder and project lead | Exploring a venture studio or boutique fund around "freedom tools" | Oct 2026 | |
| MacLane Wilkison | Co-founder | Co-founder, Threshold Network | Oct 2026 | |
| Mahesh Vellanki | Co-founder | Managing partner, SuperLayer, a crypto venture studio | Oct 2026 | |
| Maksim Izmaylov | CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Marcus Lim | Founder and CEO | Founder of PEXX, a stablecoin payments company | Oct 2026 | |
| Mark Anstead | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Mark Hipperson | Founder; CEO 2018–2023, later executive chairman |
| Director of Ziglu Limited, which is in administration, and of Ziglu Investment Limited | Oct 2026 |
| Mark Lamb | Co-founder and CEO | COO, Triple Helix Science (June to December 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Mark Laursen | Co-Founder and CEO | Co-founder, Brainjuice Labs (since August 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| Mark Smith | CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Matt Alston | Co-founder | Product, @tryramp | Oct 2026 | |
| Matt Coolidge | Co-founder, Head of Brand and Communications | Joined Chainlink | Oct 2026 | |
| Matt Cutler | Co-founder and CEO | Newly at Deloitte; previously founder and CEO of Blocknative | Oct 2026 | |
| Matt Masurka | Co-founder |
| Music producer and DJ, performing as Gigamesh | Oct 2026 |
| Matt Van | CTO / Head of Engineering |
| Not established | Sep 2026 |
| Matt Z | Community Lead | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Matthew Iles | Founder and CEO |
| Co-founder and COO, Mojito | Oct 2026 |
| Max Fu | CEO and Creative Director | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Max Sapelov | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Maximilian Schneider | Co-founder | Primary contributor to Manifest, an on-chain order book on Solana | Oct 2026 | |
| Mel Gelderman | Co-founder and CEO | Co-Founder & CEO, token.com (since October 2021) | Oct 2026 | |
| Melissa Zhang | Co-founder | Engineer at Bridge | Oct 2026 | |
| Michael Bramlage | Co-founder; CEO | Health and wellness growth, Garner | Oct 2026 | |
| Michael Dunworth | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Michael Egorov | Co-founder | Founder, Curve Finance and Yield Basis | Oct 2026 | |
| Michael Lee | Co-inventor; CEO of Cube Labs | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Mike Levine | Founder and CEO, Mystic Moose | Founder, @FilmSparkai | Oct 2026 | |
| Mike Sall | Co-Founder | Founder and CEO of Heron Finance, a private credit investment platform run by Warbler Labs | Oct 2026 | |
| Mohit Kalra | Co-founder; CEO | Chief strategy officer, Toni Zippers | Oct 2026 | |
| Mona El Isa | Co-founder | Co-founder and CEO, Avantgarde Finance | Oct 2026 | |
| Moritz Kurtz | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Mubaris NK | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Nadav Hollander | Co-founder and CEO |
| Handed OpenSea's CTO role to Chris Maddern in July 2025; no later role established | Oct 2026 |
| Nader Al-Naji | Co-founder and CEO |
| Founder of DeSo; leads the DeSo Foundation | Oct 2026 |
| Naman Sehgal | Co-founder | Co-Founder & CEO, Innflux.xyz (since February 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Neel Popat | Founder | Building @popcorn, a next-gen telco | Oct 2026 | |
| Neil McFarland | Co-founder and CEO | "Sky" | Oct 2026 | |
| Nejc Krajnik | Co-founder |
| CTO, Monster - mnstr (since November 2025) | Oct 2026 |
| Nicholas Hammer | Co-founder and CEO |
| Strategic Advisor, TPAC Capital (since June 2026) | Oct 2026 |
| Nick Sullivan | Founder; CEO | Building AI infrastructure and developer tools | Oct 2026 | |
| Nicky Li | Co-founder, MetaKing Studios | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Nir Efrat | CEO (as of March 2025) | Unknown | — | |
| Nir Kabessa | Co-founder and CEO |
| Senior product manager at thirdweb, which acquired Yup | Oct 2026 |
| Oliver Hopton | Co-founder | CTO and partner, FunFair Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Owen Colegrove | Co-founder | Founder, Event Horizon Labs | Oct 2026 | |
| Patrick Tague | Co-founder | Associate teaching professor, Carnegie Mellon University | Oct 2026 | |
| Patrick Tescher | Co-founder | Architecture, @phantom | Oct 2026 | |
| Paul Bettner | Co-Founder and CEO (co-CEO from 2025) | Co-founder of Playful Studios; "Making: Something new!" | Oct 2026 | |
| Paul Snow | Co-founder | CEO, IDD Labs | Oct 2026 | |
| Paul Walborsky | President | Unknown | — | |
| Pete Cheyne | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Peter Kirby | Co-founder | CEO and founder, Simple.ID | Oct 2026 | |
| Peter Watts | Co-founder and CEO | CEO of Relay Protocol, the name Reservoir's company now operates under | Oct 2026 | |
| Peter-Andreas Kurtz | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Rafael Solari | Co-founder and CTO | Member of technical staff at Basis | Oct 2026 | |
| Rahul Sood | Co-founder and CEO | CEO, Irreverent Labs | Oct 2026 | |
| Rain Johanson | Co-founder and CTO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Rainer Selvet | Co-founder; CTO | Director of games engineering, Netflix | Oct 2026 | |
| Rajath KM | Co-founder | Chief Business Officer, KernelDAO (since November 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Ramon Recuero | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Ramon Recuero | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Ratnesh Ray | Co-founder |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Ravi Iyengar | Founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Reto Trinkler | Co-founder | Founder, Trinkler Software | Oct 2026 | |
| Richard Olsen | Founder and CEO | Innovator, Intrinsic Time | Oct 2026 | |
| Richard Rosenblatt | Co-founder | Co-chairman of the board, Autograph | Oct 2026 | |
| Rob Collier | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Rob Pardo | Adviser and investor |
| Not established | Sep 2026 |
| Rodrigo Vicuna | CFO | Unknown | — | |
| Ross Tavakoli | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Ruslan Gavrilyuk | Co-founder and president | Founder and CEO, TeqAtlas | Oct 2026 | |
| Ryan Breslow | Co-founder | CEO of Bolt, the checkout company he co-founded, to which he returned as CEO in 2025 | Oct 2026 | |
| Ryan Sean Adams | Angel investor, August 2021 round |
| Not established | Sep 2026 |
| Ryker (pseudonym) | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Ryne Saxe | Co-founder and COO | CEO of Eco, the company behind the app, which now builds stablecoin routing infrastructure | Oct 2026 | |
| Sage Durain | Co-Founder, Producer | Art director at Galactic Entertainment, January 2024 to November 2025 | Oct 2026 | |
| Salah Zalatimo | CEO |
| Not established | Sep 2026 |
| Salman Naseer | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Sam Bankman-Fried | Co-founder and CEO |
| In federal custody, with a projected release date of 3 May 2044 | Oct 2026 |
| Sam Cole | CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Sam Sends | Co-founder | Now works on collective intelligence at Soma | Oct 2026 | |
| Sami Chlagou | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Sanjeev Rao | Founder | Senior Director, Product Management, Circle (since April 2026) | Oct 2026 | |
| Sanju Sony Kurian | Co-founder and CTO | Founding team, Defx LabsNext funding: $2.5MBacked again by Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos Capital, CoinShares, Robot Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Santhosh Narayan | Co-founder | Co-founder, joinearlybird.com | Oct 2026 | |
| Scott Purcell | Founder; later CEO of the holding company Prime Core Technologies | Founder & CEO, Qbit (since April 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Sean Moss-Pultz | Co-founder | Co-founder, Feral File | Oct 2026 | |
| Seb Audet | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Sebastiaan Lichter | Founder | Founder and CEO, AYOCIN | Oct 2026 | |
| Shant Marootian | COO | Unknown | — | |
| Shawn Wilkinson | Co-founder | Founder and CEO, Prodia | Oct 2026 | |
| Shlomi Daniel Leon | Co-founder; Chief Strategy Officer | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Siddharth Verma | Co-founder |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Simon Barber | CTO and interim president | Senior software engineer, Cisco Meraki | Oct 2026 | |
| Simon Lapscher | Co-founder | Product, @circle; co-founder, @Landhoney_ | Oct 2026 | |
| Simon Yu | Co-founder and CEO | CEO and co-founder, DuelNow | Oct 2026 | |
| Skirmantas Januškas | Co-founder and CEO | Monitoring web3 gaming comeback, @solgamesbuzz | Oct 2026 | |
| Spencer Rust | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Sten Tamkivi | Co-founder | Partner, Plural | Oct 2026 | |
| Stephen Cheng | CEO (interim from January 2023, permanent from April 2023) |
| Unknown | — |
| Stephen Ehrlich | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Stephen Young | Founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Steve Cushing | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Steven Vasilev | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Stuart Popejoy | Co-founder and CEO | Musician/composer | Oct 2026 | |
| Sudhu Arumugam | Co-founder | Head of Strategy, @Bitmex | Oct 2026 | |
| Sunil Srivatsa | Founder | Founder, investor and engineer who "these days" builds agent tools | Oct 2026 | |
| Susan Akbarpour | Co-founder and president | Managing partner, Candou Ventures | Oct 2026 | |
| Taivo Pungas | Co-founder | CIO, Pactum AI | Oct 2026 | |
| Taiyang Zhang | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Tarun Gupta | Founder and CEO |
| Founder and CEO, @0xCoinshift, the company that continued after Coinshift Business was sunset | Oct 2026 |
| Thessy Mehrain | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Tiana Laurence | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Tieshun Roquerre | Founder (Pacman) | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Tim Frost | Co-founder; CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Timmu Tõke | Co-founder; CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Toby Hoenisch | Co-founder and CEO | Co-founder of Mimo | Oct 2026 | |
| Tom Brady | Co-founder | Lead NFL analyst at Fox, in his third season; minority owner of the Raiders | Oct 2026 | |
| Tom Pageler | CEO (January 2021 to November 2022); earlier President and COO |
| Unknown | — |
| Tomi Fyrqvist | Co-founder and CFO | Working in "AI & Finance"; building @AidenCloudAI | Oct 2026 | |
| Tony Harman | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Trevor George | Co-founder and Co-CEO | CEO, Trevco (since March 2019) | Oct 2026 | |
| Troy Murray | Co-founder | Co-founder and CEO, Graviton (since January 2022) | Oct 2026 | |
| Tux Pacific | Founder and CEO |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Tyler Ward | Co-founder; CEO | Building @sanctumai | Oct 2026 | |
| Uddhav Marwaha | CEO | Unknown | — | |
| Umberto Canessa | Founder and CEO | Lead Product Manager, Bitpanda (since December 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Varun Deshpande | Co-founder and CEO |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Varun Iyer | Co-founder | Independent AI safety researcher | Oct 2026 | |
| Vasily Trofimchuk | Project management | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Vernon Johnson | Co-founder and CTO |
| Senior software engineer at thirdweb, which acquired Yup | Oct 2026 |
| Vignesh Hirudayakanth | Co-founder |
| Shipping at @opendoor | Oct 2026 |
| Vikram Pandit | Investor | Unknown | — | |
| Vitaly Bahachuk | Co-founder; CEO in the Republic campaign | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Vitaly Yakovlev | Co-founder | Chief AI Officer, Stealth AI Startup (since November 2025) | Oct 2026 | |
| Vittorio Carraro | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Wil Barnes | Co-founder and CEO | Co-founder of Maspeth Tech, a Brooklyn company that makes AI software and hardware for manufacturing lines | Oct 2026 | |
| Will Martino | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Will Papper | Co-founder | Director of product for emerging technology and incubation at Cloudflare | Oct 2026 | |
| Will Sheehan | Founder; CEO at shutdown | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| William Schmitt | Head of Studio | Not established | Sep 2026 | |
| Wim Froon | Co-founder | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Wyeth Ridgway | Co-founder and CTO |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Yang Li | Chief Growth Officer | Unknown | — | |
| Yash Nelapati | Co-founder |
| Not established | Oct 2026 |
| Yury Lifshits | Founder and CEO | Founder, @nimvideo, an all-in-one AI video app | Oct 2026 | |
| Zac Prince | Co-founder and CEO | Head of GalaxyOne, Galaxy Digital's retail investment platform | Oct 2026 | |
| Zac Williamson | Co-founder and CTO | Co-founder, Aztec Foundation | Sep 2026 | |
| Zach Bruch | Co-founder and Co-CEO | CEO, MyPrize | Oct 2026 | |
| Zhaojun | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Zoe Adamovicz | Co-founder and CEO | Not established | Oct 2026 | |
| Zubin Koticha | Co-founder and CEO | Founder and CEO, Raindrop, a monitoring tool for AI agents | Oct 2026 |
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