Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK 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 London 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.co.uk.
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 Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of Blockchain.com
Peter Smith is a Co-Founder and CEO at Blockchain. He is also the Director, Board Member at UK Finance.
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About Blockchain.com, Blockchain.com Ventures: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
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Nicolas Cary
Co-Founder & President of Blockchain.com
Nicolas Cary is the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com.
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About Blockchain.com, Skysthelimit.org, YBA: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
Kumar Gaurav
Founder and CEO of Cashaa
Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Cashaa, a UK based neo-bank providing businesses access to crucial banking infrastructure. Cashaa is a community of more than 250 crypto businesses including the industry leaders making it the biggest crypto-friendly banking platform. Kumar started his career as an engineer by building navigation systems for Ferrari before pivoting into the FinTech space in 2014 to begin working on blockchain-powered innovations. In recognition of his pioneering work on blockchain technology, he was awarded extraordinary (O-1) status by the United States government in 2017 and got listed among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2016-2018 by Rise global. As a thought leader in the Fintech space, he has been invited to numerous global forums, including Money 2020, TechCrunch Disrupt, the European Parliament and Ivy League universities. In 2017, he was also nominated among the ‘World’s Top 50 Innovators from the industries of the future in the UK.
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About Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Janina Lowisz
Co-Founder and VP Marketing of Cashaa
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About Auxesis Group, Cashaa: Next Generation Banking Platform
Mark Lamb
Co-Founder and CEO of CoinFLEX
Mark is CEO of CoinFLEX and a longtime advocate for physically delivered futures over cash settlement as a way to prevent manipulation. Mark’s vision for crypto derivatives is to grow the industry beyond speculation into real commercial use for lending, borrowing, hedging and payments. Mark Lamb has been in bitcoin since 2012 and previously co-founded Coinfloor, the UK’s first cryptocurrency exchange back in 2013.
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About CoinFLEX: CoinFLEX is the leading crypto derivatives exchange and yield platform.
Mark Hipperson
Founder and CEO of Ziglu
Mark has founded a UK retail bank and two financial technology businesses. He is a commentator and speaker on banking, FinTech, crypto, technology, PSD2 and open banking. Mark is the founder and CEO of Ziglu, the modern challenger. Previously, he founded Starling Bank where he was responsible for helping to secure the UK banking licence with regulators and obtaining the initial funding the Bank achieved in December 2015. He was also responsible for the design, build, implementation and support of the Bank’s IT platform, apps and infrastructure. He started his career at Barclays where he was Head of Technology.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Niall McConnell
Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Ziglu
Niall McConnell is the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer at Ziglu.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
Nejc Kodric
Co-Founder & CEO of Bitstamp
Nejc Kodric Since starting out in 2011 with little more than some basic computer equipment, €1,000 and a love of technology, Nejc has been instrumental in developing Bitstamp into one of the most trusted and highest volume bitcoin exchanges in the world. With offices in Luxembourg, London and New York, Bitstamp continues to grow from strength to strength, serving its customers’ bitcoin trading requirements. Among his many achievements as chief executive officer, Nejc spearheaded the approach to become the first fully licensed virtual currency exchange in EU, which was granted in 2016, setting the benchmark for the Bitcoin industry’s continued consolidation and strength. With a keen interest in promoting economic empowerment and technology, Nejc has spoken at several conferences including Techcrunch, Bitcoin Foundation, MoneyConf, Deloitte Conference: Future Challenges, ICT Spring Europe and FundForum International, and was awarded Best Virtual Currency Start-up at The Europas in June 2014. Nejc was born in Slovenia, where he studied Organization and Management of Information Systems and Economics, and currently splits his time between his home country and Luxembourg. Specialities: Bitcoin, blockchain, trading, virtual currencies, economic empowerment, education, science and technology
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
Laura Kornelija Inamedinova
Founder and CEO of LKI Consulting
Laura K. Inamedinova is communications and branding expert that has her own PR agency. Laura helps companies understand what are their marketing goals and what kind of communication they seek and later on, if needed, implement it. Her primary focus is technology, fin tech and IT industries. Among her client list there are million dollar valuation companies. Miss Inamedinova also shares her expertise about startups in her columns at Forbes and Huffington Post. Besides that, she frequently appears in local and international conferences where she touches important issues like, advocating for bigger women involvement in the technology sector. She has been quoted in various publications, such as Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, etc. Laura has also been actively involved in various NGOs – she is a member of World Economic Forum Global Shapers Vilnius hub and Lithuanian Marketing Association. Laura holds a Bachelor of Physics from Vilnius University. During her time in the university she was a member of Physics faculty student association.
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About LKI Consulting: International marketing, PR and communications agency focusing on fintech, crypto and ICOs.
Hossein Kakavand
Founder and CEO of Luther Systems
Hossein is an entrepreneur with a diverse background in the enterprise technology industry. He did his Ph.D at Stanford in Information Systems and Statistics, and subsequently Stanford Business School. He was a fund manager at Soliton Capital, a quantitative hedge fund. He was at Funding Circle (LON: FCH), a leading Fintech platform focused on Peer to Peer (P2P) financing. He has also advised startups, with highly successful exits including, a distributed computation platform for automation of portfolio risk modelling, a specialized platform for large scale statistical computation, and a big data analytics recommendation engine.
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About Luther Systems: Luther Systems streamlines enterprise processes leveraging blockchain technology.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg
Co-Founder of Blockchainsmokers
Daniel Doll-Steinberg had a successful career in investment banking in London and New York. Daniel is a Founder / Director of several other companies in the entertainment, marketing and health spaces, and also advises the UK Government and European Commission on Innovation and education policy. He is a regular speaker on innovation and the values of Intellectual Property (IP) and IP protection.
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About Blockchainsmokers: Blockchainsmokers provides a platform and expertise to those wishing to embrace blockchain technology to achieve transformational growth.
Flavio Molendini
Co-Founder of B2C2
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About B2C2: B2C2 is the trading firm of choice in the institutional crypto markets.
Max Boonen
Director & Founder of B2C2
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About B2C2: B2C2 is the trading firm of choice in the institutional crypto markets.
Antoni Trenchev
Co-Founder of Nexo
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About Nexo: The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Kosta Kantchev
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Nexo
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About Credissimo, Nexo: The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Olivier Roussy Newton
Co-Founder, Director of HIVE Blockchain
A visionary young technology leader and a co-founder of HIVE, Olivier advises Genesis Mining, the world’s largest crypto miner, on new business initiatives. He is a partner at Latent Capital, an investment fund focused on quantum computing, financial technology and bioinformatics. Olivier’s expertise in the blockchain space helps the HIVE board to navigate challenges and identify new opportunities.
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About HIVE Blockchain, Valour: HIVE Blockchain is a partnership between Genesis Mining and Fiore Group to accelerate the development of the blockchain sector.
Dean Fankhauser
CEO, Co-Founder of Bitcompare
Dean Fankhauser is the CEO and Founder of Bitcompare.
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About Bitcompare, Nuji: Your crypto comparison site
Vytautas Karalevicius
CEO & Co-Founder of SpectroCoin
Serial fintech enterpreneur, founder of SpectroCoin (all in one solution for cryptocurrency) and Bankera (banking for the blockchain era) companies.
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About Bankera, SpectroCoin, UAB Pervesk: All in one solution for cryptocurrencies
Krasina Mileva
COO, Legal Counsel & Founder of DOVU
Register European lawyer with over 11 years of experience in Contract and Commercial Law. Krasina has headed an international legal department in a law firm, having to deal with various civil and international matters. Then she became a sole-practitioner, focused mainly in Contract, Commercial and Company Law, whilst co-founding a construction business in Belgium. As Head of Legal at a million dollar ad-tech company she discovered her passion around Data protection, Privacy and Smart legal agreements. Being part of the Company Secretariat team in Associated British Ports gave her an additional layer of Corporate Governance expertise.
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About DOVU: DOVU is a global rewards platform for smart travel, powered by cryptocurrency.
Gael Itier
CIO, CEO and Co-Founder of Automata
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About Automata: Automata provides trading strategies for cryptocurrencies with a focus on risk management and capital protection.
Chris Trew
CEO – Founder of Stratis
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About Stratis: Stratis is a powerful and flexible block chain development platform designed for the needs of real world financial services and businesses.
Pedro Gomes
Founder of WalletConnect
Pedro Gomes is the founder of Walletconnect.
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About WalletConnect: WalletConnect is an open source standard for connecting desktop Dapps to mobile Wallets.
Michael Yeates
Co-Founder of Dacoco
Michael Yeates is the Co-Founder and Head of Technology at Dacoco.
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About Dacoco: the publisher of AlienWorlds.io, the largest blockchain game in the world
Hammad Kayani
CEO, Founder of BitFutr
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About BitFutr: BitFutr is the home of your Crypto. The BitFutr app helps you spend your crypto, get up to 8% in saving and invest your crypto 24/7.
Charles Hayter
CEO and Co-Founder of CryptoCompare.com
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About CryptoCompare.com: We bring you all the data in the world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Blockchain in an easily digestible value added format.
Vlad Cealicu
CTO and Co-Founder of CryptoCompare.com
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About CryptoCompare.com: We bring you all the data in the world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Blockchain in an easily digestible value added format.
Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie
Co-Founder & CEO of BCB Group
Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie has led a highly technical career in finance technology, forming a robust platform for solutions architecture and fintech innovation. He has helped Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Barclays Investment Bank (2004-15) and Lloyds Commercial Bank bring a number of strategic and tactical projects to fruition as a hands-on SME in derivative instruments, regulations and technology. After nearly 20 years in investment banking Oliver founded BCB Group where his mission is to accelerate global adoption of digital assets as money, as ownership and as a commodity of value.
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About BCB Group, BitcoinBro: Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy
Mushegh Tovmasyan
Chairman and Founder of Zenus Bank
Mushegh Tovmasyan is the Founder and Chairman at Zenus Bank.
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About : The first U.S. bank made for people outside the U.S.
Dmitry Gunyashov
Co-Founder & CEO of Cryptopay
Dmitry is a long-term bitcoin supporter and has been involved with the bitcoin community for more than 3 years. Moreover, he has an extensive experience in e-commerce and payment systems.
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About Cryptopay, LTC.Miner: Cryptopay is a digital currency firms, offering crypto-wallets, debit cards, B2B payments, & investments.
Obi Nwosu
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Coinfloor
Obi leads commercial strategy and our team of finance and cryptocurrency experts. Since 2014, Coinfloor’s market share has grown over 5 times and now handles the majority of GBP exchange volume. Previously, Obi was Founder and CEO of Supalocal and held senior roles at ebookers.com and WeeWorld, overseeing the development of a virtual currency, used by 30 million users.
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About Coinfloor: Coinfloor is an established group of cryptocurrency exchanges for institutional or sophisticated investors and traders.
Simone Mazzuca
CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust
Simone Mazzuca is the CEO and Founder of Wallex Bank.
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About Wallex Bank & Statutory Trust: Assets and Digital Assets financial service provider.
Jonty Hurwitz
Founder of DAIZY
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About DAIZY: Crypto and stock risk, impact, ESG. Transparency. Finally.
Ingemar Svensson
Founder & CEO of iXledger
Ingemar Svensson is the Co-Foundr and CTO at Payrue and Founder of Xledger. Ingemar was the CTO of Risk and Valuation at SunGard Asset Management. His experience ranges from managing large organisations to hands-on software development.
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About iXledger, PayRue: iXledger is a groundbreaking platform for insurance utilising blockchain technology.
Luke Wingfield Digby
Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer of Orbital
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About Orbital: Orbital aims to bridge the gap between traditional financial services and digital assets through its corporate treasury platform offering.
Luke Saunders
Co-Founder and CTO of AmaZix
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About AmaZix: AmaZix is the full-service consultancy for blockchain businesses.
Oliver Mehr
Co-Founder and Head of Product of Phuture
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About Phuture: Phuture is a crypto index platform, that simplifies investing in crypto.
Shivam Tandon
Founder & CEO of TeraBlock
Shivam is a passionate serial entrepreneur with over 11 years of experience in building sustainable technology businesses with successful exits. He has been working with start-ups and scale-ups for the past decade in fields of industrial design, 3d-Printing, fintech, Machine Learning, IOT, and more. Shivam is currently heading TorqueLabs – Machine Learning based automated fund management platform. With more than $45M traded since its conception in 2017, it’s one of the most advanced Machine Learning driven trading tool in the market. His diverse background makes in a unique creative resource for any team. He is a creative leader and innovative when it comes to challenging situations always finding a way to win. He is a strong people developer and focuses on the critical few to drive for success.
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About TeraBlock: TeraBlock is the simplest solution to buy and easily manage crypto assets with the help of Machine Learning based trade automation.
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak
Founder of Nethermind
Tomasz Kajetan Stanczak is the Founder at Nethermind.
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About Nethermind: API marketplace with blockchain payments for pay as you go for API usage, Ethereum clients, infrastructure and consulting.
Alex Batlin
Founder and CEO of Trustology
Alex Batlin, Trustology’s Founder and CEO, is an entrepreneur with extensive banking and blockchain experience. Previously, at BNY Mellon, Alex was Blockchain Lead and founding head of Emerging Business & Technology team. At UBS, Alex was founding head of a blockchain-focused FinTech Innovation Lab in UK’s Level 39 accelerator. Alex co-founded Utility Settlement Coin, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Trusted IoT consortias, and was featured in the 2015 FinTech Finance 35 and 2016 FinTech 40 lists.
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About Trustology: Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Didier Metelo
Founder – CEO of Kauris Ltd
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About Kauris Ltd: Kauris Ltd. develops LAMOOVA promoting clubbing trough App, Animation Film and Series, Comics and Website, AR / VR.
David Nunn
Founder & CEO of Rvvup
David Nunn is the founder and CEO of Rvvup.
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About Rvvup: Bridging the 3 Generations of Payments
Alexander Kleydints
Founder of KOWN
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About KOWN: KOWN is a mobile investor club, which empowers people to discover, discuss and invest in pre-seed stealth tech startups from east Europe.
Asaf Cüneyt Eti
CFO & Co-Founder of Capexmove
Subject matter expert in Risk Management and Anti-Fraud analytics. He leads the company’s finance strategy.
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About Capexmove: Capexmove is a platform to draft and digitise debt financing documents.
Ashutosh Chauhan
CTO & Co-Founder of Capexmove
With 11+ years of professional experience developing software for global leaders. He leads the company’s technology strategy.
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About Capexmove: Capexmove is a platform to draft and digitise debt financing documents.
Dario Scarcella
CEO & Co-Founder of Capexmove
Extensive knowledge in Debt Capital Markets and Fixed-Income Securities. Leads the company’s business strategy.
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About Capexmove: Capexmove is a platform to draft and digitise debt financing documents.
Henrique Matias
Co-Founder of Aluna.Social
Henrique Matias is the co-founder of Aluna.Social.
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About Aluna.Social: Aluna.Social is a gamified multi-exchange social trading terminal for cryptocurrency traders and investors.
Dan Holloway
Founder of Mycelium
Dan Holloway is the Founder of Mycelium.
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About Mycelium: Mycelium is pioneering secure and private digital banking for the era of digital assets.
Liliana Reasor
CEO, Founder of SupraFin
Liliana is the founder & CEO of SupraFin. SupraFin provides an intelligent app with institutional-like investment algorithms that assess the relative value of hundreds of cryptocurrencies and recommend the most appropriate as part of a diversified portfolio based on the client’s risk profile preferences.
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About SupraFin:
The SupraFin app offers many benefits:
- Simplicity: create a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies at the click of a button.
- Smart: create and manage a diversified portfolio of cryptocurrencies by leveraging risk models in the background.
- Safe: store your cryptocurrencies securely.
- Exclusive cryptocurrency reports: access exclusive crypto investment reports on each cryptocurrency on your portfolio.
Areseny Zarechnev
Co-Founder & CEO of Mothership
Arseny Zarechnev Prior to founding Mothership, Arseny co-founded Sabaka, a DevOps, mobile and web consultancy. He is a full stack developer, entrepreneur and solution architect and has worked at leading technology companies including Atlassian, Enki, and Ostrovok. He is a digital nomad, Estonian e-Resident and remote advocate. Arseny studied Business Administration at the Russian University of Economics.
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About Mothership: Mothership A state-of-the-art digital asset exchange, EU token marketplace and wallet with powerful security features.
Raphael Mazet
Co-Founder of Alice SI
Multilingual public relations and public affairs consultant specialised in running international corporate communication campaigns. Expertise includes media relations, government relations, M&A communications and digital communications. Currently based in Brazil, advising on corporate communications in Latin America. Specialties:Corporate communications, public relations, public affairs, financial communications, M&A, digital communications
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About Alice SI, CliqStart: Alice SI is using the approach to provide donors
Oliver Mitchell
Founder & CEO of Ripula
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About Ripula: GBP-denominated Ripple gateway and developing payment platform.
Mantas Malukas
Founder & CEO of Dapp Life
Mantas Malukas is an entrepreneur, journalist & blogger. As an entrepreneur his main focus is in the development of high level concepts mainly in the editorial news projects and journalism.
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About Dapp Life: Dapp Life is an online platform that features cryptocurrency news, crypto app reviews and incisive commentary on blockchain and dApps.
Dylan Sutton
Founder & COO of LemoChain
A Bachelor of Business Management BSc from Swansea University, U.K. Dylan has a wealth of business experience and financial data understanding. At LemoChain, he’ll be in charge of: LemoChain community growth, core user maintenance, operational strategies and marketing/branding strategies. He is also the planner for LemoChain’s future rewards engine.
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About LemoChain: LemoChain is a decentralized, industry-oriented cross-application data circulation infrastructure that connects blockchain technology.
Dylan Sutton
Founder & COO of LemoChain
A Bachelor of Business Management BSc from Swansea University, U.K. Dylan has a wealth of business experience and financial data understanding. At LemoChain, he’ll be in charge of: LemoChain community growth, core user maintenance, operational strategies and marketing/branding strategies. He is also the planner for LemoChain’s future rewards engine.
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About LemoChain: LemoChain is a decentralized, industry-oriented cross-application data circulation infrastructure that connects blockchain technology.
Paul Grimshaw
Founder of ANYCOIN
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About ANYCOIN: Anycoin is a financial application created to allow universal currency conversion.
