Crypto and Web3 Founders
A verified directory of 312 crypto founders — sorted by where the product sits, how the entity is structured for regulation, and how it was funded.
Last verified
- 312
- Crypto founders
- 271
- Companies
- 37%
- Equity plus token warrant
- 26%
- Shipped in a prior cycle
Verified in the last 30 days
Operating entity, not foundation
The dominant instrument now
Building before the 2022 drawdown
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- 01
Anouk Tshabalala-Meredith
Co-founder & CEO · Quernstone Labs
SoMa, San Francisco
Raised on equity plus warrant in March; hired a first compliance lead two months later.
- Infrastructure
- US-domiciled
- Equity plus warrant
- Hiring compliance
- a•••••@quernstonelabs.com Locked
- 02
Emrys Oduya-Vankerkhoven
Founder · Tidewrack Protocol
Lisbon, Portugal
Foundation holds the token, a separate labs entity employs the team; contracts run through the labs entity.
- Protocol
- Offshore foundation
- Token funded
- Split entity
- e•••••@tidewrack.xyz Locked
- linkedin.com/in/•••••• Locked
- 03
Saoirse Nnamdi-Achterhof
Co-founder & CEO · Hallamby Custody
TriBeCa, New York
Holds money transmitter licences in 19 states; adding a MiCA registration for the EU this year.
- Custody and compliance
- Licensed entity
- Equity only
- Expanding licences
- s•••••@hallambycustody.com Locked
- linkedin.com/in/•••••• Locked
- 04
Bastian Olawale-Crichton
Founder & CTO · Fenwold Markets
Wynwood, Miami
Non-custodial by design; rebuilt the front end offshore after a legal review in the spring.
- DeFi application
- Non-custodial
- Token funded
- Post legal review
- b•••••@fenwoldmarkets.io Locked
- linkedin.com/in/•••••• Locked
- 05
Verity Mensah-Lindstrand
Co-founder & CEO · Ashkirk Rails
Austin, TX
Bootstrapped on stablecoin payment fees; profitable since last winter and hiring without a raise.
- Consumer and payments
- Licensed entity
- Bootstrapped
- Profitable
- v•••••@ashkirkrails.com Locked
- linkedin.com/in/•••••• Locked
- 06
Ilkka Babatunde-Ravenhill
Founder · Marlgrove Node Services
Brooklyn, New York
Third company since 2019; the first two shipped through the 2022 drawdown and one was acquired.
- Infrastructure
- US-domiciled
- Equity plus warrant
- Prior cycle
- i•••••@marlgrovenode.com Locked
- linkedin.com/in/•••••• Locked
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Frequently asked questions
- Why is regulatory posture the axis rather than chain or ecosystem?
- Because chain is a technology choice that can change in a quarter and posture is a legal structure that takes a year and a law firm to change. A founder running a licensed entity has capital requirements, reporting duties and a compliance officer with veto power. A founder who is non-custodial by design has structured the product specifically so those obligations never attach. Those are different companies with different budgets, and the chain they deploy on tells you neither thing.
- What does a token warrant mean for someone selling to these companies?
- 116 of these founders raised on equity plus a token warrant, which means part of the company's value sits in an asset that may not exist yet. Practically, treasuries in that group swing with the market and procurement decisions follow — budget that was approved in a strong month can quietly evaporate in a weak one. The 98 equity-only companies behave like ordinary startups by comparison.
- Are offshore foundations a red flag?
- Not on their own — 84 companies here use one, and for a protocol with a live token it is often the conventional structure rather than an evasive one. What it does mean is that the entity you contract with may not be the entity your contact works for, and that signing authority sits somewhere other than where the team does. Ask early; it surprises people at the invoice stage.
- How many of these founders were around before the last drawdown?
- 26%, and it is the most informative line on the page. Founders who shipped through 2022 run leaner, treat runway differently and are markedly harder to sell optimism to. The remaining three quarters entered afterwards, and among them the infrastructure builders have proved far more durable than the consumer ones.
- Do bootstrapped protocol-revenue companies buy anything?
- The 41 in that bucket are the most interesting commercial target on the page, because they have actual recurring revenue denominated in fees rather than a treasury they are spending down. They buy carefully, they buy without a board, and they renew. They are also the least likely to appear in any funding-based dataset, which is precisely why they are worth isolating.
- How do you keep this current when companies here rebrand constantly?
- Contact records are re-verified on a rolling 30-day cycle, last passed on 15 August 2026, and a company that has changed name or migrated its primary entity is re-checked rather than carried forward. Turnover in this sector is high enough that a list assembled a year ago is mostly wrong, which is the failure mode of every scraped crypto dataset in circulation.