Crypto & web3 startups in Melbourne

Holger Arians, Domenic Carosa

Founded 2014 in Melbourne (originally BTC Corporation Holdings), a fiat-to-crypto payments/on-ramp infrastructure provider for crypto exchanges across Australia, North America and Europe. In January 2021 bec...

Martin Bajalan

Founded July 2013 in Melbourne, one of Australia's oldest and most liquid crypto exchanges; founder Martin Bajalan was among the founding members of the Australian chapter of the Bitcoin Foundation. Privatel...

Rupert Hackett, Dr. Prash Puspanathan

Founded 2016 in Melbourne, a crypto brokerage applying a traditional wealth-management model (personal brokers) to digital assets for high-net-worth clients. Grew to A$2B+ under custody. Acquired by Brisbane...

Russell Wilson

Founded 2013 in a small Melbourne office by former IT consultant Russell Wilson, CoinSpot grew into Australia's largest crypto exchange with 2.5M+ customers and 400+ coins. Bootstrapped and highly profitable...

Shane Stevenson (CEO Jess Renden)

Founded 2013 in Melbourne by Shane Stevenson; locally owned crypto exchange trading 260+ coins and having handled A$250M+ in transactions. Jess Renden took over as CEO in the early 2020s, becoming the first ...

Jonathan de Wet, Ryan McCall, Trent Barnes

Founded 2017 in Melbourne, backed by the Victor Smorgon Group family office. Institutional digital-asset firm: OTC trading/liquidity, market making, staking and insured custody (Lloyd's of London) for privat...

One of Australia's earliest and longest-running crypto exchanges/wallets, founded in Melbourne (2013). Offers retail and business crypto trading, a crypto card and custody; expanded to the UK/EU. Melbourne's...

Blockchain platform digitising bank guarantees, born from an ANZ/CBA/Westpac/IBM/Scentre consortium and spun out as an independent Melbourne fintech. Cuts weeks of paper-based guarantee processing to minutes...