Founder Profile
Nejc Kodrič
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Nejc Kodrič?
Nejc Kodrič is a founder of Bitstamp, which was founded in 2011 with Damijan Merlak.
- Company founded
- Bitstamp
- Founded
- 2011
- Co-founders
- Damijan Merlak
Background
A well-known member of Slovenia's early bitcoin community, Kodrič saw that European buyers had no reliable local exchange and had to wire money to Mt. Gox in Tokyo.
Founding Story
Nejc Kodrič co-founded Bitstamp with Damijan Merlak in Slovenia in August 2011 and served as CEO until October 2020. He moved the company to the UK in 2013 and to Luxembourg in 2016, where it won the EU's first payment institution license for a crypto exchange. He refused a ransom during a 2014 DDoS attack, led the recovery from the 2015 hack and negotiated the 2018 sale of an 80% stake to NXMH, keeping a minority stake. He then joined Bitstamp's board as a non-executive director. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- Bitstamp on Wikipedia (Bitstamp)
- Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp (updated June 2, 2025 on closing) (Bitstamp)