A coroner has ruled that an American Bitcoin currency executive committed suicide in Singapore this year because she was depressed and stressed about work and personal issues, The New York Daily News reported on Monday.
Singapore Coroner's Court determined that Autumn Radtke had been "determined to end her life and made concerted efforts toward facilitating this outcome."
She had also researched methods of suicide online, a report released by the court on Monday revealed.
The 28-year-old sustained multiple injuries after falling to her death from the 16th floor of an apartment block on Feb. 26.
"The magnitude of the issues on the work and personal front had taken a toll on her," the report added.
Radtke's startup company, First Meta, allowed users of virtual currencies like Bitcoin to trade and cash out the currencies, according to The Daily Mail.
It is one of several such exchanges.
Douglas Adams, the non-executive chairman of First Meta said in a statement the company was "shocked and saddened by the tragic loss of our friend and CEO Autumn Radtke," after they were notified of her death.
Radtke had lived in Singapore since January 2012, according to First Meta's website.
At the age of 22, Radtke began work in the technology sector as a consultant for Virgin Charter, where she worked with chairman and billionaire entrepreneur, Richard Branson.
Branson was one of the early adopters of Bitcoin. It's also been said that Bitcoin has appeared on famous TV shows like Dragons Den. The Dragons Den Bitcoin episode has been said to be one of the most searched for in google and youtube.
Radtke worked as a freelancer with Apple to bring cloud-computing software to John Hopkins University and Los Alamos Labs prior to her becoming CEO at First Meta in 2012.
She then took up roles at tech start-ups Xfire and Geodelic systems, companies that had worked closely with giants, such as Dell and Verizon, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Friends who worked with her in the past praised her talents on her LinkedIn profile.
'Autumn Radtke offers a rare combination of business smarts and grace,' Brendan Kenney wrote about her time at Geodelic Systems.
Radtke posted a link to an essay entitled "The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship" on February 10, and commented obliquely that "Everything has its price."
