Matt Huang

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Paradigm · Joined 2018

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Biography

Matt Huang built a track record spotting major technology waves early as a Partner at Sequoia Capital, backing companies including ByteDance and Instacart, before leaving in 2018 to co-found Paradigm with Fred Ehrsam, who had co-founded Coinbase. Huang has led Paradigm's expansion from a purely crypto-focused fund into a broader 'technical frontier' mandate spanning AI and robotics, co-founding Tempo, a blockchain payments network built with Stripe, and sitting on the boards of both Stripe and Kalshi, a regulated crypto futures exchange. He became the firm's day-to-day leader in 2023, and Paradigm has grown to more than $12.7 billion in assets under management under his leadership, with Fund III alone closing at $1.2 billion in 2026 to back frontier bets including drone delivery company Zipline and space company True Anomaly.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Coinbase COINStripeKalshi

Board Seats

Career Timeline

2010s
Founds Hotspots, a mobile startup later acquired by Twitter, before becoming a Partner at Sequoia Capital.
2018
Leaves Sequoia to co-found Paradigm with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam in June.
2021
Coinbase, co-founded by Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam, completes its direct listing at an approximately $86 billion valuation.
2023
Becomes Paradigm's day-to-day leader as managing partner after Ehrsam steps back from that role in October, remaining a co-founder and general partner.
2026
Co-authors the announcement of Paradigm's $1.2 billion fourth fund, expanding the firm's mandate into AI and robotics.

Sources & References

Paradigm - Matt Huang ↗Wikipedia - Paradigm ↗