# Matt Huang

> Matt Huang is co-founder and Managing Partner of Paradigm, the research-driven crypto investment firm he launched with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam in 2018. With $12.7 billion in AUM and foundational investments in Uniswap, Optimism, Flashbots, and dozens of other protocols, Huang transformed venture capital by treating his firm as a hybrid research lab, engineering organization, and fund. The son of a Goldman Sachs derivatives head and a pioneering computer science professor, he turned a $500K bet on a language-barrier pitch from Zhang Yiming into an estimated $500M windfall. In 2025, he added founding CEO of Tempo - the Stripe-Paradigm blockchain for global payments - to his portfolio, while raising a new $1.5B fund to expand into AI and robotics.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Paradigm; Founding CEO at Tempo
- **Organizations:** Paradigm, Tempo, Stripe (board), Kalshi (board)
- **Nationality:** American (Taiwanese-American heritage)
- **Education:** B.S. in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Co-founded Paradigm with $12.7B AUM, growing Fund I from $760M to $8.3B in value, Invested in ByteDance at $20-30M valuation; returned ~$500M on ~$500K investment (~10,000x), Named founding CEO of Tempo, Stripe-backed blockchain with $500M Series A at $5B valuation

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Summer Analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (bond price prediction)
- **2009** — Research at MIT Economics Department (financial crises, Knightian uncertainty)
- **2010** — Co-founded Hotspots, Inc. (YC-backed social media trend prediction startup)
- **2012** — Twitter acquired Hotspots; joined Twitter ads team; bought first Bitcoin on Mt. Gox; invested in ByteDance after meeting Zhang Yiming in Beijing
- **2014** — Joined Sequoia Capital as Partner, led internet, mobile, and crypto investments
- **2018** — Co-founded Paradigm with Fred Ehrsam; raised $400-750M Fund I; deployed capital at $4,000-5,000 Bitcoin
- **2021** — Paradigm One raised $2.5B - largest crypto fund in history at the time; joined Stripe board
- **2022** — FTX collapsed; Paradigm wrote off $278M investment
- **2023** — Testified at SBF fraud trial; published 'Casino on Mars' essay
- **2024** — Closed $850M Fund III; published 'Bitcoin for the Sovereign'
- **2025** — Named founding CEO of Tempo (Stripe + Paradigm blockchain); Tempo raised $500M Series A at $5B valuation
- **2026** — Raising new $1.5B fund expanding into AI, robotics, and frontier tech

## Achievements

- Co-founded Paradigm with $12.7B AUM, growing Fund I from $760M to $8.3B in value
- Invested in ByteDance at $20-30M valuation; returned ~$500M on ~$500K investment (~10,000x)
- Named founding CEO of Tempo, Stripe-backed blockchain with $500M Series A at $5B valuation
- Paradigm's open-source tool Foundry secures $100B+ in smart contracts at 90% market penetration
- Backed Uniswap, Optimism, Flashbots, Coinbase, Phantom - foundational crypto infrastructure
- Pioneered Paradigm's hybrid research lab + engineering + VC model
- First person to voluntarily leave Sequoia Capital in Doug Leone's career
- Listed on Gold House A100 - most impactful Asian-Pacific Americans in America
- Co-authored foundational crypto research including 'Bitcoin for the Sovereign' and 'Ethereum Acceleration'
- Led Paradigm to lead Kalshi investment rounds at $11B valuation (2025-2026)

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Paradigm building prediction markets trading terminal targeting professional traders; led Kalshi to $11B valuation
- **2026-03** — Paradigm raising new fund of up to $1.5B, expanding from crypto into AI, robotics, and frontier tech
- **2026-02** — Paradigm partnered with OpenAI to develop EVMbench, evaluating AI models' ability to find smart contract vulnerabilities
- **2025-12** — Tempo opened to public trial/testnet
- **2025-10** — Tempo raised $500M Series A at $5B valuation from Greenoaks, Thrive Capital, Sequoia, Ribbit Capital
- **2025-08** — Named founding CEO of Tempo - Stripe and Paradigm's blockchain for global payments
- **2025-07** — Celebrated Ethereum's 10th birthday on X, noted '10 years, 100% uptime, world computer'
- **2025-04** — Co-authored 'Southern District, Stand Down' defending code developers from criminal prosecution
- **2025-04** — Featured in major profile 'Paradigm Shifts' on Colossus; appeared on Invest Like the Best podcast EP.420

## Links

- Website: https://paradigm.xyz
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmhuang
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/matthuang

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Last updated: 2026-04-29