# Matthew Wang

> Matthew Wang is the founder and CEO of OpenGradient, a New York company building a decentralized compute layer for verifiable and confidential AI. A former Two Sigma research engineer who cut his teeth on equity-options market-making infrastructure, he left quant finance in 2024 to chase a simpler question: can you prove that the AI answering you is the AI you think it is? OpenGradient runs models on-chain with cryptographic proofs and hardware enclaves, and has raised $9.5M led by a16z crypto, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, and angels including Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, and Sandeep Nailwal.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at OpenGradient
- **Organizations:** OpenGradient, Two Sigma, Google, Meta, NASA
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Founded and leads OpenGradient, a decentralized compute layer for verifiable and confidential AI, Raised $9.5M total funding, led by a16z crypto with Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures and others, Attracted angel backing from Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin (NEAR), and Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon)

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Software engineering intern at NASA, working on preliminary hazard data analytics
- **2019** — Software engineering intern at Meta on messaging infrastructure for Instagram and Messenger
- **2019** — Machine learning engineering intern at Google, modeling for the Google Ads traffic estimator
- **2020-2024** — Research engineer at Two Sigma, building modeling infrastructure for equity-options market making
- **2024** — Co-founded OpenGradient and became CEO
- **2024** — OpenGradient raises $8.5M seed round (announced October 9, 2024)
- **2026** — OpenGradient announces $9.5M total funding led by a16z crypto (April 14, 2026)

## Achievements

- Founded and leads OpenGradient, a decentralized compute layer for verifiable and confidential AI
- Raised $9.5M total funding, led by a16z crypto with Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Foresight Ventures and others
- Attracted angel backing from Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin (NEAR), and Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon)
- Grew network to 2M+ users and 2M+ verifiable inferences with 500K+ cryptographic proofs generated
- Built a Decentralized Model Hub hosting 2,000+ models from 100+ developers
- Spent four years at Two Sigma engineering quant research infrastructure for options markets

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — OpenGradient announced $9.5M total funding led by a16z crypto to build the compute layer for verifiable AI
- **2025-03** — Presented OpenGradient at ETHDenver
- **2024-10** — Closed $8.5M seed round to decentralize AI infrastructure

## Links

- Website: https://www.matthewwang.nyc/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-wang-935998117
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/0xdeltahedged
- GitHub: https://github.com/Marblez

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Last updated: 2026-06-22