Paradigm

The investment team is led by Co-Founder and Managing Partner Matt Huang alongside Managing Partner Alana Palmedo. General Partners Dan Robinson, Georgios Konstantopoulos, and Frankie also sit on the investment committee. Co-Founder Fred Ehrsam remains involved as a Senior Advisor.

Paradigm treats research and open-source software as a core function on par with investing. Its team publishes research papers and ships code for protocols and tools across the crypto ecosystem, which it argues creates a deeper technical lens for evaluating founders and protocols than traditional venture due diligence alone.

The firm invests from day zero — often when there is no more than an idea — through growth rounds. Check sizes range from $1M to over $100M, covering seed stage through late-stage venture and liquid token positions.

No. While Paradigm is known for its crypto portfolio, its mandate spans frontier technology broadly. Its public portfolio includes positions in robotics (Zipline), space defense (True Anomaly), and AI infrastructure (Andromeda, Nous Research), alongside its core digital asset holdings.

Paradigm is structured as a limited partnership (Paradigm Operations LP) that combines elements of a venture capital firm, a research institute, and a software development lab. This hybrid model — with dedicated engineers and researchers collaborating alongside the investment team — differentiates it from a standard venture franchise.