Matt Huang is co-founder and Managing Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Matt was a partner at Sequoia Capital focusing on early-stage venture investments including leading the firm’s cryptocurrency efforts. Matt was the founder and CEO of Hotspots, a Y Combinator company acquired by Twitter in 2012, and angel investor in companies such as Bytedance and Instacart. He purchased his first Bitcoin from MtGox in 2012. Matt holds a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT.

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Matt Huang

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Fred Ehrsam is co-founder and General Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Fred co-founded Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency company in the US, and held the role of President from 2012 to 2017. Fred purchased his first Bitcoin in 2011 and has been an angel investor in some of the space’s most formative companies. Prior to Coinbase, Fred was a foreign exchange trader at Goldman Sachs in New York. Fred holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics with honors and departmental distinction from Duke University.

Fred Ehrsam

Co-Founder & General Partner

Alana Palmedo is a Managing Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Paradigm overseeing firm management. Previously, Alana was on the investment team at the Boston University Endowment office where she covered alternatives, private equity and venture capital. Alana began her career in asset management in 2008 at Cascade Investment, LLC, the investment office for Bill & Melinda Gates. Alana earned her MBA from MIT Sloan and BBA from Pacific Lutheran University.

Alana Palmedo

Managing Partner & COO

Charlie Noyes is a General Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Charlie was a member of the investment team at Pantera Capital. He began working on crypto research in high school and attended MIT for one year (incomplete).

Charlie Noyes

General Partner

Dan Robinson is a General Partner at Paradigm, focused on crypto investments and research into open-source protocols. Previously, Dan was a protocol researcher at Interstellar. Before Interstellar, Dan practiced as a litigation attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Dan Robinson

Georgios Konstantopoulos is the Chief Technology Officer and a General Partner focused on Paradigm’s portfolio companies and research into open-source protocols. Previously, Georgios was an independent consultant and researcher focused on cryptography, information security and mechanism design. He earned his M.Eng. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Georgios Konstantopoulos

General Partner & CTO

Arjun Balaji is a Partner focused on crypto investments. Previously, Arjun was an independent cryptocurrency analyst, consulting with NY-based hedge funds and family offices on allocation models, mining, crypto-derivatives, and other financial services and infrastructure businesses. He earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern University.

Arjun Balaji

Partner, Investing & Research

Caitlin Pintavorn is a Partner at Paradigm. Previously, she was an investor at Insight Partners focused on crypto. Prior to Insight, Caitlin spent time at PathAI and Two Sigma. Caitlin holds a B.A. in Economics from Brown University.

Caitlin Pintavorn

Dave White is a Research Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Dave was a quantitative trader and researcher at firms including Headlands, Two Sigma, and Cutler Group. He is three credits shy of an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University.

Dave White

Research Partner

Doug Feagin is a Partner at Paradigm. Previously, he was an investor at Coatue focused on crypto, gaming and fintech. Before Coatue, Doug spent time at Goldman Sachs. He earned his B.A. in International Relations from Princeton.

Doug Feagin

Frankie is a Partner at Paradigm. Previously, Frankie was a machine learning engineer, quantitative developer, and trader. He holds a degree in computer science and econometrics.

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Sam is a Research Partner at Paradigm, focused on portfolio companies and research into security and related topics. Previously, Sam was a security engineer at Trail of Bits where he worked on improving security tooling for developers and helped clients write safer code. Sam helps secure the cryptocurrency ecosystem by responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities and publishing educational resources.

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Transmissions is a Research Associate at Paradigm. Transmissions works to push the effiency frontier of smart contracts by developing optimized libraries and primitives. He is also interested in intepreting and programmatically steering large language models. He currently attends high school in California.

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Research Associate

David Swain is Chief Marketing Officer at Paradigm. Previously, David was Vice President of Partnerships and Content Strategy at Strava, joining through the acquisition of Prokit, the company he co-founded and led as CEO. David spent nearly a decade in leadership roles at Meta, most recently as Head of Global Communications on Instagram’s management team. At Facebook, he led communications for Facebook Platform and its work with the developer and startup ecosystem. He began his career in agency roles, helping startups, venture firms, and developers grow their brands and navigate their growth. David holds a B.S. in Psychology and Economics from St. Lawrence University.

David Swain

Chief Marketing Officer

Katie Biber is Chief Legal Officer at Paradigm, leading the firm's legal, regulatory, compliance, and policy functions. Previously, Katie was Chief Legal Officer of Brex, a fintech startup reimagining financial systems for growing companies. Prior to Brex, she was General Counsel of Anchorage, a digital asset bank and platform, and has also held leadership roles as General Counsel of Thumbtack and Senior Counsel at Airbnb. Katie serves on the board of directors of Anchorage and Protocol Labs. A veteran of political campaigns, she was General Counsel to Romney for President in 2012. Katie holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and B.A. from George Washington University.

Katie Biber

CLO, Partner

Aaron is a Business Operations Analyst at Paradigm. Previously, he worked on Product Strategy and Protocol Research at Visa Crypto. Prior to Visa, he spent time at Coinbase and UBS. Aaron holds a B.A. in Economics from Macalester College.

Aaron Salot

Business Operations Analyst

Albert is a Software Engineer at Paradigm. Previously Albert supported front-end engineering efforts on the Dynamic Ads team at Facebook, as well as the Oculus/Portal e-commerce checkout experience. He has also held full-stack engineering roles at several startups including Cureus, SocialChorus and Pivotal Labs. Albert holds a B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Albert Peng

Software Engineer

Alex is an Assistant Controller at Paradigm. Previously, Alex was an Assurance Senior at EY LLP where she worked with a variety of clients in the Wealth and Asset Management industry, gaining exposure to unique and early stage crypto related investments. Alex holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from California Polytechnic State University.

Alex Ehlers

Assistant Controller

Alexander Grieve serves as the VP of Government Affairs for Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, Alex was Vice President of Tiger Hill Partners, a financial regulatory advisory and lobbying firm, where he led Tiger Hill’s crypto regulatory and advocacy practice. Alex also served as the Republican government affairs specialist for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the securities clearinghouse and financial market infrastructure, which provided his 2017 entry into crypto policy. Prior to DTCC, Alex served as an aide to Speaker of the House John Boehner, and began his career on the campaign of Gabriel Gomez for US Senate. He earned his Masters in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management, and his B.A. from Colgate University.

Alex Grieve

VP of Government Affairs

Alex Popescu is Chief Compliance Officer at Paradigm. Prior to Paradigm, Alex served for fourteen years in a variety of legal and compliance roles at Fortress Investment Group, a global investment manager offering credit, real estate, private equity, and permanent capital vehicle strategies. Most recently, Alex was the Director of Compliance for Fortress’s Credit and Real Estate business. Prior to that, he was the Director of Compliance for Fortress’s Private Equity business. He began his career as Regulatory Counsel, supporting all of Fortress's business lines on regulatory matters. Alex holds a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School and B.A. from Columbia University.

Alex Popescu

Chief Compliance Officer

Alex Walterspiel is a Partner and Head of Trading at Paradigm. Previously, Alex was a Partner and Head Trader at Indaba Capital Management for over 11 years. He has held various trading and analyst positions at MIG LLC, Glacier Asset Management, Watershed Asset Management, and Thomas Weisel Partners. Alex graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in Finance and was an All-American rugby player.

Alex Walterspiel

Head Trader, Partner

Amy has 6+ years of administrative and event experience in the medical, commercial real estate, and venture capital industries. She graduated at the top of her department from California State University, Long Beach where she received her degree in French and Francophone Studies.

Amy Sinclair

Executive Assistant

Anita Wong is a Senior Executive Assistant at Paradigm. She was born and raised in San Francisco. Prior to Paradigm, Anita had supported C-Suite executives in the Financial Services, Academia and Healthcare industries. Anita holds a BS in Business Management from San Francisco State University.

Anita Wong

Senior Executive Assistant

Ben is the Associate General Counsel at Paradigm. He began his legal career at Gunderson Dettmer serving as outside counsel for venture-backed technology companies and leading venture capital firms. Most recently, he was the Associate General Counsel at Khosla Ventures. Ben also founded and led Willow Labs, building a wildfire analytics platform to protect lives, properties and investments. He earned a B.A. and J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Ben Hinshaw

Associate General Counsel

Brandon Wong is an IT Systems Engineering Manager at Paradigm. Brandon started his career in IT support for companies such as Intuit and Genentech. More recently, he has worked as a Systems Engineer at LinkedIn and Coinbase.

Brandon Wong

IT Systems Engineering Manager

Brendan Malone is a Policy Manager at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, Brendan worked at the Federal Reserve where he focused on policy issues for financial market infrastructures. Earlier in his career, Brendan managed a large-scale research project for a group of economists at MIT and Harvard. He earned an M.A. in Applied Economics and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Vermont.

Brendan Malone

Policy Manager & Head of Policy Lab

Chentai is a software engineer at Paradigm. Previously, Chentai worked at startups and corporations across 10+ industries and all sizes of teams. He earned his Master in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Chentai Kao

Chris is a Senior Technical Recruiter at Paradigm. He began his recruiting career at startups like Via and Instacart, and most recently led recruiting for Worldcoin's protocol team. Chris holds a B.A. with Honors in Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Chris Shu

Senior Technical Recruiter

Cookie Wiese is the People Ops Lead at Paradigm. Previously, she was the first HR hire at Brex, where she spent 4.5 years building and leading People Operations, Employee Relations, and serving as a People Partner. Prior to Brex, she worked at high-growth startups Thumbtack and Fitbit. Cookie holds an MFT from the University of San Diego and a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Oregon.

Cookie Wiese

People Operations Lead

Dan McCarthy is the Head of Talent at Paradigm, focused on helping Paradigm’s portfolio companies build world-class teams. He began his career in engineering recruiting at Google before joining Clever (YC S12) as its first recruiter and later its head of talent. Most recently, he led Lime’s executive recruiting team across operations in San Francisco and Shenzhen. Dan holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University.

Dan McCarthy

Head of Talent

Derek is a Software Engineer at Paradigm. Previously he worked on building a generative AI for web and app designs at Galileo, and a product onboarding platform at Bento. He enjoys videography and the outdoors. Derek holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly Pomona.

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Dominique Little is a Policy Associate at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, Dominique was a Legislative Correspondent working in the technology and telecommunications portfolio for U.S. Senator Cory Booker. In this role, she focused on issues relating to digital assets, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic biases. Dominique also served as Assistant to the Chief Staff in Sen. Booker’s office. Prior to working in Congress, Dominique was a Finance Assistant for Sen. Booker’s presidential campaign in 2019. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Dominique Little

Policy Associate

Elena is the Officer Coordinator at Paradigm. She was born and raised in Minnesota. Elena is a recent graduate of Saint Cloud State University where she received a B.S. degree in Business Management and was a member of the swim team. In college, she worked part-time as a Customer Service Representative at a bank.

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Office Manager

Gabrielle is a native Californian. She supported legal departments in a variety of industries for more than a decade and is a seasoned Executive Assistant. In her previous role at Salesforce, she supported the SVP of Legal Operations and the VP of Global Ethics.


Gabrielle Lindsey

Gianna started her career working in a variety of roles at Apple including the Genius Bar, Corporate Helpline Support and IT Problem Coordination. Most recently, she has worked as a Senior IT Engineer and Technical Program Manager at Coinbase.


Gianna Golding

IT Engineer

Gina Moon is General Counsel at Paradigm. Prior to Paradigm, Gina was General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at OpenSea, where she ran the legal & policy teams. Before that, she served as a product counsel, litigator, and regulatory lawyer at Facebook and Uber. Gina began her career at Gibson Dunn and clerked for the Honorable William Alsup in the Northern District of California. She currently serves on the board of Planned Parenthood Northern California. Gina received her J.D. from Columbia University and her B.A. in Science, Technology & Society from Stanford University.


Gina Moon

General Counsel

Holly Morgan-Winsdale is a Senior Executive Assistant at Paradigm. She started her career at The British International School of New York. Prior to Paradigm, she worked at Thoma Bravo and Everlane, where she supported the CEO. Holly earned her B.A in Anthropology from The University of Sussex.

Holly Morgan-Winsdale

Josh Ephraim is Associate General Counsel at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, he served as corporate outside counsel to venture capital funds and technology companies at Gunderson Dettmer. Josh also served as an Investor and Managing Partner at Dorm Room Fund and began his career as a management consultant focused on the biotech industry. Josh earned a B.A., J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Josh Ephraim

Josie is the Head of Events at Paradigm, strategically leading all internal and external events. Prior to joining Paradigm, Josie spent 15+ years at the Sundance Institute as the Director of Events overseeing and growing the events division. She managed a department of event and operation experts who planned, produced and executed over 150 multiform events annually at the Sundance Film Festival and year round programs. Josie began her career in events working for Ronald Reagan Library, US Women’s Ski Team, S&R Originals and The Depot. Josie earned her B.A. in Marketing Communications and Public Relations at California Lutheran University.

Josie Franciose McGuinn

Head of Events

Justin Slaughter is the VP of Regulatory Affairs at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, Justin was Director of the office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs and Senior Advisor to Acting Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Allison Herren Lee. Justin has also served as Chief Policy Advisor and Special Counsel to former Commissioner Sharon Bowen at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and General Counsel to Senator Edward J. Markey. Justin has also served as a consultant in private practice focusing on fintech and smaller technology companies, and he began his career as a law clerk to Judge Jerome Farris on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Justin has a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Justin Slaughter

VP of Regulatory Affairs

Karina Berry is an Executive Assistant at Paradigm. She previously worked at a Fund of Funds where she supported the Founder and Managing Director. Prior to that she was in VC working as a Receptionist and Office Assistant. She holds a B.A in Environmental Science and a minor in Biology.

Karina Berry

Katie Shia is a Product Designer at Paradigm, working on design problems across the firm. Previously, she was at Studio Rodrigo, a design agency based in Brooklyn. During her time there, she collaborated with early-stage startups, helping them build and launch their products through strategy and design. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Katie Shia

Product Designer

Laura is the VP of Finance at Paradigm. Prior to Paradigm, Laura managed a variety of funds and finance teams at Norwest Venture Partners, NextWorld, and Decheng Capital. She holds a B.S. in Finance and a Masters in Accounting.

Laura Tse

VP of Finance

Lindsay joined Paradigm in 2020 and serves as an Investor Relations Specialist. She is responsible for investor correspondence, business development and assists with fundraising efforts. Previously, Lindsay was a Finance Manager at the firm having been promoted from Finance Associate. Earlier in Lindsay's career, she was a Deals Senior Associate at PwC LLP where she worked on various M&A transactions in the technology, financial services, and biotech sectors. Lindsay earned her B.A in Economics & Accounting at Claremont McKenna College.

Lindsay Slocum

Investor Relations Lead

Loren Siebert is the VP of Engineering at Paradigm. Most recently, Loren worked on data engineering at Citadel Securities and served as a Venture Partner at Akkadian Ventures. Previously, Loren was a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught Arabic. He holds degrees in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and the University of Manchester, and studied technology policy at the London School of Economics as a Marshall Scholar.

Loren Siebert

VP of Engineering

Matt is the Head of Tax at Paradigm. Prior to joining Paradigm, he was a Partner, Senior Tax Counsel at SoftBank Investment Advisors. Previously, he was a Senior Manager in KPMG's M&A Tax practice. Matt received a J.D. from The University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.

Matt Johnson

Head of Tax

Megan is an Event Coordinator at Paradigm. She moved to CA in 2020 after 12 years in New York City where she began her career as a Sales Assistant at Sanford C. Bernstein. Later she was the Corporate Access Associate at Liberum Capital and then the Investor Relations Assistant at Capital Fund Management. Megan earned her BSc in Finance from Rutgers University.

Megan Delaney

Event Coordinator

Meghan Wahl is a Senior Executive Assistant at Paradigm. She was born and raised in the Bay Area. Prior to Paradigm, Meghan had supported C-Suite executives in the Technology and Healthcare industries.

Meghan Wahl

Tauseef is a Software Engineer at Paradigm. Previously he worked on building an ed-tech platform at Juni Learning, and a web-based photo editor at Polarr. Tauseef is deeply interested in street photography and indie game development. He holds a Masters in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mohammed Tauseef

Naz is a Business Operations Analyst at Paradigm. Previously, he was a Web3 Investments Analyst at BECO Capital and a co-founder at Pocketask. Naz earned his B.A. in Economics at the University of Chicago.

Naz Kabbani

Nic is a Senior Recruiter at Paradigm. She began her recruiting career building engineering teams at startups like Clever (YC S12) and Lime. Most recently she built engineering teams at Coinbase through both traditional recruiting and targeted acqui-hire projects. Nic earned her B.A. in Psychology at UC Davis.

Nic Woodyard

Senior Recruiter

Nick Martitsch is the Market Development Lead at Paradigm, helping the portfolio execute on crypto-native business strategy. Previously, Nick was the Head of Business Development at Voltz Labs, Partnerships Lead at Compound Labs, and Capital Formation Associate at Pantera Capital. Nick holds a B.A. in Economics and Accounting from UC Santa Barbara.

Nick Martitsch

Head of Market Development

Nicole is a Legal Operations Associate at Paradigm. She brings with her 8+ years of experience managing c-suite executives in a variety of organizations such as the Hawai'i Food and Wine Festival, The Trust for Public Land, Felicis Ventures, and Francisco Partners. A graduate of the University of San Francisco, Nicole holds a B.A. in Art History & Arts Management.

Nicole Bae

Legal Operations Associate

Peggy is a Management Company Accountant at Paradigm. Previously, Peggy was an Assurance and Advisory Senior Associate at Frank, Rimerman + Co. LLP where she worked on venture capital and technology clients. Peggy holds a B.A. in Economics from UC San Diego.

Peggy Yan

Management Company Accountant

Sarinna Flores is an Executive Assistant at Paradigm. Previously Sarinna was an Executive Assistant at Khosla Ventures where she supported multiple investment Partners. Prior to Khosla, Sarinna attended both City College of San Francisco & San Jose State University. At City College, Sarinna earned a degree in Culinary Arts and then moved on to earn her bachelor’s in Hospitality, Tourism & Event Management at San Jose State.

Sarinna Flores

Storm is a data associate at Paradigm. He uses data science and data engineering to analyze crypto systems and build crypto data infrastructure. Storm is passionate about open source software and open data standards. He has published open-source tools for collecting and analyzing data from many crypto protocols. Prior to Paradigm, Storm was a data specialist at Fei Labs. He earned his PhD from UC Berkeley doing neuroscience research.

Storm Slivkoff

Data Associate

Tammy is a Recruiting Operations Associate at Paradigm. Previously, she operationally supported the growth of engineering teams at Robinhood and LinkedIn. Tammy holds a B.S. in Biotechnology from University of California, Davis.

Tammy Halawi

Recruiting Operations Associate

Teresa is the Head of Business Operations at Paradigm. Previously, she was Chief of Staff to the CEO at Thrive Financial where she focused on working cross-functionally with Growth, Operations, and Legal. Teresa earned her B.S. in Engineering at Stanford University.

Teresa Grandía

Head of Business Operations

Tony is a recent transplant to the Bay area, hailing originally from Salt Lake City, UT. He recently joined the events team after a variety of different fields, from event marketing for national breweries, to artist relations at the Sundance Film Festival. He most recently left a position as the Director of Events and Services for the Salt Lake convention and visitors bureau, building a strategy to grow the city's visitor economy and reshape public opinion.

Tony Coppola

Event Manager

Vidhu is a Finance Associate at Paradigm. Previously, Vidhu was an Assurance Senior at Ernst & Young, LLP. where she worked with a variety of clients in the Wealth and Asset Management industry. She also works as a finance lead for a 501c3 non-profit organization, Kozakov Foundation that focuses on providing scholarships and financial literacy tools to students in the creative industry. Vidhu earned her Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in Accounting at University of Cincinnati.

Vidhu Pinnamaraju

Finance Associate

Volkan is a Software Engineer at Paradigm. Previously Volkan supported front-end engineering efforts at Anchorage Digital. Volkan holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Bilkent University.

Volkan Gül

Yang is the Head of Design at Paradigm, leading design efforts for the firm and advising the portfolio. Previously, she was a lead product designer at Syndicate and Anchorage Digital, and worked with early-stage founders at VectorDAO. She spent time designing for traditional fintech at Capital One and tools to help agents catch bad guys at Deloitte. She earned a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Yang You

Head of Design

Ciamac Moallemi is William von Mueffling Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, & Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, and the Director of the Briger Family Digital Finance Lab. In his work with Paradigm, he focuses on applied research in mechanism and market design, with a particular focus on decentralized finance.

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Research Advisor

Jackson Dahl is a Venture Partner at Paradigm. Previously, he was part of the founding team of 100 Thieves, a premier esports team and lifestyle brand. Before 100 Thieves, Jackson was an investor at Lowercase Capital and Universal Music Group. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from The University of Southern California.

Jackson Dahl

Venture Partner

Achal is Design Collaborator at Paradigm, working with the firm, the portfolio, and the community to solve emerging design problems. Before this, Achal was the first design hire at Paradigm, and spent his formational years supporting notable early-stage teams like dYdX with brand & product design strategy.

Achal Srinivasan

Design Collaborator

Sofiane Larbi is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Paradigm focusing on consumer applications. Previously, he built a number of web2 social apps in his spare time and researched applications of cryptography in the government and financial system. Most recently, he built crypto-focused apps like TMR.NEWS, elements.fun, and zk attested images. He is on leave from Stanford University, where he studied Mathematics.