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Adam Goldberg

Investor

Investments at Standard Crypto Β· Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Adam Goldberg co-founded Standard in 2019 and has invested in technology startups for over a decade. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he concentrated on crypto/blockchain, AI, and other frontier technologies. He enrolled at UC Berkeley at age 13 to study pure and applied mathematics, later worked as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and as a mathematician for the Department of Defense, and was the first product hire at Rubrik.

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adamgoldberg @adamgoldberg

So … status quo. Good job Donnie. https://t.co/XZW0w9sxSj

Jan 22, 2026

adamgoldberg @adamgoldberg

Hey @OpenAlex_org , I'm not sure that Walden (v2) fixes much. My orcid is associated with a different author, and his works includes widely diverging things (probably 3 or more authors, judging from dates & fields of study). Help?

Nov 11, 2025

adamgoldberg @adamgoldberg

Dear Canada: Sorry our... #care2 https://t.co/H3OK9tLDXi

Jul 11, 2025

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3

Experience

  1. StandardCo-Foundercurrent2019 β€” presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. MatrixportBoard Membercurrent2019 β€” present
  3. Lightspeed Venture PartnersVenture Partner2019 β€” 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  4. Lightspeed Venture PartnersPartner2016 β€” 2019Menlo Park, CA
  5. HBOTechnical Consultant2014 β€” 2019
  6. Rubrik, Inc.Product2015 β€” 2016Palo Alto, CA
  7. Stanford InfoLabResearcher2014 β€” 2015
  8. United States Department of DefenseMathematician2011
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryResearcher2010 β€” 2011Berkeley, CA

Education

  1. Stanford UniversityB.S., Computer Science
  2. University of California, BerkeleyB.S. (dropped out), Mathematics

Skills & more

Matlab7C++19Java18LaTeX2Microsoft Office12Windows2Word5C4UnixMySQL1SQL1HTML3
+12 moreCSSJavaScriptjQueryPythonGitRRubyObjective-CMathematicsMachine LearningComputer ScienceSoftware Engineering

Languages Russian

From Adam's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Stanford University1,578

Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital

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Also attended University of California, Berkeley863

Byron DeeterPartner at Bessemer Venture PartnersTrevor OelschigInvestment Team at General CatalystBrendan Bulik-SullivanInvestor at GV (Google Ventures)Glen AndersonPartner at Monta Vista CapitalAnthony LinHead of Intel Capital, Corporate Vice President at Intel CapitalScott ShawChief of Staff at Intel Capital

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Shared employers

Also worked at Matrixport4

Cynthia WuFounding Partner & Chief Commercial Officer at BIT AsiaChristopher LiuChief Compliance Officer at BIT AsiaWendy SunChief Brand Officer at BIT AsiaDavid TiczonAnalyst at Reciprocal Ventures

Also worked at Lightspeed Venture Partners105

Jeremy LiewPartner at Lightspeed Venture PartnersKishen PatelInvestor at GreycroftSemil ShahInvestor at HaystackMark XuInvestor at Index VenturesAdrian RaduInvestor at Khosla VenturesAndy ChuDirector of Tax at CapitalG

+ 99 more

Also worked at HBO12

Karen SkeltonAdvisor, Visiting Scholar At Stanford's Doerr School Of Sustainability; Former Senior Policy Advisor, US Department Of Energy at Overture ClimateYersultan SaparInvestor at FEBE VenturesTimothy MohnCTO & Advisor at Seaside VenturesTony LiuPartner at Costanoa VenturesSavannah GreenePrincipal at Workday VenturesMark PercivalPartner at 1984 Ventures Management, Llc

+ 6 more

Also worked at Rubrik, Inc.12

Nancy WangInvestor at Felicis VenturesAsheem ChandnaInvestor at Greylock PartnersNicole PerlrothVenture Partner at Ballistic VenturesMark SmithExecutive Advisor at TCVVasu MurthyCPO Fellow at Mighty CapitalRavi MhatrePartner and Co-Founder at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Ashley Sweren
Operations / Compliance at Standard Crypto
Athena Kim
Operations / Finance at Standard Crypto
Byron Anderson
Operations / Finance at Standard Crypto
Gavi Galloway
Engineering / Investments at Standard Crypto
Jack Wolters
Operations / Finance at Standard Crypto
Kajal Ford
Executive Assistant at Standard Crypto

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Aaron Batalion
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Alex Taussig
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Alexander Schmitt
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Anoushka Vaswani
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Antoine Moyroud
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Arsham Memarzadeh
Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
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