Where does Matt Huang work?

Matt Huang is Founder/CEO of Hotspots and Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Paradigm and Board director at Gitcoin and Board director at Kalshi and Board director at Starkware.

What check size does Matt Huang write?

Matt Huang typically writes checks of $1M – $100M.

What companies did Matt Huang found?

Matt Huang founded Hotspots, Paradigm.

What boards does Matt Huang sit on?

Matt Huang holds tracked board seats at Kalshi, Stripe.

What companies has Matt Huang invested in?

Investments tracked here include Benchling, ByteDance, Instacart.

Where did Matt Huang go to school?

Matt Huang studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., Mathematics).

Matt Huang

InvestorFounder

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Paradigm · Board Member at Starkware · Board director at Gitcoin · Board director at Kalshi

San Francisco, CA

Writes $1M – $100M checks

FoundedHotspots · YC Paradigm

30 Under 30 2015 · Venture Capital

Find your path to Matt

11,966 people in our graph share verified history with Matt — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Laura BuhlerunlockedMatt: together at Stripe (2025–2026)

×2Matt: together at Twitter

×2Matt: together at Goldman Sachs

×2Matt: together at Stripe

About

Matt Huang co-founded Paradigm with Fred Ehrsam in 2018 and leads the firm as its sole managing partner, building one of the largest investment platforms dedicated to crypto and frontier technology. A former Sequoia partner who made an early personal investment in ByteDance, he has steered Paradigm's positions in Uniswap, Optimism and other core crypto infrastructure.

Contact· self-published, not guessed

m•••@paradigm.xyzreveal

Likely emails· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintechGaming

Beyond investing

Founded: Matt Huang founded Hotspots, a Y Combinator company that was acquired by Twitter in 2012. Matt Huang founded Tempo, a payments network co-founded by Paradigm and Stripe, and serves as its CEO.
Education: Studied at MIT (B.S., Mathematics)

Mentioned above: the Y Combinator mafia → · the Stripe mafia →

From published sources — common ground for a warm intro.

Board director at Gitcoin

Intro paths

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In turn, Matt can intro founders to Gitcoin's investors below.

Gitcoin's investors · 11

Balaji Srinivasan$10K – $500K checks · since 2021 BootNodesince 2021 ConsenSys MeshZug · since 2021 DivergenceSan Francisco · since 2021 Electric CapitalPalo Alto · $1M – $20M checks · since 2021 Ethereal Ventures Management Ltd.Road Town, Tortola · since 2021 Fenbushi CapitalShanghai · $1.3M – $30M checks · since 2021 IDEO CoLab VenturesSan Francisco · $100K – $10M checks · since 2021 IOSG VenturesHong Kong · $10K – $100K checks · since 2021 OKX VenturesSingapore · $2M – $38M checks · since 2021 ParadigmSan Francisco · $1M – $100M checks · since 2021

Co-founders at Gitcoin

Kevin Owocki

Kevin O.Founder

Board director at Kalshi YC W19

Intro paths

Kalshi went through Y Combinator (Winter 2019) — Matt sits on its board, so any YC alum in your network can reach them through the company's founders.

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In turn, Matt can intro founders to Kalshi's investors below.

Kalshi's investors · 34

a16z cryptoMenlo Park Alpha PartnersNew York · $3M – $10M checks Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025 CapitalGSan Francisco · $50M – $100M checks Coatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checks Conductive VenturesMountain View Deviation CapitalNew York EQUIAMSan Francisco · $1M – $10M checks Everybody Ventures$100K checks Formus Capital Human CapitalSan Francisco · $250K – $200M checks Integra GroupeMenlo Park · $100K – $200K checks Interplay Ventures Early Stage Management LlcNew York · $1M checks IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)San Francisco · $15M – $75M checks · since 2025 J17 Capital Jam FundLos Angeles · $500K – $20M checks Manhattan WestLos Angeles Mantis CapitalSanta Monica · $100K – $1M checks Mech VenturesLas Vegas Meritech Capital PartnersPalo Alto · $5M – $40M checks Multicoin CapitalAustin · $1M – $50M checks Nexus BayTelegraph Bay Night CapitalCapitola ParadigmSan Francisco · $1M – $100M checks · since 2025 Pathlight VenturesOld Bridge · $500K – $5M checks Razor Capital Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2025 SGH CapitalParis Soma CapitalSacramento · $100K – $300K checks Spark CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $25M checks SV AngelSan Francisco ThirdbaseNew York WealthUnion$10K checks Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019

Co-founders at Kalshi

Luana Lopes LaraFounder

Tarek MansourCo-founder & CEO

Board director at Starkware

Intro paths

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In turn, Matt can intro founders to Starkware's investors below.

Starkware's investors · 21

Co-founders at Starkware

Eli Ben-SassonCo-Founder, CEO

Uri KolodnyCo-founder, Board Member

Alessandro ChiesaCo-Founder

Michael RiabzevChief Architect

Experience

ParadigmCo-Founder and Managing Partnercurrent2018 — present
TempoProject Leadcurrent2025 — present
StripeBoard Membercurrent2021 — present
Angel InvestingEarly Stage Investorcurrent2011 — presentSan Francisco, CA
Sequoia CapitalPartner2014 — 2018San Francisco & Menlo Park, CA
TwitterAds2012 — 2014San Francisco, CA
Hotspots, Inc.Founder/CEO2010 — 2012San Francisco, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Researcher, Department of Economics2009Cambridge, MA
Goldman Sachs Asset ManagementSummer Analyst2008New York, NY

Skills & more

JavaScriptSoftware DevelopmentComputer ScienceWeb ApplicationsCSSRubyMySQLHTMLData AnalysisMachine LearningData VisualizationAnalytics

+5 more

Product DevelopmentPythonMatlabRMobile Applications

Languages Chinese (Mandarin) · English

From Matt's professional profile.

Investments

Board seats

Kalshi Stripe

Investor

BenchlingByteDanceInstacart

Per curated public sources.

Podcasts & interviews

featuring Matt Huang

Matt Huang on X: "Paradigm’s 4th fund $1.2B to invest and build in crypto, AI, robotics, and other areas of the technical frontier https://t.co/Svy5ncVTbm" / X

x.com

Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang regrets investing in SBF and FTX

CryptoKrave

Paradigm founders Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang

UpOnly

Colleagues at Paradigm

Alana Palmedo

Managing Partner at Paradigm

Alex Grieve

VP of Government Affairs at Paradigm

Alex Popescu

Chief Compliance Officer at Paradigm

Alpin Yukseloglu

Partner, Investing & Research at Paradigm

Arjun Balaji

Partner, Investing & Research at Paradigm

Ben Hinshaw

Deputy General Counsel at Paradigm

Chris Kraeuter

Head of Communications at Paradigm

Ciamac Moallemi

Research Advisor at Paradigm

Frequently asked questions

Who is Matt Huang?: Matt Huang co-founded Paradigm with Fred Ehrsam in 2018 and leads the firm as its sole managing partner, building one of the largest investment platforms dedicated to crypto and frontier technology. A former Sequoia partner who made an early personal investment in ByteDance, he has steered Paradigm's positions in Uniswap, Optimism and other core crypto infrastructure.
Where does Matt Huang work?: Matt Huang is Founder/CEO of Hotspots and Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Paradigm and Board director at Gitcoin and Board director at Kalshi and Board director at Starkware.
What does Matt Huang invest in?: Matt Huang invests in AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Developer Tools, Fintech, Gaming.
What check size does Matt Huang write?: Matt Huang typically writes checks of $1M – $100M.
What companies did Matt Huang found?: Matt Huang founded Hotspots, Paradigm.
What boards does Matt Huang sit on?: Matt Huang holds tracked board seats at Kalshi, Stripe.
What companies has Matt Huang invested in?: Investments tracked here include Benchling, ByteDance, Instacart.
Where did Matt Huang go to school?: Matt Huang studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., Mathematics).
What podcasts and interviews feature Matt Huang?: Tracked appearances include "Matt Huang on X: "Paradigm’s 4th fund $1.2B to invest and build in crypto, AI, robotics, and other areas of the technical frontier https://t.co/Svy5ncVTbm" / X", "Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang regrets investing in SBF and FTX", "Paradigm founders Fred Ehrsam and Matt Huang".