Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups
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Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with the aim of investing in the “technical frontier,” the firm’s founder Matt Huang announced Wednesday.
For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI. That’s not a surprising move given how hot the AI market has become over the past few years, while crypto has faced challenges.
Paradigm isn’t abandoning crypto altogether, according to a blog post written by Huang and the firm’s managing partner, Alana Palmedo. The firm will “continue investing in crypto and the reinvention of markets and the financial system” and will “continue to research and build where it accelerates the industry, from blockchain tools (Foundry, Reth) to agent tools (Centaur) to security work (EVMbench, a collaboration with OpenAI),” the pair wrote.
But AI and robotics are also priorities. In an interview with Bloomberg, Palmedo said, “There’s so much else happening right now that’s pretty hard to ignore.”
Paradigm’s Fund III has already made some investments, including in drone delivery company Zipline and space startup True Anomaly.
The firm, which was founded in 2018 by Huang, a former partner at Sequoia, and Fred Ehrsam, who co-founded the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, filed to raise the fund earlier this year, according to SEC filings. The fund size is slightly less than the $1.5 billion the firm was seeking to raise, as reported by the Wall Street Journal in February.
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