Paradigm
Paradigm is a Seed, Pre-Seed venture capital firm based in San Francisco, CA investing in Other. The firm typically writes $1.0M–$10.0M checks and has 93 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $1.0M–$10.0M
- Portfolio
- 93 companies on record
- Partners
- 11 listed
- AUM
- $13B
- Stage
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sectors
- Other
- HQ
- San Francisco, CA
Last verified: 2026-07-04
Seed, Pre-Seed
$1.0M – $10.0M
$12.7B
93+ companies
11 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in crypto-native projects at any layer of the stack, including decentralized finance, payments, and networks.
How Paradigm invests
Paradigm is a vc firm based in San Francisco, CA. The firm invests at the Seed, Pre-Seed stages, with a focus on Other.
Paradigm typically writes checks of $1.0M–$10.0M per investment, backed by approximately $13B in assets under management.
Paradigm has backed 93 companies in our records, including Chainalysis, Optimism, Harmonic.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (93)
Other
Chainalysis
Optimism
Harmonic
Coinbase
Phantom
Fireblocks
Kalshi
Flashbots
Privy
Across
- •Raising at Seed, Pre-Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $1.0M – $10.0M check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Fred Ehrsam, Co-founder and Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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