Matt Huang

He graduated from MIT with a BS in mathematics; he founded Hotspots, a Y Combinator company that was acquired by Twitter in 2012.⁠[1]

Before founding Paradigm, he was a partner at Sequoia CapitalSequoia CapitalSequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972, investing from the seed stage through the growth stage. Its historical investments include Apple, Cisco, Google, YouTube, Airbnb, and Stripe; in 2021 it introduced the Sequoia Capital Fund structure, which can continue to hold public securities, and in 2023 its regional businesses became independent brands and partnerships.Open the full entry and was an early investor in ByteDance, Instacart and Benchling.⁠[1]

He co-founded Paradigm in 2018. The firm describes itself as a technology investment firm investing in areas such as crypto, AI and robotics, with offices in San Francisco, New York City and Washington, DC.⁠[1][2]

On September 4, 2025, he published a post announcing Tempo, a payments-first blockchain, set up as a new company with its own full-time team and jointly incubated by Stripe and Paradigm.⁠[3][4]

In the post he said he would lead Tempo while continuing to lead Paradigm alongside Alana.⁠[3]

Tempo’s testnet went live on December 9, 2025, and its mainnet went live on March 18, 2026, letting developers build on it through public RPC endpoints.⁠[5][6]

Paradigm’s website says he is the firm’s co-founder and managing partner, serves on the boards of Stripe and Kalshi, and leads Tempo.⁠[1]

Paradigm: Official website: https://www.paradigm.xyz/ (opens in a new window)⁠[2]

Tempo: Official website: https://tempo.xyz/ (opens in a new window)⁠[4]

X: Public account: https://x.com/matthuang (opens in a new window)⁠[1]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmhuang/ (opens in a new window)⁠[1]