On June 13, the leading San Francisco-based crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm revealed it has secured its third fund, totaling $850 million, aimed at early-stage crypto projects.
Paradigm Secures $850 Million for Third Crypto Fund, Targets Early-Stage Projects
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Paradigm Announces $850 Million Fund
Established in 2018 by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and ex-Sequoia partner Matt Huang, Paradigm ranks among the leading crypto investment firms, overseeing billions in assets. On Thursday, the firm disclosed its latest fundraising achievement, amassing $850 million to support early-stage crypto initiatives.
“Paradigm has raised our third fund,” the company shared. “An $850M venture fund focused on crypto projects at the earliest stages. When we founded Paradigm in 2018, we believed that crypto would be one of the most important technical and economic shifts of the coming decades. Six years later, that belief has only gotten stronger,” the announcement added.
Paradigm has backed a variety of leading crypto enterprises and startups such as Coinbase, Optimism, Chainalysis, Farcaster, Uniswap, Gitcoin, Alchemy, Dydx, Immutable, Maple Finance, Compound, and Parity Technologies. In the first quarter of 2024, crypto and blockchain companies garnered an estimated $2.4-2.5 billion in venture capital investments.
Analysts project that funding for crypto projects could ascend to $12 billion this year, eclipsing the nearly $10 billion collected last year. The first quarter of 2024 witnessed a 40% increase in funding compared to Q1 2023. Although Paradigm’s announcement on June 13 was anticipated weeks beforehand, the specific amount raised had not been disclosed previously.
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