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Coinbase co-founder and Paradigm GP now building non-invasive BCI startup Nudge
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- Coinbase went public via direct listing in April 2021 at an opening market cap of approximately $86B, making this a landmark founder IPO exit.
- Nudge raised $100M in a Series A led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Past co-founder of Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, where he served as President from 2012 to 2017.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Fred Ehrsam has a Wikipedia page, confirming strong public notability as an entrepreneur.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Current founder and CEO of Nudge, a neurotechnology company building non-invasive brain-computer interfaces.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Nudge and Coinbase both had co-founders alongside Fred Ehrsam.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Named to TIME's 30 Under 30 World Changers list in 2013 for co-founding Coinbase and pioneering Bitcoin adoption.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Nudge raised $100M in a Series A led by Thrive Capital and Greenoaks.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Coinbase went public via direct listing in April 2021 at an opening market cap of approximately $86B, making this a landmark founder IPO exit.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Coinbase was a Y Combinator startup incubator company, making Fred Ehrsam a YC alum.
Investor score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Active GP and co-founder of Paradigm, a crypto-focused venture capital firm he co-founded in 2018 and continues to run.
- 97%Probability of being accurate (97%)Partner and General Partner at Paradigm, a recognized crypto VC firm with a strong public deal record and 111 portfolio companies.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Approximately 7 years of active investing experience, having co-founded Paradigm in 2018.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Paradigm has invested in 111 companies as of May 2026, reflecting a prolific deal pace across crypto and Web3.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Publicly identified as an angel investor who occasionally invests when there is the opportunity to be genuinely helpful.
What you likely need
You're a rare triple-threat — serial founder (Coinbase, Paradigm, Nudge), active GP at a top crypto VC, and now pioneering neurotechnology. The most valuable events for you right now are those that connect you with deep-science founders and frontier-tech investors who can accelerate Nudge's clinical and commercial roadmap, as well as elite operator networks where you can recruit the world-class talent a hard-science startup demands. Given Nudge's fresh $100M Series A, you're also well-positioned to shape the narrative around non-invasive BCI and attract the next wave of scientific co-builders.
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- tacticalA closed dinner for neurotechnology and hard-science founders (BCI, neuromodulation, synthetic biology) to share clinical trial learnings and regulatory navigation strategies relevant to Nudge's ultrasound platform.
- introsA YC alumni roundtable with other YC-backed founders who scaled from seed to public markets, to pressure-test Nudge's go-to-market and hiring playbook for a deep-tech company.
- introsA GP-only crypto VC summit with Paradigm's peer funds (a16z crypto, Multicoin, Dragonfly) to align on the next cycle's thesis and surface co-investment opportunities across 111+ portfolio companies.
- hiringA Series A-to-B hiring workshop for founders scaling hard-science teams, focused on recruiting world-class neuroscientists and hardware engineers to Nudge's 32-person team.
- positioningA positioning roundtable with frontier-tech investors (Thrive Capital, Greenoaks LPs, and crossover funds) to shape the narrative around non-invasive BCI ahead of Nudge's Series B.
- hiringA Coinbase alumni happy hour to tap the network of early Coinbase operators for senior hires and advisors who understand scaling a regulated, high-stakes technology company.
- hiringA Duke University CS and Economics alumni founder dinner to connect with technical co-founders and early engineers who share the academic rigor Nudge's research-heavy culture demands.