Infrastructure, Compute & Capital
Kevin Yedid-Botton is an investor and technologist. He is a Partner at ParaFi Capital, managing the quantitative multistrategy and non-directional strategies of the firm. He has spent the last 10 years at the intersection of financial markets, AI, and defense.
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Kevin Yedid-Botton grew up in Mexico City and moved to the United States at 13 on a hockey scholarship. He graduated with a degree in Applied Physics from Emory University, with a concentration in computational physics, quantitative finance, and machine learning.
In 2015, he founded Tenzar Technologies to make AI computing resources available on demand. Coinciding with the launch of Google's TensorFlow, Tenzar delivered cloud-based high-performance computing infrastructure to research institutions, including CERN. After 3 years, Tenzar wound down after a failed M&A transaction.
In 2018, he joined Reality Shares, an SEC-regulated ETF asset manager and early pioneer of factor-based blockchain exchange-traded funds, where he developed quantitative trading strategies and led strategic investment initiatives, including an early investment in Coinbase Inc.
He left to join ParaFi Capital in early 2019 as its first hire, rising to Partner and Portfolio Manager and leading the firm's quantitative strategies and technology. Kevin built the firm's custody infrastructure, portfolio systems, and non-directional strategy from the ground up, and later established ParaFi Technologies, its technology arm focused on crypto infrastructure. ParaFi has since grown to more than $2 billion in assets, counting many of the world's leading financial institutions among its limited partners.