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Pre-Pitch Briefing

Pam Tholen

Head of Investor Relations at Paradigm

Check size: Not applicable to Pam's investor-relations role. No personal startup check size or investment authority is public. Founders should contact Paradigm's Investing & Research team; LPs should use the firm's official channel or secure LP login.

Fundraising and capital formationLimited-partner engagementProduct strategy for investment vehiclesInstitutional and wealth-channel relationshipsInvestor RelationsLimited PartnersCapital FormationInstitutional InvestorsPrivate FundsCrypto VentureBusiness DevelopmentFund Product StrategyGlobal WealthStakeholder Communications

Their Thesis

Pam's documented expertise is building and serving institutional capital relationships. Her 12 years at KKR spanned product strategy, investor relations, fundraising and new business development; at Bridgewater she led strategic institutional relationships and helped develop the global wealth channel. At Paradigm she applies that experience to business development and LP engagement around crypto venture funds. This is a fund-capital and relationship mandate, not a personal token or startup thesis.

How to Pitch Them

Do not send Pam a founder financing pitch. For an LP conversation, state the institution, authorized contact, investment mandate, vehicle or strategy of interest, prior relationship, diligence stage, requested material or meeting and decision timeline. Use Paradigm's secure LP channel for confidential data. Route company or protocol opportunities to the live Investing & Research roster.

What Excites Them

For her remit: sophisticated long-term partners, clear vehicle and strategy fit, transparent performance and risk reporting, responsive relationship management, durable institutional conviction and teams that translate a complex emerging asset class into decision-useful information.

What They Pass On

No startup pass criteria are public because Pam is not listed as a portfolio investor. Founder pitches addressed to her as a deal partner are misrouted. LP conversations are weakened by unclear mandates, unsupported claims, missing diligence materials, inconsistent reporting and insecure sharing of confidential information.

Key Frameworks

Institution–vehicle fit

Match an LP's mandate, liquidity, risk, governance, geography and pacing constraints to the correct fund or strategy before advancing diligence.

Emerging-asset translation

Explain crypto venture exposure in institutional terms: strategy, team, portfolio construction, valuation, custody, liquidity, governance, compliance and risk.

Secure LP diligence packet

Route verified vehicle, performance, legal, risk and reporting materials through the authorized contact and secure portal with a defined decision timeline.

IR-versus-investing boundary

Use Paradigm's explicit roster categories to distinguish LP and business-development authority from portfolio-company sourcing and approval.

Paradigm Portfolio

Top Sectors

Infrastructure6
DeFi4
NFT/Gaming3
L1/L23
Exchange2

Stage Distribution

Series B7
Series A5
Seed4
Early Stage2
Strategic1
Orbital space defense
Blockmesh operating system
Standardeconomics
Cross-border payments app
ZK-based Layer 2 blockchain
Zero-knowledge infrastructure
Shared security protocol & marketplace
Synthetix
Synthetic derivatives protocol
Tax & accounting software

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