Kevin Yedid-Botton grew up in Mexico City and moved to the United States at 13 on a hockey scholarship. He studied Applied Physics at Emory University before launching Tenzar Technologies in 2015, a high-performance computing company. Tenzar was born from a simple observation: the computing infrastructure powering modern research was outdated, slow, and unable to meet the demands of AI and machine learning.
Tenzar provided infrastructure to research institutions such as the University of California, CERN, and other compute-intensive organizations. He pursued a sale of the company, though it ultimately did not materialize.
In 2018, Kevin turned his focus to an emerging industry full of inefficiencies: digital-asset markets. With a natural affinity for computing, physics, and markets, he joined Reality Shares, an SEC-regulated ETF asset manager and an early pioneer of factor-based blockchain exchange-traded funds. There, he worked on quantitative trading strategies.
He left his position and joined ParaFi Capital, a young digital-asset firm managing under $10 million at the time. He saw the same pattern he had seen in computing: broken infrastructure, fragmented markets filled with inefficiencies, and an opportunity to build something far better. By 2019, he became a partner and portfolio manager at ParaFi, leading the firm's quantitative strategies and technology. ParaFi has since grown to more than $2 billion in assets and counts many of the world's leading financial institutions as investors.
Outside ParaFi, Kevin pursues challenges with deep intensity--open-water swimming, triathlons, and flying, and more.