Joshua Goldbard is the Co-Founder of Fire Wallet, a YCombinator-backed self-custody digital wallet startup based in San Francisco, CA, building the future of private and secure digital transactions.

A self-made entrepreneur from Millbrae, California, Joshua previously co-founded MobileCoin in 2017 with Shane Glynn, raising over $100M to build a fast, private, mobile-first cryptocurrency that integrated with Signal Messenger and reached products with over 100M monthly active users.

Joshua is passionate about cryptography, decentralized finance, and financial privacy, and has built a reputation as a bold builder in the crypto and telecom space across multiple ventures.

Prior to Fire Wallet, he served as General Partner at Crypto Lotus, Founder of Secret Party, and held technical product roles at Ultra Mobile and DAQRI, bringing deep cross-sector expertise in telecom, mobile, and blockchain.

Fire Wallet, part of Y Combinator's Garry Tan cohort, leverages biometric signing and secure enclave key derivation to give users full sovereignty over their funds, with Joshua's cryptography work previously deployed across tens of millions of devices.