# Alexa Smith

> Alexa Smith is a seed investor at Polychain (San Francisco) backing Bitcoin and Lending. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexa-beaver-smith/

Alexa Smith is a seed investor at Polychain in San Francisco focused on Bitcoin and Lending. Alexa Smith

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 1 | 100% |
| Lending | 1 | 100% |
| Consumer Lending | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Finterest | Finterest is a lending protocol that supports native Bitcoin lending and borrowing operating on the Internet computer. | $1.5M | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [9Yards Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/9yards-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Polychain

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

The emergence of bitcoin and subsequent blockchain technologies has generated a new digital asset class in which scarcity is based on mathematical properties. Through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic equilibrium, blockchain-based digital assets can be created, issued, and transmitted using the software. Polychain Capital is committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

5 contacts available at Polychain.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Perszyk | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-perszyk-4615 |
| Niraj Pant | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niraj-pant-2 |
| Alexa Smith | Beacon Fund Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexa-smith-bfc7 |
| Bobby Beniers | Research Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-beniers-6299 |
| Caroline Jaquiss | Chief Marketing Officer and Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-jaquiss-8b2a |

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## FAQ

### What does Alexa Smith invest in?

Alexa Smith invests primarily in Bitcoin, Lending and Consumer Lending startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Alexa Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alexa Smith closed in Dec 2022. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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