# Jaynti Kanani

> Jaynti Kanani is a seed investor at Polygon (Bengaluru) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Polygon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matic-network)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdkanani/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/_jdkanani

Jaynti Kanani is a seed investor at Polygon in Bengaluru focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.2M–$7.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $1M–$2M |
| Series A | $18M–$40M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 16 | 40% |
| Cryptocurrency | 11 | 28% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 15% |
| Internet | 5 | 13% |
| Software | 5 | 13% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 24 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 15% |
| Series A | 3 | 8% |
| Angel | 2 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| India | 11 | 28% |
| Singapore | 5 | 13% |
| United States | 5 | 13% |
| Spain | 1 | 3% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mythik | Mythik operates as an entertainment company with a vision to bring Eastern mythology, history and folktales. | $15M | Seed | May 21, 2025 |  |
| Fermah | Fermah can generate proofs for any instance in which ZK is used. Fermah is credibly neutral and architected to support all proof systems. This includes zkVMs, zkEVMs, Groth16, and all other proof systems. It is optimized for cheap, fast, and reliable ZK proof generation. | $5.2M | Seed | Sep 09, 2024 |  |
| NovaNet | NovaNet offers local verifiable computing and privacy protection applications, including AI, decentralized Internet of Things (DePIN), and games. | $3M | Seed | Jun 24, 2024 |  |
| Electron | Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient. | $1M | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Rep3 | Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions. |  | Seed | Aug 07, 2023 |  |
| AnotherBall | AnotherBall is a blockchain startup that combines entertainment and blockchain. | $2.2M | Angel | May 16, 2023 |  |
| Nxyz | nxyz aims to empower a new generation of builders, creatives, and entrepreneurs to develop a better internet by providing fast, flexible, and reliable blockchain indexing and data infrastructure. | $40M | Series A | Oct 12, 2022 |  |
| Juno | OnJuno is a cross-border banking platform that aims to give users across the world a high yield account to grow their savings. Going live in the US, OnJuno is taking a radical approach towards creating an open and global banking system for everyone, regardless of their location or income. | $18M | Series A | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| Juno | OnJuno is a cross-border banking platform that aims to give users across the world a high yield account to grow their savings. Going live in the US, OnJuno is taking a radical approach towards creating an open and global banking system for everyone, regardless of their location or income. | $18M | Series A | Oct 01, 2022 |  |
| BuidlersTribe | Buidlers Tribe is an incubator that takes founders/startups from idea/proof-of-concept/MVP stage and works with them to build companies. They focus on Web3 companies and are platform agnostic. They vet appropriate startups for investors according to the investor’s needs and have access to various experts in the blockchain field. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Aug 18, 2022 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Hashed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashed-f96b) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Better Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/better-capital-e839) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Shima Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shima-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Peak XV Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-india-2) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [GSR](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gsr) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Polygon

VC Fund · Mumbai, India

Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development and web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more.Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~130M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

5 contacts available at Polygon.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Charlie Yechuan Hu | Head of China & South Asia | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charlie-yechuan-hu |
| Anurag Arjun | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anurag-arjun-d7ad |
| Bobbin Threadbare | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobbin-threadbare |
| Dalip Tyagi | SVP and Head, Developer Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dalip-tyagi |
| Daniel Lubarov | Founder; Co-Founder, Polygon Zero | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-lubarov |

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## FAQ

### What does Jaynti Kanani invest in?

Jaynti Kanani invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in India. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jaynti Kanani's check size?

Jaynti Kanani typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$7.5M at Seed, $1M–$2M at Pre-Seed and $18M–$40M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Jaynti Kanani participates in.

### When did Jaynti Kanani last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jaynti Kanani closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 40 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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