# Nikil Viswanathan

> Nikil Viswanathan is a seed investor at Alchemy (San Francisco) backing Blockchain and FinTech. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikil-viswanathan-1899693

Nikil Viswanathan is a seed investor at Alchemy in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and FinTech. Nikil Viswanathan, Co-founder & CEO at Alchemy.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.3M–$33M |
| Series A | $5M–$20M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 6 | 46% |
| FinTech | 4 | 31% |
| Software | 4 | 31% |
| Cryptocurrency | 4 | 31% |
| Web3 | 2 | 15% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 54% |
| Series A | 6 | 46% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 62% |
| Honduras | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PlayerZero | PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data. | $5M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Halliday | Halliday is offered Buy gaming and metaverse NFTs and start using them right away. | $20M | Series A | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Citrea | Citrea is the first rollup that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace with zero-knowledge technology, making it possible to build everything on Bitcoin. | $14M | Series A | Oct 31, 2024 |  |
| Lagrange Labs | Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries. | $13.2M | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Dynamic Labs | Dynamic is multi-chain wallet-based authentication and authorization platform. | $13.5M | Series A | Dec 13, 2023 |  |
| Proof of Play | Proof of Play creates games that are defining for a generation because they essentially give players control and ownership. The company was founded in 2022 and is based in New York, New York, USA. | $33M | Seed | Sep 21, 2023 |  |
| Mural | Mural is an instant global payments platform, empowering companies to manage payments and invoices for contractors and vendors worldwide.  Our software leverages blockchain technology to facilitate fast, scalable, and compliant transactions to empower our customers to move beyond slow international wires, costly transaction fees, and lack oftransaction visibility.Mural has raised $5.6M and is backed by Firstminute Capital, Galaxy Digital, Digital Currency Group, AlleyCorp, 186 Ventures, and leaders at companies including Ledger, Alchemy, Digits, Argent, Esusu, Apple and many more.  More on us at https://www.muralpay.com. | $5.6M | Seed | Aug 23, 2022 |  |
| Maker Wine | Maker is a wine marketplace featuring premium wines in innovative formats, so you can bring it and drink it anywhere. Maker Wine was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Marin, California. | $2.3M | Seed | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| Stardust | Stardust is a software platform that enables game developers to build in the metaverse. The blockchain is completely changing how gaming interacts with the broader world of finance, social, and more. Stardust provides game developers with an easy graphical platform to build and manage their games. The platform's API allows developers to startbuilding without committing to a blockchain. Stardust was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $5M | Series A | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Stardust | Stardust is a software platform that enables game developers to build in the metaverse. The blockchain is completely changing how gaming interacts with the broader world of finance, social, and more. Stardust provides game developers with an easy graphical platform to build and manage their games. The platform's API allows developers to startbuilding without committing to a blockchain. Stardust was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $5M | Seed | Sep 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Maven 11 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maven-11-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Distributed Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/distributed-global) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Framework Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/framework-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [G1 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/g1-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Polymorphic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polymorphic-capital-0c3e) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Alchemy

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Alchemy is a web3 developer platform that helps companies to build reliable decentralized applications. Its mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology without the hassle of managing blockchain infrastructure in-house.

5 contacts available at Alchemy.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Guillaume Poncin | Head of Engineering | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guillaume-poncin-9ae4 |
| Joseph Lau | Cofounder & CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/joseph-lau-2 |
| Ajay Sharma | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ajay-s-494f |
| Andy Cao | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-cao |
| Arjun Patel | Product Growth | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arjun-patel |

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## FAQ

### What does Nikil Viswanathan invest in?

Nikil Viswanathan invests primarily in Blockchain, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 13 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Nikil Viswanathan's check size?

Nikil Viswanathan typically joins rounds of $2.3M–$33M at Seed and $5M–$20M 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 Nikil Viswanathan participates in.

### When did Nikil Viswanathan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nikil Viswanathan closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 13 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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