Niraj Pant
General Partner @ Polychain
San Francisco, United States
Niraj Pant is a seed investor at Polychain in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Niraj Pant is the General Partner at Polychain Capital. He is a former Campus Ambassador at Sequoia Capital and Co-Founder and CTO at Source Networks. Mr. Pant received a bachelor of science in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Niraj Pant invests in
Stages Niraj Pant invests in
Countries Niraj Pant invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 6 (55%)
- Cryptocurrency 5 (45%)
- FinTech 3 (27%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Ethereum 1 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (36%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (18%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Angel 1 (9%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 4 (36%)
- United Kingdom 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Webb Protocol is a multi-chain privacy technology that allows assets to be transferred across blockchain protocols while ensuring financial anonymity. We incentivize privacy creation through innovative economic design and aim to become the most decentralized privacy system imaginable. | $7M / Seed / May 08, 2023 | ||
| Eclipse customizable blockchain platform powered by Solana enables developers to build apps for Web2. | $6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 27, 2022 | ||
| Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA. | $23.8M / Series B / Mar 14, 2022 | ||
| Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets. | $7.5M / Series A / Nov 11, 2021 | ||
| a social investing economy enabled by web3 | $3M / Seed / Sep 21, 2021 | ||
| Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providingtransparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA. | $13.6M / Series A / Jun 04, 2021 | ||
| Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $1M / Seed / Mar 17, 2021 | ||
| DFX Finance is a new decentralized finance exchange protocol optimized for non-U.S. dollar stable coins. | $5M / Seed / Feb 24, 2021 | ||
| a social investing economy enabled by web3 | Pre-Seed / Jul 31, 2020 | ||
| a social investing economy enabled by web3 | $139K / Angel / Jul 31, 2020 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Polychain
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.
Polychain Contacts
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Ben Perszyk
Partner
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Niraj Pant
General Partner
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Alexa Smith
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Bobby Beniers
Research Partner
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Caroline Jaquiss
Chief Marketing Officer and Partner
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What does Niraj Pant invest in?
Niraj Pant invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Niraj Pant last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Niraj Pant closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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