# Niraj Pant

> Niraj Pant is a seed investor at Polychain (San Francisco) backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 11 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: 11
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 64%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirajpant/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/niraj
- Website: https://x.com/niraj

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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 6 | 55% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 45% |
| FinTech | 3 | 27% |
| Software | 2 | 18% |
| Ethereum | 1 | 9% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Webb Protocol | 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 | Eclipse customizable blockchain platform powered by Solana enables developers to build apps for Web2. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Gauntlet | 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 | Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets. | $7.5M | Series A | Nov 11, 2021 |  |
| Lore | a social investing economy enabled by web3 | $3M | Seed | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Lore | a social investing economy enabled by web3 | $3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 21, 2021 |  |
| Gauntlet | 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 | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | $1M | Seed | Mar 17, 2021 |  |
| DFX Finance | DFX Finance is a new decentralized finance exchange protocol optimized for non-U.S. dollar stable coins. | $5M | Seed | Feb 24, 2021 |  |
| Lore | a social investing economy enabled by web3 |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lemniscap](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lemniscap) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Infinite Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinite-capital-b86b) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [CMS Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cms-holdings) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Alliance DAO](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/defi-alliance) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals 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 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.

### 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.

### 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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