Polychain
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Polychain is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. 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 committed to exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.
- Total investments:
- 372
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 56%
- Fund size:
- $53M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Polychain invests in
Stages Polychain invests in
Countries Polychain invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$13M
- Series A
- $6.5M–$30M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $5M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 122 (33%)
- Cryptocurrency 94 (25%)
- FinTech 50 (13%)
- Financial Services 49 (13%)
- Software 40 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 140 (38%)
- Series A 72 (19%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 34 (9%)
- Series B 21 (6%)
- Funding Round 18 (5%)
Country
- United States 122 (33%)
- Singapore 13 (3%)
- Switzerland 9 (2%)
- Canada 5 (1%)
- Australia 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ben Perszyk
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 8 | Find email | |
|
Niraj Pant
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 11 | Find email | |
Alexa Smith
Beacon Fund Manager
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Beacon Fund Manager | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
|
Bobby Beniers
Research Partner
|
Research Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Caroline Jaquiss
Chief Marketing Officer and Partner
|
Chief Marketing Officer and Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crusoe is on a mission to help the oil industry reduce routine flaring of natural gas. They are passionate about creating solutions that benefit the environment, local communities, and energy producers.Crusoe Energy Systems provides oil and gas companies with a fast, low cost and simple solution to natural gas flaring. As the energy industrystruggles with pipeline constraints and increasing regulations around flaring and combusting, Crusoe is here to help. Their service lets operators preserve or regain regulatory compliance, maintain existing production and facilitate future development. | $3.9B / Series F / Sep 03, 2026 | ||
| Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Yellow Card is the easiest and most convenient way to buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies—no bank account required. | $40M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 04, 2026 | ||
| Cambrian is an AI infrastructure protocol that creates quickly available financial insight from offchain and onchain data. A decentralized network of validators which catalog blockchain data and quickly extract offchain data powers Cambrian's capabilities. | $6M / Seed / Jun 24, 2026 | ||
| Power.win is a crypto casino platform that operates gambling games where users play to win prizes and compete on a leaderboard using PowerBlocks. The platform's core value proposition centers on giving the player the edge rather than the traditional house advantage found in conventional casinos. It is operated by Super Awesome Gaming Allianceand accepts cryptocurrency as the primary payment method for gambling transactions. Users engage with multiple game types while accumulating rewards that determine their position on the competitive leaderboard system. | $5M / Seed / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| Digital Asset describes itself as a provider of blockchain-based software and services that help institutions build and run distributed applications for finance and other regulated markets. The company offers a smart-contract platform called Daml together with its public blockchain network, Canton Network, enabling enterprises to tokenize real-world assets and manage digital asset lifecycles. Through its tools and developer SDK, clients can deploy applications that support tokenization, clearing and settlement, custody and asset servicing, collateral mobility, digital cash, and other workflows across institutional participants. Digital Asset supports interoperability across multiple systems while preserving privacy and regulatory control for participants. | $355M / Series E / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Nava labs is the developer of AI control infrastructure designed to verify and secure the execution of AI agents in financial environments. | $8.3M / Seed / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain. | $10M / Seed / Mar 12, 2026 | ||
| DAWN Internet builds a decentralized, user-owned broadband network that lets people share and earn from local internet connectivity. | $13M / Series B / Dec 18, 2025 | ||
| ETHGas aims to redefine how users engage with Ethereum by providing low-latency, 3ms settlement times, and real-time trading, as well as a comprehensive product suite for exact order execution. | $12M / Seed / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| See all 372 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Polychain invest in?
Polychain invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 372 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Polychain invest in?
Polychain typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$13M at Seed, $6.5M–$30M at Series A and $5M–$45M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Polychain's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Polychain took part in.
How do I contact Polychain?
Public channels for Polychain include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Polychain?
The team at Polychain includes Ben Perszyk (Partner), Niraj Pant (General Partner) and Alexa Smith (Beacon Fund Manager), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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