# Polychain

> Polychain is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 352 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 352
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last fund: Apr 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/polychain-capital
- Website: http://polychain.capital/

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 committedto exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$12M |
| Series A | $6M–$30M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 118 | 34% |
| Cryptocurrency | 90 | 26% |
| FinTech | 48 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 45 | 13% |
| Software | 39 | 11% |

117 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 133 | 38% |
| Series A | 71 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 28 | 8% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 22 | 6% |
| Series B | 20 | 6% |

16 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 119 | 34% |
| Singapore | 13 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 9 | 3% |
| Canada | 5 | 1% |
| Australia | 4 | 1% |

23 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ben Perszyk | Partner | 8 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-perszyk-4615 |
| Niraj Pant | General Partner | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/niraj-pant-2 |
| Alexa Smith | Beacon Fund Manager | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexa-smith-bfc7 |
| Bobby Beniers | Research Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bobby-beniers-6299 |
| Caroline Jaquiss | Chief Marketing Officer and Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-jaquiss-8b2a |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yellow Card | 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 |  |
| Yellow Card | 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 | 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 | 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 | Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M | Series E | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Digital Asset | Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight-through processing tools.The company builds platform, developer tools, and leverages modern infrastructure providers to change how businesses interact. Its service offering is Daml, an application platform unconstrained by organizationalboundaries where companies can create new multi-party solutions that transform disparate silos into synchronized networks, eradicating latency and errors by guaranteeing consistent data. The company works with organizations in financial services, healthcare, and insurance, including 5 of the top 10 stock exchanges.In 2014, the New York, New York-based company was established by Don Wilson, Eric Saraniecki, Sunil Hirani, and Yuval Rooz. Digital Asset is backed by strategic investors, including 7RIDGE, Eldridge, Salesforce, Samsung, VMware, Accenture, Citi, Goldman Sachs, IBM, and J.P. Morgan. | $355M | Series F | Jun 11, 2026 |  |
| Nava labs | 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 | VeryAI develops a privacy-preserving identity verification platform using palm-scan biometrics on the Solana blockchain. | $10M | Seed | Mar 12, 2026 |  |
| DAWN | 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 | 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 |  |

10 of 352 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 48 deals together
- [Hack VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hack-vc) — VC Fund, 26 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [dao5](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dao-5) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
- [IOSG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iosg-ventures) — VC Fund, 23 deals together

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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 352 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 Polychain's check size?

Polychain typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$12M at Seed and $6M–$30M 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 Polychain participates in.

### How do I contact Polychain?

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### 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 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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