Polygon
VC Fund
Bengaluru, India
Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development and web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more.Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~130M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.
- Total investments:
- 138
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 14%
Last updated:
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Industries Polygon invests in
Stages Polygon invests in
Countries Polygon invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.2M–$15M
- Grant
- $10k–$365k
- Pre-Seed
- $250k–$3.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 56 (41%)
- Gaming 28 (20%)
- Cryptocurrency 27 (20%)
- Web3 22 (16%)
- Software 20 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 57 (41%)
- Grant 16 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 15 (11%)
- Series A 13 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 10 (7%)
Country
- United States 47 (34%)
- Singapore 9 (7%)
- India 6 (4%)
- Canada 5 (4%)
- United Kingdom 5 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sandeep Nailwal
Co-Founder
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Co-Founder | Total investments: 195 | Find email | |
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Bobbin Threadbare
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Dalip Tyagi
SVP and Head, Developer Relations
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SVP and Head, Developer Relations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Daniel Lubarov
Co-Founder, Polygon Zero
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Co-Founder, Polygon Zero | Total investments: 6 | Find email | |
David Schwartz
Co-Founder and Polygon zkEVM Project Lead, Polygon ID & Polygon Hermez
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Co-Founder and Polygon zkEVM Project Lead, Polygon ID & Polygon Hermez | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Pheasant Network
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Pheasant Network uses intent-based bridging and an innovative cross-chain swap protocol to connect 30+ blockchain networks quickly and efficiently. | Grant / Dec 10, 2025 | |
Open Campus
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Open Campus is a community-led Web3 education protocol aiming to tokenize the world’s educational content by enabling educators and creators to monetize their content.$EDU will play a critical role in the Open Campus ecosystem to power the tokenization of educational content. $EDU will be used to govern the protocol DAO and as a use of funding,means of payment, on-chain revenue sharing, smart donations, and much more! | $5M / Seed / Oct 10, 2025 | |
Guild
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Guild is a decentralized platform leveraging AI to augment creation, ownership, distribution and monetization of content and digital goods. AI plays a pivotal role in automating tasks, providing data-driven insights, and offering strategic guidance to creators. Whether it's managing marketing campaigns, optimizing release schedules, oridentifying new opportunities, the AI in Guild serves as an invaluable tool for artists, producers, and songwriters. The platform's blockchain integration ensures that all music assets are securely owned and transparently managed, giving creators full control over their work. By combining the practical benefits of AI—like process automation and data analysis—with the security of blockchain, Guild empowers creators to focus on their craft while effectively managing their careers. | $2M / Aug 27, 2025 | |
Digift
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DigiFT Tech intends to offer regulated decentralized finance solutions on the Ethereum public blockchain. operate the first regulatory-compliant digital asset exchange, where asset owners can issue blockchain-based security tokens and investors can trade with continuous liquidity through an Automatic Market Maker mechanism. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 21, 2025 | |
Billions Network
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Billions is a global network of AI and humans that was created to foster trust in the AI era. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2025 | |
Folks Finance
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Folks Finance is the leading algorithmic capital markets protocol for lending and borrowing built and operated on top of the Algorand blockchain. Through the lending operations, Folks users can deposit liquidity and start earning a continuous economic return instantly. Through the borrowing operation, the users can request crypto loans by lockingdeposited funds as collateral. Folks Finance is the result of extensive research and engineering conducted by Blockchain Italia, a blockchain software house strongly focused on Algorand. The protocol innovations include a disruptive economic lending model designed for the soundness and security of the users, and the introduction of unique features such as staking of rewards, safety margins for cryptocurrency pairs, and an innovative liquidity provision system. | $300K / Grant / Jun 03, 2025 | |
Symbiotic
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Symbiotic is a generalized shared security system enabling decentralized networks to bootstrap powerful, fully sovereign ecosystems. | $29M / Series A / Apr 23, 2025 | |
Optic
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Optic, an AI Drug Discovery company, is based in San Francisco. Our proprietary ligand-based and target-driven molecular search engine Bioptic.io identifies compounds by their activity-expressing fingerprints. It offers a novel approach to finding diverse candidate sets. In addition, we now also have an agentic AI platform for scientific andbusiness due diligence on drug assets. Our pipeline includes multiple pre-clinical stage programs, showcasing our commitment to practical, AI-driven solutions in cancer therapy. | $1M / Seed / Apr 10, 2025 | |
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Guild
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Guild is a decentralized platform leveraging AI to augment creation, ownership, distribution and monetization of content and digital goods. AI plays a pivotal role in automating tasks, providing data-driven insights, and offering strategic guidance to creators. Whether it's managing marketing campaigns, optimizing release schedules, oridentifying new opportunities, the AI in Guild serves as an invaluable tool for artists, producers, and songwriters. The platform's blockchain integration ensures that all music assets are securely owned and transparently managed, giving creators full control over their work. By combining the practical benefits of AI—like process automation and data analysis—with the security of blockchain, Guild empowers creators to focus on their craft while effectively managing their careers. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Dec 31, 2024 | |
Kratos Gamer Network (KGeN)
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Kratos is the intellectual property owner of the gaming DAO IndiGG. Kratos is also an active investor in the global web3 gaming. | $10M / Corporate Round / Nov 20, 2024 | |
| See all 138 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Polygon invest in?
Polygon invests primarily in Blockchain, Gaming and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Grant stage. Most of the 138 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 Polygon's check size?
Polygon typically joins rounds of $1.2M–$15M at Seed, $10k–$365k at Grant and $250k–$3.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Polygon participates in.
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Who are the partners at Polygon?
The team at Polygon includes Sandeep Nailwal (Co-Founder), Bobbin Threadbare (Founder) and Dalip Tyagi (SVP and Head, Developer Relations), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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