Investing Profile

Niraj Pant

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General Partner at Polychain Capital
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Networks Niraj is a member of
Sequoia Capital Network
224 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Network
189 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Network
111 CONNECTIONS
Ripple Network
23 CONNECTIONS
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Network
22 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Polychain Capital General Partner
Investment Range
$5.0M - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$7.5M
Investments On Record
9
Current Fund Size
$175M

Niraj Pant is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Niraj Pant's Investments On Record (7)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Webb Protocol
SeedMay 2023$7M
$7M
Co-investors: Giselle Melo (Matr (matter) Ventures), Shayne Coplan (Polymarket)
Eclipse
Pre SeedSep 2022$6M
$65M
Co-investors: Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon), Ashwin Ramachandran (Dragonfly Capital Partners), Kevin Hu (Dragonfly Capital Partners), Sara Du (Cornell University), Michael Jordan (DBA), Dawn Song (Virtue AI), Christopher Burniske (Placeholder), Santiago Roel Santos (Skyline Capital Partners)
Gauntlet
Series BMar 2022$24M
Series AJun 2021$14M
$45M
Co-investors: Charlie Noyes (Paradigm), Olaf Carlson-Wee (Polychain Capital), Nick Shalek (Ribbit Capital), Arjun Balaji (Paradigm), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings), Phin Barnes (The General Partnership), Miyuki Matsumoto (Aglae Ventures), Jesse Beyroutey (IA Ventures)
Saddle Finance
Series ANov 2021$8M
$12M
Co-investors: Alex Pack (Dragonfly Capital Partners), Linda Xie (Scalar Capital), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Ash Egan (Archetype)
Lore
Pre SeedSep 2021$3M
AngelJul 2020$140K
$14M
Co-investors: Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Adam Rothenberg (BoxGroup), David Tisch (BoxGroup), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Travis Scher (North Island Ventures), Marc Weinstein (Mechanism Capital), Tony Sheng (Multicoin Capital), Imran Khan (Volt Capital), Shayon Sengupta (Multicoin Capital), Jess Sloss (Seed Club Ventures), Brad Gillespie (IA Ventures), Zach Weinberg (Multiple Startups/Funds), Nat Turner (Operator Partners), Joel Spolsky (Glitch), Ted Maidenberg (U.S. Venture Partners (USVP)), Peter Thiel (The Founders Fund), Regan Bozman
Syndicate
SeedMar 2021$1M
$28M
Co-investors: Balaji Srinivasan (Andreessen Horowitz), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Alex Pack (Dragonfly Capital Partners), Baek Kim (Hashed), Eric Wu (Resolute Ventures), Dan Elitzer (IDEO), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Adam Jackson (Cambrian Asset Management LLC), Ash Egan (Archetype), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Biz Stone (Jelly Industries), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Lenny Rachitsky (Self-employed), Jalak Jobanputra (Future Perfect Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Alice Lloyd George (Rogue Capital Collective), Jonathan Hillis (Seed Club Ventures), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Scott Belsky (A24), Alexis Ohanian (Curated), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Do Kwon (Terraform Labs), Luis Cuende (Aragon), Sina Habibi (Cognetivity Neurosciences Ltd), Rene Reinsberg (cLabs), Tyler Scott Ward (Sanctum AI), Anastasia Andrianova (Alex & Thiago), Andrew Steinwold (Sfermion), Illia Polosukhin (Uncle Nearest), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Stani Kulechov (Aave Labs), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity Assets), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Sriram Krishnan (Monarch Collective), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Jess Sloss (Seed Club Ventures), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Bo Shao (Matrix Partners China), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Steve Weinstein (SpectraWAVE, Inc.), Tom Bedecarre (WPP Ventures), Steve Blank (National Science Foundation), Aliaksandr Hudzilin (sasha.page), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Delphi Ventures), Trevor McFedries (Dapper Labs), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Imran Khan (Volt Capital), Curtis Spencer (Curated), Tarun Chitra (Robot Ventures), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Nathaniel Whittemore, Regan Bozman, Brad Holden, Tegan Kline, David Nage
DFX Finance
SeedFeb 2021$5M
$5M

Niraj Pant's Experience

Software Engineering Intern Besso LabsPresent
Software Engineering Intern ShipBob, Inc.Present
Software Engineering Intern LookoutPresent
Researcher, Decentralized Systems Lab University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPresent
Software Engineering Intern SkycatchPresent
Researcher, Decentralized Systems Lab University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignPresent
Software Engineering Intern RipplePresent
Campus Ambassador Sequoia CapitalPresent
Member, Board of Directors CoinDCXPresent
Co-Founder & CTO Source NetworksPresent
General Partner Polychain CapitalPresent
Co-Founder RitualPresent

Niraj Pant's Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign B.S. Computer Science

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