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What does Polychain invest in?
Polychain invests most often at Seed and Venture (69% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Decentralized, Nfts and Defi.
Polychain highlights
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19 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Seed and Venture: 69% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 2 rounds, median $10M
What they do
Polychain is an investment firm committed to exceptional returns for investors through actively managed portfolios of these blockchain assets.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm
- Cheque size
- $100K – $5.0M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- DecentralizedNftsDefi
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first152 appearances
- 2026
13 rounds
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- 2025
27 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration10 named
JDJohn D'AgostinoDirectoriFiling they signed
JEJoseph EaganDirectoriFiling they signed
JRJosh RosenthalDirectoriFiling they signed
MCMatthew Clifford PeronaChief Operating OfficeriForm ADV
MRMitchell Rand NedvedChief Financial OfficeriForm ADV
MOMorris Olaf Carlson-WeeLimited Partner, Chief Investment OfficeriForm ADV
OCOlaf Carlson-WeeManaging Member of Polychain Opportunity Partners LLC.iFiling they signed
PMParas MaldeDirectoriFiling they signed
RGRuby Gurbir SekhonChief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer.iForm ADV
RJRyan Jack ZurrerLimited PartneriForm ADV
We also hold 12 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$2.9Bassets it managesOct 2026
4+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Polychain Capital LP
- SEC number
- CRD 285022
Funds on its Form ADV
15 private funds, $4.8B in gross assets · filed Mar 2024
Private equity 12Hedge 3
- Polychain Master Fund I L.P.Hedge428 investors$1.7B
- Polychain Ventures II L.P.Private equity169 investors$881M
- Polychain Ventures L.P.Private equity107 investors$793M
- Polychain Ventures III L.P.Private equity206 investors$433M
- Polychain Ventures II (Parallel) L.P.Private equity47 investors$380M
- Polychain Ventures III (Parallel) L.P.Private equity56 investors$233M
- Polychain Parallel Fund I L.P.Hedge22 investors$160M
- Dfinity Ecosystem Fund L.P.Private equity9 investors$55M
- Polychain Opportunities Fund I LLC - Series CDCXPrivate equity46 investors$40M
- CELO Ecosystem Fund L.P.Private equity2 investors$38M
And 5 more on the filing.