Polychain
Venture Capital
Active
San Francisco, United States
258
22M
172
32.25
72
0.33
5
- Areas of investment
Summary
Polychain appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2016. The main office of represented VC is situated in the San Francisco. The fund was located in North America if to be more exact in United States.
Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Finance, Software. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Coinbase, DFINITY, Kik Interactive
The typical startup value when the investment from Polychain is more than 1 billion dollars. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2018. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 17 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations.
This organization was formed by Olaf Carlson-Wee. The overall number of key employees were 3.
The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Polychain, startups are often financed by Kindred Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Andreessen Horowitz, MetaStable Capital, Naval Ravikant. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Andreessen Horowitz, Naval Ravikant, MetaStable Capital.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 258
- Lead investments
- 72
- Exits
- 5
- Rounds per year
- 32.25
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Blockchain (123)
- Cryptocurrency (95)
- Financial Services (64)
- FinTech (61)
- Software (56) Show 107 more
- Investments by region
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- United States (133)
- Switzerland (9)
- India (10)
- Singapore (14)
- Canada (12) Show 16 more
- Peak activity year
- 2021
- Number of Unicorns
- 14
- Number of Decacorns
- 14
- Number of Minotaurs
- 1
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 3
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 255M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.93
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.47
- Strategy success index
- 1.00
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