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Polychain Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2016 · Active in 2026

Polychain Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2016. The page below shows 21 Power Law outcomes from Polychain Capital's portfolio — 19 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · Other; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · Singapore. Polychain ranks #421 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

21 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #421 · Global · 21 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 171% 5y
19
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 100% 5y
3
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 21 Polychain Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA13
  2. Canada2
  3. Singapore1
  4. India1
  5. Seychelles1
  6. Cayman Islands1
  7. Liechtenstein1
  8. Israel1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech15
  2. Other B2B Software3
  3. Other1
  4. Energy1
  5. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+8
  2. Series A8
  3. Seed3
Estimated holdings

Polychain’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Polychain’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where Polychain is a named shareholder, worth about $1.4B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 PolymarketFintech · Unicorn 8.5% $9.0B $765M
  2. 2 CoinDCXFintech · Unicorn 17.5% $2.2B $376M
  3. 3 EigenLayerSecurity · Unicorn 10% $1.1B $110M
  4. 4 BerachainFintech · Unicorn 4.5% $1.5B $68M
  5. 5 Story ProtocolEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2.5% $2.2B $56M

Estimated value = Polychain’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Polychain also appears inside investor groups in Matrixport, StarkWare Industries, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Polychain’s biggest exits.

Polychain portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$73.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $46.0B
04 · Portfolio market map

Polychain's 21 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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21 of 21 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Polychain stack up?

Polychain in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

66 founders across the 21 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States32
China8
India6
Australia3
South Korea2
Iraq2
Greece2
Russia1
Turkey1
Germany1
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UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
Stanford University4
Cornell University4
University of Oxford3
Princeton University3
University of Toronto2
Peking University2
Georgia Institute of Technology2
Berkeley2
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
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Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google7
Microsoft3
Amazon3
AngelList3
Apple2
Bitmain1
Meta1
Digital Domain1
Airbnb1
RPX Corporation1
+10 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Polychain.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Polychain Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Polychain on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Polychain Capital

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Polychain — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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