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Jaynti Kanani

Co-founder of Polygon

Details

Jaynti Kanani is the founder and CEO of Morphic and was previously the co-founder of Polygon. Jaynti is an entrepreneur with a focus on product, user, market, design, and marketing. He is an experienced technologist and investor with a knack for investing in early-stage blockchain companies.

Investments

Tag
Ecosystem
Token Issuance
Region
Operating Status
Name
Round
Valuation
Amount
Date
NovaNet NovaNet
Seed -- $ 3 M
Jun 24, 2024
NodeOps NodeOps
Seed -- $ 5 M
May 26, 2024
Electron Electron
Seed -- $ 1 M
May 07, 2024
rep3 rep3
Pre-Seed -- --
Jul 26, 2023
AnotherBall AnotherBall
Angel -- $ 2.2 M
May 16, 2023
Kaidro Kaidro
-- -- $ 5 M
Apr 19, 2023
Nxyz Nxyz
Series A -- $ 40 M
Oct 12, 2022
VirtuSwap VirtuSwap
Pre-Seed $ 20 M --
Aug 16, 2022
Crypso Crypso
Seed -- $ 3 M
Jul 25, 2022
MoHash MoHash
Seed -- $ 6 M
Jun 29, 2022
NFTPort NFTPort
Series A -- $ 26 M
Jun 14, 2022
Curio Curio
Seed -- $ 3.7 M
Jun 07, 2022
Socket Socket
Seed -- $ 5 M
Mar 09, 2022
ZetaChain ZetaChain
Seed -- --
Mar 08, 2022
UNXD UNXD
Seed -- $ 4 M
Mar 07, 2022
Affine Affine
Pre-Seed -- $ 1.8 M
Feb 15, 2022
Humanode Humanode
Angel -- $ 2 M
Feb 10, 2022
Strider Strider
-- -- $ 3 M
Feb 09, 2022
Pillow Pillow
Seed -- $ 3 M
Feb 05, 2022
Flint Flint
Seed -- $ 5.1 M
Jan 24, 2022

Investment Overview

Rounds in the past year

2

Total rounds

29

Portfolio Numbers

29

Lead Investment

0

Relevance Person

Arpit Sharma

Arpit Sharma is Head of Ecosystem at Aethir and previously COO at PWR Chain. He has also worked at the NEAR Foundation with Polygon Technology.

Adam Dossa

Adam Dossa is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Polygon and was previously the Chief Technology Officer at Polymesh. He has a master's degree in machine learning from Columbia University and more than 10 years of technical experience in financial technology.

Amanda Jacobsen

Amanda Tyler is the Head of Marketing for Optimism and was previously the Director of Community for Polygon and Manager of Developer Relations at Google.

Kathleen Chu

Kathleen Chu was previously Head of marketing communications at Avail, Head of public communications at Polygon and Head of Japan at MakerDAO. She is a graduate of Baruch College.

Rebecca Rettig

Rebecca Rettig is Chief Legal Officer at Jito and previously was Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Polygon and general counsel at Aave Companies. She also works with policymakers around the world on regulatory matters related to decentralized finance (" DeFi ") and crypto assets.

Joe Hamade

Joe Hamade is the VP of Finance at Polygon. He graduated from Wayne State University.

Olga Fetisova

Olga Fetisova is Head of Data and analytics at Polygon and was previously Head of Data at CoW Protocol and Analytics Manager at MoonPay. She is a graduate of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the American University of Bulgaria.

Mudit Gupta

Mudit Gupta is Chief Information Security Officer at Polygon, Technology Partner at Delta Blockchain Fund, and previously a blockchain engineer at Polymath Network. He has done web development, systems programming and 2d games development in the past. Currently, he is mainly working with public blockchains like Ethereum. His expertise lies in smart contract development using Solidity and core blockchain development using Rust.

David Silverman

David Silverman is currently the SVP of Product at Polygon. He graduated from University of Michigan.

Chad Hugghins

Chad Hugghins is Head of marketing at Sei Network and was previously Chief Growth Officer at Fleek and Vice President of Ecosystem Marketing at Polygon.. He has over a decade of experience in marketing communications across multiple platforms and industries. Chad Hugghins is a graduate of Southern Methodist University.