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About Investor

Niraj Pant serves as a Venture Partner at Hack VC, where he focuses on pre-seed through Series B investments in Web3/Blockchain, Web3/Crypto, and FinTech sectors, with investment ranges typically between $5.0M and $10.0M, with particular attention to New York City and San Francisco Bay Area opportunities. His background includes being a co-founder of Ritual, an AI co-processor for blockchains, and previously serving as a General Partner at Polychain Capital, where he spent six years investing in early stage Web3 companies. Pant dropped out of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to join Polychain, demonstrating his early commitment to the blockchain and cryptocurrency space. His experience as both a founder in the AI/blockchain intersection and as an investor at one of the leading crypto venture funds gives him unique insights into the Web3 and blockchain ecosystem that Hack VC focuses on.