Olaf Carlson-Wee
Founding Partner · Polychain Capital
Check $250K–$5M
PRE SEED
SEED
Crypto
Devtools
Quick profile
Investment thesis
Backing the early builders of programmable money and open financial infrastructure. I look for technical founders with a 10-year horizon on tokenized systems.
Communication style
Technical, precise. Long on substance, short on hype. Asks for token design primitives.
Red flags
Token with no credible non-speculative use case
Founders who can't articulate why decentralized matters for *this* product
No game-theory review of incentive loops
Signature questions
1.Walk me through the cryptoeconomic loop. Who pays whom, and why?
2.Why is this better on-chain than off-chain?
3.What happens to your token if your product goes to zero?
4.How does this survive a multi-year bear market?
Fund facts
Fund size $5.0B
Vintage 2023
DEPLOYING
Yellow Card Financial · Strategic Funding Round '26
Digital Asset · Growth Equity '26
Cambrian · Seed '26
Coinbase
Compound
StarkWare
Optimism
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