“People-driven web3 investing, founded by Sandeep Nailwal (Polygon co-founder) and Kenzi Wang. Backs infrastructure, AI x crypto and DeFi founders, with an Asia and India distribution lens, and runs the Nailwal Fellowship for pre-company builders.”
Symbolic Capital was founded by Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon, alongside Kenzi Wang. The fund's own framing, "people-driven web3 investing," points to a network and founder-relationship approach rather than a purely quantitative one, which tracks with Nailwal's own path from building Polygon into one of Ethereum's largest scaling ecosystems.
Two doors exist publicly. The first is a standard fund contact channel: a contact form at symbolic.capital/contact, alongside a general info@symbolic.capital email. The second is the Nailwal Fellowship, aimed specifically at pre-company builders who are earlier than a typical fund conversation; the current cohort window should be checked directly on the site since it changes.
The public portfolio list is thin. Two companies are named on the site: Primus, a zkTLS privacy protocol, and TAC, a TON EVM extension enabling Ethereum-compatible smart contracts on TON. Both point at privacy-preserving infrastructure and cross-ecosystem interoperability as real patterns, but this is not enough to build a confident portfolio split, and this page says so honestly rather than padding the picture with unverified names.
Key stats:
| Partner | Role | Where to find them |
|---|---|---|
| Sandeep Nailwal | Co-Founder (Polygon co-founder) | symbolic.capital/team/sandeep-nailwal |
| Kenzi Wang | Co-Founder | symbolic.capital/team |
| Chad Liu | Investor | symbolic.capital/team |