StarChain Ventures
Silicon Valley seed fund backing AI, data intelligence and blockchain startups in regulated industries.
🇺🇸 Silicon Valley, California · Founded 2018
Seed
StarChain Ventures is a Silicon Valley seed fund and advisory firm. It was founded in 2018 as a venture lab and later launched its venture fund through VC Lab. Managing Partners Jorden Woods and Radhika Iyengar are both repeat founders. The fund backs startups that use AI, data intelligence and blockchain in finance, healthcare and supply chain.
What they invest in
We invest in exceptional founders scaling high growth startups solving significant challenges in high-stakes industries like finance, healthcare, and supply chain.
- Stage
- Seed
- AI
- Data intelligence
- Blockchain
- Fintech
- Healthcare
How to pitch
Openfor introduces founders whose company fits the criteria above.
Open to
- Speakers for events
The firm runs AI, blockchain and web3 workshops and executive briefings for business, academic and public sector groups. Its site has a general contact form and the email info@starchain.vc.
Portfolio
One portfolio company is named in public sources: PaySoko Systems, a small business lending company. The fund's stated pipeline covers lending, real estate tokenization, healthcare data intelligence, supply chain tokenization and agentic workflows.
Some of the companies they have backed
The portfolio at a glance · 1 company
Sectors
- Fintech lending100%
From a VC Lab podcast write-up, as of Oct 2026. The fund's own site has no portfolio page and public databases list no investments.
