Niraj Pant

2026 Early Career Alumni Service Award

Niraj Pant is Co-Founder of Ritual, the decentralized execution layer for AI. Prior to founding Ritual, Niraj spent six years as a General Partner at Polychain, leading investment rounds in startups like Offchain Labs, EigenLayer, and Polymarket. He began his career as a cryptography researcher in the Decentralized Systems Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.