# Lucas Bruder

> Lucas Bruder is a seed investor at Jito Labs (Austin) backing Apps, Web3 and FinTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jito Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jito-labs)
- Location: Austin, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasbruder/

Lucas Bruder is a seed investor at Jito Labs in Austin focused on Apps and Web3. Lucas Bruder is the Co-Founder and CEO of Jito Labs. He previously worked at Ouster as a Firmware Engineer. Lucas Bruder attended Carnegie Mellon University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5.5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apps | 1 | 20% |
| Web3 | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 20% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 40% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 60% |
| Philippines | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Inference | Inference is a distributed GPU cluster for LLM inference based on Solana, providing a fast, scalable, and token-based API for models such as DeepSeek V3 and Llama 3.3. | $11.8M | Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| fomo | Fomo is a cutting-edge fintech startup revolutionizing the financial landscape through innovative technology and strategic partnerships. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Feb 18, 2025 |  |
| Fragmetric | Fragmetric is a native liquid restaking mechanism for Solana that improve the Solana ecosystem's security and economic potential. |  | Angel | Nov 04, 2024 |  |
| Arcium | Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. | $5.5M | Seed | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Squads | Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with aneasy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure. | $5.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 16, 2023 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Multicoin Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/multicoin-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [6th Man Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6th-man-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chaotic Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chaotic-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Crypto Startup Accelerator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crypto-startup-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Delphi Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/delphi-digital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Jito Labs

VC Fund · Arlington, United States

Jito Labs is the MEV infrastructure company that develops systems to scale Solana and maximize validator rewards.

2 contacts available at Jito Labs.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lucas Bruder | Co-Founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lucas-bruder-3a25 |
| Zano Sherwani | Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zano-sherwani-8e4b |

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## FAQ

### What does Lucas Bruder invest in?

Lucas Bruder invests primarily in Apps, Web3 and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lucas Bruder's check size?

Lucas Bruder typically joins rounds of $5.5M–$12M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lucas Bruder participates in.

### When did Lucas Bruder last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Lucas Bruder closed in Nov 2024. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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