# Robert Leshner

> Robert Leshner is a seed investor at Superstate backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Superstate](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/superstate-317d)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rleshner/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/rleshner
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=613735

Robert Leshner is a seed investor at Superstate in San Francisco focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Robert Leshner is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superstate. He previously worked at Compound Labs as a Founder. Robert Leshner attended CFA Institute.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1M–$5.2M |
| Series A | $9M–$25M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 17 | 44% |
| Cryptocurrency | 17 | 44% |
| FinTech | 10 | 26% |
| Financial Services | 8 | 21% |
| Bitcoin | 4 | 10% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 23 | 59% |
| Series A | 5 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 8% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 2 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 46% |
| Singapore | 3 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 8% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Forum Markets | 180 Life Sciences Corp. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel drugs that fulfill unmet needs in inflammatory diseases, fibrosis and pain by leveraging the combined expertise of luminaries in therapeutics from Oxford University, the Hebrew University, and Stanford University. | $425M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 29, 2025 |  |
| Fantom Foundation | FANTOM is the world's first DAG based smart contract platform. | $10M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 23, 2024 |  |
| Degen War$ | Degen War$ is a player-versus-player NFT card game that takes place entirely on the blockchain. |  | Seed | May 08, 2024 |  |
| Bonsai | Bonsai is a DN-404 token on Polygon, airdropped to active Lens ecosystem profiles, serving as a community for on-chain social builders, explorers, and early adopters. | $1M | Seed | Apr 05, 2024 |  |
| INIT Capital | INIT Capital offers Lending, Borrowing, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook. | $3.1M | Seed | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Blocknative | Blocknative is a provider of real-time blockchain transaction management and monitoring solutions for public blockchain networks. It was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $15M | Series A | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Goldsky | Goldsky empowers developers to quickly spin up realtime APIs using data stored on Ethereum and other networks. | $20.5M | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Empiric Network | Empiric is the oracle on Starknet, built to empower native protocols to realize their ambitious potential. | $7M | Seed | Jul 15, 2022 |  |
| Porter Finance | Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform, offering an unmatched 1500% rate of returns on maximum returns on digital options. With a fast learning curve, user friendly interface and excellent customer support, Porter Finance offers its traders the best online trading experience on the net. The binary optionsplatform offers a wide variety of currencies, stocks, commodities and indices to trade binary options. In total, Porter Finance offers well over 100 different assets for trading options of all types. Offering one of the most comprehensive trading platforms, every investor is sure to find what they are looking for at Porter Finance.The company was formed on the principal that knowledge is power and though knowledge comes success. Launched in 2014, the company prides itself on excellent service and guarantees the best environment for success to their traders passing on their knowledge to traders in order to maximize their trading potential. | $5M | Seed | Apr 08, 2022 |  |
| Potion Labs | Potion Labs is a base layer for a wide range of asset risk-management applications. | $12M | Initial Coin Offering | Feb 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Coinbase Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/coinbase-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [IDEO CoLab Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ideo-colab) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Electric Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/electric-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Robot Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robot-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Fabric Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fabric-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Nascent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nascent-91c1) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Superstate

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.

2 contacts available at Superstate.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jim Hiltner | Co-Founder and Head of Business Development | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-hiltner-a464 |
| Robert Leshner | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-leshner |

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## FAQ

### What does Robert Leshner invest in?

Robert Leshner invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 39 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 Robert Leshner's check size?

Robert Leshner typically joins rounds of $1M–$5.2M at Seed and $9M–$25M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Robert Leshner participates in.

### When did Robert Leshner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robert Leshner closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 39 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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