# Robinhood

> Robinhood is a VC fund in Menlo Park backing Financial Services and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/robinhood/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/robinhoodapp
- Website: https://www.robinhood.com/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/robinhoodapp

Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Robinhood. Shizune tracks 19 team members at Robinhood. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/robinhood?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 5 | 42% |
| FinTech | 4 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 2 | 17% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 17% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 4 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |
| Series B | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 67% |
| Singapore | 1 | 8% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Erika Balbuena | Head of ESG | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/erika-balbuena |
| Gretchen Howard | Chief Operating Officer | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gretchen-howard |
| Surabhi Gupta | VP of Engineering | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/surabhi-gupta |
| Vlad Tenev | Co-Founder,President, and CEO | 24 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vlad-tenev |
| Aboud Khaddam | Investor | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aboud-khaddam |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ethereum Institutional | Ethereum Institutional is a non-profit organization that focuses on increasing institutional use of the Ethereum ecosystem, including its Layer 2 networks and applications. The organization provides institutional education and engagement for banks, asset managers, custodians, fintechs, market infrastructures, and public institutions evaluatingEthereum. It produces neutral research explaining how Ethereum works, its development roadmap, and its implications for institutional users. Ethereum Institutional also coordinates ecosystem marketing around ETH and real-world deployments to inform institutional strategies. In addition, it gathers industry requirements for tokenization, custody, and settlement on Ethereum and convenes events where institutions and Ethereum ecosystem stakeholders can discuss priorities and implementation approaches. |  | Seed | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| FutureSports | FutureSports is a new index provider that transforms professional and college sports data into rule-based financial benchmarks. |  | Seed | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Klaimee | Klaimee is a startup that develops insurance and certification infrastructure for autonomous AI agents. | $5.5M | Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Bluprynt | Bluprynt is a company that provides digital asset declaration services to improve compliance and safety in the process. The company provides disclosure infrastructure and compliance technologies, as well as identifying and guiding government trends and market expectations, allowing businesses to save time and focus on core activities. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Talos | Talos Trading is an institutional technology infrastructure provider that connects all crypto ecosystem participants to support a full trading lifecycle. Talos Trading is based in New York, NY and was co-founded by Anton Katz and Ethan Feldman in 2018. | $45M | Series B | Jan 29, 2026 |  |
| Gopuff | Gopuff is a Philadelphia-based company that delivers products like over-the-counter medicine, baby food, and alcohol. Across America, Gopuff is known for satiating late-night cravings for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, Doritos, Red Bull, and, in select markets, White Claw and rescuing those in need of diapers, condoms, and cleaning products. Gopuffallows users the joy of browsing the shelves without the hassle of going to the store. It takes seconds to navigate the app and minutes for Gopuff’s Driver-Partners to deliver the customer’s needs and wants. The company was founded in 2013 by Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, two Drexel University students with a minivan and a vision to make everyday life a little easier. | $250M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 13, 2025 |  |
| Lighter | Lighter develops software focused on financial applications. It designs tools to support financial tasks and processes. The company creates solutions for various financial needs. Its products aim to streamline financial activities. Lighter specializes in software development for finance. | $68M | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 11, 2025 |  |
| Bruce Markets | Bruce Markets is designed to provide seamless digital investor experiences. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Bluprynt | Bluprynt is a company that provides digital asset declaration services to improve compliance and safety in the process. The company provides disclosure infrastructure and compliance technologies, as well as identifying and guiding government trends and market expectations, allowing businesses to save time and focus on core activities. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | May 15, 2024 |  |
| ErisX | ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. Thecompany was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Nov 29, 2022 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Valid Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valid-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fidelity](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fidelity-investments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Galaxy Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galaxy-digital-lp) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [tastytrade](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tastyworks) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3F](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3f-a805) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Robinhood invest in?

Robinhood invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Robinhood?

Public channels for Robinhood include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Robinhood?

The team at Robinhood includes Erika Balbuena (Head of ESG), Gretchen Howard (Chief Operating Officer) and Surabhi Gupta (VP of Engineering), among 19 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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