Robot Ventures
VC Fund
San Francisco, United States
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in exceptional fintech and blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions, and contrarian worldviews.
- Total investments:
- 179
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
- Fund size:
- $75M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Robot Ventures invests in
Stages Robot Ventures invests in
Countries Robot Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$13M
- Pre-Seed
- $1.3M–$4M
- Series A
- $8M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 85 (47%)
- Cryptocurrency 56 (31%)
- Financial Services 40 (22%)
- FinTech 28 (16%)
- Software 28 (16%)
Stage
- Seed 117 (65%)
- Series A 24 (13%)
- Pre-Seed 13 (7%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 9 (5%)
- Series B 6 (3%)
Country
- United States 90 (50%)
- Canada 5 (3%)
- Singapore 5 (3%)
- Cayman Islands 4 (2%)
- United Kingdom 4 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Leshner
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 39 | Find email | |
Tarun Chitra
General Partner
|
General Partner | Total investments: 18 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nous Research is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on developing open-source, human-centric artificial intelligence models and tools. Its work encompasses large language model architecture, data synthesis, fine-tuning, and reasoning, aiming to align AI systems with real-world user experiences. In addition to model development, theorganization emphasizes decentralized AI training. It utilizes blockchain technology, specifically the Solana network, to coordinate and incentivize global participation in training its AI models. This approach allows individuals worldwide to contribute idle computing power for AI training, promoting a more distributed and collaborative development process. | $90M / Series B / Oct 07, 2026 | ||
| Physical Superintelligence develops physical superintelligence systems that use AI-driven research to study physics, engineer physical systems, and explore new physical laws. Its approach combines human scientists with virtual physicists that conduct autonomous research campaigns covering hypothesis development, verification, experimentation,engineering, and deployment. The company focuses initially on the physical infrastructure underlying AI, including energy, materials, computation, sensing, and manufacturing. | $58M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Nova Markets is an on-chain capital and prediction market infrastructure project. | Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 04, 2026 | ||
| 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. | $18M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2026 | ||
| Paxos Labs offers enterprise infrastructure for branded stablecoins and embedded on-chain financial products. The company develops blockchain-based solutions that help institutions issue and manage stablecoins under their own brands. It also provides APIs and tools that enable partners to embed tokenized dollars and other on-chain financialproducts into their platforms. Paxos Labs serves financial institutions, fintechs, and enterprises seeking to integrate digital assets into existing services. Its technology focuses on regulated, asset-backed tokens and institutional-grade settlement workflows. | $12M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| Payy is a fintech application that enables stablecoin transactions, seamless payments, cryptocurrency wallets, and exchange services. | $6M / Seed / Mar 25, 2026 | ||
| This London-based company develops open-source software designed to run large AI models locally, reducing dependence on centralized cloud providers. | Seed / Jan 01, 2026 | ||
| The web3 database | $6M / Seed / Dec 31, 2025 | ||
| Asgard helps fearless investors take confident, strategic positions in the evolving Internet Capital Markets, providing the tools, insights, and support they need to act boldly and capitalize on emerging digital opportunities. | $2.2M / Seed / Dec 08, 2025 | ||
| Sprinter is a solver-based infrastructure that aims to optimise cross-chain transactions. | $5.2M / Seed / Nov 06, 2025 | ||
| See all 179 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Robot Ventures invest in?
Robot Ventures invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 179 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 Robot Ventures's check size?
Robot Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$13M at Seed, $1.3M–$4M at Pre-Seed and $8M–$50M 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 Robot Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Robot Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Robot Ventures?
The team at Robot Ventures includes Robert Leshner (Partner) and Tarun Chitra (General Partner). 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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