# Robot Ventures

> Robot Ventures is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 177 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 177
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last fund: Aug 2024
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/robotventures
- Website: https://robvc.com/

Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in exceptional fintech and blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions, and contrarian worldviews.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$12M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.3M–$4M |
| Series A | $8M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 69 | 39% |
| Cryptocurrency | 43 | 24% |
| Financial Services | 32 | 18% |
| Software | 21 | 12% |
| FinTech | 19 | 11% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 101 | 57% |
| Series A | 20 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 12 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 9 | 5% |
| Series B | 1 | 1% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 73 | 41% |
| Singapore | 5 | 3% |
| Canada | 4 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Israel | 2 | 1% |

15 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Robert Leshner | Partner | 39 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/robert-leshner |
| Tarun Chitra | General Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tarun-chitra |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nova Markets | Nova Markets is an on-chain capital and prediction market infrastructure project. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| 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. | $18M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Paxos Labs | 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 | Payy is a fintech application that enables stablecoin transactions, seamless payments, cryptocurrency wallets, and exchange services. | $6M | Seed | Mar 25, 2026 |  |
| EXO Labs | 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 |  |
| Polybase | The web3 database | $6M | Seed | Dec 31, 2025 |  |
| Asgard Finance | 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 | Sprinter is a solver-based infrastructure that aims to optimise cross-chain transactions. | $5.2M | Seed | Nov 06, 2025 |  |
| BULK Trade | One Exchange Infinite Markets | $8M | Seed | Sep 24, 2025 |  |
| Wildcat Labs | Wildcat Labs provides on-chain credit and grants access to a detailed view of all market parameters and logs for real-time monitoring. | $3.5M | Seed | Sep 05, 2025 |  |

10 of 177 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Polychain](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/polychain-capital) — VC Fund, 24 deals together
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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 177 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–$12M 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?

Public channels for Robot Ventures include 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 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 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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