Tarun Chitra
General Partner @ Robot Ventures
New York, United States
Tarun Chitra is a seed investor at Robot Ventures in New York focused on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. Tarun Chitra is Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties ofUniswap and Compound. He previously worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
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Industries Tarun Chitra invests in
Stages Tarun Chitra invests in
Countries Tarun Chitra invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $3.4M–$7M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $4M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Blockchain 7 (39%)
- Cryptocurrency 6 (33%)
- Information Technology 5 (28%)
- Financial Services 3 (17%)
- FinTech 2 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 12 (67%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (6%)
- Series A 1 (6%)
- Post-IPO Equity 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 10 (56%)
- United Kingdom 2 (11%)
- France 1 (6%)
- Singapore 1 (6%)
- South Korea 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Divine Research Inc. offers a credit platform called "Credit" that provides small, fast loans without requiring collateral or credit history, mainly using stablecoins and biometric verification to serve people excluded from traditional finance worldwide. Borrowers grow their loan limits over time through trust, while liquidity providersearn competitive interest rates, making the system scalable and profitable for both sides.Divine Research Inc. runs a credit platform called "Credit," providing fast, collateral-free microloans to people excluded from traditional finance, using biometric verification and stablecoins to serve millions globally. The system builds trust over time, raising loan limits and ensuring accessible, profitable lending for borrowers and investors. | $6.6M / Seed / Sep 25, 2025 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Suilend provides a financing and lending platform. | $4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2024 | ||
| Yupp a discovering, contrasting, and utilizing the newest AIs is made simple and enjoyable, which also contributes to the field's future development.. | $33M / Seed / Jun 01, 2024 | ||
| FANTOM is the world's first DAG based smart contract platform. | $10M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 23, 2024 | ||
| Zama's mission is to bring end-to-end encryption to AI. Using their homomorphic inference platform, companies can process their customer's data without seeing it, thereby preventing data breaches and surveillance.Zama's solution is based on a breakthrough in homomorphic encryption, which enables evaluating deep neural networks overencrypted data, without changing anything to the network architecture. Zama is open-source by design, as they believe privacy-enabling technologies should benefit the widest possible community of developers and researchers.Zama's cofounders are Dr Pascal Paillier, one of the most renowned cryptography researcher, and Dr Rand Hindi, a serial entrepreneur who formerly founded Snips. | $73.4M / Series A / Mar 07, 2024 | ||
| Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting. | $4.5M / Seed / Feb 21, 2024 | ||
| Witness is an on-chain R&D firm that accepts digital ownership and allows for quicker Web3 ownership, verification, and exchange of digital material. | $3.5M / Seed / Feb 15, 2024 | ||
| Pimlico is an infrastructure platform for building the next generation of Ethereum smart accounts. | $1.6M / Pre-Seed / Sep 25, 2023 | ||
| Olympix is a startup that wants to make Web3 more secure.It is a cutting-edge developer tool for preventive Web3 security. | $4.3M / Seed / Jul 11, 2023 | ||
| See all 18 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Robot Ventures
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in exceptional fintech and blockchain companies led by founders with big ambitions, and contrarian worldviews.
Robot Ventures Contacts
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Robert Leshner
Partner
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Tarun Chitra
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FAQ
What does Tarun Chitra invest in?
Tarun Chitra invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Tarun Chitra invest in?
Tarun Chitra typically joins rounds of $3.4M–$7M at Seed and $4M–$10M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Tarun Chitra's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Tarun Chitra took part in.
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When did Tarun Chitra last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tarun Chitra closed in Sep 2025. Shizune tracks 18 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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