Robot Ventures

New York, United States · VC · DeepTech Purist

About

Robot Ventures Robot Ventures was founded by Robert Leshner (creator of Compound) and Tarun Chitra (founder of Gauntlet, a crypto risk modeling firm). Fund IV raised $75M in 2024. a 3x increase from the previous ~$22M fund, signaling growing institutional confidence. The focus is pre-seed and seed crypto infrastructure and DeFi protocols, with check sizes of $250K-2M. The portfolio is exceptional: EigenLayer, Lido Finance, Flashbots, Aleo, Alkimiya, Argent, and Axelar. The investment criteria s

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EigenLayer
Lido Finance
Flashbots
Aleo

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