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Robot Ventures invests in ambitious founders building unconventional, technically sophisticated cryptocurrency and DeFi projects. The fund's core thesis is that the most valuable opportunities in crypto exist at the intersection of cutting-edge cryptographic innovation, economic design, and blockchain infrastructure — backing highly technical primitives at the pre-seed and seed stages before they become widely recognized. The fund leverages deep quant research expertise and on-chain economic design to evaluate complex DeFi mechanisms, L1/L2 architecture, zero-knowledge proofs, MEV economics, and on-chain governance that generalist VCs struggle to understand. Robot Ventures explicitly avoids superficial blockchain applications without genuine utility, projects primarily focused on speculation, non-technical teams, and incremental clones without innovation.
Notable quotes
“What makes DeFi on Ripple exciting is the massive retail userbase they've built, even in the absence of onchain applications. The introduction of DeFi could be met with an extremely active userbase.”
“I think it's DeFi. I mean, frankly, most people, including most people around the world, have the ability to buy stocks right now. That doesn't really change with tokenization, frankly. I think it's being able to do interesting things with these in DeFi protocols. That's going to be the tipping point.”
“Much like ETFs increased equity participation in US equities, we expect tokenization and vaults to increase the size of the DeFi market faster than overall stablecoin growth in the next few years.”
Team
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polymarket | Seed | — | — |
| Monad | Seed | — | — |
| LayerZero | Series A | $6m | 2021-09 |
| Flashbots | Seed | — | — |
| Jito | Seed | — | — |
| EigenLayer | Seed | — | — |
| Celestia | Seed | — | — |
| Morpho | Seed | — | — |
| Payy | Seed | $6m | 2026-03 |
| Ground | Pre-Seed | $4m | 2026-06 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Coinbase Ventures | 21 |
| Dragonfly | 18 |
| Polychain Capital | 17 |
| Paradigm | 12 |
| Bankless Ventures | 9 |
| Wintermute Ventures | 5 |
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