Robot Ventures

Robot Ventures is a New York-based venture capital firm that backs early-stage fintech and blockchain companies, including those in cryptocurrency. It supports founders with ambitious visions and contrarian perspectives, seeking teams that challenge conventional thinking. Founded in 2019, the firm focuses on pre-seed and seed-stage investments, providing capital and guidance to navigate rapidly evolving financial technologies. Robot Ventures targets ventures at the intersection of finance and digital assets with the potential to transform payment systems, capital markets, and related services.

Hart Lambur

Partner

Robert Leshner

Partner

Past deals in Developer Tools

Stoffel MPC

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Stoffel MPC is a platform for developers looking to create applications that prioritize privacy.

FastLane

Funding Round in 2025
FastLane is a developer of a platform aimed at enhancing network efficiency and user experience in the blockchain space. The protocol focuses on generating revenue for validators while optimizing the performance of algorithmic traders. It employs ecosystem-friendly MEV relays to minimize transaction spam and bolster network health. This approach not only safeguards user interactions but also boosts the yield of liquid staking derivatives, improving the chances of success for beneficial trading bots. By simplifying the integration of sentry nodes through a single command line, FastLane aims to streamline operations for users and contribute to a more effective and sustainable blockchain environment.

Valantis Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Valantis Labs operates a decentralized exchange (DEX) platform that equips developers with tools to create custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. The platform simplifies and accelerates the process, making it more cost-effective and user-friendly. It offers DEXes and on-chain tools, ensuring secure crypto trading and management, and enabling developers to build on-chain liquidity infrastructure swiftly and efficiently.

Conduit

Series A in 2024
Conduit operates as a platform focused on providing crypto native infrastructure aimed at supporting developers in the cryptocurrency space. The company collaborates with leading crypto engineering teams to develop a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate the creation, deployment, and maintenance of smart contracts, particularly on the Ethereum network. By offering a visual programming environment, Conduit enables developers to build, test, and deploy smart contracts efficiently, utilizing various programming languages and libraries. This streamlined approach enhances the overall development process, empowering builders in the rapidly evolving field of cryptocurrency.

Othentic

Seed Round in 2024
Othentic is a technology developer focused on creating modular networks within a shared security environment. The company provides a web3 orchestration and abstraction layer that allows developers to build distributed systems and enhance security. By offering a library of components, Othentic enables the self-deployment of custom computational services over trustless execution environments, facilitating seamless integration with re-staking protocols. This innovative approach empowers developers to construct tailored solutions while benefiting from the underlying shared security infrastructure.

Succinct

Series A in 2024
Succinct specializes in developing zero-knowledge infrastructure for software developers. It offers an open-source platform that enables developers to write and execute programs securely on any blockchain, with a focus on Ethereum. The platform allows for the reuse of existing crates and libraries, and generates proofs rapidly, ensuring high performance without compromising security.

Axiom

Series A in 2024
Axiom enables smart contracts to securely compute over Ethereum's whole history, including transactions and receipts. Developers can send on-chain queries to Axiom, which are automatically completed with ZK-verified responses delivered back to the developer's smart contract.

Rated Labs

Series A in 2023
Rated Labs is a Web3 infrastructure company that provides granular data on validators and node operators to help users compare performance and understand the health of digital currency networks. Through an API-based data utility platform, Rated Labs offers independent third-party ratings for nodes and operators, robust data pipelines, and a comprehensive infrastructure dataset, enabling developers to analyze the crypto base layer and extract actionable insights about network reliability, security, and performance.

Catalyst

Seed Round in 2023
Catalyst is an open-source liquidity protocol for modular blockchains, developed by Cata Labs. Catalyst will automatically connect each new chain to other chains of interest, such as other app environments or hubs like Ethereum and Cosmos.

Cubist

Seed Round in 2023
Cubist offers a web3 key management platform and modular toolkit that enables developers to safely design, test, and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain decentralized applications in automated pipelines. By handling keys and sequencing, the solution supports secure cross-chain deployments from a single program.

Perennial Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Perennial Labs develops decentralized finance technology, offering a derivatives protocol and related primitives for developers. The permission-free platform is designed to simplify trading of DeFi derivatives and enable the creation of new DeFi tools, using a capital-efficient model for liquidity provisioning. Established in 2022 in New Castle, Delaware, the company focuses on providing a standardized framework that supports a wide range of DeFi use cases while making derivative workflows easier to build and deploy.

Primitive

Series A in 2022
Primitive is an innovative developer of open-source software frameworks for crypto transaction simulation.

Instadapp

Seed Round in 2019
Instadapp is a DeFi technology company that provides a platform and middleware to simplify interaction with multiple decentralized finance protocols. The platform enables users to deposit cryptocurrencies, borrow, lend, leverage, swap assets, and manage blockchain-based assets and financial positions, while offering tools for developers to build and monetize DeFi use-cases with reliable, integrated access. Founded in 2018 and based in Hyderabad, India.
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