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Robot Ventures

VC
New York, NY

Robot Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in New York, NY investing in Other, Fintech, Marketplace. The firm typically writes $100K–$500K checks and has 2 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$100K–$500K
Portfolio
2 companies on record
Partners
2 listed
AUM
$97M
Stage
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sectors
Other, Fintech, Marketplace, Consumer, Developer Tools
HQ
New York, NY

Last verified: 2026-05-14

How to approach: warm intro preferred
Stage

Pre-Seed, Seed

Check Size

$100K – $500K

AUM

$97M

Portfolio

2+ companies

Team

2 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Robot Ventures focuses on early-stage crypto startups solving data, trading tools, and programmable money challenges.

How Robot Ventures invests

Robot Ventures is a vc firm based in New York, NY. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, Fintech, Marketplace, Consumer, Developer Tools. It does not invest in Consumer.

Robot Ventures typically writes checks of $100K–$500K per investment, backed by approximately $97M in assets under management.

Robot Ventures has backed 2 companies in our records, including Compound Finance, OpenBazaar.

Partners & Team

TC

Tarun Chitra

General Partner

crypto
fintech
blockchain protocols
RL

Robert Leshner

General Partner

crypto
decentralized finance
fintech

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Fintech
Marketplace
Consumer
Developer Tools

Does Not Invest In

Consumer

Portfolio Companies (2)

Other

CO

Compound Finance

DeFi/FinTech
OP

OpenBazaar

Web3 Marketplace
How to pitch Robot Ventures
  • Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Other, Fintech, Marketplace — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $100K – $500K check.
  • warm intro preferred
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Tarun Chitra, General Partner.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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