Robot Ventures

Polymarket is a global prediction market platform where users can bet on future events, allowing them to profit from their knowledge.

LayerZero is a technology that enables applications to move data across blockchains, uniquely supporting censorship-resistant messages and permissionless development through immutable smart contracts.

Flashbots is a research and development organization formed to mitigate the negative externalities posed by Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) to stateful blockchains, starting with Ethereum.

Jito Labs provides infrastructure solutions for Solana, focusing on maximizing MEV (Miner Extractable Value) opportunities for validators and searchers on the blockchain.

Compound is a decentralized finance platform that offers an algorithmic interest rate protocol for developers. It aims to create open financial applications.

Lido is an AI-powered data extraction tool that automates the extraction of data from various document types, including PDFs, invoices, and purchase orders, converting them into structured spreadsheet data.

Morpho is an open, efficient, and resilient platform that allows anyone to earn yield and borrow assets. It enables developers or businesses to create markets, curate vaults, and build a range of applications on its flexible, permissionless infrastructure.

Aleo is a Layer-1 blockchain powered by zero-knowledge cryptography, enabling private, programmable, and scalable applications by default.

Succinct develops technology to prove what's real, restoring authenticity on the internet in the age of AI. They are an applied cryptography company focused on zero-knowledge proofs and secure infrastructure.

Celestia is the L1 for specialised onchain markets, enabling fibre optic performance with millisecond latency. It provides terabit-scale blockspace for high-throughput decentralized applications.

Engineering-led venture capital firm run by former founders and senior engineers from Google and Facebook. Uses large-scale analysis of hundreds of millions of code commits to drive investment decisions. Accepts 10-year lockups to support long-dated token mechanics.

Early-stage seed crypto investor focusing on user-ownership decentralized networks, combining VC and active liquid token trading and offering structured founder programs, peer working groups, research, and onchain policy guidance.

Contrarian crypto investor making highly concentrated 30–50%+ bets, systematizing eight contrarian methodologies, running a hedge fund alongside venture investing, and using aggressive public thesis-driven writing.

Crypto-native operators who architect token-first networks through token design, governance, and community bootstrapping. 1kx specializes in backing 100+ on-chain projects with sustainable token economies.