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Robert Leshner
Partner at Robot Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Robert Leshner is an experienced entrepreneur and investor based in New York, with a strong focus on fintech and crypto industries. He has founded Compound Labs and Safe Shepherd, and has invested in notable companies like Fantom Foundation and Blocknative, showcasing his expertise in strategic partnerships and venture capital within the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
CEO
2023 - Current
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions.
Raised $18,000,000.00 from The Department of XYZ, Nascent, Distributed Global, CoinFund, Mary-Catherine Lader, Modular Capital, Galaxy Venture Capital, Breyer Capital, Hack VC and Road Capital.
Partner
2019
Robot Ventures is a (pre-)seed investor in fintech / crypto companies with big ambitions and contrarian worldviews.
Founder
2017 - 2023
Compound is an open-source, autonomous protocol built for developers, to unlock a universe of new financial applications. Interest and borrowing, for the open financial system.
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications.
Raised $70,834,255.00 from Davoa Capital, New Form Capital and TeleSoft Partners.
Co Chair
2016 - 2019
Appointed by SF Board of Supervisors to help provide oversight for the city's revenue bonds, financing our water, sewer, and municipal power programs
Product Lead
2016 - 2017
Product Lead, overseeing all merchant-facing products, which included sales & onboarding, partnership dashboard & reporting, payment systems, ordering channels, and the Postmates tablet Order App. * Expanded the Order App (a countertop tablet + ordering system) from an initial proof of concept release to the industry's best ordering system, with menu management, hours management, printing capabilities, reporting, and in-app fulfillment support * Doubled the number of partner merchants, and reduced the time to onboard new partners by 60% * Designed and launched an entirely new product, Instant Order Support, which reduced merchant support workload by more than 50%
Serve is a friendly, autonomous delivery robot.
Founder
2011 - 2015
Founded Safe Shepherd, which pioneered a personal-information opt-out service for consumers. Part of 500 Startups, batch 3. Grew to over $1m revenue on minimal VC funding. The identity protection industry followed our lead, and each of the major players either made acquisition offers or copied our product. Sold in February 2015.
Safe Shepherd is a privacy web service to remove records that violate its users’ privacy on internet and remove access ‘Data Brokers’.
Raised $629,000.00 from FundersClub, Signatures Capital, 500 Global, OCA Ventures and 500 Global.
Principal
2009 - 2011
Managed investment modeling & reporting infrastructure. Member of Investment Committee advising $6bn in assets.
HPM Partners LLC is a financial services firm with operations in New York.
Project Manager
2007 - 2009
Let ALM analysis & planning process; managed interest rate and liquidity risk analysis of the bank's balance sheet
Private student loans in the United States.