Robert Leshner

CEO

2023 - Current

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.

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%

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.

Principal

2009 - 2011

Managed investment modeling & reporting infrastructure. Member of Investment Committee advising $6bn in assets.

Project Manager

2007 - 2009

Let ALM analysis & planning process; managed interest rate and liquidity risk analysis of the bank's balance sheet