Investing Profile

Tarun Chitra

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Partner at Robot Ventures
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Current Investing Position
Robot Ventures Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $1M
Sweet Spot
$250K
Investments On Record
7
Current Fund Size
$4M

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Tarun Chitra's Investments On Record (7)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
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Seed RoundSep 2022$6.5M
$6.5M
Empiric Network
Seed RoundJul 2022$7M
$7M
Co-investors: Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Tekin Salimi
Potion Labs
Initial Coin OfferingFeb 2022$12M
$12M
Co-investors: Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures)
ClayStack
Seed RoundJul 2021$5.2M
$10M
Co-investors: Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Jon Callaghan (True Ventures), Phil Black (True Ventures), Jeff Veen (True Ventures), Adam D'Augelli (True Ventures), Toni Schneider (True Ventures), Josh Hannah (Matrix), Raj Gokal (Solana Ventures), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Santiago Roel Santos (ParaFi Capital), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Jack Herrick, Stefan George, Tegan Kline, Tyler Scott Ward
Element Finance
Seed RoundMar 2021$4.4M
$36M
Co-investors: Rune Christensen (Dragonfly Capital Partners), Will Price (Next Frontier Capital), Hart Lambur (Robot Ventures), Santiago Roel Santos (ParaFi Capital), Joseph Lubin (Ethereal Ventures), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Stani Kulechov, Fernando Martinelli, David Hoffman, Zak Cole
Syndicate
Seed RoundMar 2021$1M
$30M
Co-investors: Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Courtney Chow (Battery Ventures), David Eckstein (Sequoia Capital), Ken Deeter (Electric Capital), Niraj Pant (Polychain Capital), Morgan Beller (NFX), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Curtis Spencer (Electric Capital), Maria Shen (Electric Capital), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Cooper Turley (Variant (variant.fund)), Matthew Ball (Makers Fund), Li Jin (Variant (variant.fund)), Baek Kim (Hashed), Lenny Rachitsky (AirAngels), Steve Blank (M34 Capital), Joyce Yang (Seed Club Ventures), Joon Ian Wong (Seed Club Ventures), Illia Polosukhin (SID Venture Partners), Erikan Obotetukudo (Audacity), Gabby Dizon (Infinity Ventures Crypto), Sriram Krishnan (Kearny Jackson), Min Teo (Ethereal Ventures), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), George Lambeth (Divergence Ventures), Calvin Liu (Divergence Ventures), Rahul Vohra (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Todd Goldberg (Todd and Rahul's Angel Fund), Jeff Morris, Jr. (Chapter One Ventures), Ryan Junee (Electric Ant), Packy McCormick (Not Boring Capital), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Ryan Hoover (Weekend Fund), Evan Feng (CoinFund), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Tom Shaughnessy Jr (Seed Club Ventures), Alexander Pack (Hack VC), Dan Elitzer (Nascent), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Ash Egan (Archetype), Monica Desai Weiss (Kleiner Perkins), Adam Jackson, Rene Reinsberg, Tegan Kline, Trevor McFedries, Do Kwon, Imran Khan, Luis Cuende, Alice Lloyd George, Scott Belsky, Andrew Steinwold, Brad Holden, Anastasia Andrianova, Regan Bozman, Tyler Scott Ward
SIREN
Seed RoundMar 2021$4M
$9.2M
Co-investors: Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Edward Moncada (Blockfolio), Santiago Roel Santos (ParaFi Capital), Robert Leshner (Robot Ventures), Jack Herrick

Tarun Chitra's Experience

Partner Robot Ventures2020 - Present
Founder, CEO Gauntlet2018 - Present
Quantitative Research and Development Vatic Labs (New York & San Francisco)2016 - 2018
Scientific Associate and Programmer D. E. Shaw Research2011 - 2016
Student Research (Mathematics and Physics) Cornell University2009 - 2011
Math Support Center Tutor Cornell University2007 - 2011
Undergraduate Researcher, Software Development Cornell University2010 - 2010
Student Research Summer Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator Group2010 - 2010
Clinical Development Intern, Summer 2009 AstraZeneca R&D2009 - 2009
Early Development, Summer (2008) Intern AstraZeneca R&D2008 - 2008

Tarun Chitra's Education

Cornell University B.A. Mathematics
Cornell University B.S. Applied Engineering Physics
Charter School of Wilmington