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Proud to announce my position as CEO of @RoboStrategy. When I initially started looking into investing in robotics 2 years ago most VCs I consulted with recommended not to invest in the space. Robotics companies at this time did not have an easy time raising capital. The industry didn’t have a track record of big venture winners, was perceived to be challenging for a variety of reasons, and was not well understood. But it was clear to me that the rate of acceleration of physical AI development would dramatically change the industry. I invested $19m into FigureAI as my first investment. I believed it was a question of when, not if we could imbue machines around the world with physical intelligence. To accomplish this, the industry would need a tremendous amount of capital to grow, and also an investment firm that deeply understood the needs of robotics/physical AI companies so that it could build a platform to better support them. It will take hundreds of billions to capitalize the mechanized future meaning there is a big gap in the market. We decided we wanted to fill it. Previously, Mechanism Capital had never taken outside capital, but to do this at the scale I envision, I would need to do so. However, the private markets don’t have that scale. The public markets do, and it was clear that there is and likely will be tremendous appetite for public market investors to participate in the immense value creation happening in AI & robotics that only private market investors currently have the privilege of accessing. The explosive growth of AI companies is a precursor of what will happen in physical AI. So in 2025, we founded RoboStrategy and a year later, we took it public on Nasdaq. Throughout this year, we’ve assembled a great portfolio, started leading rounds of some amazing companies, and have built the foundation to be ready to scale to the next level after going public. We look different from a traditional VC firm in ways that founders appreciate. Our structure as a closed end fund means our capital is permanent - no fund life meaning we can invest with extremely long time horizons. Our investment firm also of course needs to have deep industry and research experience so that it can make the best risk reward optimized investment decisions. In the last year, we’ve brought on some truly exceptional robotics industry veterans who have previously served for decades as founders/operators. Many founders we talk to consider us as the most sophisticated venture capital firm they’ve talked to and we only intend to grow our expertise in the industry. RoboStrategy’s success depends on our ability to distribute the fund and capture maximal mindshare. This plays to our team’s strength in digital marketing and social media. We’re building a special marketing engine that serves as an attention amplifier for both us and our founders so that our products and stories can reach more people. A source of inspiration for our fund structure, Strategy (MSTR) raised tens of billions from public capital markets to invest in Bitcoin. I believe robotics will be a much larger industry than Bitcoin and the asset class is orders of magnitude less accessible. We are aiming to raise more and not only become the largest robotics investor globally, but also one of the largest venture capital funds in the world. Venture capital has traditionally been restricted to a limited group of investors. We are changing the paradigm and bringing it to the rest of the world. Be sure to follow @RoboStrategy. Job’s not finished.
BOT: Public Market Access to Private Robotics Companies Introducing RoboStrategy: RoboStrategy, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOT) is a closed-end management investment company providing concentrated exposure to robotics and physical AI. The fund is designed to give public market investors exposure to a portfolio that aims to include the most promising private, pre-IPO, and public robotics and physical AI companies. It bridges a structural gap between where robotics innovation is occurring (largely in private markets) and where most investors can access exposure (public markets). The fund seeks to provide investors with access to a sector that has traditionally been limited to venture capital, and aims to provide exposure to companies that may stay private for longer. -- The Core Insight We believe the robotics industry is at an inflection point, with physical AI and robotics increasingly being applied to labor-constrained global industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and services. According to the International Labor Association, labor accounts for approximately 52% of global GDP.¹ According to Statista, global GDP in 2025 was $118T.² This represents an implied global labor market size of roughly $60T. At the same time, this labor base is increasingly constrained: Korn Ferry projects a global shortage of 85.2 million skilled workers by 2030, including a 7.9 million worker deficit in manufacturing alone.³ Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute estimate the US could need 3.8 million new manufacturing workers by 2033, with 1.9 million of those roles at risk of going unfilled.⁴ Physical AI and robotics are emerging as a primary means of closing that gap. While public markets currently offer indirect exposure to robotics through diversified technology companies, much of the value creation is occurring in private companies that remain inaccessible to most investors. -- Portfolio Focus The portfolio focuses on what the fund believes are category-defining robotics and physical artificial intelligence innovators, including Figure AI, Apptronik, Dyna Robotics, Standard Bots, Dexmate, and other pioneers advancing autonomous systems, machine perception, and human-machine collaboration. The managers of the fund seek to optimize returns by actively managing the portfolio and continuing to make new investments in leading private robotics companies. -- The Ambition The fund's long-term goal is to grow into a significant public-market vehicle for robotics investing, providing public-market access to private innovation in the sector. -- Footnotes & Disclosure: ¹ International Labour Organization, World Employment and Social Outlook: May 2025 Update. ilo.org/sites/default/files/… ² Statista, Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices worldwide. statista.com/statistics/2687… ³ Korn Ferry, Future of Work: The Global Talent Crunch. kornferry.com/about-us/press… ⁴ Deloitte & The Manufacturing Institute, Taking charge: Manufacturers support growth with active workforce strategies, April 2024. deloitte.com/us/en/pages/abo… RoboStrategy, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOT) is a closed-end fund registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. This content is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice or an offer to buy or sell securities. Investing involves substantial risks, including possible loss of principal. The fund invests in robotics, physical AI, emerging technologies, and private companies, which may involve heightened volatility, limited liquidity, valuation uncertainty, and concentration risk. References to portfolio companies are illustrative only, do not represent all investments made by the fund, and are not investment recommendations. Portfolio holdings are subject to change. Forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain. See the prospectus and SEC filings for additional information.
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Bill was an important player in shaping Blockchain policy in DC/Consensys Excited for him to be joining us at @RoboStrategy to lead our government policy work. The US doesn’t yet have a National robotics strategy, but it will soon and getting it right is important for the future of the country from both an economic, defense, and supply chain independence point of view. We hope to bring the founders of the Robotics industry to the table so they can share their experiences and views with law makers and federal agencies on how the government can empower the growth of the domestic industry
I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @RoboStrategy Advisors to handle legal and policy. I’m taking this on because embodied AI and humanoid robotics are arriving faster than the law is ready for — and the legal and policy questions are remarkably wide-ranging: • National security and trade — export controls, CFIUS, and supply-chain rules increasingly govern who can build and deploy these systems. • Liability and insurance — how tort law assigns responsibility when an autonomous machine acts in the physical world. What consumer protections we need to introduce. • Safety and standards — the standards-setting work (NIST and beyond) that will shape both safety and global competitiveness. • Data and privacy — what it means to have capable machines operating in homes, workplaces, and other human environments. • Labor and workforce — the genuinely hard questions about how this technology interacts with work. • Federalism — a growing patchwork of state approaches and the open question of federal preemption. • And running through all of it, the US–China competition that frames so much of the current debate. Getting to work across that entire range is the kind of substantive legal work I’ve always wanted to do — but the work ahead is as much about engagement as analysis. I want to help bring the best minds in robotics to the table and make sure their insight actually reaches the people writing the rules: on Capitol Hill, in state capitals, across the federal agencies, and with policy counterparts around the world. My aim is to approach the opportunities and the concerns the same way — soberly and with clear eyes. Not hype, not alarm, but policymaking grounded in how these systems really work, and an honest accounting of what they can and can’t yet do, and how policy has to evolve to embrace this future. Thank you to @Rewkang @WarcMeinstein for the opportunity and the trust. I’m grateful to be joining such a strong team, I expect to learn an enormous amount from them, and I’m excited to help build something that can help define this emerging field. I’ll be writing more on these questions and others in the months ahead — I’d welcome comparing notes with others working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. LFG
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SpaceX is a historic liquidity transfer event from public market investors to private market investors This will flow down to the next wave of frontier venture capital backed companies, driving more funding and higher private market valuations
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I’m excited to share that I’ve joined @RoboStrategy Advisors to handle legal and policy. I’m taking this on because embodied AI and humanoid robotics are arriving faster than the law is ready for — and the legal and policy questions are remarkably wide-ranging: • National security and trade — export controls, CFIUS, and supply-chain rules increasingly govern who can build and deploy these systems. • Liability and insurance — how tort law assigns responsibility when an autonomous machine acts in the physical world. What consumer protections we need to introduce. • Safety and standards — the standards-setting work (NIST and beyond) that will shape both safety and global competitiveness. • Data and privacy — what it means to have capable machines operating in homes, workplaces, and other human environments. • Labor and workforce — the genuinely hard questions about how this technology interacts with work. • Federalism — a growing patchwork of state approaches and the open question of federal preemption. • And running through all of it, the US–China competition that frames so much of the current debate. Getting to work across that entire range is the kind of substantive legal work I’ve always wanted to do — but the work ahead is as much about engagement as analysis. I want to help bring the best minds in robotics to the table and make sure their insight actually reaches the people writing the rules: on Capitol Hill, in state capitals, across the federal agencies, and with policy counterparts around the world. My aim is to approach the opportunities and the concerns the same way — soberly and with clear eyes. Not hype, not alarm, but policymaking grounded in how these systems really work, and an honest accounting of what they can and can’t yet do, and how policy has to evolve to embrace this future. Thank you to @Rewkang @WarcMeinstein for the opportunity and the trust. I’m grateful to be joining such a strong team, I expect to learn an enormous amount from them, and I’m excited to help build something that can help define this emerging field. I’ll be writing more on these questions and others in the months ahead — I’d welcome comparing notes with others working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. LFG
BREAKING: Bill Hughes (@BillHughesDC) has signed with RoboStrategy as Vice President of Legal & Policy
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BREAKING: Bill Hughes (@BillHughesDC) has signed with RoboStrategy as Vice President of Legal & Policy
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At some point we’ll manufacture humanoid robots at cell phone volumes. We are tiny today
Life comes at you fast A humanoid in every home in the not too distant future. It will be near impossible to live without one. Indispensable to everyday life like your cell phone.
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Thrilled to lead the Standard Bots Series C Industrial robots can be thought of as the GPU of industrial work. Powered by AI, they’ll be able to power much of the work required in industrial settings - welding, machine tending, assembly, dispensing, sorting, the list goes on. Industrial robots have existed for decades, but it’s important that they’re built and designed for an AI native future. The work they’ve done over the past decade was not easy - vertical integration, engineering their own parts and a plan to manufacture all of it in America. We talked to many industrial customers and asked them to compare them to the other companies and products on the market and Standard Bots overwhelmingly received the highest marks. AI-native robot adoption is not a 5-10 year in the future event. It’s happening now and Standard Bots is at the forefront of that. If we want to reindustrialize America and massively scale American manufacturing then we need millions, eventually billions of robots produced in America. Standard Bots stands to be one of the pillars of American reindustrialization. Highly recommend following @standardbots & @evanbeard
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst. Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year. We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America. We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market. Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology. We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal. The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
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Life comes at you fast A humanoid in every home in the not too distant future. It will be near impossible to live without one. Indispensable to everyday life like your cell phone.
Humanoid robot manufacturing at Figure BotQ; record month in May
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RoboStrategy Investor Day Presentation x.com/i/broadcasts/1nGeLLklg…
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Excited to share our latest milestone: $200M Series C at a $1 billion valuation. We’re already America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. With this funding, we’ll expand our New York production facility to keep pace with demand so that by the end of next year we’ll be manufacturing everything in America, representing 10% of all U.S. industrial robot deployments. American manufacturing must come back.📈
Today, we’re thrilled to announce our $200M Series C funding round at a $1B valuation, led by @RoboStrategy and existing investors including @generalcatalyst. Standard Bots is now America’s largest manufacturer of AI-native industrial robots. Our customers include Sunoco, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the US Army along with hundreds of other manufacturers across the country. We’re proud to say that we’re on track to deploy 10% of all U.S. industrial robots by next year. We are expanding our Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale our vertically integrated production process. We currently design almost all our own parts, including our own actuators, and we assemble every final product in-house. By 2027, we’ll manufacture everything — from metal in to robots out — right here in America. We believe AI-native robots are the essential power tool of the 21st century — the tool that will grow American manufacturing and help every American worker to be a force at work. You just show your robot how it’s done, and it learns through demonstration. No coding, no consultants, just unbox and deploy faster than anything else on the market. Right now it’s possible for the United States to revitalize our manufacturing base if we become the worldwide leader in this transformative technology. We must build American robots, and put them to work in American factories. It’s a national imperative, and it’s our central mission. This fundraise gets us one step closer to the goal. The future of American manufacturing is bright! Join Standard Bots, and show your robot how it’s done — we’re just getting started.
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Humanoid robot manufacturing at Figure BotQ; record month in May
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Very few people understand attention mechanics, marketing psychology and what makes compelling stories like @intern He and our marketing team are an incredible resource for us as we distribute our story to as many people as possible and also for our portfolio companies that want to bring their robots to the world
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Why I bet my career on robotics - skip to 1:24 for thoughts on crypto - skip to 5:15 for my robotics thesis
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We are continuing to hire for the best marketing talent in the world. Many of our portfolio companies are as well. If you think you meet that standard, reach out to @intern or myself here and show us why
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Bonus: you’ll get to work with a lot of robots Holiday Bonus: Actual robots
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NAV is subject to change significantly.
NAV is subject to change significantly.
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Megacap companies like SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI are finally planning to go public. But so much of the gains happened while they were still private. The same thing is playing out with humanoid bots. The number one question I keep getting asked is how does a regular investor buy into the private bot companies? So I did a quick video explaining RoboStrategy now public at Nasdaq under the ticker $BOT It gives investors a way to gain exposure to companies building the future of physical AI. Personally, I think the robotics story is still in the first inning. The question isn't whether robots will be a huge market. The question is who will own the winners before everyone else notices. @Rewkang @RoboStrategy
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Putting the Robotics TAM into perspective... The total robotics market is less than $200b …. while a single crypto-asset $XRP is roughly $100b & pokemon trading cards are worth $50b.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says Robotics Is Close to Entering Industrial Scale Production
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I cringe when I hear “I missed [X]” Companies that achieve high market caps get there for good reasons that usually allow them to continue to compound growth. Past success is one of the best indicators of future success. Better leadership/teams = Better decisions/execution. Winners develop moats around talent, economies of scale, network effects, brand, regulation, IP, etc Winners win
Coatue's Thomas Laffont on a "Power Law Paradox": a business valued between $100B and $1T (a "Centacorn") has a higher statistical likelihood (31%) of multiplying its value by 10x compared to smaller, earlier-stage unicorns (8%).
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.@Rewkang compares humanoids costs to human labor "A humanoid will cost $2 per hour A human costs $35 per hour in the US Humanoids can do everything humans can do They don’t need to rest and they don’t quit A humanoid will replace 3 humans Even in low-cost labor countries Humanoids will become a cheaper option"
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