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Bobby Beniers is a Principal Investor at CoinFund, a blockchain-native investment firm founded in 2015. He started his career as a software engineer before moving into investing at Matrix Capital, a tiger-cub hedge fund where he invested in crypto and software companies. Later, he joined Polychain Capital where he honed his passion for working with founders at the earliest stages. Bobby's conviction in the blockchain space is driven by his belief that permissionless systems and programmable incentives are the key to the next phase of human coordination at scale. From setting up ASICs all over the world, to training decentralized models with latent compute, well-engineered blockchain incentives make change happen at a massive scale.
At CoinFund, he focuses on Information Markets, a category he believes is evolving well beyond prediction markets into opinion markets and institutional-grade infrastructure. He sees the growing appetite for betting on outcomes across sports, politics, and culture as one of the most generative trends in crypto right now, and backs the founders building the rails underneath it.
He is also focused on the Agentic Economy; specifically how blockchains are being used for agent discovery, orchestration, and payments. In his view, agents will be the key power-users and beneficiaries of blockchain-based financial primitives. Portfolio companies Bobby has backed at CoinFund include FactMachine and MonkeyTilt.
Outside of investing, he enjoys photography, guitar, hockey, and reading. He loves fine-tuning agentic workflows that help him streamline his health, productivity, and knowledge accumulation; Bonus points if you can teach him something new! Bobby holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from Williams College.
Bobby Beniers is a Principal Investor at CoinFund. He invests from seed to Series A, with a special focus on Information Markets, the Agentic Economy, and DePIN. He began his career as a software engineer before moving into investing at Matrix Capital, where he covered crypto and software, and later at Polychain Capital. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from Williams College.