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Robots need to be purpose built for Physical AI They need to be able to sense, react and learn Standard Bots is leading this new generation of design and we believe they'll be one of the most important companies in building the future of the physical world
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RoboStrategy has raised ~$16M through private share issuance, including a $10M investment by CEO Andrew Kang Completed through private placements at a weighted average price of ~$35.50, with @Rewkang participating at $36.71 per share
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🚨 NAV UPDATE: RoboStrategy's new NAV is $249 million. This represents a 69% increase from $147 million since May 31, 2026.
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Over the past month, RoboStrategy added ~$100m NAV of new robotics investments NAV has increased 69% since public listing month NAV/Share has increased 45% since public listing month
🚨 NAV UPDATE: RoboStrategy's new NAV is $249 million. This represents a 69% increase from $147 million since May 31, 2026.
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RoboStrategy is more than just a holding vehicle for the leading private companies in the Robotics/Physical AI domain We aim to be one of the largest investors and partners to the leaders of the industry as a public investment company SoftBank was the original pioneer of this strategy and has grown to a $200B+ bohemoth. While we will pave our own unique path, we take inspiration from their model and believe there is room for more than one player.
Masayoshi Son is the world's 2nd richest investor and you've never heard his story Masayoshi had a vision that the singularity was going to become a reality and decided to own as much of the companies building that future .@Rewkang is now doing the same with Robostrategy (BOT)
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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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The first RoboStrategy Investor Day is Wednesday, June 10 at 10:00am ET The team will walk through the robotics thesis, fund, portfolio, and how we invest in robotics and physical AI Will be streamed from the @RoboStrategy account on X - follow and turn on notifications 🔔
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First Podcast Appearance in 5 years Building a Robotics focused investment firm has been one of the most fascinating experiences of my life Robots will be as ubiquitous as smart phones within a decade. Everyone should be paying attention and the @RoboStrategy team will be sharing much more about the most exciting developments in the industry
Not enough people are talking about physical AI and robotics. I sat down with @rewkang, one of the best investors of the last decade, to discuss his massive bet on humanoids and robotics. He breaks down the industry, the addressable market, multiple leading companies, and why he launched a publicly-traded fund ($BOT) focused on investing in the top private robotics companies. YouTube: piped.video/Q_UWD5aoJkc?si=_E7l… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4L6… TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:28 - Why Andrew shifted from crypto to humanoid robots 3:58 - How big is the total addressable market? 8:08 - Building conviction — the $19M bet on Figure AI 16:06 - US vs. China — who wins the robot race? 28:08 - General purpose vs. specialized robots 31:05 - Where does training data come from? 40:24 - Humanoid robots in your everyday life 43:27 - Can Tesla & Elon win the humanoid race? 46:19 - Job displacement & UBI 51:15 - RoboStrategy — the publicly traded venture fund 1:11:17 - What is exciting about Apptronik? 1:13:24 - Addressing the critics
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Not enough people are talking about physical AI and robotics. I sat down with @rewkang, one of the best investors of the last decade, to discuss his massive bet on humanoids and robotics. He breaks down the industry, the addressable market, multiple leading companies, and why he launched a publicly-traded fund ($BOT) focused on investing in the top private robotics companies. YouTube: piped.video/Q_UWD5aoJkc?si=_E7l… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4L6… TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Intro 1:28 - Why Andrew shifted from crypto to humanoid robots 3:58 - How big is the total addressable market? 8:08 - Building conviction — the $19M bet on Figure AI 16:06 - US vs. China — who wins the robot race? 28:08 - General purpose vs. specialized robots 31:05 - Where does training data come from? 40:24 - Humanoid robots in your everyday life 43:27 - Can Tesla & Elon win the humanoid race? 46:19 - Job displacement & UBI 51:15 - RoboStrategy — the publicly traded venture fund 1:11:17 - What is exciting about Apptronik? 1:13:24 - Addressing the critics
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RoboStrategy Portfolio
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Jack brings a unique mix of technical and commercial expertise after spending a decade in the robotics industry as a former operator/founder We’ve effectively been building @Robostrategy in stealth for a year, assembling a team of robotics vets across investment and research (also still hiring exceptional talent) Excited to share a lot more with the world very soon
BREAKING: Jack Pearson (@JacklouisP) has signed with RoboStrategy as an Investment Principal
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BREAKING: Kevin McCordic (@intern) has signed with RoboStrategy as Chief Marketing Officer
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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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MicroStrategy for Robotics - How does RoboStrategy's capital markets model work? Public capital raised at scale, redeployed into leading private companies in robotics. A primer on how a publicly-listed vehicle can compound NAV per share over time via accretive share issuance:¹
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