Robot Ventures Leads $5.2M Seed Round for Sprinter, a Crosschain ‘Solving-as-a-Service’ Startup

Robot Ventures has announced a $5.2 million seed investment in Sprinter, a blockchain infrastructure startup pioneering what it calls “solving-as-a-service.” The round also drew backing from A Capital, Atka Capital, Bond St Ventures, Topology, and Uniswap Labs Ventures, alongside prominent angel investors such as Ameen Soleimani (0xbow), Eva Beylin (Optimism), and Chen Zituo (WAGMI Ventures).

Sprinter’s mission is to enhance how blockchain “solvers” — the off-chain algorithms and bots that execute onchain transactions for users — operate across multiple networks. This emerging sector plays a key role in streamlining decentralized finance (DeFi) activity and optimizing transaction efficiency.

Currently in private beta, Sprinter is developing two main products:

• Sprinter Stash, a crosschain credit protocol that gives solvers and market makers access to liquidity without needing to post collateral. Liquidity providers can deposit USDC into the system and earn fees generated by solver activity.
• Sprinter Solve, a request-for-quote (RFQ)-based swap API designed for integration with dApps, wallets, and protocols, offering developers an easy way to connect to solver-powered liquidity.

Sprinter also features a native governance token, SPRINT, which incentivizes liquidity providers, solvers, and community members. Token holders can participate in staking through veSPRNT, aligning incentives between users and the network.

The startup’s founding team includes several well-known figures in the Ethereum ecosystem, such as ChainSafe Systems CEO Aidan Hyman and former ENS developer Dean Eigenmann, underscoring its deep roots in blockchain R&D.

With fresh funding and a team of Ethereum veterans, Sprinter is positioning itself at the forefront of crosschain automation — a space gaining momentum as the decentralized economy matures.