Historical: Web3

Check: No current check size or active angel mandate is verified. Scalar Capital stopped deploying new capital in September 2023 and moved into maintenance mode; Linda continued supporting its existing portfolio while transitioning back to building.

Historical Scalar lens, not a current investment mandate: back genuinely new crypto systems where decentralization or censorship resistance is essential, people have a real reason to use the product, and an open-source project's durable moat comes from community, specialized knowledge and execution. Her later builder work extends that logic to permissionless social graphs, embedded wallets and mini apps that give users ownership and developers distribution without platform gatekeepers.

North Island Ventures

Check: No current personal investing authority is verified. NIV presently publishes a $500K–$5M early-stage range, but Rob is absent from the current roster and should not be treated as a live contact or check writer for the firm.

Historical only: his recorded NIV work combined early-stage sourcing and diligence with founder experience in onchain retail investing. The current NIV thesis now spans agentic finance, stablecoins, open AI, new markets and frontier institutions, but there is no evidence that Rob currently represents that mandate.