Clay Robbins is Co-Founder and General Partner at Colosseum, the premier Solana-focused hackathon platform, accelerator, and venture fund dedicated to empowering onchain founders worldwide.

Clay earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Dartmouth College and built a career spanning product and partnerships at Square, Head of Growth at 0x Labs, and Principal and Venture Partner at Slow Ventures.

Clay co-founded Colosseum with the conviction that geography should never limit a founder's ability to compete, launching the platform to give any builder with an internet connection a path to launch onchain startups.

Prior to Colosseum, Clay served as a Scout at Accel while simultaneously leading growth at 0x Labs, giving him a rare dual lens of operator and investor in the crypto ecosystem.

Colosseum has grown into the largest crypto hackathon platform in the world, attracting over 80,000 participants globally, backing 20+ pre-seed startups, and raising a $60M oversubscribed Fund I to accelerate Solana's startup ecosystem.