Soona Amhaz is founder and managing partner of Volt Capital. She is an early investor in Replit, Roboflow, Varda, etc. Prior to starting Volt Capital, Soona co-founded the company that became On Deck, backed by Founders Fund, and operated in the big data/AI space, scaling companies from seed stage to post-Series C. She is an alum from the University of Michigan School of Engineering.

• Deep interest in the convergence of AI, crypto, and the physical world, specifically characterizing crypto as the necessary orchestration layer for robotics. This includes the concept that AI agents require crypto for market participation and legal personhood, with specific mentions of agentic networks and DePIN acting as the bridge between digital intelligence and physical hardware.
• Belief in tokenization and blockchain as the solution to structural issues in traditional US capital markets. This includes the view that the current IPO market is broken and that tokenizing private company equity, such as OpenAI or SpaceX, offers a necessary path to liquidity that traditional finance currently struggles to provide.
• Preference for technical, serious founders over short-term speculative trends. There is a clear distaste for memecoins, describing them as distractions that detract from decades of breakthroughs in cryptography and game theory, favoring instead engineering-heavy approaches that give builders write access to the universe.