Most of us are familiar with the podcasts about robotics from the Swiss-based Robots group. For different perspectives, from the funder's point of view, here's a list of podcasts from the VC's that fund robotics and technology ventures — funders like Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Greylock Partners and Y Combinator.

Venture Capitalist POVs

Erin Griffith said: “It's starting to seem like every firm wants to be in the literal ears of entrepreneurs.” She compiled this list for her Fortune Term Sheet column. After listening to a few different podcasts, I found it an entertaining, informative and fascinating way to get insight into VC thinking.

• a16z podcast by Andreessen Horowitz
• The Riff by Box Group's David Tisch and Union Square Ventures' Andy Wiessman
• Traction by NextView Ventures
• Collective Wisdom for Tech Startups by Founder Collective
• Startup School Radio by Y Combinator
• Ventured by Kleiner Perkins
• The Balderton Podcast by Balderton Capital
• Notion Capital, by Notion Capital
• Venture Perspectives by Scale Venture Partners
• Origins by Notation Capital
• Lead by Menlo Ventures
• Greymatter by Greylock Partners
• Bothsides TV by Upfront Ventures
• The Full Rachet by Nick Moran of New Stack Ventures
• The Bootstrapped VC by Backstage Capital
• Human Proof of Concept by Janelle Anderson of CTI Life Sciences
• Acquired by David Rosenthal of Madrona Ventures
• Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman

Robotics Focused Podcasts

The Robots podcast is run by Robohub and creates bi-weekly interviews with leaders in the field. Robohub is a non-profit Swiss-based organization run by volunteers. To date, they have produced 232 podcasts. Robots is available via Apple iTunes, Robohub, Soundcloud, and all other major podcast servers.