Shima Capital
Investment Details
Investor Type
Venture Capital
Asset Class Focus
Crypto, Venture Capital
Stage Focus
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Geographical Focus
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Singapore, China, India, Brazil, France, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, Russia, Israel, Nigeria, Taiwan
Industries Focus
- Financial Services
- Technology
- Infrastructure
- Software
- Consumer
- FinTech
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
- Metaverse
- Gaming
- DeFi
- Security
- Layer-1 Solutions
- Layer-2 Solutions
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Investment Size:
500,000 to 2,000,000 USD
Investor Details Founded: 2021
Shima Capital is a global venture firm founded in 2021 by Yida Gao, focusing on early-stage blockchain companies across all market cycles. The firm launched its inaugural fund, Shima Capital Fund I, in August 2022, raising $200 million from notable investors including Dragonfly Capital, Animoca Brands, and OKX. The firm's team comprises seasoned investors, accomplished operators, and former founders dedicated to supporting innovative teams in building and scaling generational companies. Shima Capital invests in the earliest rounds of blockchain startups across all verticals with check sizes of $500,000 to $2,000,000. Areas of focus include but are not limited to consumer (e.g., decentralized identity, social media, content ownership, DAOs), gaming & metaverse, composable financial systems (e.g., sustainable DeFi, regenerative finance, payments & settlement), decentralized infrastructure (e.g., data platforms, blockchain automation, cross-chain communication), and next-generation blockchain technology (e.g., Layer 1/2, zero-knowledge proofs, security).
Requirements
- Focus on early-stage blockchain startups
- Interest in decentralized identity, social media, content ownership, DAOs
- Interest in gaming & metaverse
- Interest in composable financial systems
- Interest in decentralized infrastructure
- Interest in next-generation blockchain technology
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Portfolio Companies
- Monad Labs
- Spice Finance
- Parallel Finance
- Kadena
- Immutable
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