Shima Capital

Shima Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 and based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The firm specializes in global investments, focusing on emerging blockchain startups and companies within various sectors, including analytics, consumer products, decentralized finance, gaming, infrastructure, regenerative finance, and web3 technologies. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Shima Capital aims to support innovative ventures that are at the forefront of technological advancement in the blockchain space.

Hazel Chen

Investor

Will Comyns

Analyst

Michael Curcio

Venture Partner

Yida Gao

General Partner

Avery Haskell

Partner

Carl Hua

Partner

Rugi Kavamahanga

Venture Partner, Brazil

Wyatt Khosrowshahi

Analyst

Alex Lin

Investor

Michael Liou

Venture Partner

Nick Metzler

Venture Partner

Past deals in Peer to Peer

Monad

Seed Round in 2023
Monad is a proof-of-stake blockchain and decentralized computation platform that focuses on high performance and portability. It features a scalar architecture with pipelined execution, which allows for efficient transaction throughput. This innovative design enables developers to create complex decentralized applications (dApps) capable of processing a large volume of transactions quickly. By combining advanced technology with a user-friendly framework, Monad aims to enhance the overall functionality and scalability of decentralized applications in the blockchain ecosystem.

Pine Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Pine is a decentralized NFT-backed borrowing and lending protocol.

Parcl

Venture Round in 2022
Parcl is a digital real estate protocol built on the blockchain. The company's headquarters are in New York City.

Boba Network

Series A in 2022
Boba Network is an EVM-equivalent hybrid computing platform built on an optimistic rollup architecture, helping developers build more feature-rich apps by enabling smart contracts to leverage complex off-chain computations or bring in off-chain data. Boba offers one of the easiest to use blockchain platforms for end-users through their multi-token on-ramp, fast exit, and NFT bridge.

Parallel Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

prePO

Private Equity Round in 2022
prePO is a decentralized trading platform that enables users to speculate on the valuation of pre-initial public offering companies and pre-token projects. The platform provides a space for users to take synthetic positions, allowing them to engage with the financial potential of emerging companies before they go public. By offering features such as neutral liquidity provision and token incentives, prePO aims to facilitate a transparent and accessible trading environment. This innovative approach allows individuals from various backgrounds to participate in the financial ecosystem surrounding pre-IPO opportunities.

Zecrey

Angel Round in 2022
Developer of the layer 2 cross-chain protocol with privacy features. The company provides cross-chain transactions and asset management service based on Zero-knowledge (zk) Roll-Ups, enabling users to manage, swap and bridge assets across multiple chains with private transactions.

Metapath

Seed Round in 2022
MetaPath is the leading and most-efficient decentralized finance platform in the universe. Popularly referred to as the "Infrastructure of the Metaverse", MetaPath is the pioneer and first cross-metaverse, cross-gamefi, cross-chain, and multi-platform next-level aggregator that connects metaverse and NFT marketplaces, public blockchain, DEXs, and cross-chain bridges with the ultimate purpose of connecting the economic systems of different gamefi platforms by linking virtual assets Like NFTs in the virtual world, to realize the interoperability of the Metaverses. The goal of MetaPath is to realize the interconnectivity of blockchain ecosystems where users can reliably swap or transfer any digital asset and get paid for every transaction.

WingRiders

Seed Round in 2022
WingRiders is a British Virgin Islands-based exchange platform that leverages the benefits of Cardano to correct the issues plaguing DEXs on Ethereum.

Lit Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure aimed at enhancing the utility of the web. It provides an open-source platform that enables users to access both digital and real-world experiences. By leveraging on-chain data, Lit Protocol allows blockchain users to gain access to content, software, and data through the use of tokens, NFTs, and blockchain identity as keys. This approach facilitates a more versatile and secure interaction with online resources, contributing to a more connected and functional web environment.

Bribe

Seed Round in 2022
Bribe is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that enhances governance participation by creating an incentivized marketplace for governance voting. The platform allows users to form coalitions and engage in auctions for governance votes, democratizing the process and enabling broader participation beyond major stakeholders. By improving existing DeFi governance models, Bribe establishes a transparent and open marketplace that facilitates coordination among voters, ultimately increasing engagement in governance activities. This innovative approach not only fosters a more inclusive environment but also generates new opportunities for token holders to earn yields through their participation in governance.

BetSwap

Seed Round in 2022
Betswap is a decentralized sports betting platform built on the Ethereum layer 2 Polygon. It allows users to predict sports outcomes and place wagers against each other in a peer-to-peer environment, promoting transparency and fairness. The platform operates without a centralized organization or regulatory oversight, relying on a decentralized autonomous organization model for governance. Users participate in the decision-making process through a governance token that grants them voting rights. Betswap also offers multi-chain integration, enabling access to a wide range of sporting and e-sporting events for users to bet on, while acting as an intermediary marketplace for these transactions.

Sonr

Seed Round in 2022
Sonr provides digital freedom, true-ownership, and cutting edge security, on a robust user controlled network.

UBet Sports

Pre Seed Round in 2022
UBet Sports operates a decentralized exchange for sports betting, leveraging blockchain technology and smart contracts. The platform allows users to engage in sports prediction markets without a centralized bookmaker, enabling anyone to become a bookie by participating in liquidity provision. By utilizing internal and external market data, UBet Sports models the probability of sports outcomes, which enhances the betting experience for sports fans. This innovative approach not only empowers users to place bets but also provides opportunities for liquidity providers, fostering a collaborative ecosystem that benefits all participants in the market.

BlockSwap Network

Seed Round in 2021
BlockSwap Network is a network of protocols that strive to lead Ethereum staking adoption

Parcl

Seed Round in 2021
Parcl is a digital real estate protocol built on the blockchain. The company's headquarters are in New York City.

Portal

Venture Round in 2021
Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Parallel Finance

Series A in 2021
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Humanode

Seed Round in 2021
Humanode is a developer of a distributed financial network aimed at establishing a stable and equitable financial system grounded in human existence. The network utilizes technology that incorporates private biometrically encrypted nodes to enable users to deploy replicas as human nodes, which are responsible for verifying transactions. By employing fully homomorphically encrypted feature vectors for biometric processing and a Merkle-CRDT mechanism, Humanode creates a public permissionless financial system based on consensus among equal human nodes. The network promotes a rule-based monetary policy focused on real value growth and proportional emission, ultimately striving to foster a financial environment that is both stable and just.

Meson Network

Venture Round in 2021
Developer of a bandwidth aggregator and decentralized acceleration platform designed to create an efficient bandwidth marketplace on Web3. The company's platform uses blockchain protocol to consolidate and monetize idle bandwidth from long-tail users at low costs, providing users a way to monetize their spare bandwidth.

Parallel Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Portal

Seed Round in 2021
Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Puma Browser

Seed Round in 2020
Puma is a browser and developer platform focused on seamless payments for creators and mobile games. It is a new link in browser evolution that focuses on two key areas: micro-payments and privacy. For micro-payments, users can pay a flat fee every month through Coil. Coil then sends money to content creators while users browse their content. It is transparent and with no paywalls or subscriptions required. Web monetized sites can then provide access to exclusive content for the end-users who support them. This way, users can support all kinds of web content creators simply by visiting their sites and browsing their content. For privacy, Puma's ad-free model means it does not collect the user's data or track browsing habits. Without ads, there is no need for invasive tracking and data collection common with other web browsers. The San Francisco, California-based company was founded by Yuriy Dybskiy in 2019.
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