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 Virtual Reality

MetaverseGo

Seed Round in 2022
MetaverseGo is a web 3.0 app that offers easy access to play and earn games, guilds, NFTs, and decentralized applications. MetaverseGo is a decentralized blockchain platform that provides gamers and newbie players easy access to play-and-earn games, guild participation, NFT collection, and access to other decentralized applications. The platform promises fast and easy access through a user’s mobile number.

Bravo Ready

Seed Round in 2022
Bravo Ready’s flagship game mode, the ‘Infinite Royale’ is a proprietary style of gameplay encompassing unique characteristics that flip the conventional battle royale on its head.

The Kingdom

Seed Round in 2022
The Kingdom is an emerging open-world metaverse designed to deliver culture-led experiences. It aims to serve as a digital gaming platform that fosters a social hub for users, allowing them to explore immersive cities, engage in missions and quests, and customize their NFT avatars. The Kingdom focuses on integrating various cultural elements, including fashion and NFT projects, into the digital realm. It seeks to bridge the divide between the physical world and the metaverse, enabling players to collaborate, create, and earn rewards through play-to-earn gaming. Users can also interact with their existing NFT assets while exploring this futuristic environment.

Reign of Terror

Seed Round in 2022
Reign of Terror is a cyberpunk metaverse blockchain game created to immerse players in a dreamlike futuristic metaverse.

Oorbit

Seed Round in 2022
Oorbit is the world’s fastest, cheapest specialised cloud & grid compute platform powering Gaming, AI and beyond. Oorbit's ACIT (advance compute infrastructure technology) platform helps game studios and AI companies utilise cloud computing for streaming/rendering and other applications at 50% lower price and faster performance.

Metaverse Game Studios

Venture Round in 2022
Metaverse Game Studios is a prominent blockchain game development studio focused on creating cross-platform gaming experiences. The company specializes in narrative-driven multiplayer strategy games, allowing players to enhance their gameplay through immersive storytelling and interactive features. By leveraging blockchain technology, Metaverse Game Studios aims to innovate the gaming landscape, offering unique experiences that integrate decentralized elements and community engagement.

Auki Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an augmented reality technology intended to help individuals interact with virtual worlds and objects anchored in reality. The company's platform reinvents augmented reality with a universal positioning system and NFTs to ensure that virtual objects can be felt in real places in real time, enabling users to inhabit and connect with the virtual devices and objects in a simplified way.

metameet

Seed Round in 2022
At FRUSS, we want to set a new standard for online meetings and social experiences. We believe that virtual online experiences should be fun and engaging, not boring and networking and socializing should feel as natural as it does in person. We believe that future of online virtual experiences is hybrid, allowing both virtual and in person attendees to seamlessly engage and mingle, making travel a choice, not a requirement. How we make it happen? By combining all available virtual engagement technologies (videoconferencing, instant messaging, webcasting, AI robo-advisors, VR experiences, collaborative online gaming) into one single easy to use and device agnostic platform for purposes of humans sharing knowledge with, connecting with and doing business with other humans.

Dropp

Venture Round in 2022
Dropp GG is a social NFT minting platform that aims to bring the metaverse into the real world. Dropp Land is a metaverse where NFT tokens for virtual land plots have counterparts in the physical world. Dropp GG is integrated with Dropp 3D, an augmented reality feature that bridges virtual and physical experiences.

Gaia EverWorld

Seed Round in 2021
Gaia Everworld is an immersive multi-region fantasy gaming platform that allows players to build kingdoms, explore diverse lands, and engage in battles with characters known as Gaia Legionnaires. By leveraging blockchain technology, the platform ensures that players have complete ownership of their in-game characters and assets. Gaia Everworld operates under a "play to earn" model, rewarding participants with tokenized incentives for their gameplay. This innovative approach reflects the growing trend in the gaming industry, combining interactive entertainment with financial benefits for players.

Bloktopia

Seed Round in 2021
Bloktopia is the virtual reality metaverse that will allow users to Learn, Earn, Play, and Create and provides a central hub for everything cryptocurrency

Highstreet

Venture Round in 2021
Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore a vast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands.

Highstreet

Seed Round in 2021
Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore a vast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands.

Carbon Based Lifeforms

Pre Seed Round in 2021
A new indie game development studio at the forefront of play-to-earn video games and on a mission to be the pioneers of this new genre which will set to redefine the video games industry for years to come.

BC Network

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a blockchain network platform designed to take community engagement to a new dimension on web3. The company's platform offers 2D social media, 3d gaming platform, and virtual reality (VR) visualization, and it allows users to have its own NFT galleries, with marketplaces, and tokens, enabling individuals or companies to run their communities by incentivizing the members in the token-economy.

BC Network

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a blockchain network platform designed to take community engagement to a new dimension on web3. The company's platform offers 2D social media, 3d gaming platform, and virtual reality (VR) visualization, and it allows users to have its own NFT galleries, with marketplaces, and tokens, enabling individuals or companies to run their communities by incentivizing the members in the token-economy.
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