Shima Capital

Founded in 2021, Shima Capital is a venture capital firm based in Irvine, California. The company focuses on investing in the web3 and blockchain technology sectors.

Hazel Chen

Investor

Yida Gao

General Partner

Rugi Kavamahanga

Venture Partner

Wyatt Khosrowshahi

Analyst

Michael Liou

Venture Partner

Nick Metzler

Venture Partner

Past deals in Ethereum

Ava Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
Ava Protocol is a blockchain platform that automates complex transactions using smart contracts and event triggers. It offers features such as scheduled payments, stop-loss orders, and automated workflows, enabling developers to enhance privacy, composability, and cost savings in crypto transactions across various blockchains like Ethereum.

PrismaStake

Seed Round in 2024
PrismaStake is a pioneering decentralized staking platform that empowers users to generate passive income through cryptocurrency staking. Its innovative, multi-chain platform enables users to stake various digital assets, including ETH and altcoins, democratizing access to cryptocurrency and offering secure, flexible staking options.

Berachain

Series A in 2023
Berachain develops an Ethereum-compatible blockchain tailored for financial applications. Its core technology allows staked assets like Ether (ETH) to be utilized in decentralized finance protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency while ensuring network security.

Cymbal

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Cymbal is a blockchain technology company. It specializes in analyzing and processing more than a hundred million data points on the Ethereum blockchain.

Spice Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Spice Finance is a financial services company that focuses on enhancing the efficiency of non-fungible token (NFT) lending markets. The company has developed a liquidity deployment infrastructure designed to optimize yields and facilitate liquidity routing. Its platform enables lenders to passively allocate capital to NFT lending marketplaces, simplifying the lending process that is often complex and time-consuming. By aggregating outstanding loans, Spice Finance provides users with the ability to create straightforward and transparent vaults that generate yields from NFT lending, thereby streamlining access to this emerging financial landscape.

Zebec

Venture Round in 2022
Zebec is a protocol on Solana that facilitates continuous settlement. It enables composable transfers of value, initially focusing on Stream Payroll.

CreatorDAO

Seed Round in 2022
CreatorDAO is a decentralized community established in 2022 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The company focuses on investing in creators by offering a comprehensive platform that provides capital, technology, and operational support. CreatorDAO empowers creators by granting them access to essential resources such as mentorship and professional tools necessary for brand growth. By facilitating these investments, CreatorDAO aims to strengthen the creator economy and enhance the success of individuals within this domain.

NFT3

Seed Round in 2022
NFT3 is a pioneering company that focuses on creating a unified decentralized identity and credit network tailored for Web3 and the metaverse. It aims to enable individuals to establish a virtual identity that carries value across various platforms, metaverses, and gaming environments. By accumulating a history of interactions and actions, NFT3 facilitates personal monetization opportunities for users, serving as a gateway to the metaverse. This innovative approach allows for a seamless integration of identity across multiple application layers, enhancing user experience and engagement in digital spaces.

The Kingdom

Seed Round in 2022
The Kingdom is an emerging open-world metaverse that aims to provide culture-focused experiences within a digital gaming platform. It serves as a social hub where users can explore immersive cities, engage in missions and quests, and customize their NFT avatars. The Kingdom emphasizes the integration of various cultural elements, including collaborations with esteemed fashion houses and NFT projects. It seeks to bridge the gap between the physical world and the metaverse, allowing players to create, collaborate, and earn through play-to-earn gaming. Users can interact with the metaverse using their existing NFT assets, making it a dynamic space for creativity and exploration.

Boba Network

Series A in 2022
Boba Network is a hybrid computing platform that utilizes an optimistic rollup architecture to enhance the capabilities of developers in creating feature-rich applications. By being EVM-equivalent, it facilitates the use of smart contracts that can perform complex off-chain computations and access off-chain data. Boba Network aims to improve blockchain transaction efficiency while ensuring interoperability with real-world applications. It is designed to be user-friendly, featuring a multi-token on-ramp, fast exit options, and an NFT bridge, making it one of the most accessible blockchain platforms for end-users.

BlockVision

Seed Round in 2022
BlockVision develops blockchain data infrastructure supporting high-availability indexing, complex queries, and cross-chain data storage. It enables developers to efficiently access, query, and manage blockchain data across multiple networks like Ethereum, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism for building reliable Web3 applications.

Via Exchange

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Web3 infrastructure that aggregates liquidity on multiple EVM and non-EVM cross-chain bridges and does instant bridging transactions using execution liquidity pool on the target chain

Gemie

Seed Round in 2022
Gemie is a metaverse platform designed to transform the entertainment industry by enabling celebrities and entertainment intellectual properties to create customized virtual planets and digital collectibles. The platform facilitates interactions between fans and prominent figures in Asia through utility-focused non-fungible tokens and licensed digital collectibles. By offering these unique experiences and exclusive perks, Gemie aims to enhance fan engagement and foster deeper connections within the entertainment landscape.

Affine

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Affine is a Web3 protocol that simplifies engagement with multi-chain cryptocurrency markets. It offers liquid restaking for instant entry and withdrawals, along with various cross-chain yield baskets to optimize returns on digital assets.

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.

Ava Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Ava Protocol is a blockchain platform that automates complex transactions using smart contracts and event triggers. It offers features such as scheduled payments, stop-loss orders, and automated workflows, enabling developers to enhance privacy, composability, and cost savings in crypto transactions across various blockchains like Ethereum.

Archimedes

Seed Round in 2022
Archimedes is a decentralized finance platform founded in 2022 and based in Los Angeles, California. It utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate a lending and borrowing marketplace that enables users to supply and borrow assets for yield generation. The platform is designed to empower decentralized actively managed funds and allows users to take leveraged positions on leading stablecoin farming protocols. Archimedes aims to enhance the DeFi experience by offering an easy-to-use and interoperable system that incorporates NFTs and other industry practices. Through its innovative approach, the company provides liquidity management solutions by packaging highly leveraged positions as tradable tokens.

Spellfire

Seed Round in 2022
Spellfire develops a blockchain-based collectible card game ecosystem powered by Ethereum. It designs card-based NFT games with modern aesthetics and a platform that enables players to earn income through gameplay and the trading of NFT cards and in-game assets.

Oort Digital

Seed Round in 2022
Oort Digital is a company that specializes in providing outsourced NFT utilities and experiences for brands and their users. It enables brands to create custom NFTs and design campaigns that reward these tokens to their users, enhancing engagement and loyalty. The platform also features a gamified experience where NFT owners can earn, stake, lend, borrow, trade, and play with their digital assets. By leveraging its in-house capabilities, Oort Digital aims to facilitate deeper connections between brands and their communities, unlocking the full potential of NFTs to create new opportunities for user engagement and loyalty.

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.

Ertha

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Ertha is a game developer building a blockchain-based play-to-earn metaverse that simulates real-world economies and governance. In the game, players obtain jobs, form states, build industries, and engage in conflicts within a persistent virtual world. The system features a governance model and revenue mechanics intended to scale with player experience, allowing participants to own more properties and shape the virtual economy as they progress.

BlockSwap Network

Seed Round in 2021
BlockSwap Network is a company focused on enhancing Ethereum staking adoption through a suite of innovative protocols. It has developed a cryptocurrency platform aimed at multichain composability, allowing users to engage seamlessly across different blockchain environments. The platform features an automated stake liquidity protocol specifically designed for proof of stake chains. This protocol enables users to earn a steady income by accruing interest perpetually through the staking inflation of their assets. By simplifying the staking process and enhancing liquidity, BlockSwap Network aims to increase accessibility and participation in staking activities within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Zebec

Seed Round in 2021
Zebec is a protocol on Solana that facilitates continuous settlement. It enables composable transfers of value, initially focusing on Stream Payroll.

Domination Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance develops a non-custodial trading platform for speculating on cryptocurrency market dominance metrics. Deployed on Ethereum, Polygon, and Boba networks, its platform enables users to long or short Bitcoin Dominance using synthetic tokens built on the UMA protocol.

Mikomeda

Seed Round in 2021
Milkomeda delivers rollup technologies to leading Layer 1 ecosystems by offering the most popular smart contracting language, Solidity while enhancing inter-blockchain interoperability, user experience, and developer traction all at the Layer 2 level.

Dtravel

Seed Round in 2021
Dtravel is a decentralized platform for the home-sharing economy that supports short- and long-term stays and accepts cryptocurrency alongside traditional payment methods. It operates without intermediaries by returning ownership, control and decision-making to hosts and guests through blockchain technology, promoting transparency and reducing fees in the home rental market. The platform aims to empower guests to shape their travel experiences while maintaining community transparency and trust.

Continuum

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Continuum is a pioneering learning platform that focuses on vocational education by offering short, engaging courses in a format similar to TikTok videos. As the first tokenized learn-to-earn platform, it incentivizes both content creators and learners through the earning of cryptocurrency and NFTs for their participation and engagement. The platform is accessible on various devices, including web, iPhone, and Android, and serves a global audience, with users in 107 countries. By making vocational learning fast, enjoyable, and socially interactive, Continuum aims to enhance educational accessibility and foster a vibrant community of learners.
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