Shima Capital

Shima Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2021, with its headquarters located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The firm specializes in investing in blockchain startups and seeks to support companies across various sectors, including analytics, consumer technology, decentralized finance, gaming, infrastructure, regenerative finance, and web3. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Shima Capital is committed to fostering innovation within the blockchain ecosystem by providing financial backing and strategic guidance to emerging companies in these industries.

Hazel Chen

Chief of Staff and Head of Platform

Carl Hua

Venture Partner

Rugi Kavamahanga

Venture Partner, Brazil

Alex Lin

Venture Partner

Michael Liou

Venture Partner

Nick Metzler

Venture Partner

Past deals in NFC

Tangem

Venture Round in 2023
Tangem designs and develops secure microchips, smart cards, and other embedded solutions with native support for blockchain operations. The company sources integrated semiconductor platforms directly from global leaders such as Samsung and NXP; it also fabricates its own chip designs at UMC in Singapore and Taiwan. The final products offer unparalleled levels of security compliance, with silicon design and manufacturing evaluated by institutions like CEA-Leti and EMVCo, and the code and architecture under audit by Kudelski Security and Applus+. Tangem operates in B2B2C and Enterprise segments, shipping complete products such as smart banknotes, hardware wallets, cold storage, contactless HSM, cryptographic bearer notes. The company also provides expertise to large institutions in the fintech sector and works with multiple state-level and national-level central banks worldwide.

Nyan Heroes

Venture Round in 2022
Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.

Fancurve

Seed Round in 2022
Fancurve is a digital sports fashion platform that allows fans to express their passion for football through premium digital wearables. The platform focuses on creating unique collaborations that connect global communities around shared interests in soccer, culture, and fashion. Fancurve offers a web3 launchpad for fashion and lifestyle brands, facilitating their entry into the metaverse. This enables fans to showcase, share, and enhance their fandom with collectible and wearable digital soccer jerseys, fostering engagement and interaction within the sports community.

Open Forest Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a scalable open platform that allows forest projects of any size, from around the world, to Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) their forestation data. Through OFP, individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and governments are able to create transparent, immutable, proof-of-impact data that is comprehensively verified by a network of independent experts. OFP is creating the foundation for more inclusive, scalable, and data-backed financing mechanisms for nature-based climate solutions.

Crypto Fight Club

Seed Round in 2021
Crypto Fight Club (CFC) is a new NFT-enabled game that allows players to battle one another or compete in championships.

Syn City

Venture Round in 2021
Syn City is the Mafia Metaverse bridging the gap between real-world NFT utilities & decentralized finance (Defi) functions. The platform’s native token, SYN, offers players access to several earning opportunities like events and governance rewards.
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