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.

Yida Gao

Managing General Partner

Rugi Kavamahanga

Venture Partner, Brazil

Michael Liou

Venture Partner

Nick Metzler

Venture Partner

Past deals in Trading Platform

Fortunafi

Seed Round in 2024
Fortunafi is an innovative on-chain financial institution focused on providing tailored solutions for stablecoin issuers, protocol treasuries, and traditional entities. The company specializes in the tokenization of real-world, cash-flowing assets through a yield and lending protocol that enhances efficiency for asset originators. Fortunafi offers a diverse range of investment products, including private and public debt funds, allowing investors to leverage stablecoins as collateral for passive, asset-backed fixed-return investments. This approach significantly reduces risk and eliminates impermanent loss, thus creating a more secure investment environment.

Utila

Seed Round in 2024
Utila is an institutional crypto operations platform designed to facilitate secure digital asset management for organizations of all sizes. The company offers an enterprise-grade, non-custodial wallet platform that utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) key management, ensuring high security and user control. Its chain-agnostic infrastructure allows institutional investors, trading firms, and Web3 developers to efficiently manage cryptocurrency assets across multiple blockchains and wallets from a single interface. Additionally, Utila provides an API that enables developers to create custom solutions on its secure multi-chain wallet infrastructure. With a transaction volume exceeding $3 billion shortly after its launch, Utila aims to enhance the accessibility, security, and usability of enterprise-grade wallets in the evolving digital asset landscape.

Kodiak Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Kodiak Finance is a DEX project solution provider, combines centralized and automated liquidity management. Their product package is intended to provide traders with the greatest possible trading experience while also simplifying centralized liquidity provisioning for liquidity providers and protocols. They provide a full range of trading and liquidity solutions by integrating the DEX layers: Decentralized Exchange (Kodiak DEX), Automated Liquidity Manager (Kodiak Islands), Comprehensive incentive layer (Sweet Island), Codeless Token Deployment Factory (Panda Factory)

Cedro Finance

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of lending and borrowing platform designed to unify the fragmented liquidity across multiple chains. The company's platform is built on the crypto layer which is an omnichannel interoperability protocol, enabling customers to make token lending and borrowing across chains quick and easy.

Liqwid

Seed Round in 2022
Liqwid Labs is a decentralized finance protocol designed for the Cardano blockchain, focusing on non-custodial lending and borrowing services. The platform enables users to earn interest on their idle cryptocurrency assets and borrow assets at competitive rates, facilitating a peer-to-peer financial ecosystem. With access to a global liquidity pool, Liqwid Labs provides a secure and efficient means for lenders, borrowers, and developers to engage in crypto transactions. Additionally, users can earn yield on their ADA from multiple streams, enhancing their ability to optimize financial returns within the Cardano ecosystem.

Finery Markets

Seed Round in 2022
Finery Markets is an institutional-focused over-the-counter electronic marketplace that specializes in providing trading solutions for the cryptocurrency sector. Founded in 2019, the company operates a multi-dealer platform that facilitates high-performance trading with deep institutional liquidity and firm quotes. It offers a comprehensive suite of services throughout the entire trade lifecycle, including price intelligence, pre-trade risk management, position management, risk controls, and cost analysis. The platform's non-custodial settlement model and flexible infrastructure enable users to access global liquidity providers through a single entry point via API and graphical user interface. Additionally, Finery Markets provides a white-label solution tailored for prime brokers, OTC desks, and exchanges aiming to enhance their client offerings while maintaining a low-touch approach. The company is distinguished by its robust infrastructure, boasting a 99.99% uptime and full automation to support its clients effectively.

Jambo

Series A in 2022
Jambo is a company focused on creating an extensive on-chain mobile network, centered around its flagship product, the JamboPhone, a powerful mobile device designed for the crypto-native market. With a foundation of over 800,000 mobile nodes spanning more than 120 countries, Jambo aims to accelerate decentralization and enhance network effects for various applications, such as validators and peer-to-peer networking. The JamboApp serves as a gateway for millions of users to engage with the on-chain economy, offering innovative earning opportunities, a decentralized application (dApp) store, and a multi-chain wallet. By integrating blockchain technology into its products, Jambo empowers users to participate in gaming, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, particularly benefiting individuals in emerging markets. Central to Jambo's ecosystem is the Jambo Token, which facilitates rewards, discounts, and other incentives, positioning the company as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

Wombat Exchange

Venture Round in 2022
Wombat Exchange is a blockchain technology company that operates a multi-chain stableswap platform on the BNB Chain. It offers users the ability to swap stablecoins at highly efficient exchange rates with minimal slippage, leveraging a stableswap 2.0 model. This innovative approach enhances the stable swap experience through a unique algorithm designed to improve capital efficiency, accessibility, and scalability in a multichain environment. Additionally, Wombat Exchange provides opportunities for users to earn sustainable yields on their assets through single-staking pools, catering to the growing demand for optimized trading and investment solutions within the cryptocurrency market.

Hedge Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Hedge Labs is a software development company located in Miami, Florida, specializing in decentralized liquidity solutions for cryptocurrency assets. The company has developed a capital-efficient protocol that facilitates interest-free loans, allowing users to access instant liquidity without triggering taxable events associated with ongoing interest payments. This innovative approach enables users to deposit and borrow against their Solana tokens, enhancing their ability to manage digital assets effectively.

VALK

Seed Round in 2022
VALK is a London-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in developing a software platform designed to manage, invest, and trade unlisted assets such as private company shares, fund shares, real estate, and infrastructure. By digitizing the asset management and investment workflows, VALK centralizes and automates processes traditionally performed manually, thereby improving efficiency for asset managers, investment banks, and funds. The platform supports over 70 financial institutions, including investment banks, hedge funds, and family offices, across more than 15 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North America, and South America. In the past year, VALK has facilitated transactions exceeding 4 billion USD. The company has received recognition in the form of awards for sell-side technology and asset management, and it participates in the FCA Sandbox and Tech Nation's fintech cohort.

Tribal Capital Markets

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Tribal Capital Markets, LLC is a full-service broker-dealer firm based in New York City and affiliated with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. As a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, TCM offers a wide range of financial services, including mortgage-backed securities trading, municipal debt, and investment banking. The firm specializes in debt capital markets, equity and fixed-income trading, and provides clearing services. TCM serves a diverse clientele that includes banks, corporations, asset managers, pension plans, municipalities, and hedge funds, addressing their liquidity and execution needs in today's market environment. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tribal Capital Partners, LLC and is staffed by experienced professionals dedicated to delivering tailored investment solutions.

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 is designed to provide neutral liquidity, allowing participants to take synthetic positions on these assets. By leveraging token incentives and a composable architecture, prePO aims to democratize access to investment opportunities in the pre-IPO space, making it possible for individuals worldwide to engage with and trade these assets.

Wombat Exchange

Series A in 2022
Wombat Exchange is a blockchain technology company that operates a multi-chain stableswap platform on the BNB Chain. It offers users the ability to swap stablecoins at highly efficient exchange rates with minimal slippage, leveraging a stableswap 2.0 model. This innovative approach enhances the stable swap experience through a unique algorithm designed to improve capital efficiency, accessibility, and scalability in a multichain environment. Additionally, Wombat Exchange provides opportunities for users to earn sustainable yields on their assets through single-staking pools, catering to the growing demand for optimized trading and investment solutions within the cryptocurrency market.

AdaSwap

Seed Round in 2022
AdaSwap is a decentralized exchange focused on facilitating the swift trading, bridging, and swapping of Cardano-based tokens and stablecoins. The platform specializes in offering an array of tools that include high-yield staking pools and NFT content, available through launchpads and marketplaces. This allows users to efficiently exchange ADA and take advantage of arbitrage opportunities in real-time. By prioritizing speed and user experience, AdaSwap aims to enhance the trading capabilities within the Cardano ecosystem.

Mizar

Seed Round in 2022
Mizar is a trading platform designed to simplify and democratize crypto trading for users. It allows individuals to manage and automate their trading orders across various exchanges from a centralized interface. Mizar also offers the option to copy successful traders, enabling users to replicate their strategies to potentially earn passive income. The platform provides a comprehensive suite of trading tools and strategies to help users allocate capital securely and effectively. Notably, Mizar operates on a subscription-free model, eliminating any monthly or fixed fees for its users.

Jambo

Seed Round in 2022
Jambo is a company focused on creating an extensive on-chain mobile network, centered around its flagship product, the JamboPhone, a powerful mobile device designed for the crypto-native market. With a foundation of over 800,000 mobile nodes spanning more than 120 countries, Jambo aims to accelerate decentralization and enhance network effects for various applications, such as validators and peer-to-peer networking. The JamboApp serves as a gateway for millions of users to engage with the on-chain economy, offering innovative earning opportunities, a decentralized application (dApp) store, and a multi-chain wallet. By integrating blockchain technology into its products, Jambo empowers users to participate in gaming, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, particularly benefiting individuals in emerging markets. Central to Jambo's ecosystem is the Jambo Token, which facilitates rewards, discounts, and other incentives, positioning the company as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

Hyperspace

Seed Round in 2022
Hyperspace is a trading platform that provides information and services about Solana NFT and NFT flex. It enables users to explore and trade NFTs aggregated across all marketplaces in a single location. It was established in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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.

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.

Whalemap

Seed Round in 2021
Whalemap is a blockchain analytics company that specializes in providing actionable trading insights by analyzing data from significant market players. The company develops a decentralized trading platform aimed at making the blockchain industry more accessible to beginners. Utilizing real-time on-chain analytics, Whalemap enables users to track data across various blockchains, democratizing access to hedge-fund-level insights and facilitating informed trading decisions for a wider audience.

Supa Foundation

Seed Round in 2021
Supa Foundation is an innovative GameFi company focused on the development of next-generation Web3 trading card games and platforms. It leverages blockchain technology and NFTs to transform the gaming experience for players, allowing them to collect, trade, and upgrade NFT cards within its flagship title, Internal Conflict. This groundbreaking Web3 trading card game provides an immersive and lucrative environment for players to engage and profit from their gaming activities. In addition to its gaming initiatives, Supa Foundation is committed to advancing the adoption of blockchain technology in the gaming sector through strategic partnerships and collaborations with other pioneering projects. The company has earned recognition for its efforts, including an award for "Best NFTs App" at the Fantom Hackathon, and has built a robust community across various social media platforms.

Dex Guru

Seed Round in 2021
Dex Guru An all-in-one trading terminal leveraging on-chain analytics combined with the token swap.

Domination Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance is a company that develops a non-custodial financial instrument tailored for traders in the cryptocurrency market. Its platform operates as an Ethereum application, utilizing the UMA protocol to facilitate trading based on Bitcoin Dominance metrics. The platform allows users to take long or short positions, enabling speculation on market dominance. In addition to Ethereum, the platform is also deployed on Polygon and Boba, broadening its accessibility and functionality. Through its innovative approach, Domination Finance aims to provide traders with tools to navigate and capitalize on the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape.

Splinterlands

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Splinterlands is a decentralized digital collectible trading card game founded in 2018 and based in Media, Pennsylvania. Utilizing blockchain technology, the game transforms trading cards into scarce digital assets that players own and control. This allows users to buy, sell, and trade cards across various digital marketplaces. Players engage in real-time battles with these cards, competing to win cryptocurrency and other valuable prizes. Through its innovative approach, Splinterlands combines gaming and cryptocurrency, providing an engaging platform for users to enjoy both aspects.

Portal

Seed Round in 2021
Tides is a financial services company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2018, Tides specializes in trading cryptocurrency without putting coins at risk, all from within a secure and controllable wallet. The company offers a platform that allows users to conveniently trade crypto assets while maintaining security and control over their investments. By leveraging innovative technology, Tides aims to provide a seamless and efficient trading experience for its customers in the ever-evolving cryptocurrency market.

Maverick Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Maverick Protocol is a developer of a decentralized crypto derivatives platform aimed at creating open, transparent, and efficient markets. The protocol is built on a unique automated market maker (AMM) that facilitates highly liquid trading environments. It offers users low fees, rapid execution, and capital efficiency, ensuring a secure trading experience. The platform enables decentralized and permissionless trading and staking of various asset pairs, allowing traders to engage with perpetual contracts backed by mid-cap tokens. Through its innovative infrastructure, Maverick Protocol strives to provide a seamless ecosystem for all participants in the decentralized finance landscape.

LunarCrush

Seed Round in 2021
LunarCrush Inc. is a technology company that develops a platform focused on cryptocurrency analysis and market insights. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, LunarCrush employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide real-time data and insights for investors, exchanges, and funds. The platform simplifies crypto investing by offering tools that enhance research capabilities, incorporating social data to create informative dashboards. Additionally, LunarCrush provides APIs for real-time updates and trading charts, helping traders make informed decisions regarding buying, selling, or holding cryptocurrencies. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to support the cryptocurrency community and facilitate data-driven trading strategies.

TeraBlock

Venture Round in 2021
TeraBlock is a developer of a trade automation exchange platform that simplifies the process of buying and managing cryptocurrency assets. Utilizing machine learning, the platform personalizes each user's experience and automates trading activities. TeraBlock enables investors to purchase cryptocurrencies using various payment methods, including bank cards, and provides secured wallets for asset storage. Additionally, the platform offers automated portfolio management, allowing users to efficiently manage their trading and exchange between preferred digital assets.
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