Shima Capital
We are an early-stage global venture firm focused on supporting cutting edge blockchain startups.
Summary
Shima Capital is a web3 venture capital firm based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Partners
Yida Gao
Managing General Partner
Yida formerly co-ran Struck Capital, an early stage industry agnostic venture fund, and also DDC (Divergence Digital Currency), a multi-strategy crypto fund. Prior, Yida served as a technology investor at New Enterprise Associates, a $25Bn+ venture capital fund, and as an M&A investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Brandon Stahl
CFO/COO/CCO
Brandon has served as the Director of Accounting at Pacific Life Insurance Company overseeing all back-office functions related to private investment funds managed by Pacific Private Fund Advisors.
Hazel Chen
Chief of Staff and Head of Platform
Hazel is a former management consultant from Bain & Company focusing on due diligence, marketing strategy and implementation for 2C businesses. She previously has worked in investment, post-investment management and advisory for both Web2 and Web3 VCs. MIT Sloan MBA ’22.
Alex Wettermann
Head of Gaming
Alex was the Head of Blockchain at AlleyCorp where he led web3 investments and incubations. Before AlleyCorp, Alex ran token sales at CoinList netting >100m+ in sales. He was previously an IP Attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius where he focused on both IP litigation and patent prosecution. Alex holds a JD from UC Hastings, and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.
Alex Lin
Head of Research and Investor
Alex was a venture partner and investor at Old Fashioned Research, a multi-strategy Web3 fund managed by former Binance executives.
Portfolio
A distributed network for various protocols on #Ethereum, #BNBChain, #Avalanche, #Polygon, #OΞ, #Arbitrum, #Gnosis, #Fantom, #Klaytn, #Aurora and #zkSyncEra
An independent studio creating @playoffthegrid , a cyberpunk Battle Royale 2.0
Algorand is unleashing scalability, fusing TradFi x DeFi, and accelerating global sustainability.
The blockspace ecosystem for boundless innovation. Secure, composable, flexible, efficient & cost effective. Powering the movement for a better web.
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