# 8 Decimal Capital

> 8 Decimal Capital is a VC fund backing Blockchain and Cryptocurrency. See 47 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 47
- Last investment: Jun 2021
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last fund: Jan 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/8decimal/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/8decimal
- Website: http://www.8dcapital.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/8Decimal/

8 Decimal Capital is a multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment. We currently have more than 30 portfolio companies, and an AUM of 60M USD. Our investment team consists of more than 10 venture capital veterans, researchers, and trading professionals. We thematically invest in core infrastructure layer projects thataddress security, scalability, and privacy, provide a full suite of post-investment value-add to our portfolio companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$4.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 30 | 64% |
| Cryptocurrency | 16 | 34% |
| Financial Services | 13 | 28% |
| FinTech | 12 | 26% |
| Internet | 10 | 21% |

58 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 40% |
| Angel | 5 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 11% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 4 | 9% |
| Series A | 3 | 6% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 18 | 38% |
| Singapore | 9 | 19% |
| China | 7 | 15% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 6% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sky Yu | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sky-yu-4c5c |
| Yubo Ruan | Founder & Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/yubo-ruan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Parallel Finance | Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services. | $2M | Seed | Jun 14, 2021 |  |
| Nirvana | Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi. - Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency - AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimizestrategies | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 14, 2021 |  |
| Parallel Finance | Parallel Finance is a Polkadot - based decentralized finance protocol that offers lending and staking services. | $2M | Seed | Jun 14, 2021 |  |
| Polkadot | Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validity of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability bycreating a general environment for multiple state machines. | $5M |  | Aug 22, 2019 |  |
| Force Protocol | null |  | Corporate Round | Apr 19, 2019 |  |
| SendFriend | For the millions of migrant workers who overpay annually for international money transfer, because of friction in the banking system, SendFriend leverages blockchain technology to reduce the cost of service by 65% from the industry average. Winner of the MIT Media Lab Translational Innovation Alliance Award, and the MIT Legatum Fellowship,SendFriend is a team of Ex-World Bank and Ex-MoneyGram staff passionate about bringing innovation to the masses. Other investors include Techstars, Barclays Bank, Mahindra Finance, the MasterCard Foundation, and Deloitte (services). | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Dec 22, 2018 |  |
| Bitget | Bitget has core focus is on social trading. Currently serving over two million users in more than 50 countries around the world, Bitget accelerated its mission to promote decentralized finance with a 600-strong workforce. Since Bitget’s official launch in the crypto derivatives market in June 2019, the platform has now become one of the world’slargest crypto copy trading and derivatives exchanges and is ranked in the top five globally by CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko for derivatives trading by volume. The leading exchange focuses on transforming the way people connect and trade with social trading. Its flagship offering, One-Click Copy Trade, is nothing short of a pioneer in social trading and has amassed over 55,000 professional traders, with approximately 1.1 million followers, innovating the experience for crypto derivatives traders worldwide. | $10M | Corporate Round | Dec 10, 2018 |  |
| BGOGO | Bgogo aspires to be the cryptocurrency exchange of the community, by the community, for the community. It is the first digital asset exchange with supernode listing authority, designed to list the most high quality and promising digital assets.Bgogo.com is registered in Cayman Islands. Bgogo founders include members from leading Internetcompanies such as Facebook, Twitter, IBM, Alibaba, etc. The core engineering team consists of several world champions of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. | $4.9M |  | Sep 18, 2018 |  |
| Wanchain | Wanchain is creating new distributed financial infrastructure. Cross-chain smart contracts built on Wanchain will power the new digital economy. |  | Seed | Sep 03, 2018 |  |
| Bhex.com | BHEX is the next generation digital asset trading platform, with top grade performance of matching system which designed for million level of concurrent transactions. It further evolves to a globally distributed multi-nodes system and provides decentralized custody and clearing services of digital assets to institutional and retail investorstransparently. |  | Corporate Round | Aug 17, 2018 |  |

10 of 47 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [DHVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/danhua-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kenetic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenetic-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Pantera Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pantera-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Breyer Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/breyer-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fundamental Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fundamental-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does 8 Decimal Capital invest in?

8 Decimal Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is 8 Decimal Capital's check size?

8 Decimal Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$4.7M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 8 Decimal Capital participates in.

### How do I contact 8 Decimal Capital?

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### Who are the partners at 8 Decimal Capital?

The team at 8 Decimal Capital includes Sky Yu (Partner) and Yubo Ruan (Founder & Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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