# 8186 Capital

> 8186 Capital is a VC fund in Shanghai backing Blockchain, Web3 and Cryptocurrency. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/8186capital
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/8186_Capital
- Website: https://www.8186capital.com/

8186 Capital is an investment firm.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$8.6M |
| Pre-Seed | $100k–$1.5M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $1M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 13 | 68% |
| Web3 | 8 | 42% |
| Cryptocurrency | 8 | 42% |
| Gaming | 5 | 26% |
| Video Games | 3 | 16% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 47% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 21% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 11% |
| Initial Coin Offering | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 21% |
| Spain | 1 | 5% |
| Brazil | 1 | 5% |
| Israel | 1 | 5% |
| Norway | 1 | 5% |

12 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LYNC | LYNC provides a scalable infrastructure for launching web3 games, without hampering the gaming experience. LYNC SDKs can be easily integrated into game engines like Unity 3D and Unreal Engine. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2024 |  |
| Scallop | Scallop is the pioneering Next Generation peer-to-peer Web3 Decentralized Finance lending Money Market. | $3M | Seed | Mar 03, 2024 |  |
| Releap Protocol | Music for Creators. Music for Fans. | $2.1M | Seed | Jul 25, 2023 |  |
| Snackclub | Snackclub is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that changes how people consume games and the internet today. | $1M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 20, 2022 |  |
| Wayru | Blockchain-based Unified Global WiFi Network. | $2M | Seed | May 13, 2022 |  |
| ChainPort | ChainPort develops a hard-security blockchain bridge that lets users hop across chains at a click. It is creating bridges between blockchains, turning a fragmented crypto space into a unified universe. ChainPort's technology leverages smart contracts to port tokens between blockchains formerly locked inside a mono-chain environment thatprevents interchain exchanges. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | May 05, 2022 |  |
| Joystream | JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform. | $5.9M |  | Mar 23, 2022 |  |
| Another-1 | Another-1 is the ultimate web3 luxury fashion platform built on Polygon, where users can build, collect, stake, and trade metaverse-ready digital fashion backed by NFC-authenticated physical goods. | $300K | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2022 |  |
| Mecha Morphing | Mecha Morphing is a browser-based, decentralized, play-to-earn ARPG game. They offer PVE, PVP loot mode, PVP arena, and bounties. They also provide weapons, mecha armour pieces, land, and characters. | $4.9M | Initial Coin Offering | Jan 27, 2022 |  |
| Permacast | Permacast is a podcast hosting and discovery platform. It offers a decentralized podcasting protocol that can be used to permanently store and upload podcasts and audio files. |  | Seed | Jan 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/infinity-ventures-crypto) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [LD Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ld-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does 8186 Capital invest in?

8186 Capital invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 19 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 8186 Capital's check size?

8186 Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$8.6M at Seed, $100k–$1.5M at Pre-Seed and $1M–$5.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds 8186 Capital participates in.

### When did 8186 Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for 8186 Capital closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 19 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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