# Sharding Capital

> Sharding Capital is a VC fund backing Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Bitcoin. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sharding-capital/
- Website: https://x.com/ShardingCapital

Sharding Capital is an early-stage investment institution focused on supporting founders.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cryptocurrency | 6 | 67% |
| Blockchain | 5 | 56% |
| Bitcoin | 3 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 11% |
| Software | 1 | 11% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 3 | 33% |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DeepSafe | DeepSafe is a decentralized AI trusted verification network designed to ensure transparency, security, and reliability in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence systems. | $3M | Seed | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| Heurist | Heurist is a Layer 2 network for AI model hosting and inference based on ZK Stack. It offers serverless access to open-source AI models stored on a decentralized network of computer resources. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Nov 15, 2024 |  |
| PumpBTC | PumpBTC is a liquid staking protocol that aims to help Bitcoin holders to stake their bitcoins and earn yield while bolstering the security. | $10M | Seed | Oct 29, 2024 |  |
| Bool Network | Bool Network is a permissionless, decentralized, and secure Bitcoin verification layer that intends to securely decentralize the Bitcoin network's expansion while maintaining Bitcoin's consensus, ultimately increasing wealth within the Bitcoin ecosystem. | $2M | Seed | Sep 19, 2024 |  |
| Nexio | Nexio is a bitcoin scaling solution platform that helps to improve cryptocurrency's scalability by using parallelizing Bitcoin rollouts. | $2.2M | Pre-Seed | Aug 06, 2024 |  |
| Wasabi | Wasabi is the operator of a financial platform for NFT trading. The company's platform provides a decentralized NFT options protocol that makes information about securities, NFT tokens, and blockchain available to traders, allowing them to earn stable, low-risk income by collecting premiums and capitalizing on market volatility by executing ortrading options. | $3M | Seed | Jun 17, 2024 |  |
| ZAP | ZAP offers a reputation-based token distribution protocol that supports fair rewards for user contributions within the Blast ecosystem. It enables users to participate in various projects through missions and seamless investment options. Additionally, ZAP is expanding its services to other blockchains and developing tools to simplify access toventure-capital-backed projects. | $2.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 01, 2024 |  |
| Entangle Protocol | Entangle is the first fully customizable Web3 messaging Infrastructure designed to unify web3 and optimize ecosystem liquidity. Entangle provides Builders & dApps authenticated and interoperable data pathways from any source with full configurability in executing operations. | $4M | Seed | Jan 09, 2024 |  |
| ZAP | ZAP offers a reputation-based token distribution protocol that supports fair rewards for user contributions within the Blast ecosystem. It enables users to participate in various projects through missions and seamless investment options. Additionally, ZAP is expanding its services to other blockchains and developing tools to simplify access toventure-capital-backed projects. | $900K | Seed | Dec 01, 2023 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Cogitent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cogitent-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Antalpha](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antalpha) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [CKB Eco Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ckb-eco-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Contango Digital Assets](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/contango-digital-assets) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Cypher Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cypher-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Istari Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/istari-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sharding Capital invest in?

Sharding Capital invests primarily in Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and Bitcoin startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sharding Capital last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sharding Capital closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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