# Shift Capital

> Shift Capital is a VC fund backing Web3, Beauty and Retail. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Mar 2022
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/ShiftCapital
- Website: https://shiftcap.co/

Shift Capital is a long-term, open-ended, evergreen fund offering a one-way bet on crypto. The fund is fully launched in January 2021 and currently has +$30m under management. We offer exposure to the space via token-only investment in both early-and late-stage projects. We combine a fundamentals-based approach with a capital-efficient tradingstrategy. Our crypto native investment team is deeply rooted in the crypto community, providing unique deal flow access and strong technical validation.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Shift Capital. Shizune tracks 1 team members at Shift Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/shift-capital-9f50?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.9M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web3 | 1 | 33% |
| Beauty | 1 | 33% |
| Retail | 1 | 33% |
| FinTech | 1 | 33% |
| Cosmetics | 1 | 33% |

12 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 33% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brazil | 1 | 33% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 33% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cyril Paglino | Founder and General Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cyril-paglino |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Skelt | Skelt is an online store that retails body makeup, self-tanning products, shower cream, scrub, primer, and skincare products. | $6M | Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| Solcial | Solcial is a decentralized social network that allows anyone to share content in a fully permissionless way, avoiding censorship, and rewarding users and content creators in a fair manner. | $2.9M | Seed | Dec 16, 2021 |  |
| MEV Capital | MEV Capital focuses on finding and extracting value from the nascent cryptocurrency markets by developing and deploying trend-agnostic strategies to capture yields and time opportunities. Daily operations consist of screening on-chain transactions and interacting with public protocols known as DeFi (“Decentralized Finance”) applications. Theseprotocols are selected to reflect internal risk management rules, fit regulatory criteria, and answer investor needs of security and flexibility for their assets. MEV Capital’s investment policy and market approach are built to provide investors with consistent, low-risk returns from a highly liquid environment through open-ended structures.To execute blockchain-based investment strategies, MEV Capital develops Web3 integrations and market data intelligence for internal needs and corporate clients. | $545.6K | Pre-Seed | Nov 10, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alameda Research](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alameda-research) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BC Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bc-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Criterion VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/criterion-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GBV Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/genesis-block-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GTA Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [GreenHornsCapital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greenhornscapital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Shift Capital invest in?

Shift Capital invests primarily in Web3, Beauty and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Brazil. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Shift Capital's check size?

Shift Capital typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$6M 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 Shift Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Shift Capital?

Public channels for Shift Capital include X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Shift Capital?

The team at Shift Capital includes Cyril Paglino (Founder and General Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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