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Yida Gao

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Managing General Partner, Shima Capital

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Shima Capital
Title
Managing General Partner
Role
General partner
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Record updated 18 September 2026

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Yida Gao (Forbes 30 Under 30) is the Managing General Partner of early stage crypto investment firm Shima Capital. 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. He graduated from MIT (math/CS) and dropped out of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business to pursue crypto investing full time.

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