Lightshift is an early-stage crypto venture fund that co-invests in and actively co-builds Web3 projects alongside founding teams. Lightshift's Twitter Score is 22 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #44,307 (top 10%) among 486,573 tracked accounts.
Lightshift was co-founded by Simão Cruz as Founding Partner and CEO, David Nogueira as Founding Partner and CTO, and Roberto Machado as Founding Partner. The fund was announced as a Lightshift I vehicle targeting $30 million for early-stage investments in digital assets and decentralized financial services. Its approach combines capital deployment, including into project tokens during early development phases, with direct engineering support to help portfolio companies build their products.
Lightshift counts prominent backers including Digital Currency Group, Diogo Mónica, Gavin Wood, and Marc Andreessen. The fund also draws on a network of partners that includes Protocol Labs, Gnosis, Parity, Anchorage Digital, ConsenSys, GSR, Celo, and Digital Currency Group, whose expertise is made available to companies in the portfolio. Lightshift has accumulated 2,147 followers as of September 2026 and published 277 posts on the platform. The account has been mentioned by 35 accounts, totaling 70 mentions.
Lightshift's fund portfolio includes DWallet Labs, Quasar, Ika, Portals.fi, Union, Concrete, Blueprint Finance and D3.
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The accounts that follow Lightshift include 164 founders, 41 angel investors, 19 influencers and 6 VCs. Among them are Ansem, Zmanian, Vinny Lingham, Julien B, The Rollup and Winny.