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Shine Capital

100 Crosby St #404, New York, NY, 10012, United States

Overview

Shine is a venture capital firm that partners with relentless, creative, convincing entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building.

Total investments
40
Lead investments
21
Investments · 12mo
13
Active investors
6

Sector focus

  • Finance
  • Financial Services
  • Venture Capital
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Investment portfolio

  • Antares

    Participated · Series C · Jul 2026

    Antares develops small modular reactors capable of producing roughly 100 kilowatts to 1 megawatt of electricity and designs its reactors to use TRISO fuel, which encapsulates uranium in carbon and ceramic shells. Its Mark-0 demonstration reactor reached criticality on June 4 at the Idaho National Laboratory. Antares is a finalist in the Pentagon’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program and is pursuing deployments on Air Force bases in Colorado and Montana. The company plans to bring its first electricity-producing reactor online next year and targets military deployments in 2028. Financially, Antares has raised a total of $604 million to date, including a $96 million Series B in December and the $470 million Series C. The broader advanced nuclear sector faces challenges such as an immature U.S. supply chain and near-term cost competitiveness concerns; Lazard estimates new SMRs could cost about $214 per megawatt-hour, and Antares has not disclosed pricing.

  • Walden Robotics

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Walden Robotics develops and deploys general-purpose robots powered by Large Behavior Models and other Physical AI advances to perform useful work in manufacturing, logistics, and other industries. Founded in 2026 and launched out of Toyota Research Institute, the company combines foundational robotics research with in-house operations teams to bring robots into production environments. Walden reports that its robots have been operating in production at a Toyota plant in North America since February, progressing from pilot to real work in under two months. The company has strategic partnerships across automotive, aerospace, semiconductors, electronics, logistics, and life sciences and emphasizes human-centered deployment where robots work side-by-side with people. Walden’s stated plans center on scaling commercial deployments and continuous on-the-job learning to improve capabilities over time. Financially, the company announced a $300 million seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, providing capital to support its launch and customer expansion.

  • Turnout

    Participated · Series A · Jun 2026

    Turnout operates a hybrid advocacy platform centered on an AI orchestrator called Jake together with licensed human advocates to assist clients through government, insurance, healthcare, and education bureaucracies. The company reports growing its client base fivefold since its September 2025 seed round and has logged over ten million minutes of AI and human-led advocacy. Turnout has been active in assisting people with Social Security disability and Veterans benefits and plans to expand into healthcare and education verticals. The $35 million Series A, at a $400 million valuation, is intended to accelerate development of Jake and scale the nationwide human advocate workforce. Turnout framed its service as providing one-on-one, human-led advocacy accelerated by AI and aims to make advocacy broadly accessible. The company announced the Series A and accompanying plans in a June 11, 2026 press release from San Diego.

  • MOTHER.tech

    Participated · Seed · May 2026

    MOTHER.tech develops Degen, an AI-driven creative app that lets artists, photographers, and designers package their visual style into one-tap generators ("gens") that users can apply to photos, references, or text. Each generator is created by a creator who earns a share of revenue every time their generator is used; the creator program is currently being tested and will open to all after launch. The app emphasizes speed, specificity, and subcultural aesthetics, releasing new generators daily and enabling users to remix, layer, and share results in private channels. Degen is available on iOS and Android by invite code with wider access planned following the seed-funded launch. MOTHER.tech was founded in 2023 by Kelsey Falter and Raissa Chagas and is based in Brooklyn.

  • Zenskar

    Led · Series A · Apr 2026

    Zenskar builds an AI-native billing and revenue automation platform designed to handle complex B2B pricing models such as usage-based tiers, prepaid credits, amendments, customer hierarchies, and multi-entity/multi-currency structures. Its architecture models contract data as objects on a graph and combines rule-based calculations with purpose-built AI agents to automate order-to-cash processes. The company offers an Agents Marketplace for finance teams to create, customize, chain, and deploy agents without engineering involvement, plus integrations like a Slack agent and an MCP that links to major AI tools. Zenskar positions its platform to replace error-prone workarounds and in-house systems used by customers with bespoke pricing or high-volume usage. The company reported 5x revenue growth in the past year and cited customer outcomes such as faster billing, earlier collections, and faster close times. Zenskar's stated vision is to enable Zero-Touch Finance by expanding its agentic capabilities and reducing manual finance operations.

Team

  • Mo Koyfman

    Founder & General Partner

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  • Amanda Niu

    CFO & General Partner

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  • Jenna Greenspan

    Head of Investor Relations & Comms

  • Alex Hartz

    General Partner

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