Shane Zhu

AI, Robotics, Gaming, 3x Startup Founder

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022
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Mar 2022
Yuga Labs is a web3 company exploring big ideas in identity, ownership, utility, and interoperability to push the crypto and NFT space forward. The Yugaverse is made up of: Bored Ape Yacht Club Mutant Ape Yacht Club Bored Ape Kennel Club Otherside Plus dozens of community projects using Ape IP. As The Defiant recently said, "The story of Yuga Labs is one where the improbable has become reality in the blink of an eye." Our flagship collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club, debuted in April 2021. Since then, we’ve created new IP for the ape ecosystem (Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Bored Ape Kennel Club), acquired top collections (CryptoPunks and Meebits), and made both web3 and gaming history with the biggest NFT mint ever followed by a game demo with record-breaking synchronized player participation (Otherside). We also found some time to see old friends and make new ones with headline-making events (ApeFest, VMAs) and partnerships (Rolling Stone, Adidas). Along the way, the Yuga team has grown from 4 to 100+ people, and we’re still on the lookout for brilliant thinkers and doers who can grow alongside us, push us forward, and create work that makes history. If that sounds like you, apply to one of our open roles or reach out.
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Jul 2015
Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration. Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation. To find out more about how Ethereum works, consult the whitepaper. This page is managed and operated by members of the Ethereum Foundation.
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2024
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Aug 2024
Snap-on modularity, LEGO-style Robotics Our embodied robots are built from swappable modules—arms, sensors, end-effectors—so teams can re-configure a unit in minutes, not months. Legion Behavior OS: the brain that never stops training. We don’t ship a static model—we ship a self-improving learning pipeline: 1. Multi-modal perception → Behavior Fingerprint A deep network compresses continuous streams—face, gaze, joint torque, tactile feedback—into a compact behavior embedding. 2. Tiered AI Quality-Gate Only data that passes automated “smart QC” (signal quality, novelty, safety) enters the training warehouse. 3. Night-shift self-supervision, day-shift deployment While robots rest, Legion Behavior OS runs self-supervised drills; by morning, new skills are live in production. 4. Curriculum by Reinforcement Learning After each deployment, an RL scheduler decides which real-world scenarios to practice next, so the fleet keeps getting sharper every 24 hours.
Founder
Jun 2024
Developing a powerful AI agent operating system that integrates third-party, pre-developed, and our own dynamic AI agents, allowing for seamless collaboration and comprehensive solutions
2022
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Mar 2022
Yuga Labs is a web3 company exploring big ideas in identity, ownership, utility, and interoperability to push the crypto and NFT space forward. The Yugaverse is made up of: Bored Ape Yacht Club Mutant Ape Yacht Club Bored Ape Kennel Club Otherside Plus dozens of community projects using Ape IP. As The Defiant recently said, "The story of Yuga Labs is one where the improbable has become reality in the blink of an eye." Our flagship collection, Bored Ape Yacht Club, debuted in April 2021. Since then, we’ve created new IP for the ape ecosystem (Mutant Ape Yacht Club, Bored Ape Kennel Club), acquired top collections (CryptoPunks and Meebits), and made both web3 and gaming history with the biggest NFT mint ever followed by a game demo with record-breaking synchronized player participation (Otherside). We also found some time to see old friends and make new ones with headline-making events (ApeFest, VMAs) and partnerships (Rolling Stone, Adidas). Along the way, the Yuga team has grown from 4 to 100+ people, and we’re still on the lookout for brilliant thinkers and doers who can grow alongside us, push us forward, and create work that makes history. If that sounds like you, apply to one of our open roles or reach out.
2021
Founder
Mar 2021
DeHorizon---Cutting a new decentralized horizon
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