# Michael Gronager

> Michael Gronager is a seed investor in New York backing Web3, FinTech and Payments. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Feb 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gronager/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/gronager
- Website: https://x.com/gronager

Michael Gronager is a seed investor in New York focused on Web3 and FinTech. Michael Gronager is the Co-Founder of Chainalysis. Michael Gronager PhD in Quantum Mechanics, MSc in Chemical Engineering is CEO and Co-Founder of Chainalysis Inc., the leading company in investigation and compliance services for distributed value transfer, with customers from international banks, leading law enforcement agencies and fintechcompanies. Prior to founding Chainalysis Michael was the COO of Payward Inc., the leading euro to bitcoin exchange where he was in charge of banking relations, overseeing the global engineering team, and crypto currency expert. Before entering the bitcoin scene in 2011 Michael was running international research infrastructure projects, latest as CEO for the Nordic DataGrid Facility at that time the biggest distributed storage installation world wide. Michael has served as member of the research infrastructure EGI Project Management Board, the EGI Technical Collaboration Board and at present he is member of the Board of the Swedish National Supercomputer Center, NSC. Michael is also Co-Founder of Kraken in San Francisco.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$7.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Web3 | 1 | 50% |
| FinTech | 1 | 50% |
| Payments | 1 | 50% |
| Accounting | 1 | 50% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 50% |

8 industries tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 50% |
| Denmark | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Januar | Januar is a payment gate for crypto companies. They offer payment account solutions to accept payments and send payouts while maintaining full compliance and stable business operations. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 22, 2024 |  |
| Tres | Tres is a financial technology company that provides a platform for managing, accounting, and reporting on digital assets and Web3 financial operations. Its core offering aggregates transactional data across blockchains, exchanges, custodians, and financial systems into a unified financial data environment to support automation of reconciliation,audits, tax compliance, and reporting workflows. The platform enables finance teams, asset managers, and institutions to transform raw on-chain activity into structured, audit-ready financial information with real-time insights and integration into traditional accounting systems. Tres’s tools address challenges such as multi-network data fragmentation and complex digital asset transactions by normalizing and enriching data for consistent financial workflows. The company’s solutions support compliance-focused operations and enable organizations to monitor treasury activity, generate regulatory documentation, and automate ledger entries. | $7.6M | Seed | Sep 20, 2022 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alchemy](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alchemy-insights) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockdaemon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockdaemon) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [boldstart ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boldstart-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CMT Digital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cmt-digital-ventures-llc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [F2 Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/f2-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kenetic](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenetic-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Gronager invest in?

Michael Gronager invests primarily in Web3, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Michael Gronager's check size?

Michael Gronager typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$7.6M 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 Michael Gronager participates in.

### When did Michael Gronager last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Gronager closed in Feb 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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