# Michael Gu

> Michael Gu is a seed investor at Boxmining backing Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Boxmining](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boxmining)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: May 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boxmining/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/boxmining
- Website: https://boxmining.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/boxmining

Michael Gu is a seed investor at Boxmining focused on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Web3. Michael became the Founder of Boxmining - one of the top crypto YouTube channels with over 200,000 subscribers and 15 Million Views. Michael has been providing top tier independent coverage of the cryptocurrency scene since 2017. Micheal has participated in the first wave of cryptocurrency investing, with a mining operation in 2012 and keyinvestments in 2017.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.1M–$5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | 2 | 67% |
| Web3 | 1 | 33% |
| Finance | 1 | 33% |
| Payments | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

9 industries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| XSwap | XSwap is a cross-chain swaps protocol that provide protocols and end-users with secure, reliable, and simple cross-chain payments, all supported by Chainlink CCIP. |  | Seed | May 09, 2024 |  |
| Plena Finance | Plena Finance is a mobile application for cryptocurrencies and NFTs. It also offers lending, borrowing, liquidity pools, variable asset vaults, NFT marketplace, staking, and DeFi notification, as well as being interoperable and gasless, allowing users to manage and perform a wide range of financial transactions. | $5M | Seed | Apr 16, 2024 |  |
| Drops | Drops, a groundbreaking project that unlocks additional value for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) | $1.1M | Seed | May 05, 2021 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ARK36](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ark36) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AU21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/au21-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Axia8 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/axia8-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Big Brain Holdings](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/big-brain-holdings) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BitScale](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitscale-4998) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blocksync Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blocksync-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Boxmining

VC Fund

Join me and on the cryptocurrency revolution – a movement to decentralize the world and build a layer a trust. Boxmining is the only YouTube channel with a truly global outreach forming a bilingual bridge between China and the West! I break down the most important topics into easy-to-stand videos and cover how it’s received in both the East and theWest. Covering Bitcoin, Vechain, Ethereum, and Decred I leave no technology undiscovered.

1 contacts available at Boxmining.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Gu | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-gu |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Gu invest in?

Michael Gu invests primarily in Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Web3 and Finance startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Singapore. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Michael Gu typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$5M 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 Gu participates in.

### When did Michael Gu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Gu closed in May 2024. Shizune tracks 3 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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