# Michael Heinrich

> Michael Heinrich is a pre-seed investor at 0G (Mountain View) backing Blockchain and Web3. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [0G](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/0g-labs)
- Location: Mountain View, United States
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 9%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mheinrich
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mheinrich
- Website: https://x.com/mheinrich
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mheinrich

Michael Heinrich is a pre-seed investor at 0G in Mountain View focused on Blockchain and Web3. Michael Heinrich is the Co-Founder and CEO of 0G Labs. He previously worked at Garten as a Founder and CEO. Michael Heinrich attended Stanford University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $4M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $1.7M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Blockchain | 5 | 45% |
| Web3 | 3 | 27% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 27% |
| Cryptocurrency | 2 | 18% |
| Internet | 1 | 9% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 45% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |
| Series A | 2 | 18% |
| Angel | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| Singapore | 1 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 9% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| American Fortress | American Fortress develops privacy-focused blockchain identity and crypto wallet naming solutions. | $8M | Seed | May 22, 2026 |  |
| Tria | Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3. | $12M | Pre-Seed | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| Arcium | Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. |  | Series A | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Arcium | Arcium is a parallelized confidential computing network that provides trustless, verifiable and efficient encrypted computation. Arcium implements Multiparty Computation Execution Environments (MXEs) that combine MPC, homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and more to enable computation on encrypted data. | $2M | Angel | Mar 27, 2025 |  |
| Fraction AI | Fraction AI is the best human-generated data for training your AI models. | $6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 18, 2024 |  |
| Talus Network | Talus Network is an innovative blockchain platform that aims to decentralize artificial intelligence. | $6M | Seed | Nov 26, 2024 |  |
| GAIB | GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible. | $5M | Pre-Seed | Nov 03, 2024 |  |
| Surge | Surge is a developer of a composable scaling meta-layer to push the bounds of Bitcoin functionality. The company's infrastructure supports app-specific rollups, GameFi, ordinals, and other DeFi use-cases while inheriting Bitcoin's security and liquidity, allowing developers to unlock Bitcoin innovation and focus on launching their ideas. | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Oct 17, 2024 |  |
| assisterr | Assisterr is building an AI tokenization stack to ensure fair compensation for data owners and contributors. The platform manages the entire lifecycle of SLM training, enabling features like data provenance tracking, fine-tuning, and the launch of SLM-powered Agents. Web3 component allows data owners to contribute their data and expertise todomain-specific SLMs and capture the value from such contributions. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| RedStone | RedStone is a quickly growing blockchain startup, building two data-focused products aimed to unlock the potential of DeFi & Web3:1. RedStone Oracles: A new generation of blockchain oracles with a novel architecture that optimises the way data is delivered to decentralised Apps (dApps). RedStone provides 1,100+ data feeds delivered at a fewseconds refresh interval to Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche, Arbitrum and 30+ other top chains. We support price feeds for assets such as popular & long-tail tokens, fiat currencies, commodities, stocks, NFTs floor and RedStone can deliver also other types of data i.e. transactions volume data or results of real-world events like sports games. Available feeds -> https://app.redstone.finance/ ; Sample integration on popular chains -> https://showroom.redstone.finance/2. Warp: A data-processing Smart Contract layer on top of the Arweave data storage chain. Warp is optimised for data-heavy use cases such as sophisticated gaming & social dApps, interactive NFTs, simple on-chain Machine Learning and other blockchain-based solutions that have not been feasible before, due to huge data processing costs on chains like Ethereum or Avalanche. Warp overview -> https://warp.cc/ ; Warp Academy -> https://academy.warp.cc/RedStone Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/5477/redstone-new-generation-of-oracles-for-defiWarp Gitcoin grant -> https://gitcoin.co/grants/7733/warp-contracts-on-arweave-revolution-of-on-chain- | $15M | Series A | Jul 02, 2024 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Foresight Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/foresight-ventures-e03b) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MH Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mh-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Spartan](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/spartan-d1f2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [280 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/280-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aethir](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aethir-c6fc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Borderless Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/algo-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About 0G

VC Fund

0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.

4 contacts available at 0G.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Heinrich | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-heinrich |
| Ming Wu | Co-Founder and CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ming-wu-6695 |
| Thomas Yao | Co-founder and CBO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-yao-cc76 |
| Fan Long | Co-founder and CSSO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fan-long |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Heinrich invest in?

Michael Heinrich invests primarily in Blockchain, Web3 and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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

Michael Heinrich typically joins rounds of $4M–$8M at Seed and $1.7M–$12M at Pre-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 Heinrich participates in.

### When did Michael Heinrich last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Heinrich closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 11 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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