# Oleg Mikhalsky

> Oleg Mikhalsky is a pre-seed investor at Fulgur Ventures backing Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Fulgur Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fulgur-venture)
- Location: Burlington, United States
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 80%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olegmikh/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/olegmikh1
- Website: https://fulgur.ventures/

Oleg Mikhalsky is a pre-seed investor at Fulgur Ventures in Burlington focused on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency. Oleg Mikhalsky is angel investor and partner at early stage VC Fulgur Ventures. Attended University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bitcoin | 5 | 50% |
| Cryptocurrency | 5 | 50% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 30% |
| FinTech | 2 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 20% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Series A | 1 | 10% |
| Series C | 1 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 10% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 3 | 30% |
| United States | 3 | 30% |
| France | 1 | 10% |
| El Salvador | 1 | 10% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Foundation | Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world! | $6.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 21, 2026 |  |
| Kaleidoswap | Kaleidoswap is that it is a platform for trustless trading on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. It combines the security of the Bitcoin protocol, the scalability of the Lightning Network, and the programmability of RGB assets to enable users to trade any RGB assets in a secure, decentralized, and trustless manner without relying on centralizedintermediaries. This makes digital asset trading more efficient and secure on the network. The key emphasis is on trustless, decentralized exchange leveraging cutting-edge blockchain and network protocols. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2025 |  |
| NexBridge Digital Financial Solutions | NexBridge Digital Financial Solutions is a digital asset issuer that focuses on tokenizing financial assets such as publicly traded securities, private investment funds, and project-specific financial instruments. | $8M | Series A | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Sygnum | Sygnum is an international digital asset banking organization, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. The company provides professional and institutional investors, banks, corporations, and DLT foundations with the means to invest in digital assets with utmost confidence. Sygnum's team facilitates this through our top-tier security,personalized expert service, and regulated services in digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B offerings. | $58M |  | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| Sygnum | Sygnum is an international digital asset banking organization, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. The company provides professional and institutional investors, banks, corporations, and DLT foundations with the means to invest in digital assets with utmost confidence. Sygnum's team facilitates this through our top-tier security,personalized expert service, and regulated services in digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B offerings. | $58M | Series C | Jan 14, 2025 |  |
| JAN3 | JAN3's mission is to accelerate hyperbitcoinization. Bitcoin will fix the world. | $5M | Seed | Jan 03, 2025 |  |
| Elysium Lab | Elysium Lab Sagl, a Lugano-based Fintech-Blockchain startup, is revolutionizing digital asset management. Our user-friendly wallet, powered by Next-Gen Onboarding technology, ensures enhanced security and streamlined asset control. Collaborating with the Swiss Innovation Agency, Swiss Blockchain & Startups Associations, Universities, andUS-based companies, our team of 8+ professionals has achieved remarkable milestones, like federal funds for R&D, worldwide market validation on Fintech, CyberSecurity, and Business Strategy, with further international expansion opportunities. We have gone through internationally outstanding Startup Hubs & Programs such as Tenity Zurich, Lugano Plan B, Venture Challange, Venture Lab, and PKB Bank Venture Academy. | $549K | Pre-Seed | Apr 17, 2024 |  |
| Elysium Lab | Elysium Lab Sagl, a Lugano-based Fintech-Blockchain startup, is revolutionizing digital asset management. Our user-friendly wallet, powered by Next-Gen Onboarding technology, ensures enhanced security and streamlined asset control. Collaborating with the Swiss Innovation Agency, Swiss Blockchain & Startups Associations, Universities, andUS-based companies, our team of 8+ professionals has achieved remarkable milestones, like federal funds for R&D, worldwide market validation on Fintech, CyberSecurity, and Business Strategy, with further international expansion opportunities. We have gone through internationally outstanding Startup Hubs & Programs such as Tenity Zurich, Lugano Plan B, Venture Challange, Venture Lab, and PKB Bank Venture Academy. | $113.8K | Convertible Note | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| LN Markets | LN Markets offers bitcoin derivatives trading exchange platform. |  | Pre-Seed | Sep 08, 2020 |  |
| Lightning.Video | Lightning Page is a decentralized content platform, powered by your Bitcoin Lightning node, offering creators self-hosted Livestreaming, WebTorrent Video, Subscriptions, Gated Content, and disintermediated Tipping and Payments in the context of a social feed. It incorporates familiar content publishing features likeTwitter/YouTube/Shopify/Wordpress, yet in a permission-less Web3 architecture, allowing audiences to consume content from any device and pay from any lightning wallet, anywhere on earth. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 24, 2019 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bitfinex](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitfinex) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arche Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arche-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bitcoin Opportunity Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bitcoin-opportunity-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [East Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/east-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Grupo Salinas](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grupo-salinas) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lightning Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightning-ventures-a525) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Fulgur Ventures

VC Fund · Wilmington, United States

We believe in Bitcoin as a next generation politically neutral monetary system, the foundation for decentralized finance of the future. While Bitcoin is an efficient settlement layer, it needs a Layer-2 solution for everyday transactions. That is why we support development of the Lightning Network - an essential step towards decentralized finance.As technology entrepreneurs we combine decades of experience creating business from zero and scaling it in emerging and fast-growing industries.We support outstanding teams in several ways: writing checks of $50-$200k for pre-seed startups; granting rewards for acknowledged contributions to the ecosystem; providing startup advisory and mentoring; investing in later stages.Along the way we help startups to navigate cryptocurrency legal and regulatory environment according to the evolving industry standards and best practices.

1 contacts available at Fulgur Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oleg Mikhalsky | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oleg-mikhalsky |

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## FAQ

### What does Oleg Mikhalsky invest in?

Oleg Mikhalsky invests primarily in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Oleg Mikhalsky last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Oleg Mikhalsky closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 10 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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