# Deniz Devrim Cengiz

> Deniz Devrim Cengiz is a seed investor backing FinTech, Blockchain and Apps. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denizdevrimcengiz/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/denizcengiz
- Website: https://x.com/denizcengiz

Deniz Devrim Cengiz is a seed investor focused on FinTech and Blockchain. Deniz Devrim Cengiz

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $111k–$30M |
| Series A | $431k–$11M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Blockchain | 2 | 22% |
| Apps | 1 | 11% |
| Gaming | 1 | 11% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 78% |
| Series A | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 6 | 67% |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 22% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Passion Punch | Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives. | $4M | Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| Hiwell | Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes. | $1M | Seed | Nov 02, 2022 |  |
| EasyCep | EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty. | $11M | Series A | Mar 28, 2022 |  |
| Dusyeri | Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children. | $3.7M | Seed | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Colendi | Colendi is a multifunctional banking as a service platform that democratizes banking services for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions to overcome the limitations associated with legacy banking. Colendi is moving forward with the goal of solving a chronic financial problem that directly affects more than three billion people who do nothave bank accounts and more than five billion people who cannot get loans. | $30M | Seed | May 02, 2021 |  |
| ESA Esports | ESA Esportsc is a company that produces broadcasts and digital material and gives a fresh viewpoint to the entertainment industry. It works in the film and video game industries. | $430.9K | Series A | Feb 15, 2021 |  |
| Paket Taxi | Paket Taxi provides logistics services that deal with many problems in the courier business. The couriers carrying out the logistics service of the enterprises were almost impossible to follow. This could cause the courier staff to experience unwanted events such as harassment of their customers. At this point, Paket Taxi emerged by aiming totransform the logistics services, which are the biggest risks of all businesses, into comfort.Paket Taxi was founded in 2015 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey. | $111K | Seed | Aug 30, 2018 |  |
| MenaPay | MenaPay is the first, fully backed blockchain-based payment gateway in the Middle East and North Africa. MenaPay replaces traditional payment methods with a blockchain-based fully backed cryptocurrency. This provides a secure and transparent payment gateway to enable transactions for every aspect of daily life.The MenaPay project is started toserve 441 million people in MENA region with its Arabic user-friendly interface. |  | Seed | Jun 02, 2018 |  |
| CC Media House | Founded in 2015, CC Media House is the leading New Media Company in Turkey and MENA Region where technology based content creation platforms connect brands with social-first generation |  | Seed | Feb 10, 2016 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Boğaziçi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo%C4%9Fazi%C3%A7i-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [RePie Asset Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/re-pie-asset-management) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Colendi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colendi) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ITK Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/itk-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [StartupFon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupfon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Albaraka Fintech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albaraka-fintech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Deniz Devrim Cengiz invest in?

Deniz Devrim Cengiz invests primarily in FinTech, Blockchain and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Deniz Devrim Cengiz's check size?

Deniz Devrim Cengiz typically joins rounds of $111k–$30M at Seed and $431k–$11M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Deniz Devrim Cengiz participates in.

### When did Deniz Devrim Cengiz last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Deniz Devrim Cengiz closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 9 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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