# DEPO Ventures

> DEPO Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 74 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 74
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/depo-ventures
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/depo_ventures
- Website: https://depoventures.com/

DEPO Ventures is an angel network and VC (Grouport and DEPO Angels Fund II), which connects world of startups and investors.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for DEPO Ventures. Shizune tracks 7 team members at DEPO Ventures. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/depo-ventures?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $564k–$4.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $300k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 22 | 30% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 20% |
| Information Technology | 9 | 12% |
| FinTech | 7 | 9% |
| SaaS | 6 | 8% |

119 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 31 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 25 | 34% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 3% |
| Grant | 1 | 1% |
| Series A | 1 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 22 | 30% |
| United States | 10 | 14% |
| Estonia | 7 | 9% |
| Germany | 4 | 5% |
| Sweden | 2 | 3% |

13 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jakub Vandělík | Valuation Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jakub-vandelik |
| Michal Ciffra | Partner | 22 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michal-ciffra |
| Patrik Luxemburk | M&A Advisor | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patrik-luxemburk |
| Petr Sima | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/petr-sima |
| Sebastian Sulma | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sebastian-sulma-f2e8 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tapaya | Tapaya is a fintech infrastructure company that provides payment acceptance software designed to turn any device into a payment terminal. | $1.2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 28, 2026 |  |
| WanderWallet | WanderWallet is a digital wallet that lets foreigners pay like locals across Latin America. Users add USD or EUR and pay instantly by scanning local QR codes, including Pix in Brazil, Transferencias 3.0 in Argentina, and QR Simple in Bolivia, with no local bank account required. Built for travelers, expats, and digital nomads, WanderWallet makeseveryday payments abroad simple and seamless. | $530K | Pre-Seed | Mar 03, 2026 |  |
| Readmio | Readmio is an app full of stories and tales for children. As a parent reads a story out loud to their child, the app uses voice recognition technology to add fitting sounds, for even more fun. Readmio was launched in June 2020 and offers 200+ stories in English, Czech, and Slovak. It has been downloaded by more than 140,000 people who have read totheir children, grandchildren, or siblings almost a million times. On average, that's more than 80,000 hours that people have spent together reading, smiling, learning, being together. And that's what Readmio is set to achieve - help parents spend more quality time with their children, reading engaging stories that support mental development, foster imagination, and instill humanity. | $1.2M | Seed | Feb 05, 2026 |  |
| Cork Protocol | Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset. | $5.5M | Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Cryptoswift | CryptoSwift helps crypto businesses comply with the Travel Rule via secure, automated data exchange between VASPs. | $600.2K | Pre-Seed | Jul 03, 2025 |  |
| Webout | Webout focuses on hyper-personalized experiences that rapidly increase customer engagement and boost sales through direct purchases from video. In the past three years, we have worked with nearly 50 clients. So far, we have focused mainly on sports clubs, e-commerce, and HR communication, where personalization delivers measurable engagement andconversion.Our technology reduces rendering costs by 95% by generating video directly on the user’s device, which gives us a significant competitive advantage. We’ve recently launched our MVP platform, scaling our solution for global use.To achieve this, we have just opened a seed round to boost sales, expand into the US market, and evolve our product into a comprehensive solution. | $401.4K | Seed | Jul 01, 2025 |  |
| Traxlo | We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 19, 2025 |  |
| Kardi Ai | Kardi Ai is a healthtech startup focused on long-term heart monitoring. With its smart wearable and AI-powered app, it provides a 6× higher chance of detecting heart rhythm disorders than current methods, covering 7 types of arrhythmias. Backed by MDR class IIa medical certification, it empowers people to protect their heart health while givingdoctors a reliable tool that saves time and improves patient care. | $1.3M | Seed | Apr 28, 2025 |  |
| Protium Tech | Protium Tech provides smart solutions for a sustainable environment with a wide range of comprehensive products and customized services. It offers a package of technical support and advisory services in the hydrogen field, in addition to R&D in bio-hydrogen and wastewater treatment. | $103K | Grant | Feb 10, 2025 |  |
| Readmio | Readmio is an app full of stories and tales for children. As a parent reads a story out loud to their child, the app uses voice recognition technology to add fitting sounds, for even more fun. Readmio was launched in June 2020 and offers 200+ stories in English, Czech, and Slovak. It has been downloaded by more than 140,000 people who have read totheir children, grandchildren, or siblings almost a million times. On average, that's more than 80,000 hours that people have spent together reading, smiling, learning, being together. And that's what Readmio is set to achieve - help parents spend more quality time with their children, reading engaging stories that support mental development, foster imagination, and instill humanity. | $520.4K | Seed | Jan 22, 2025 |  |

10 of 74 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does DEPO Ventures invest in?

DEPO Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 74 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is DEPO Ventures's check size?

DEPO Ventures typically joins rounds of $564k–$4.3M at Seed and $300k–$1.3M 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 DEPO Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact DEPO Ventures?

Public channels for DEPO Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at DEPO Ventures?

The team at DEPO Ventures includes Jakub Vandělík (Valuation Advisor), Michal Ciffra (Partner) and Patrik Luxemburk (M&A Advisor), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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