# Michael Rostock-Poplar

> Michael Rostock-Poplar is a seed investor at Venture Investors Corporate Finance backing Software. See 10 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Venture Investors Corporate Finance](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/venture-investors-corporate-finance)
- Total investments: 10
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 20%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Michael Rostock-Poplar is a seed investor at Venture Investors Corporate Finance focused on Software and SaaS. Michael is a founding partner of the company. In last five years Michael completed a number of cross-border M&A projects and advised on several private equity investments. Before founding Venture Investors in 1999, he worked as a legal counsel for WoodCommerz. Prior to that he participated on the first issue of eurobonds in the CEE region (theissuer was the Czech power company ČEZ). He also worked for PPF (First Privatization Fund), where he took part in the preparation of several privatization projects in Russia and Bulgaria. He is also a member of the supervisory board of iMall, large online retailer and a member of the advisory board of Tuesday Business Network.Michael studied Law at Charles University in Prague and went on to pursue graduate studies at St Anthony's College, Oxford (Soros scholar) and Hughe's Hall, Cambridge (Chevening Scholar), where he obtained his masters degree in law (focus on corporate finance law). He specialized in securities and exchanges law and regulation of financial markets. He founded and presided the Central European Society at Cambridge University.Michal speaks Czech, English, Russian and Polish. Among projects he worked on recently there were several sell mandates from IT and telecommunications companies, acquisition of private University and work for Western European Private Equity funds on the acquisition of Czech Telecom.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $452k–$1.8M |
| Series A | $2M–$32M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 50% |
| SaaS | 3 | 30% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 30% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 20% |
| Cloud Computing | 2 | 20% |

26 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 40% |
| Series A | 2 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 10% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 7 | 70% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DecisionRules | DecisionRules is the decisioning platform build-first institutions rely on. It gives business teams no-code rule design and engineers full API control on a single platform where both collaborate on decision logic.Most enterprises run their decisions in one of two bad places: buried in application code, which only engineers can touch, or spreadacross spreadsheets no one trusts. DecisionRules replaces both with a managed decisioning platform. Business analysts author rules in a visual interface. Engineers integrate through a REST API, version everything in Git, and deploy through CI/CD pipelines. Ops teams monitor execution in production.The platform provides a full toolbox so every decision gets the right model. Decision Tables handle high-volume conditional logic. Decision Trees make branching visible. Decision Flows orchestrate multi-step processes. Scripting Rules cover custom calculations. Lookup Tables centralize reference data.Native AI Agents: turn unstructured documents into structured data. AI Agent is a native rule type that reads, reasons, and returns typed structured output — not a chatbot, not a bolt-on integration. It reads what Decision Tables cannot: contracts, medical reports, policy documents, emails. You define the schema, the AI fills it, and the result flows directly into the next rule downstream. Bring your own model: Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, or Microsoft Foundry. Use different models for different rules. Enable Explainable AI for confidence scores and source fragments tied back to the original text. Enable caching to cut token costs to zero on repeated inputs. Alongside AI Agent, the embedded AI Assistant helps users create rules, generate test data, write functions, and summarize existing logic — measured ~60% faster rule authoring than building by hand.DecisionRules runs where your workloads run: public cloud, private managed cloud, or self-hosted on your own Kubernetes infrastructure with official Docker images and Helm charts. Integrations include Salesforce, Power Automate, Zapier, n8n, Azure, Oracle, Power BI, and data providers like Equifax, Experian, and LexisNexis.The platform processes 100M+ decisions daily for companies in 30+ countries across financial services, insurance, e-commerce, logistics, healthcare, and government. Recognized on G2 as a Leader in Decision Management Platforms, with badges for Best Estimated ROI and Fastest Implementation. Certified to SOC 2 and ISO 27001. | $1.8M | Seed | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Safetica | Safetica is a global leader in Intelligent Data Security. Our AI-powered platform unifies data protection, insider risk management, compliance readiness, and data discovery across on-premises and cloud environments. With smooth integration and minimal disruption to business workflows, Safetica safeguards sensitive data, reduces insider risk, andensures regulatory compliance for businesses in more than 120 countries. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 24, 2025 |  |
| Boost.space | Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today. | $910K | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Keboola | Keboola provides is a cloud-based data preparation platform that helps clients capture, analyze and surface crucial information for their internal analytics projects and data products.The company develops a cloud-based software suite that makes it easier for businesses to analyze their data in the areas of churn prediction, logistics flow, andrevenue prediction, giving customers quick access to vital information for their own internal analytics projects and data products.Keboola was established on July 1, 2007 by Mirek Burkon, Milan Veverka, and Petr Simecek in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha. | $32M | Series A | Dec 01, 2023 |  |
| Feedyou | Feedyou provides virtual assistants and AI Chatbot for enterprises. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Pardubicky Kraj, Czech Republic. | $452.2K | Seed | Aug 09, 2023 |  |
| Boost.space | Combining the power of a Cloud-based Database with an intuitive Integration Platform, we make it easy to streamline and enhance your workflows. Imagine the simplicity of Airtable fused with the connectivity of Zapier. Experience the future of no-code Data Management, today. | $834.3K | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| UltimateSuite | UltimateSuite guides companies and helps them achieve their objectives in organization efficiency together with an adequate level of automation. The company specializes in workforce intelligence, internal process and job analysis, automation, and innovation, allowing businesses to increase operational efficiencies by injecting ROI-proven ideas. | $867.8K | Pre-Seed | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Retailys.com | E-commerce omnichannel platform Retailys - a platform that allows retailers to sell and list their products through many different online sales channels simultaneously mainly in Europe. Companies can thus easily create their own foreign European e-shops meeting local requirements, manage their accounts on global marketplaces such as Amazon, eBayand other marketplaces and price comparison sites.The system includes advanced product inventory management and warehouse management and templates system for multiple european webstores. Orders from all these sales channels are gathered and displayed on just one dashboard. Thanks to Retailys, companies can expand throughout the whole of Europe merely from one dashboard! | $2M | Series A | Jun 02, 2021 |  |
| ORM Designer | The company was established in 2006 and in its early years focused on website development, custom-tailored desktop applications and Internet marketing. In 2009 development of the ORM Designer application was initiated. Originally its primary purpose was to simplify the work flow of Inventic's employees. After proving its abilities byincreasing employees' work efficiency by up to 70%, more robust version was created and was brought to the market on commercial basis.As of 2013, all the remaining business activities of the company were marginalized and all its resources and efforts are currently being exclusively focused on development and distribution of the new version of the ORM Designer application called ORM Designer2, which was introduced in January 2013.ORM Designer is a tool that allows to export definition files right from a visual model by one single click. The definitions are complete and there is no need to add or edit anything. By this, ORM Designer saves up to 70 % of time while working with ORM. ORM designer can import and export models into several formats. It's possible to use XML or YML definition files or import and export models directly to code by using annotations. Thanks to ORM Designer there's no space for typos and duplicated, missing or redundant fragments in the definition files. Currently ORM Designer supports Doctrine, Doctrine2, CakePHP and Propel ORM frameworks. Till the end of 2013 the JPA - Hibernate and Ruby on Rails support will be added. ORM Designer has a native support for all major operating systems.Main benefits- Huge time savings (up to 70%) and significant efficiency growth- ORM definitions export from visual model- Import of existing projects and visualisation of their project schema- Errors and typos elimination- Replacement of documentation- Project designing in user friendly visual interface- Complete elimination of manual definition files editing |  | Angel | Aug 06, 2013 |  |
| BizBox, s.r.o. | BizBox is a cloud-based tool (app) for creation and optimalization of e-shops. Our priority is the highest possible level of automation. Our online solution can also provide you with full integration with your existing information systems.We focus on sales to foreign countries (including connection to payment gateways and shipping companies),B2B and B2C sales and dropshipping. |  | Seed | Apr 16, 2013 |  |

10 of 10 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lighthouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lighthouse-ventures-6458) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [bd Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bd-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Behind Inventions](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/behind-inventions) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chilli Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chilli-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Czech Founders VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/czech-founders-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gi21 Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gi21-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Venture Investors Corporate Finance

VC Fund · Prague, Czech Republic

Venture Investors Corporate Finance offers a full array of financial services to a broad range of clients, entrepreneurs, and corporations.The company’s financial advisory portfolio includes corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; buy-and-sell mandates; strategic alliances; initial public offerings; and venture capital services. It providesits services to the information technology, telecom, biotechnology and healthcare, and precision engineering industries in the Czech Republic.Venture Investors Corporate Finance is based in Prague, the Czech Republic.

1 contacts available at Venture Investors Corporate Finance.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Michael Rostock-Poplar | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-rostock-poplar |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Rostock-Poplar invest in?

Michael Rostock-Poplar invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 10 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 Michael Rostock-Poplar's check size?

Michael Rostock-Poplar typically joins rounds of $452k–$1.8M at Seed and $2M–$32M 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 Michael Rostock-Poplar participates in.

### When did Michael Rostock-Poplar last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Rostock-Poplar closed in May 2025. 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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