# Michal Ciffra

> Michal Ciffra is a pre-seed investor at DEPO Ventures backing Software. See 22 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [DEPO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/depo-ventures)
- Location: Prague, Czech Republic
- Total investments: 22
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 23%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michalciffra/

Michal Ciffra is a pre-seed investor at DEPO Ventures in Prague focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Michal Ciffra - Partner @ DEPO Ventures

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 36% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 23% |
| FinTech | 3 | 14% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 14% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 59% |
| Seed | 6 | 27% |
| Series A | 1 | 5% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Czech Republic | 6 | 27% |
| United States | 4 | 18% |
| Estonia | 2 | 9% |
| Germany | 2 | 9% |
| Slovakia (Slovak Republic) | 2 | 9% |

10 countries tracked in total.

## 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 |  |
| TelcoBrain | TelcoBrain was founded by Omar Al-Anni, with a mission to maximize efficiency for the $3+ trillion global investment in network and cloud infrastructure over the next decade. The company is set to redefine technology evolution & operations standards with its industry-first approach, leveraging techno-economic principles, predictive analytics,and deep AI models—all embedded in a fully automated SaaS platform. TelcoBrain is transforming the way organizations approach technology advancement, forecasting, reliability optimization, and resource management. mission to bridge the gap between technology evolution and economics. Since then, many industry leaders, business and technology modeling experts, software engineers, and PhDs, we pioneer the development of multi-layer techno-economic models powered by cutting-edge AI/ML algorithms. |  | Convertible Note | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| Talsec | Talsec is an academic-based and community-driven mobile security company established by our mother company Monet+ a.s. Our core product is in-App protection SDKs that include RASP, Security Hardening and Data Encryption suites for FI/FinTechs. The company is based in the Faculty of Informatics of Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic).Talsec technology has eight years of evolution and is based on our expertise in mBanking solutions for the top banks on the EU market. | $1.1M | Seed | Apr 23, 2024 |  |
| Flowpay | Flowpay is a data and AI company that has built an embedded lending infrastructure. | $2.3M | Seed | Mar 20, 2024 |  |
| Ringil | Ringil is a digital platform for the management of freight logistics and transportation. | $649.1K | Pre-Seed | Sep 26, 2023 |  |
| Fungies.io | Fungies is a platform to allow game developers and publishers build their own storefronts. - Allows selling Steam or any games via their own Web Shop - Helps mobile game developers sell in-game items via Web channel - Solves the problem of being locked-up with only distribution via AppStore/PlayStore or Steam: this is an additional saleschannel for all game developers - Web2 and Web3 compatible - We are backed by Outlier Ventures, Tatum and CV Labs, - Team: Founder 10 years building startups, 1 exit, 2 VC-backed companies, CTO built one of the first crypto exchanges in 2017. Worked together for the last 2 years.Reach out if you're looking to invest in Gaming, Blockchain, SaaS | $500K | Pre-Seed | Jul 26, 2023 |  |
| Twinzo | Twinzo focuses on sensors, databases, and data streams, up to real-time visualization of any kind of tracking and monitoring technology. Twinzo was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in, Slovakia. | $2.5M | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Masthead Data | Masthead is a no-code data monitoring solution that analyze logs and metadata to identify freshness and volumes anomalies, schema changes in tables, pipeline errors, and their blast radius effects on your business. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Apr 14, 2023 |  |
| Tapline | Digital funding platform providing subscription-based companies access to frictionless capital | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |

10 of 22 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [STARTGUIDE VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startguide) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tensor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tensor-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [bd Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bd-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [focal](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/focal-4f67) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Soulmates Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/soulmates-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About DEPO Ventures

VC Fund · Prague, Czech Republic

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

5 contacts available at DEPO Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Michal Ciffra invest in?

Michal Ciffra invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 22 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Czech Republic. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Michal Ciffra last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michal Ciffra closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 22 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?

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