# Top 50 Angel Investors in Turkey in June 2026

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 27
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

## Omer Hayrı Erkmen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 22
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

## Ahu Serter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 19
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

## Sina Afra
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet

Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.

## Firat Isbecer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

## Sertaç Özinal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming

Sertaç Özinal

## Joachim Behrendt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Social Media

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

## Figen Korun
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Coffee, Battery

Figen Korun

## Ahmet Bilgen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy

Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. 
He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life,  he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect.
Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba)  has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions.  
in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba.
Foriba did:
 - Series A With Revo Capital
 - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst
 - Exit

## Koray Bahar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, CRM, Apps

Koray Bahar is an investor at Ekmob.

## Akin Babayigit
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games

Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King,Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.

## Bedii Can Yucaoglu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

## Hande Enes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media

Hande Enes

## Hasan Aslanoba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry. 

## Volkan Bicer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Online Games, Mobile, Software

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.

## Melih Odemis
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. 
Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. 
Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

## Fatih Isbecer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Health Care

Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid

## Varol Civil
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Baby, SaaS

Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası

## Emre Acikel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile

Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).

## Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: TV, CRM, Apps

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com
Web: https://alibabaoglan.com
Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

## Kerim Kotan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, VoIP

Kerim Kotan

## Atakan Atalar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Rental, Software

Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.

## Mehmet Onarcan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, Social Media

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

## Utku Öz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce

Utku is a Partner based in our Istanbul office. He is the leader of the “Digital and Analytics” Practice in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, helping clients create value with data, innovative tools and techniques. He serves a wide range of industries, including financial services, telecoms, manufacturing and retail.

## Umur Özal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Baby, Rental, Retail

Umur Özal is an angel investor.

## Mehmet Celikol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Dental, Rental, Travel

Mehmet Celikol

## Emre Tok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping

Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA
- Former VP of Growth – Free-Now
- Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $)
- Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK
- Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey
- Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services

## Münteha Adalı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: AgTech, Baby, Farming

Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.

## Faruk Eczacıbaşı
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: iOS, SaaS, Music

Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center

## Deniz Devrim Cengiz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Apps

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

## Burak Dayıoğlu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Big Data, Software, Analytics

Dayioglu holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering and holds CISSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CIPT certificates with a strong technology background. He is an active angel investor.

## Koray Gultekin Bahar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy

Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.

## hi VC
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

hi VC

## Candan Karabagli
- Type: Angel
- Location: The Hague, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Analytics, Biopharma

Candan Karabagli - Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, CHAIRMAN @ GS Yuasa

## Agah Ugur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, CRM

Agah Uğur

## Faik Ulutaş
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile

Faik Ulutaş is a General Manager at Mensa Sinai Ticaret Ve Mali Yatirimlar AS (MEMSA).

## Ömer Aras
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Retail, Biopharma, Marketing

Ömer Aras

## Alp Saul
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce

Alp Saul - Cofounder and Chairman of the Board @ Pronet

## Tolunay Yıldız
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, AgTech, Coffee

Tolunay Yıldız

## Altay Tinar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CRM, Apps, Software

Altay Tinar - Co-Founder & CEO @ Yuvako

## Osman Alp Arli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Osman Alp Arli

## Firat Ileri
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Health Care

Firat is a Partner at Hummingbird Ventures. His current portfolio includes Armut, Argent, Aspire, Billiontoone, Brigit, Ciceksepeti, Instacarro, Kernal Biologics and Layer.He previously worked with Frontier Car Group, Gram Games, Peak Games and Merlin prior to their acquisition. He is interested in marketplaces, frontier tech, fintech and gaming.Previously, he worked at J.P. Morgan at the Emerging Markets Structuring and Solutions group. He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Management Science and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

## Barbaros Özbugutu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Soccer, Sports

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

## Erdem Yurdanur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, iOS, Advertising

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

## Mehmet Sacit Sungu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Local

Mehmet Sacit Sungu

## Mehmet Emin Çiftçi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Shipping, Logistics, E-Commerce

Mehmet Emin Çiftçi is an industrialist based on Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently serving as a Board Member at Akkök Holding

## Yılmaz Yıldız
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Waste Management, Procurement, Retail

Yılmaz Yıldız

## Sercan Akkaş
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Fruit

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

## Ihsan Elgin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.

## Semiramis Kulak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Semiramis Kulak