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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Turkey in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Turkey in January 2026

Investor	Artificial intelligence Turkey investments
TT Ventures	19
Diffusion Capital Partners	14
Maxis	11
Boğaziçi Ventures	8
Geometry Venture Development	8
APY Ventures	7
StartersHub	5
Alesta Yatırım	5
Inveo Ventures	5
Lima Ventures	5
ACT Venture Partners	4
Founder One	4
Ak Portfoy	4
TechOne VC	4
Türk Telekom	3
TÜBİTAK	3
Teknoloji Yatirim	3
Keiretsu Forum	3
Turkey Development Fund	3
Faik Ulutaş	3
Logo Ventures	3
RePie Asset Management	3
Emre Kozlu	3
Sabancı Ventures	3
Fark Labs	3
Sente Ventures	3
Birkan Kül	3
Olcayto Yigit	2
Ali Demir Akel	2
Eksim Ventures	2
Tamer Capital	2
Halit Buyukkusoglu	2
Yetik Kadri Mert	2
Fark Holding	2
Hulusi Berik	2
Farplas	2
Simya VC	2
Idacapital	2
Umur Cubukcu	2
Sertaç Özinal	2
Firat Isbecer	2
hi VC	2
Kayacan Ventures	2
Ali Aksakarya	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
Koc Holding	2
Arz Portfolio	2
F+ Ventures	2
Sercan Akkaş	2
Alima Ventures BV	2

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TT Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Turk Telekom.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Milvus Robotics — Transform material handling with autonomous mobile robots solutions and fleet software. Smarter, safer, and scalable automation.

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
Boby.ai — Boby.ai develops artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for end users
Gowit Technology — Unlock your retail media potential with GoWit's omnichannel Retail Media Advertising platform. Expand your audience reach, optimize bidding, and leverage first-party data for maximum conversions and privacy protection.

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dengage — Create dynamic customer engagements driven by valuable data insights. Design omni-channel campaigns on one user-friendly platform, on-cloud or on-site.
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with AI-Powered Performance Management Software. Align for Excellence with F4E.
Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides file-centric security to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce third-party risk management. It blocks internal bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Upsonic — Upsonic is a platform that allows users to create artificial intelligence agents designed to perform tasks in businesses. The platform prevents AI agents from hallucinating.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Turkey, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides file-centric security to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce third-party risk management. It blocks internal bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
ConverJinn — AI-powered product categorization and conversion optimization for online stores. Boost conversions and make every product page count.
Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.

Backed by our entrepreneurial and venture capital knowhow,we are creating value with the innovative and scalable tech companies.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
Startups.Watch — Investment analytics for Turkish and MENA region startups.
Portfoy Financial Tech Inc. — Portfoy Financial Tech is a financial technology company that provides a platform for tracking and managing investments. The app allows users to monitor stocks, cryptocurrencies, public offerings, and funds in real time. It offers instant balance tracking, showing the current value of investments and profit or loss. The platform includes tools foranalyzing performance and risk to support decision-making. It works with financial institutions and well-known companies as a trusted partners.

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Shippn — Shop online from more than 40 countries and get it delivered to your doorstep! Sign up for free and start shopping from anywhere in the world with Shippn.
heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios

Early stage deep tech investor

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nextmol — Nextmol is your partner to accelerate chemicals discovery. Reduce time-to-market and get key insights about the behavior of your chemical molecules!
Rototip — On demand CNC manufacturing Rototip Milling Turning Bespoke Manufacturing
Qubitrium — We offer advanced quantum technology solutions in cryptography, communication, and sensing. We develop and produce cutting-edge quantum products and provide services to integrate these technologies into industrial organizations.

Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.

Investment focus

EdTech, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.

Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
BRANDEFENSE — Brandefense platform is a proactive digital risk protection solution for organizations. Our AI-driven technology constantly scans the dark, deep, and surface web.
Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.

TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Carbon Centrum — Our innovative platform autonomously tracks individual CO2 footprints, creating first-ever Carbon IDs representing data-backed offsets. Companies competitively purchase these offsets via our platform, seamlessly connecting individuals, brands, and carbon markets.Users adopt eco-friendly habits, reduce emissions, and receive compensation.Companies purchase actual offsets towards net zero & create a new bridge toward insight & prediction into employee and customer demands.

Turk Telekom group provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN, GSM to wide band internet. Türk Telekom group companies have 17.3 millions of PSTN customers, 6 millions of ADSL customers and 12.6 million GSM customers as of Mach 31, 2009. With its modern network substructure, covering the whole country, the group companies offer a widerange of services to its personal and corporate customers. Turk Telekom, who is the owner of the 99,9% of shares of the companies TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.S. and AssisTT, is also the owner of 81% of the shares of Avea, which is one of the three GSM operators in Turkey. Turk Telekom also supports Albtelecom in Albania. The 55% of the shares of Türk Telekom belongs to Oger Telekomunikasyon A.S. and the 30% of the shares belongs to Undersecretariat of Treasure of Turkey. The remaining 15% of shares has been offered to public.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Spain

Portfolio highlights

MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
XENA VISION — Next Generation Emergency Recognition Technology

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
Mistikist — Mistikist uses binaural beats for sleep and focus. This helps you relax, lower stress, and increase productivity in just minutes.
Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.

Teknoloji Yatırım is the first actor investing in early-stage technology companies in Turkey. Aiming at preparing the venture capital ecosystem for new players, Teknoloji Yatırım designs, develops and manages innovative tools to meet the financing needs of technology companies in the early and growth stages. What We Do: - Direct Investments: Wemake equity investments to technology companies having internationalization potential. - Co-Investments and Follow-on Investments: We make co-investments and follow-on investments to technology companies at scaling and growth stages, together with other Venture Capital Funds. - Consultancy Services: We offer consultancy solutions in the design, implementation and management of innovative investment tools and models.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Analytics
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
BRANDEFENSE — Brandefense platform is a proactive digital risk protection solution for organizations. Our AI-driven technology constantly scans the dark, deep, and surface web.
Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, India, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ALM Ortho — ALM Ortho, Osseointegration for Patient Matched Orthopedic Implant Solutions
ActuatedMedical — Actuated Medical designs innovative medical devices that improve patient care and outcomes by solving unmet clinical needs with engineered motion.
Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak — Eat our pure, naturally grown, & direct farmse products, grown without use of harmful chemicals brought to directly from Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak; they'll fill your body with energy, nutrients, & antioxidants.

Turkey Development Fund aims to develop the enterprise ecosystem by investing in new generation startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Eatron Technologies — Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control - Eatron Technologies

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

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shippn — Shop online from more than 40 countries and get it delivered to your doorstep! Sign up for free and start shopping from anywhere in the world with Shippn.
MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
Meloknows — Meloknows is a mobile application that provides a marketplace for beauticians and hairdressers to provide beauty services.

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

Investment focus

Software, Retail, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Carbon Centrum — Our innovative platform autonomously tracks individual CO2 footprints, creating first-ever Carbon IDs representing data-backed offsets. Companies competitively purchase these offsets via our platform, seamlessly connecting individuals, brands, and carbon markets.Users adopt eco-friendly habits, reduce emissions, and receive compensation.Companies purchase actual offsets towards net zero & create a new bridge toward insight & prediction into employee and customer demands.

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hayhay — Hayhay operates a mobile application that manages financial transactions. It provides an online tool that sends, receives, and processes different kinds of payments. Hayhay was founded in 2020 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
Goldtag — Digital Asset Development

Emre Kozlu is a Director Strategy & Program Delivery at Philip Morris International.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, InsurTech
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
eTasin — https://etasin.com

Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.
QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.
Novus Technologies — Novus is a communication technologies company whose products focus on productivity and creativity in content creation using the state-of-the-art approaches in Artificial Intelligence.

Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovationstrategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. We use this approach for our 4 focus verticals: mobility, life sciences, sustainable lifestyle, and emerging technologies, which we call our curiosity cabinet.We back change-makers who transform industries and create new ones. Our sweet spot is investing early, and we continue to provide support and investment up to Series A. We envision a better future by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform legacy businesses and build future-proof startups.We also drive innovation and transformation through collaborative intelligence. We build a unique ecosystem that connects difference-makers, leading corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across our 4 verticals.

Investment focus

SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
M-Based — M-Based develops next-generation biomaterials using mushroom, redefining sustainability in design and materials.
MaestroHub — MaestroHub is a Single Source of Truth industrial data governance platform to overcome data architecture and integration challenges faced in digital transformation. MaestroHub points data sources to a smart data layer with drag & drop features and automatically creates contextualized data packages in real-time with Unified Namespacearchitecture. MaestroHub is the first self-diagnostic Unified Namespace solution with DataOps capabilities.

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
United States, Turkey, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Kfobix — Kfobix is a renewable energy company that provides solutions for power grids and green energy production sustainable.
M-Based — M-Based develops next-generation biomaterials using mushroom, redefining sustainability in design and materials.
Kybele's Garden — Kybele's Garden focus on algae-based bioponics and algae fermentation methods. Their differentiation strategy boosts harvest yield, source efficiency, and functional content, while improving sensory attributes and shelf life. These technologies can be used in agrifood and skin care, and integrated into existing producers' systems.

Birkan Kül

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...

Olcayto Yigit is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.

Ali Demir Akel

Investment focus

Retail, Analytics, 3D Printing
Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Zaxe — Discover the Unique FDM 3D Printing Experience. Zaxe 3D Printers Provides Easy to Use with xDestop Slicer Software. Get Advantage in Additive Manufacturing with Zaxe Filaments
Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.

Eksim Ventures supports potential business models and ideas by strengthening the power of technology. The firm was founded by Eksim Holding in 2021 and has 35 years of experience in smart capital.

Investment focus

SaaS, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bottobo Robotics — Bottobo Robotics is a robotic company aiming to revolutionize and democratize the autonomous mobile robot landscape. We build collaborative AMRs that work in harmony with human workforces helping organizations in boosting warehouse picking productivity AMR, autonomous mobile robots, 3D Lidar
Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
Enqura Information Technologies — Enhanced, Qualified and Rational KYC (Know Your Customers) and KYB solutions at Enqura. Discover our banking and finance security solutions.

Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.

Halit Büyükkuşoğlu serves as board member at Farplas.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
MaestroHub — MaestroHub is a Single Source of Truth industrial data governance platform to overcome data architecture and integration challenges faced in digital transformation. MaestroHub points data sources to a smart data layer with drag & drop features and automatically creates contextualized data packages in real-time with Unified Namespacearchitecture. MaestroHub is the first self-diagnostic Unified Namespace solution with DataOps capabilities.

Yetik Kadri Mert is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.

Fark Holding specializes in evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Computer
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
TrabTech — TrabTech develops innovative medical products using innovative materials, new generation manufacturing technologies and biomimetic designs.
Saykal — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.

Hulusi Berik is the Chairman at Keiretsu Forum.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Angel, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Adapha — Adapha is an AI-based company that provides health services and facilities for newborn babies.
Aivisiontech — Aivisiontech analyzes data obtained from different imaging modalities (thermal, hyperspectral, 3D, etc.) with artificial intelligence.

Farplas is an automotive manufacturer and supplier of interior ceiling systems, interior & exterior trims, lighting and accessories.

Investment focus

Electronics, Manufacturing, Image Recognition
Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.

Simya is to scale up breakthrough projects on a global scale with professional mentors and an efficient investment process.

Investment focus

Software, Privacy, Security
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
Surveill — Surveill is an AI-powered, customizable RegTech platform designed to help financial institutions manage communications and marketing compliance with precision, speed, and scalability. It automates marketing reviews and communication surveillance, ensuring that all messages and claims across every channel comply fully with evolving regulations. Theplatform aims to reduce regulatory risks and costs by making compliance easier and accessible for businesses of all sizes, integrating seamlessly into workflows with consistency and defensibility. It helps organizations review every message, channel, and claim automatically, enabling more efficient compliance management in a complex regulatory environment.
robolaunch — robolaunch is released by multi-domain engineers who develop better integrated, interoperable and scalable cloud robotics platform. robolaunch is a RaaS(Robotics as a Service) product that offers users to design, develop, simulate, train, deploy and orchestrate own ROS/ROS2 based robots at planet scale!Main robolaunch features are, - RobotMarketplace with single click - Collaboration through platform IDE and VDI - Multi-Tenancy for Organizational Management - Teleoperation and Fleet Management - Hardware Acceleration(GPU, FPGA, CPU) - Central Orchestration Fleet lifecycle management - Edge Orchestration Robot lifecycle management(LCM) - Declerative and API driven operations - Multi-Cloud, Multi-Region and Multi-Robot orchestration - Connectivity Management (5G, VPN, L2/L3) - On-premise and Public Cloud Management - FCAPS for each level of platform

idacapital Innovation Fund is the first Impact Fund in Turkey investing across technology-enabled business verticals in Health Tech, Financial Inclusion, Edu Tech, Clean Tech, Agro Tech in and around Turkey.

Investment focus

Logistics, FinTech, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

MentalUp — Educational games for kids of all ages. Choose from over 150+ fun and engaging award-winning games. Easy-To-Use. 100% Free + No Ads. Play Now!
Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
PayWall — PayWall is a payment orchestration platform that empowers businesses to streamline their payment processes and maximize efficiency. With advanced subscription management, PayRoute, PayJump, PayBalancer, PayWatch, centralized card storage, marketplace and alternative payment methods, PayWall offers end-to-end control over payment methods. Byreducing operational burdens and directly increasing profitability, PayWall enables businesses to manage payments at a micro scale.

Umur Cubukcu is a Founder & CEO at Citus Data

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
DryMerge — AI agents that constantly monitor your email, calendar, and calls to keep your CRM updated with every detail.

Sertaç Özinal

Investment focus

Internet, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
Finekra — Finekra is a Banking Application that manage all Banks from a single screen.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

hi VC

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
Workhy — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
Cloud4Feed — Cloud4Feed helps businesses increase their brand values and maximize customer satisfaction by enabling them to make customer-oriented decisions with its solutions. They provide service to brands and businesses with different solutions in many areas, such as retail, automotive, insurance, finance, the hospital and health industry, and more.

Kayacan Ventures supports startups in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and high technology, providing financial and guidance to help them become pioneers and develop innovative solutions.

Investment focus

Content, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Prevego — Click to securely conclude your Instagram and Twitter giveaways and view current social media giveaways for free!
Aiva — Aiva is a platform that enhances efficiency and personalized content production in industries such as digital marketing, media, education, and e-commerce.
Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of management in information technology. Highly skilled in software architecture and product development. Developed 4 full-stack software applications including native mobile clients single-handedly and directed more than 30. A serial entrepreneur, neuropsychology enthusiast, and an earlystage heavyweight boxer after years of powerlifting.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care
Angel, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Adapha — Adapha is an AI-based company that provides health services and facilities for newborn babies.
Aivisiontech — Aivisiontech analyzes data obtained from different imaging modalities (thermal, hyperspectral, 3D, etc.) with artificial intelligence.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.

Koç Group is one of Turkey's largest industrial and services groups in terms of revenues, exports, research and development investments, patent portfolio, employees, taxes paid and market capitalization on the Borsa Istanbul. With consolidated revenues of $25.5 billion, it ranks among the world's Fortune 500 list. Koç Holding has leadingpositions with strong competitive advantages in various sectors, such as energy, automotive, consumer durables and finance. It has more than 97,000 employees and 10,000 dealers, agencies and after-sales service providers. Koç Group is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, Turkey, France

Portfolio highlights

Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
Segmentify — Bring Growth to Life: Explore how you can create unique experiences for each customer in real-time and optimise customer lifetime value!
AdCreative.ai — AdCreative.ai empowers your advertising with AI. Generate conversion-focused ad creatives, utilize AI for product photoshoots, and access detailed competitor insights. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for creating impactful ad texts and visuals, ensuring your campaigns stand out in a competitive market. Ideal for marketers seeking an all-in-one solution for innovative, data-driven advertising strategies.

Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
Branchsight — Branchsight enables you to manage the digital marketing activities of your multi-location brand from a single center. Branchsight's dealer-friendly, easy-to-use platform is an excellent tool designed to increase your global leverage by strengthening the awareness of your locations in the local market.

F+ Ventures is Fark Labs’ venture capital arm, which invests in late seed and Series A startups within the smart mobility ecosystem that provide disruptive solutions through superior technologies and/or unique business models.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Automotive, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
Saykal — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Fruit
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lugath — Lugath automates content localization with the power of AI translation.
Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics

Alima Ventures BV is an investment firm of Turkey

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Fashion
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
Magnus — Power your investment with the AI magic. Sky is the only limit.

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