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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Turkey

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Artificial intelligence Turkey investments
Diffusion Capital Partners	8
Geometry Venture Development \| Angel Investment Fund	7
StartersHub	5
Boğaziçi Ventures	5
Lima Ventures	5
TechOne VC	4
ACT Venture Partners	4
Alesta Yatırım	4
Türk Telekom	3
Keiretsu Forum	3
TÜBİTAK	3
APY Ventures	3
Logo Ventures	3
Sabancı Ventures	2
hi VC	2
Faik Ulutaş	2
Tamer Capital	2
Ali Aksakarya	2
Emre Kozlu	2
Ak Portfoy	2
Sente Ventures	2
Koc Holding	2
Birkan Kül	2
Cem Tüfekçi	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
F+ Ventures	2
Fark Labs	2
Eksim Ventures	2
Sertaç Özinal	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Sercan Akkaş	2
Hulusi Berik	2
Alima Ventures BV	2
ARI Çekirdek	1
DOMiNO Ventures	1
Teknoloji Yatirim	1
Faruk Eczacıbaşı	1
Heaventures	1
Arzu Umur	1
Cerebrum Tech	1
Emre Gerçek	1
Founder One	1
Can Hicbezmez	1
Ahmet Firat	1
T3 Girişim Merkezi	1
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut	1
Dilek Dayinlarli	1
ITUARI Teknokent	1
Yagiz Gokdemir	1
Atanova Ventures	1

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Doktar Technologies — We lead digitization and digital transformation in agriculture with digital services, sensors, satellites and other agricultural technologies.
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.
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.

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, E-Commerce
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.
OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
Pangea VR — VR and Console Game Studio

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to distrup 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.
Nerf IT — GAMENESS is a super app enriched with crypto and NFT, where you can participate in tournaments, education, and events within esports.
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.

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, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Retter — Develop fast, powerful web apps
Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.
Buddy Performance — Your all-in-one solution for supercharging employee engagement and transforming your organization into a thriving hub of productivity, innovation, and job satisfaction.

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

VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.

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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
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 — Lower your emission where it is made!

Early stage deep tech investor

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
Rototip — Rototip is a manufacturing Marketplace.

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

OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.

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 — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
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

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

BharatNXT — BharatNXT is a B2B fintech platform. BharatNXT's objective is to become the go-to partner for SMEs on their path to becoming major companies for their business payments, credit, compliance, and sourcing needs.
MangoPoint — MangoPoint provides a sustainable, integrated value chain for mangoes with single-origin, carbide-free, chemical-free high-quality fresh mangoes, and processed mango products through sustainable farming, planet-friendly processing, and eco-friendly packaging.
Qube Health — QubeHealth simplifies Employee Healthcare Benefits management for the Biggest Companies in India

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's AI Assisted Brainwave Entrainment for focus, relaxation & sleep. Well-being in just minutes with neuroscience backed methodology.
Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rototip — Rototip is a manufacturing Marketplace.
Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.

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, SaaS, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Carbon Centrum — Lower your emission where it is made!

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fernhay Solutions — Discover Fernhay's revolutionary eQuad (eCargo Bike) - the ultimate zero-emission solution that's making cities cleaner and greener.
Segmentify — Bring Growth to Life: Explore how you can create unique experiences for each customer in real-time and optimise customer lifetime value!
Supply Chain Wizard — SPEED, SIMPLICITY, SCALABILITY IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Consulting Services DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRACK & TRACE PROCESS EXCELLENCE & RPA DIGITAL FACTORY CONSULTING Software as a Service DIGITAL FACTORY IoT & AI

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.
Mukellef | a Workhy Company — 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.

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

Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
Meloknows — Meloknows is a mobile application that provides a marketplace for beauticians and hairdressers to provide beauty services.

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.

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.

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 — Data annotation for AI teams. Have super fast, accuracy guarenteed annotations. Co-one provides fast&accurate data annotations.
Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

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, Medical Device
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ViraSoft — ViraSoft’s ambition is to be the first choice in the field of digital pathology in Turkey and in mid-term enabling to give service to the neighboring countries. Together with the R&D activities, we aim to improve the efficiency and effectivity in the pathology process and reach significant diagnosis results.
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.
Eyedius Technology — Eyedius Technology is a high-tech company that develops image-processing technologies to ensure security in all areas of life. The high-level security technologies we have developed are used in all business areas such as offices, hotels, business centers as well as sites and residential areas and they provide 360 degrees of security for everyaspect of your life.

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, Seed, Series B
United States, Israel, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KFOBIX — KFOBIX offers nano-composite materials to prevent freezing and contamination of solar panels, wind turbines, and automobile glass.
DRONEQUBE — DRONEQUBE provides an innovative SaaS solution that empowers drones to monitor and defend vineyard health autonomously, addressing pressing concerns brought about by the climate crisis and increasing labor challenges.
Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-born energy storage company focused on battery technologies that will accelerate the adoption of EVs and expand energy storage solutions.

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.

Birkan Kül

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.

Cem Tüfekçi

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Analytics, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon and ESG data.
Lifemote — Detect home wi-fi issues with AI-powered Lifemote cloud analytics. Proactively solve wireless network performance problems before your customers complain.
incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.

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

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.

F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
Büyütech — 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.
Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.

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

Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
MOBIQU — Smart Box Subscription for Last-Mile Delivery
Ion membranes — Ion membranes is a company that designs and manufactures ion exchange membranes and separators for the green energy industry. Our products are used in batteries, electrolyzers, fuel cells, chlor-alkali facilities, electrodialysis water treatment processes, and other applications that require ionic range separation.

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, Facebook
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bottobo — 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 — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.

Sertaç Özinal

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.

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.it — Empowering your e-commerce 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.

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

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.

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.

ARI Çekirdek You dream of starting your own business, you want to be your own boss.

Investment focus

Big Data, Internet, Automotive
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

iUGO Technology — iUGO Technology promotes vehicle tech to transform driver, vehicle & infrastructure data into real-time actionable intelligence. This technology collects road and vehicle data via myIUGO device data clustering and machine learning. It also has a multi-dimensional digital mapping using vehicle data and predictive traffic/road conditionswhere route prediction and driver behavior are analyzed..

Domino Ventures Management B.V. (the “Fund Manager”) is a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid), incorporated and existing under Dutch law, having its statutory seat (statutaire zetel) in Amsterdam.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

GINOA — GINOA provides NFT, metaverse, and artificial intelligence for collecting, trading, and investing strategy. They also provide Al-enabled pricing and hassle-free barter place services.
Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
Gamer Arena — Gamer Arena is an online competitive esports platform where you can match and compete with opponents and teams of your skill level across numerous gaming titles, earn money, enter and work your way through the ladder all the way to professional gaming stardom.

Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Baby
Seed, Series A
Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hipporello — Turn your Trello board into a business hub with Hipporello's suite of Trello Power-Ups. Get a web portal, forms, integrations and ready workflows in minutes.
Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.

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

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Podcast
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Reengen — Reengen Energy IoT Platform is a PaaS analytics solution for Global Energy & Utilities Industries. Reengen’s data science centric technology employs machine learning algorithms, big data analytics and a physics-based modeling of connected equipment, buildings and grid. The platform includes connectivity, device cloud, business logic, bigdata analytics and remote service applications. The value propositions are energy efficiency, operational efficiency, energy procurement optimization and predictive maintenance. Reengen's Energy IoT Platform Delivers a comprehensive IoT technology stack that enables partner companies to: • securely connect meters, sensors, equipment, assets and SCADA/BMS/Metering platforms • apply data analytics libraries for actionable intelligence in a scalable way, quickly create great dashboards and reports • innovate new ways to capture value and create new revenue streams from digital energy domain
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.

Arzu Umur ia an Angel Investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Enhencer | AI Ads for Facebook, Google and Tiktok — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.

An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

gigl — gigl is a video / mobile-first recruitment platform. We use 60-second videos by employers and applicants to capture motivated applications, speed-up the hiring process by 80% and reduce costs by connecting end-to-end users - and removing the middleman. gigl's short-video concept captures society's "do everything on a mobilephone" behaviour - our platform is used by over 40,000 people already and promotes personality (in both job descriptions and job applications) over lifeless written applications. We thrive in all industries - from retail, hospitality to office work. In short - anywhere where personality is critical to inward and outward success!
Predica.ai — Predica.ai turns data into AI-powered business value
GFDS Inc. — Since in 2013, we develop high-quality visual solutions supported with augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), internet of things and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as providing exclusive software and hardware products for our national and international customers. We define our company as a “content factory”, ableto develop various visual contents to almost all technological platforms. We pride on having a strong high-performance computing farm, announced as a success story in the USA Silicon Channel in 2014. Being familiar to all new technological concepts and research, we offer our customers our high level of know-how to add value into their business. We offer various services related with our production pipeline, composed of competent CGI, advanced technology development and visual design specialsits, artists and developers. We offer innovative solutions for the following titles: *Education and Training *Industry and Defense *AI *Marketing *Entertainment *Software *HardwareWe undertake numerous projects for the needs of the sectors below: *Industry *Defense Industry *Entertainment *Sales and Marketing *Education/ Occupational Training *MediaWe are proud to be the partners, solution providers and distributor of the leading technology companies of the world: Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, Epson, One Stop Systems, Magic Leap, VuforiaTHE FUTURE IS OURS, LET'S DESIGN IT TOGETHER!

Emre Gerçek

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Tarlam — Tarlam uses soilless farming methods to grow diverse herbs, vegetables, and microgreens without the need of pesticides.
Binamod — Binamod provides users with earthquake performance information for buildings they purchase or rent, determining potential damage and designing reinforcement scenarios to enhance building earthquake resistance.
Tunga Games — Tunga Games is a game development company that creates educational mobile games

Can Hicbezmez

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.

Ahmet Firat - Founder & CEO @ & New Me

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.

T3 Girişim Merkezi enables talented young people and people of all ages to participate in technology development processes.

Investment focus

AgTech, Agriculture, Cloud Management
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MOVE ON — MOVE ON is an AI-based Agritech startup that develops autonomy and data analysis software for tractors and farm management. We have autonomous tractor kits and AgTech AI Platform for more sustainable farming operations.

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

Investment focus

Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.

Dilek was actively investing as an angel and being an active chairwomen since 2017. She has been an angel investor in companies like Picus Security, DataRow (acquired by AWS), Genomize, and Genialis, having a board seat on multiple of them.Previously she was an investor at 212, an early-stage technology venture capital in İstanbul. She investedin companies like IyziCo, the biggest Fintech company in the region and Insider, global marketing automation software, funded by Sequoia Capital and so on.Prior to 212, Dilek worked at Groupon as Director of Strategy and Analysis, Management Consultant at Accenture and Business Developer at Koc Group. She started her career in the USA, where she held different project management positions and also started her own startup.Dilek received a BA honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University and MBA from Johnson & Wales University, both with honor degrees. Dilek is also one of the first Kauffman Fellows, chosen from Turkey and distinguished by scholarship. She is also a founding member and leader of Arya Women Investment Platform. She is a guest lecturer at Stanford University and a judge at European Commission. Dilek was awarded as One of the Most Successful Women Leaders in Turkey, thanks to her contributions and impact on tech industry.Outside the office, Dilek loves to experience authenticity in new destinations. She is a competitive basketball player, a serious artwork collector, and an avid reader of books. She puts deliberate effort to spend quality time with her loving family and friends; informative pastry cooking sessions with her daughter, sophisticated board games while drinking coffee with relatives and friends, or book clubs to foster intellectual curiosity between friends and colleagues. She also jumps every morning to find the leaders of future who will be able to create big impact and help them at their journey. It is fascinating to witness how her life outside the office enriches her work as an investor.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
Genialis — Genialis is a precision medicine data science company focused on new ways to treat disease. Blending computational biology and AI-based methods, Genialis merges and models data at the intersection of clinical and translational medicine and drug discovery. Genialis is trusted by biopharma and big pharma alike, to validate targets, predict biomarkersand optimally position novel drugs. Together, Genialis and its partners are bringing improved solutions to drug discovery to change people's lives.
TeamSQL, Inc. — TeamSQL is a Multi-Platform SQL client built for collaboration, usability and performance. It supports popular database engines used by the majority and runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.

ITU ARI Teknokent initiative is a University-industry collaboration that enabled many technology based entrepreneurial companies to benefit form the academic infrastructure provided by ITU.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, AgTech, Software
Seed, Grant
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com
Kolay Karavan — KolayKaravan arose from an idea that we had long considered and developed step by step. The pandemic-induced need for nature, as well as the ever-increasing quest for alternative holidays in our country, cooked the idea of EasyCaravan and unveiled it as a product. It has made it both easy and safe by combining the caravan vacation concept, whichbrings together solutions to housing and transport needs, with the KolayKaravan CamperTrust program. It made it possible for individuals to have this experience... While doing all of this, the Kolay Caravan team keeps "Human" and "Nature" in mind. We consider how we may contribute more to these two areas in all of our work and every decision we make.

Yagiz Gokdemir

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Botgate AI — Capture, Respond and Channelise information to give personalized and quick responses to generate leads with our AI Tools, Chatbots, and Messaging API.

Atanova is an early stage investment company that discovers enterprises which will make high impact with their bright ideas while in their incubation phases.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Content
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Textoni — Connect with 28,000 content creators from 58 different countries! With our artificial intelligence solutions, you can filter the most accurate writers for your brand and industry, and you can reach your quality content very quickly!
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Artifica.io — Artifica.io creates products for the requirements of industries by utilizing artificial intelligence technologies.

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