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Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Turkey in May 2026

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

Top 50 Automotive Startup Investors in Turkey in May 2026

Investor Automotive Turkey investments
F+ Ventures 5
Aslanoba Capital 5
Keiretsu Forum 4
Finberg 3
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) 3
Hedef Filo 3
Istanbul Startup Angels 3
Bedii Can Yucaoglu 2
Alesta Yatırım 2
Arz Portfolio 2
Nexus Ventures 2
Emre Acikel 2
StartupFon 1
Ali Cebi 1
VCDE Venture Partners 1
Hakan Bas 1
Melih Murat Yucaoglu 1
March Holding 1
Wamda Capital 1
Deniz Devrim Cengiz 1
Melih Odemis 1
Ahu Serter 1
Kaan Karamanci 1
Enabling Future 1
Can Yucaoglu 1
Serkan Borancılı 1
ARI Çekirdek 1
Wassim Matar 1
Otokoc Otomotiv 1
Emrullah Eruslu 1
Kosgeb 1
Maqasid Asset Management 1
Ethos Capital 1
Erdem Yurdanur 1
Migros 1
Teknasyon 1
Nevzat Aydın 1
RI Digital Ventures 1
Vitol 1
Hummingbird Ventures 1
Omer Hayrı Erkmen 1
Sente Ventures 1
Mangrove Capital Partners 1
Sina Afra 1
212 1
Liil Ventures 1
Firat Isbecer 1
GSYF 1
Melih Herman Simon 1
TRANGELS 1

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F+ Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Automotive, Manufacturing
  • 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.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
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Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Funding Round, 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.
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Finberg
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-based energy storage company focused on engineering batteries that accelerate U.S. domestic manufacturing and energy resilience.
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Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HyperPay — Hyperpay is a leading payment gateway in MENA, providing smart payment solutions that fulfill the payment needs of ecommerce and all internet businesses
  • The Cloud — NOTICE OF WINDING UP PETITION
  • Stake — Thousands investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just USD 136
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Hedef Filo
VC Fund · Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey

Hedef Filo is the leading fleet leasing company.

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Investment focus

  • Automotive, Transportation, Public Transportation
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • TikTak — TikTak is an online app that provides rental car services throughout Istanbul
  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
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Istanbul Startup Angels
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Local, Hardware
  • Angel, Seed
  • Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
  • MobilMed — Since 2015, we have been providing services in the field of mobile biomedical device design and application solutions. Our goal is to provide you with great customer experience and exceptional value services.
  • Parkkolay — Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems.
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Bedii Can Yucaoglu
Angel

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

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Investment focus

  • Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
  • Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
  • Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Spechy — Spechy is Your AI OmniChannel Communication Platform and CRM, unified. Voice, Whatsapp, Instagram,Facebook, Chat, CRM.
  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • 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 — Made with Framer
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Nexus Ventures
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

  • Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
  • Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
  • Moneyview — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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Emre Acikel
Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland

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

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
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StartupFon
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumian — Lumian Energy of Things Platform is an IoT-based hardware agnostic platform that collects and visualizes data in real time, analyses energy data with machine learning models and offers energy saving and decarbonization solutions. The Platform is designed to effortlessly integrate with third party systems, connect up to millions of devices, whilesimultaneously orchestrating them through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
  • Jori — Jori
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
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Ali Cebi
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investment in the past 12 months

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Investment focus

  • Transportation, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Tamamliyo — Tamamliyo is a business software developer who works with insurance firms and digital enterprises to integrate their systems. Their platform contacts many insurance companies and finds insurance products suitable for the digital platform, enabling businesses to configure.
  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
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VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

We love to invest in awesome technology

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Investment focus

  • Software, SEO, Automotive
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Turkey, India

Portfolio highlights

  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • 123Fahrschule — 123fahrschule.de - consolidating and digitizing the German driving school market
  • StalkBuyLove — Styched is India's largest online youth fashion brand. Shop everything from tshirts, polos, hoodies to tops, dresses and a large range of fashion products online on Styched. Free delivery for all prepaid orders.
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Hakan Bas
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Garajyeri — NAGATOTO88 menyediakan link alternatif Nagatoto resmi untuk akses lancar serta update keluaran togel HK terupdate, aman, dan terpercaya setiap hari.
  • Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.
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Melih Murat Yucaoglu
Angel

Melih Murat Yucaoglu

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Big Data, Automotive
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
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March Holding
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

March Holding makes Investment in Commercial Enterprises & Management.

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Investment focus

  • Transportation, Public Transportation, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Baly — Baly is the cheapest and fastest taxi application in Baghdad.
  • Zbooni — Customers are most receptive on social and messaging apps today. Bring the checkout experience to them, in real-time.
  • Lyve Global — Lyve reimages logistics through advanced and agile solutions and technology innovations that connect organizations and opportunities.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan

Portfolio highlights

  • qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • BloomPath — Purpose-built AI for your organization's workflows. Embedded in your systems. Fine-tuned to your processes. Deployed inside your environment.
  • Penny Software — Penny is a Procurement AI platform for enterprises that streamlines RFQs, POs, approvals, and payments in one unified source-to-pay system.
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Deniz Devrim Cengiz
Angel

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Blockchain, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
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Melih Odemis
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
  • HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
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Ahu Serter
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
  • Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
  • Tripy Mobility — Are you ready to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.
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Kaan Karamanci
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Marketing, Automotive
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Garajyeri — NAGATOTO88 menyediakan link alternatif Nagatoto resmi untuk akses lancar serta update keluaran togel HK terupdate, aman, dan terpercaya setiap hari.
  • 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.
  • Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
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Enabling Future
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • NÜWATER — NÜWATER was born out of a desire to combat the harmful impact that plastic bottles have on our environment today. With approximately 8 million tonnes of plastic ending up in the ocean every year, NÜWATER is a recyclable alternative to plastic bottled water. We'd like to put the UAE at the forefront of driving sustainability, to ensure ourfuture generations live in a cleaner, healthier, plastic free world. NÜWATER is sourced from an artesian spring 500 meters underground, one of the deepest springs in the world. Filtered through rich volcanic rock, NÜWATER supplies the body with essential minerals for life. In comparison to desalinated water - a process that is highly energy intensive, removes all the minerals and produces toxic waste in the process. We are proud to say our manufacturing process is 100% Carbon Neutral. We aim to be a Carbon Net Positive company by 2023. see less
  • Trifacta — Trifacta has joined Alteryx to help customers and partners bring even more value to their businesses, powered by breakthrough data analytic insights.
  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
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Can Yucaoglu
Angel

Can Yucaoglu

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, Big Data, Automotive
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
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Serkan Borancılı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
  • Series A, Angel, Series B
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
  • denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
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ARI Çekirdek
VC Fund

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

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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..
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Wassim Matar
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Wassim Matar is a Managing Partner at Verve Ventures VC.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
  • Seed
  • Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
  • Waffle Labs — Waffle Labs is a technology company that reinvents insurance and improves value for consumers. Founded in 2018 by Michael Li, Quentin Coolen, and Sam Barnsley, Waffle Labs is headquartered in New York.
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Otokoc Otomotiv
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Otokoc Otomotiv is an automotive retailer, car rental, and car sharing company that provides all automotive-related solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Big Data, Internet, Automotive
  • Corporate Round
  • 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..
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Emrullah Eruslu
Angel

Emrullah Eruslu, CEO - Eryap Grup.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Automotive, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Servislet — Servislet is SAAS and marketplace provider for manufacturers, service providers and sell-off locations in the automotive industry. Servislet digitalizes offline locations and create micro, brand specific marketplaces.
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Kosgeb
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

Kosgeb is a government body dedicated to helping SMEs in their development through a variety of activities and services. They provide up to 6 million liras in support of SMEs in Turkey that would manufacture imported goods utilizing domestic and national resources.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Mistikist — Mistikist uses binaural beats for sleep and focus. This helps you relax, lower stress, and increase productivity in just minutes.
  • a2 Technology — a2 Technology provides advanced solutions such as Automatic Plate Recognition Systems, Enforcement Systems, and Video Content Analysis with the scenario-based innovative video analysis algorithms based on the methodologies of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Thanks to its flexible and modular software architecture, a2 Technologyproducts are integrated with numerous camera brands and third-party systems such as video management software, automation applications, and public services.a2 Technology is able to serve in more than 80 countries on 5 continents with its global solution partners and local services. Proven solutions work 24/7 with high-performance in real-time at hundreds of points in various application areas in 22 countries.
  • Vexnor Technology — Biomimetic Actuators, Wearable Robotics, Exoskeleton Technology, Artificial Muscles, Human-Machine Integration, Assistive Robotics, Industrial Ergonomics, Electromechanical Systems, HealthTech, DeepTech, Biomechanics, Robotics R&D, MedTech
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Maqasid Asset Management
VC Fund · Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey

Maqasid Asset Management is an independent Real Estate, Private Equity, and portfolio management company.

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Investment focus

  • Automotive, Electric Vehicle
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • PangeaVR — VR and Console Game Studio
  • Shiftplanner — Shiftplanner is a workforce optimization software that aims to digitalize and automate which helps with management processes and save labor.
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Ethos Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Ethos Capital is an investment company that helps companies drive growth and transformation by employing new technologies. It is committed to setting ethics and social responsibility for registry operations and supporting a globally connected and resilient Internet.

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Consumer, Internet
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, Venezuela

Portfolio highlights

  • Metafide — Metafide offers AI-driven trading solutions and Web3 asset analysis for financial entities.
  • Servislet — Servislet is SAAS and marketplace provider for manufacturers, service providers and sell-off locations in the automotive industry. Servislet digitalizes offline locations and create micro, brand specific marketplaces.
  • Yummy — Superapp of Venezuela & Quick Commerce for LATAM
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Erdem Yurdanur
Angel

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

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Investment focus

  • Mobile, iOS, Advertising
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

  • Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
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Migros
VC Fund · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Migros operates in the retail, industry, and financial service sectors in Switzerland and internationally. It operates through six segments: Cooperative Retailing, Commerce, Industry and Wholesaling, Financial Services, Travel, and Others. The Cooperative Retailing segment is involved in the operation of supermarkets and hypermarkets; andwholesale, catering, specialist markets, leisure, and club schools businesses. This segment also provides health services; and logistics services, such as transportation of goods and central warehousing services. The Commerce segment sells men’s and ladies’ wear, home accessories, entertainment media, office equipment, electro mobility products, and heating and fuel oils; and operates furniture, Internet retail, and convenience stores. The Industry and Wholesaling segment engages in the manufacture and sale of food and near food products, and non-food products under its own brands and labels. The Financial Services segment provides banking products and services. The Travel segment offers tour operator, travel agent, and other related tourist services. The Others segment provides property management services. The company is involved in operating fitness studios and a shopping center; and the production and sale of dried meat, and cold sauces and spices. The Federation of Migro Cooperatives that began operation on August 15, 1925 became Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund in January 1941, with its headquarters in Zurich in Switzerland.

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Investment focus

  • Delivery, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Turkey, Switzerland, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • CRC — CRC Corporate is a platform that assists businesses with "Joint Purchasing" problems by connecting businesses from different industries in Turkey together.
  • properti — "building the world's greatest real estate company"Properti is a modern, young and pioneering PropTech startup founded in November 2019. Through our unique Properti System, which combines the latest technologies, in-depth expertise and world-class marketing, we provide an exclusive service. Our mission is to change the real estateindustry sustainably with the symbiosis of technology and people to build trustworthiness and transparency. Our goal is to offer customers a full service around the housing ecosystem.
  • Prime Roots — Prime Roots is on a mission to provide a better cut of meat for every type of eater. Rooted in koji, Prime Roots is able to replicate the taste and texture of meat without any of the environmental costs of animal proteins.
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey

Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and ​172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Mobile, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • 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.
  • Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel

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.

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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.
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RI Digital Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Raffay is an investment group with early stage venture capital and real estate as its primary focus.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Travel, Fashion
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • Germany, Turkey, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

  • IDAGIO — IDAGIO is the leading streaming service for classical music with more than 1.8 million app downloads and subscribers in 190 countries. Crafted in Berlin by a world-class team of over 80 passionate experts in music, technology, business and design, IDAGIO offers a search tailor-made for classical music, expert curation, and an expansive catalogue ofover 2 million licensed tracks. IDAGIO is available through the web app and for download via mobile app with three tiers offered to listeners: IDAGIO Free, IDAGIO Premium, and IDAGIO Premium+. Idagio was founded by Till Janczukowicz and Christoph Lange, a duo that combines longstanding experience in the management of classical music stars with knowledge of the dos and don’ts in the founder scene around music streaming services. For more information, visit www.IDAGIO.com or download IDAGIO for your mobile device from the App Store or Google Play Store.
  • Patience — Patience’s solutions are deployed foreducators of all kind: tutors, training companies, publishers, schools, universities and non-profit organizations.
  • Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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Vitol
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States

Vitol is an energy and commodities company. We trade and distribute energy safely and responsibly around the world using our logistical expertise and infrastructure network.

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Investment focus

  • Energy, Transportation, Automotive
  • Series C, Funding Round, Seed
  • India, United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • WattEV — WattEV is speeding up the transition of US trucking transport into zero emission faster than anyone could expect. We use a combination of business and technology innovation to create infrastructure and data driven workflow that provide truckers and fleet operators the lowest total cost of ownership.
  • VavaCars — VavaCars is an online used car transaction platform
  • Juniper Green Energy — Juniper Green Energy Limited Limited is a trusted leader in providing innovative and sustainable renewable e nergy solutions with the latest technologies.
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Hummingbird Ventures
VC Fund · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
  • MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
  • OLIX — OLIX designs and manufactures optical processors that use light-based circuits to accelerate artificial intelligence workloads. The company develops Optical Tensor Processing Units that execute matrix and tensor operations for training and running inference on large-scale machine learning models. Its hardware aims to increase performance and reducepower consumption relative to conventional electronic accelerators by processing data in the optical domain. Flux Computing focuses on infrastructure for generative AI and advanced neural networks, targeting data centers and organizations that require intensive model computation. The product stack centers on custom optical chips integrated with supporting electronics, control software, and tools that link into existing AI frameworks. Sales and partnerships primarily address customers building large AI clusters, research environments, and emerging applications that benefit from high-throughput, low-energy computation.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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Sente Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States

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.

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Kfobix Inc. — Revolutionizing Grid Maintenance with AI and Robotics
  • 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.
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Mangrove Capital Partners
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Mangrove Capital Partners is a contrarian investment firm helping innovative entrepreneurs start and grow.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Exoticca — Exoticca develops an online platform intended to facilitate travel booking. The company's platform offers holiday packages which includes flights, accommodation, meals, guides and private transports, for exotic locations all around the world, enabling travelers to book travel packages online at competitive prices.
  • K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.
  • Brain.space — Brain.space is a brain-mapping data company that is on a mission to provide researchers, medical practitioners and software developers the underlying foundation to interpret, analyze, and build brain activity products and services. The end-to-end technology stack aims to power products, services, and apps that access and interpret brain activitydata.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
  • Keyrails — The Trade Operating System for Emerging Markets. Unify Payments, Treasury & Financing on programmable stablecoin rails.
  • PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.
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Liil Ventures
VC Fund · Ciudad De León, Guanajuato, Mexico

Quality of life in motion

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Investment focus

  • Transportation, Software, Ride Sharing
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Spain, Mexico, Togo

Portfolio highlights

  • BusUp — BusUp is a mobility service provider that specializes in efficient and flexible corporate commuting services, and is the first company in the world to offer shared corporate shuttle services. Established in 2016, BusUp is already a global company that is currently fully operational in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America for large corporations suchas Accenture, Roche, Siemens, Cognizant, Nestlé, DXC Technologies, Louis Vuitton, etc. Thanks to its technology and its innovative business model BusUp has disrupted a very traditional and low digitized sector, bringing efficiency and convenience to all its stakeholders: passengers, clients, operators, and public administration. Since its inception, BusUp has partnered with more than 150 operators and attended more than 100 clients, exceeding 500,000 passengers worldwide. To learn more about BusUp, visit www.busup.com.
  • Gozem — Gozem is a transport technology platform for Francophone West and Central Africa.
  • Katapult Studios — Katapult deploys top LATAM engineering teams to build and scale your product, from MVP to world-class solution.
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, SaaS, Software
  • 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.
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GSYF
VC Fund

Investment focus

  • Software, Automotive, Internet of Things
  • Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Comodif — Comodif is a spin-off from the Farplas Entrepreneur-in-Residence program, which bridges electronics and mobile applications as a core competency for driving a vehicle. Specializing in M2M communication, IOT and telematics big-data analytics services, Comodif team develops both hardware and software to make cars smarter. Comodif Connected CarsPlatform Project has also been funded by the European Union Eureka in 2014. Using the cutting edge software technologies, Comodif processes car data to enable smarter and more efficient transportation, and interacts with external traffic environment to increase safety. Comodif tracks your resources for you to help your driving be easier and pleasurable.
  • Fizix — Wisersense is an end-to-end smart machine health monitoring solution to control increased maintenance and energy costs. In line with Industry 4.0 and the trend towards digitalization, it offers monitoring, tracking, remote measurement and detection of possible faults much earlier for smart factory and smart city projects. The health of allsystems, large and small, in every stage of production, especially motors, compressors, fans, pumps, etc. rotary systems can be monitored. In this way, early detection of problems, improvement in operations and personnel safety, increase in production, decrease in downtime, increase in end product quality, etc. many benefits are provided. Let Your Machines Talk To You!
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Melih Herman Simon
Angel

Melih helps ‘scale-up startups’ in their fundraising processes. He has more than 15 years of experience in the startup ecosystem. As an entrepreneur, he founded two startups in gaming & B2B SaaS and successfully exited his family business in healthcare. As an investor, he is an LP in 7 different funds. He specializes in Series A-level B2B SaaSstartups on healthtech, cybersecurity, fintech and future of work & education. He maintains direct contact with over 600 VCs in the US & Europe.After graduating from Saint-Joseph French High School, Melih received a BA from Koç University, a Master’s from Bosphorus University, and an MBA from IESE & London Business School. Having lived in six different countries, he speaks four languages and has previously worked for international companies such as Medtronic in Switzerland and Amazon in Luxembourg. Melih has a passion for sports, including sailing, rock climbing, trekking, and tennis.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Human Resources, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

  • Idenfit — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
  • DataPad — Say hello to the World's easiest metric tracking tool. Track everything in one place. Enable your entire team. Build data culture. All with no code, no development.
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

  • Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.
  • Salty Enerji — Salty Enerji is a manufacturing company that designs energy storage infrastructure to enhance renewable power efficiency and distribution.
  • Weddingbouquet.com — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
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