Top 15 Big Data Angel Investors in Turkey in September 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Big data startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Big Data Angel Investors in Turkey in September 2025
Investor | Big Data Turkey investments |
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Emre Acikel | 2 |
Bedii Can Yucaoglu | 2 |
Melih Odemis | 2 |
Cihan Demir | 1 |
Ilker Sozdinler | 1 |
Andrea T. Orlando | 1 |
Bilge Algul | 1 |
Erdem Yurdanur | 1 |
Murat Tora | 1 |
Cem Tüfekçi | 1 |
Faruk Eczacıbaşı | 1 |
Melih Murat Yucaoglu | 1 |
Engin Utkan | 1 |
Burak Dayıoğlu | 1 |
Omer Erkmen | 1 |
Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
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.
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!
Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO of United Payment.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
- 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.
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
Andrea T. Orlando is the Managing Partner in Italy at Startup Wise Guys.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Marketplace
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Italy, Turkey, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Soundtracktor — Soundtracktor is a music licensing ecosystem. Artists - build a custom webstore to sell your tracks. Brands - find high-quality music to tell your story.
- Agrovisio — Agrovisio Official provides accurate, up-to-date and customized data and accurate forecasts to the agricultural sector's stakeholders.
- Vado — Vado is a technology startup that connects third-party delivery platforms and vending machines making order reception, management and delivery to the riders completely automatic.We are neither a delivery provider nor a vending machine manufacturer - we bridge the gap between them.In order to help companies manage the delivery and take-awayoperations of any product (Alcohol, Sushi, Drugs, Ready Foods) more efficiently, we integrate their delivery apps (Glovo, Deliveroo, JustEat, UberEats) with distributors automatic that allow you to sell automatically 24/7.Automating the online ordering process helps our customers save time and money, so they can focus more on their core business and continue doing what they love most: making their customers happy.
Bilge Algul - Co-Founder @ Veacon
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace
- 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
Managing Partner at Innovera AS & Co-Founder AtarLabs AS
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Audit Now — AuditNow is a software platform to modernize how internal audit teams collaborate and deliver results faster and more efficiently.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
Cem Tüfekçi
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Analytics, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon, ESG and energy 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.
Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center
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Investment focus
- iOS, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Cerebrum Tech — An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale
- Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
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.
A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect
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Investment focus
- Art, AgTech, Farming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- Tarfin — Using its cloud-based platform and smart algorithms, Tarfin provides underbanked farmers with high-quality farm inputs and competitive point-of-sale financing. Tarfin is the winner of EFSE's 2016 Financial Inclusion Challenge.
- Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
Dayioglu holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering and holds CISSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CIPT certificates with a strong technology background. He is an active angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Audit Now — AuditNow is a software platform to modernize how internal audit teams collaborate and deliver results faster and more efficiently.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- 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.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
- 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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