Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Turkey

Investor	Community Turkey investments
Omer Erkmen	5
Münteha Adalı	4
Joachim Behrendt	4
Ahu Serter	4
Umur Özal	3
Varol Civil	3
Erinç Özada	2
Ata Uzunhasan	2
Carman Chan	2
Safa Rashtchy	2
Deniz Alexandra Duygu	2
Kaan Boyner	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
Mehmet Onarcan	2
Sina Afra	2
Kivilcim Cayli	2
Eric Chen	2
Deniz Güvenen	2
Doruk Pala	2
Eric Chen	2
Ayla Cönger	1
Gamze Cizreli	1
Serkan Borancılı	1
Koray Gultekin Bahar	1
Ibrahim Ulukaya	1
Engin Utkan	1
Özgür Ülkü	1
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu	1
Barış Conger	1
Hakan Bas	1
Jose Marin	1
Burak Divanlıoğlu	1
Nilüfer Günhan	1
Alper Akcan	1
Ahmet Bilgen	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
Yalcin Ayaydin	1
Huseyin Karayagiz	1
Alphan Manas	1
Mustafa Sandal	1
Jose Marin	1
Ayberk Kuday	1
Hande Enes	1
İzzet Zakuto	1
Burak Günsev	1
Levent Kuşgöz	1
Kamil Sözen	1
Nenad Marovac	1
Mehmet Kurtuluş Eker	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1

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

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.
Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.

Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.

Investment focus

AgTech, Baby, Farming
Seed, Grant
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
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Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

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

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Baby, Information Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
Ampherr — Ampherr provides cutting-edge, intelligent energy storage solutions based on different chemical variations of lithium-ion cells, such as NMC, LTO, and LFP, for all types of electrical cars and stationary applications. Manufacturer of battery packs, focus on delivering application-specific products for practically all use cases while combiningquality, cutting-edge engineering, and agile service.
Memotive — Memotive is upgrading the mechanism for shift planning and service organization to digital. They developed tools that fall under the category of communication and feedback since they understand how essential it is for employees to interact with their businesses while working for them.

Umur Özal is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Baby, Rental, Retail
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
Mutlubiev — A leading online cleaning services platform. It thrives on providing high-quality cleaning solutions and satisfying clients' personal needs.

Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası

Investment focus

Baby, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
KolayBi — KolayBi' is a new generation cloud based bookkeeping and financial application platform with online bank account aggregation for SMEs. People can manage accounting processes, register data, and generate reports by recording its financial records . People can also add bank accounts to the system and convert their payments into a one-clickinvoice. KolayBi' was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Istanbul.
Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance

Erinç Özada is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Apps, Baby, Gaming
Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.

Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels

Investment focus

Baby, Children, E-Commerce
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
FutureLeague — FutureLeague is an ed-tech company that teaches kids ages 6-12 engineering and programming with a focus on teamwork, creativity, and design thinking. It specializes in the fields of ed-tech, internet, and education. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health, consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the the value proposition for the users.

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Snapwire — Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with apassion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.
Tubi — Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed througha large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.

Deniz Alexandra Duygu

Investment focus

Baby, Children, E-Commerce
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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Kaan Boyner is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Baby, Children, E-Commerce
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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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.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Network
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, 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.
Mowico — Mowico, an online no-code eCommerce app maker, enables eCommerce businesses to create Android and IOS mobile apps with unlimited customization.
Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.

Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.

Investment focus

Travel, Property Management, Leisure
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

Deniz Güvenen

Investment focus

Wedding, Events, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

DüğünBuketi — 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.
KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.

Doruk Pala

Investment focus

Wedding, Events, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

DüğünBuketi — 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.
KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile, Information Technology
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!

Ayla Cönger

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Gamze Cizreli is the Founder & CEO at BigChefs.

Investment focus

Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in 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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, 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

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

Investment focus

Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
Seed, Angel, 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.
Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
HrPanda — hrPanda - Shaping tomorrow's talent landscape, a next-gen Application Tracking System

Ibrahim Ulukaya

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.

A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, FinTech
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.

Özgür Ülkü

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.

Berkay Mollamustafaoglu is the Co-Founder & CEO at OpsGenie. Prior to OpsGenie, Berkay was the CEO of iFountain, and held roles at several technology and consulting companies including Netuitive, Smarts, Ernst & Young, and Predictive Systems. Berkay holds a degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from METU.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Baby
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Thundra — Thundra is a developer platform company that empowers application teams to develop, debug, test, and deliver modern microservices on the cloud. Build the perfect software.
Vanemar — Explore Vanemar's advanced boat monitoring system: easy-to-install wireless sensors, real-time GPS tracking, and reliable high water and intrusion alarms for ultimate boat security, anytime, anywhere.
KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.

Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, 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 — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Burak Divanlıoglu is the founder at GittiGidiyor, a Turkish e-shopping mall offering auctions, stores, and fixed price listings.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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

Nilüfer Günhan

Investment focus

Gaming, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Teleporter — Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together. Focused on gamers, inspired by the world’s best MMORPGs, and amplified by video-gaming enthusiasts, we dream of building a universe for gamers using technology, artistry, and magic.Our players in Teleporter can play manybuilt-in games, watch game streams, find like-minded others, and hang out together in fantastic 3D environments. Teleporter: WoG universe feels like and works like a game, but it also allows players to do many different things they usually love to do with other gamers. Our dream is to shape the future of gamers getting together digitally.

Alper Akcan

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed, Angel
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.

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

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.

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

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Yalcin Ayaydin

Investment focus

Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.

Huseyin Karayagiz

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Farming
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC Corp. — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.

Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye Kıbrıs

Investment focus

Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.

Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Hande Enes

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.

İzzet Zakuto

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.

Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Levent Kuşgöz

Investment focus

Baby, Gaming, Children
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

TutumluAnne — TEXAS88 dikenal sebagai situs judi slot terpercaya yang menyediakan play demo slot gratis tanpa melakukan deposit untuk member texas88.
VAR Online — VAR Online is a Turkey based football federation company that offers mobile application to determine public opinion.

Kamil Sözen

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.

Nenad Marovac has more than 25 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the technology and media sectors.Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. Prior to DN Capital, Nenad was a Partner at Advent International in London, where he focused on TMT investments.Nenad focuses on investments inmarketplaces, software as a service (SAAS), fintech, consumer mobile applications and digital health companies. Amongst his select investments are Shazam Entertainment (sold to Apple), Auto1 (largest online marketplace for used cars), Apsmart (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca, (acquired by Oracle), Eve Sleep (IPO London), Happn, Hometogo, Hostmaker, Joblift, Mister Spex, Performance Horizon Group, Purplebricks (IPO London), Tbricks (acquired by Orc) and Quandoo (acquired by Recruit Holding). Nenad is also the Chair of Invest Europe and an active member of YPO in London and Berlin.Nenad received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
Annelutfen.com — Annelutfen is a full price online shop for baby products (0-12) in Turkey. Annelutfen offers the widest selection (18.000 SKUs), fast delivery (1-3 days), and best in class user experience.
Numa — Numa offers rooms & apartments in Europe's coolest neighbourhoods. See how simple travel can be. Sign up for exclusive discount. Book now!

He is the founder and CEO of Sharpcake, a digital advertising company, angel investor, and entrepreneur.

Investment focus

Baby, Children, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
TutumluAnne — TEXAS88 dikenal sebagai situs judi slot terpercaya yang menyediakan play demo slot gratis tanpa melakukan deposit untuk member texas88.

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

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.