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Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Turkey (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Community startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Community startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
10 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$9M
BIC Angels
VC Fund
7 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Education $11k–$514k
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
6 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Earlybird Digital East Fund
VC Fund
6 Seed $1.2M–$7.5M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
5 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
KAYA
VC Fund
5 United States, Czech Republic, Poland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Health Care, Internet $132k–$25M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2.7M
Protos Venture Capital
VC Fund
4 Poland, France, Turkey Seed, Series A Software, Marketing, Mobile Apps $120k–$10M
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
4 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $100k–$2.5M
MITON
VC Fund
4 Czech Republic, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Internet $227k–$4.5M
Teknasyon
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Mobile Apps, Fitness $112k–$15M
Volkan Bicer
Angel
3 Turkey, Singapore, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Online Games, Mobile $130k–$2.7M
EBRD Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 United States, Turkey, Hungary Series B, Series A, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $3.3M–$44M
Deniz Güvenen
Angel
3 Turkey, The Netherlands Pre-Seed, Seed Wedding, Events, Big Data
Burak Divanlioglu
Angel
3 Turkey Seed, Angel, Series A E-Commerce, Internet, Pet $500k–$879k
Sina Afra
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $100k–$11M
Umur Özal
Angel
3 Turkey Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Electronics, Baby, Rental $63k–$1.5M
Ahu Serter
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, Greece Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Transportation, Internet $87k–$1.5M
Eczacıbaşı Momentum
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech $125k–$65M
Deniz Alexandra Duygu
Angel
3 Turkey Seed Baby, Children, E-Commerce $110k–$200k
Varol Civil
Angel
3 Turkey, Poland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Baby $63k–$1.2M
Münteha Adalı
Angel
3 Turkey Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed AgTech, Biotechnology, Baby $63k–$1.1M
Altay Tinar
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed CRM, Mobile Apps, Apps $514k–$3M
Q Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Podcast, Software, Blockchain $100k–$3.1M
Carman Chan
Angel
2 United States, Hong Kong, China Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Mobile, E-Commerce $100k–$3M
Goldman Sachs
VC Fund
2 United States, India, China Series C, Series B Software, Financial Services, FinTech $13M–$145M
Serkan Borancılı
Angel
2 Turkey Series A, Seed, Angel Internet, E-Commerce, Location Based Services $350k–$2M
Serkan Omerbeyoglu
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed Pet, E-Commerce, Animal Feed $184k–$301k
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Private Equity Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing $5.1M–$369M
Engin Utkan
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, AgTech, Farming $15k–$1.3M
TRANGELS
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $55k–$1.4M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Eric Chen
Angel
2 United States, Turkey, Vietnam Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Mobile, Software, E-Commerce $500k–$3M
Kaan Boyner
Angel
2 Turkey, Poland, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, E-Commerce $11k–$110k
Doruk Pala
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Wedding, Events, Big Data
Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, AgTech, Gaming $31k–$700k
Angel Effect
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps $50k–$995k
Erinç Özada
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Apps, Baby $11k–$4.5M
Wamda Capital
VC Fund
2 United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services $600k–$65M
Maxis
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
Ata Uzunhasan
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, Italy Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $63k–$1.5M
Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, AgTech, Battery
Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services $31k–$2.8M
Safa Rashtchy
Angel
2 United States, India, Turkey Seed, Series A SaaS, Health Care, Software $350k–$24M
STC Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, United Arab Emirates, Japan Series B, Series C, Series A Wireless, Mobile, Retail $2.4M–$175M
Letven Capital
VC Fund
2 Turkey Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A Software, Robotics, AgTech $108k–$23M
hiVC
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $175k–$1.2M
EGIAD Angels
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Gaming $20k–$2.3M
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 10 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $1M–$9M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

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.
  • obilet.com — Obilet.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
  • StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
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BIC Angels
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 7 investments in Turkey Community startups

BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$514k; Angel $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
  • Fithletic — Fithletic is an application designed to enhance the way individuals engage with sports and fitness. The platform offers a streamlined and user-friendly experience, allowing users to explore, evaluate, and select gyms or physical activities that best align with their preferences and schedules.
  • Evde Mimar — Evde Mimar is focused home painting. The company has biggest web site traffic in this industy in Turkey. Evde Mimar provide home service for become beautiful home.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 6 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • 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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Earlybird Digital East Fund
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Turkey Community startups

Earlybird Digital East Fund is an investment firm that focuses on early stage companies in Eastern Europe and Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FintechOS — FintechOS is the AI platform for financial product operations. Design, price, launch, and evolve financial products with governed AI and reduced core dependency.
  • Simr (formerly UberCloud) — UberCloud's HPC Simulation Platform helps engineers run faster simulations and helps overworked IT teams gain control.
  • Picus — The Complete Security Control Validation Platform | Stay proactive by validating your security controls with attack scenarios, empower your Red, Purple, Blue teams.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Turkey Community startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 394
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Avrea is the CI/CD platform built for the age of AI, helping teams ship software faster, more often, and with higher quality.
  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Angel $77k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
  • 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.
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KAYA
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 5 investments in Turkey Community startups

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Czech Republic, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 99
  • Round size: Seed $514k–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $132k–$3.8M; Series A $3.6M–$25M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $82M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Slevomat — Slevomat is an online retailer that offers discounts for mass purchases to more than 1.3 million registered customers. Every day, over 200 new offers are launched in cooperation with business partners. The companies that publish their event help Slevomat to make it visible, sell, and fill capacities. Slevomat proved to be the fastest growingcompany in the Czech Internet to reach an annual turnover of 1 billion crowns in less than four years since its inception. About 200 colleagues, who, like Slevomat, follow the motto Road to Experiences
  • Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
  • My Kindred — Enhance your well-being at our renowned women's health clinic. Experience top-notch care at our online clinic in the Philippines. Visit us today!
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 4 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
  • ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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Protos Venture Capital
VC Fund · Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland · 4 investments in Turkey Community startups

Protos Venture Capital is a funding company that is focused on internet businesses in Poland. It also includes mobile projects based on Software-as-a-Service, marketplace, lead-generator, and e-commerce sectors. Protos Venture Capital is based in Warszawa, Poland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Poland, France, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $178k–$1.1M; Series A $120k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Droplabs — Droplabs is Poland's leading online sales software for the experiences industry. Hundreds of Attraction, Tour and Activity providers use our software to sale tickets and activities through various channels including own website, hotel desks, travel agencies, aggregators, network of affiliates or on-site. Our software also helps with real-timeoffer, capacity & pricing management; entry management and day-to-day operations optimisation.We keep the product self-serviced and simple to use on any device. We are end buyers advocate: Buying, storing and using tickets must be seamless!We are SaaS with no exceptions.
  • MultiWash | CarWash App — Multiwash cooperates with 600+ car washes in Poland to bring high quality eco friendly subscription plans for companies via convenient mobile app. More than 15k subsription users, over 100 enterprise clients, like Pepsico, Microsoft, Tchibo, ING Bank, Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche, Red Bull, TDK, DPD, Rossmann & others.
  • EkoFachowcy.pl — EkoFachowcy enables anyone to compare and select the best offers of renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic panels, heat pumps, solar collectors, wind turbines, or recuperators.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 4 investments in Turkey Community startups

Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
  • Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
  • 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.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Community startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
  • Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
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MITON
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 4 investments in Turkey Community startups

Company builders operating from Czech Republic and focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. We prefer building consumer facing businesses and have the most fun around marketplaces and e-commerce in general.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Czech Republic, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $227k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $676k–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PangeAI — Geospatial AI for the physical world. Continuous agents that turn satellite, sensor, and hazard data into live decisions.
  • Bandits — We help companies save time and costs with our secure, fast-to-deploy AI systems. Our modules integrate seamlessly with your existing tools and processes.
  • Whisper — Whisper creates communication automation software that processes incoming messages and integrates data from connected business systems.
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

More than a single company. An operating system designed to create, grow, and scale new ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile Apps, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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Volkan Bicer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Online Games, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paydas — Paydas is a prop-fintech startup enabling individuals to invest digitally in income and appreciation of selected global real estate.
  • Sentez — An autonomous product studio. Self-operating apps and Qualia, the company brain & AI employee.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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EBRD Venture Capital
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

EBRD VC is the venture investing arm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, investing in high growth technology companies across all verticals

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, Hungary

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $3.3M–$7M; Series A $3.7M–$25M; Series B $6.3M–$44M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ominimo — Ominimo is a digital insurance provider supported by some of the world's leading insurance companies, blending decades of industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to streamline insurance across Europe. Our transparent, flexible, and straightforward solutions are carefully tailored to meet the unique needs of individuals and businesses,eliminating unnecessary complexities.Driven by a passionate team of insurance experts, data scientists, and software engineers, we are committed to delivering intuitive, user-friendly experiences. Ominimo is redefining insurance—making it simpler, more reliable, and truly customer-centric.
  • Alcatraz AI — The Rock is an all-in-one touchless biometric access control device that combines facial biometrics, AI, and machine learning for top-notch security.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Deniz Güvenen
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Deniz Güvenen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bounce Watch — Bounce Watch offers an AI-powered platform that provides actionable insights on startup performance and helps investors optimize scouting process and deal flow management
  • 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.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
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Burak Divanlioglu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Burak Divanlıoglu is the Founder of UZMANTV and he was a Founder at GittiGidiyor. He attended Istanbul Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Pet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$879k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh, and healthy food for both cats and dogs.
  • 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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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
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Umur Özal
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Umur Özal is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Electronics, Baby, Rental
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $63k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • 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.
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Ahu Serter
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Greece

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $104k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $87k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

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 for the future of mobility? Download the Tripy app and start your journey with our shared electric vehicles.
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Eczacıbaşı Momentum
VC Fund · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Eczacıbaşı Momentum invested in three venture companies and a venture capital fund; Their goal is to invest US$30 million over the next five years as they continue to partner with funds and startups that shape the new normal of modern life, focusing on well-being, consumption, and home-living.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$9M; Pre-Seed $125k–$150k; Series A $2.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
  • Ecomercek — Ninico is a modern and flexible Minimal eCommerce Laravel script. This script is suited for electronic, organic and grocery store, furniture store, clothing store, hitech store and accessories store...
  • BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
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Deniz Alexandra Duygu
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Deniz Alexandra Duygu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$200k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • TutumluAnne — TEXAS88 dikenal sebagai situs judi slot terpercaya yang menyediakan play demo slot gratis tanpa melakukan deposit untuk member texas88.
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Varol Civil
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Baby
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $63k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
  • Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
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Münteha Adalı
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Community startups

Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: AgTech, Biotechnology, Baby
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $63k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ingosa — Power your customer experience and boost your sales with intelligent virtual assistants and conversational display ads with Ingosa!
  • 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.
  • PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
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Altay Tinar
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Altay Tinar - Co-Founder & CEO @ Yuvako

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Investment focus

  • Industry: CRM, Mobile Apps, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $514k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • BlindID — BlindID is a unique social media platform which allows users to make one hundred percent anonymous voice calls with random people for a limited time. BlindID does not use information such as user name, phone number, profile photo, and gender. Enjoyable time with BlindID spending is only left to communication ability and creativity.
  • ORTHERO — Orthero is an orthodontic treatment method as an alternative to metal braces, offers to orthodontics patients a simple treatment by personalized custom-made aligner. Orthero aligners can be easily removed and placed back by patients. Under control of the dentist, regular use of Orthero will align your teeth to their ideal position according to thetreatment plan.
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Q Angels
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Podcast, Software, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • eTasin — https://etasin.com
  • 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!
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Carman Chan
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Hong Kong, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3M; Pre-Seed $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oddup — Trade on real-world outcomes with our unique Yes/No/Maybe model. Crypto, FX, indices, commodities, and more.
  • 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.
  • Testlio — Tackle the most demanding software testing challenges with Testlio in any location, on any device, in any language, or on any payment system.
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Goldman Sachs
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, India, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 958
  • Round size: Series B $13M–$140M; Series C $20M–$145M
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $43M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • XIFIN — XiFin is the leading provider of SaaS-based healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) and workflow automation solutions
  • Judi Health — Capital Rx is a health technology company that engages in managing pharmacy benefit plans. The company is redefining the way prescriptions are priced and administered in the U.S. Through its Clearinghouse Model, it unlocks the pharmacy supply chain and reduces prescription costs for employer groups. By establishing a competitive marketplace fordrug pricing, Capital Rx focuses its resources on deploying actionable strategies that improve plan performance and patient outcomes.
  • Riverbed Technology — Unlocking the full potential of your digital experiences has never been more accessible. Illuminate, accelerate and fully leverage the full breadth of possibilities with Riverbed.
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Serkan Borancılı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Location Based Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$879k; Series A $350k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Serkan Omerbeyoglu
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, E-Commerce, Animal Feed
  • Stage:Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $184k–$301k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh, and healthy food for both cats and dogs.
  • Chooch — Chooch is a hospital inventory management system that uses Vision AI to keep supply rooms accurate in real time. No scanning, no counting, replenishment on autopilot.
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Private Equity
  • Geography: Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $17M–$369M; Debt Financing $5.1M–$225M; Private Equity $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Akbank — Akbank provides banking transactions for economic, financial, and commercial endeavors and activities. Their banking applications include corporate and investment banking, commercial banking, SME banking, retail banking, payment systems, treasury transactions, private banking, and international banking services.
  • Infinity Power — Infinity Power is the largest African renewable energy company, offering innovative solutions in solar power, wind energy, and low-carbon hydrogen technologies. Discover our projects and commitment to sustainable energy solutions.
  • QNB Türkiye — QNB Finansbank is a Turkish bank with headquarters in Istanbul. That provides Banking service.
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Engin Utkan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, AgTech, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $55k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasance — Securely deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads across thousands of heterogeneous far-edge and IoT environments.
  • Trawell Data — Trawell Data is a mobile data services company that provides travelers to use mobile data on their mobile phones without changing phones or sim cards. It enables the phone to digitally connect and use the local operator. Trawell Data was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Syosset, New York.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
  • Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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Eric Chen
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, Vietnam

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • t1 (aka t1 protocol) — Undercollateralized credit for DeFi. Powering @useamplifi and @juicedexchange. Backed by @a16z CSX.
  • 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!
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Kaan Boyner
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Kaan Boyner is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Poland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$110k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Minoto — Otomobil Arama Motoru. Minimum Efor, Maksimum Oto!
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
  • Atlantic — The future of AI arrives with Atlantic.
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Doruk Pala
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Doruk Pala

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
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Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Ibrahim Ulukaya

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, AgTech, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$700k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vahaa — 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.
  • artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
  • Octo — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$755k; Pre-Seed $102k–$995k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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.
  • & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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Erinç Özada
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Erinç Özada is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Baby
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • madlen — Thanks to Madlen's AI-powered educational platform, create assignments in seconds and assign them to your students, while tracking their progress in real-time throughout the term.
  • Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates, United States, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$6.5M; Series A $2M–$10M; Series B $3.5M–$65M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
  • Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
  • Anecdote —
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups, 8 in the past 12 months

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance.
  • Promake — Promake is an AI platform that lets non-technical users build and manage billable web apps, mobile apps, games, and content using simple language prompts. No coding, no dashboards. Products are live on day one — with working UI, backend, payments, and hosting — and fully manageable via prompts. Promake replaces admin panels with chat, letting usersrun their business like texting a teammate. Unlike other AI builders that stop at drafts, Promake handles the full lifecycle: from first launch to every tweak and update after.
  • Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri — Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. manufactures and exports a variety of sanitary products, including cosmetics, personal care items, and home cleaning products. The company is known for its private label wet wipes, which are produced with botanical ingredients. Sapro adapts its processes and products to meet the needs of the Earth andall living beings, emphasizing sustainability and innovation in its operations.
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Ata Uzunhasan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $63k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Juphy — Business that are highly active on social media can manage all social media DM’s, comments, ad comments, public reviews and so much more in a shared, unified inbox on Juphy. Easily turn all social media conversations into customer support tickets that can be categorized and prioritized based on product, department, urgency, and tone. Gathermarketing and agency team members in a single dashboard and accelerate team productivity by collaborating on incoming social media messages. Improve social customer service performance with actionable reports based on engagement volume and team performance.
  • Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
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Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel · Yeniköy, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Huseyin Karayagiz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, AgTech, Battery
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
  • Vahaa — 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.
  • Batron Energy — Batron is an Energy Electronics Company that offers services in the field of smart Energy Management and Li-Ion Storage Systems.
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
  • Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
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Safa Rashtchy
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

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.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Health Care, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $350k–$13M; Series A $500k–$24M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • 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.
  • Qventus — Qventus optimizes operational decisions in hospitals in real time. They use machine learning and optimization algorithms to help hospitals reduce costs, improve quality and experience of the healthcare they deliver.Qventus is a YCombinator and StartX company working with some of the top health institutions in the country to change how healthcareis run.
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STC Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

STC Ventures is an independently managed venture capital fund whose anchor investor is the Saudi Telecom Company. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs to create market leading technology businesses. We are focused on equity investments that will help to build leading companies in the information technology, telecommunications, and digitalmedia/entertainment sectors. One of the key objectives of our fund is to support the development of innovative technology companies in the GCC, wider MENA region and Turkey, in addition to funding globally minded international companies seeking capital and access to the MENA region.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wireless, Mobile, Retail
  • Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Arab Emirates, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Series A $2.4M–$5.5M; Series B $3.5M–$12M; Series C $5.4M–$175M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $50M in 2011

Portfolio highlights

  • Scality — Object storage for AI, cyber resilience and sovereign data. Scality delivers secure, scalable storage for enterprise workloads.
  • Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
  • Yallacompare — Compare the best car insurance, credit card and personal loan providers in Dubai & the UAE with yallacompare
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Letven Capital
VC Fund · Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

Letven Capital is a portfolio management company to establish and manages venture capital investment funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Robotics, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $108k–$579k; Venture - Series Unknown $341k–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lojimod — Lojimod is a company that specializes in offering high-quality services aimed at improving business logistics procedures. Lojimod focusing on optimizing various aspects of logistics, such as inventory management, transportation, and supply chain coordination, Lojimod helps businesses streamline their operations, reduce costs, and enhanceefficiency.
  • ACTIO Mobility Technologies — ACTIO Mobility Technologies provides environmentally friendly and high-performance mobility solutions.
  • FarmLabs — FarmLabs develops AI based farming technologies for fertilizing, spraying, and irrigation procedures.
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hiVC
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Community startups

hiVC is an early-stage venture capital that connects early-stage startups with winning business models to achieve global success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$660k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidokit — Kidokit is a child development and parent support application that promotes the growth of infants and kids from one to six years old.
  • Varsapp — Varsapp is a data-driven rental and resale platform helping brands gain consumer insights, increase conversions, and reduce waste. Through its B2B2C model, brands can offer products for short-term rentals, allowing users to try before they buy.With over 200,000 users and partnerships. Varsapp enables brands to test demand, build loyalty, andmonetize refurbished or excess inventory via its newly launched Varsapp Market.Consumers rent high-quality items—especially in home appliances, electronics, and lifestyle categories—and decide whether to return or purchase.Currently active in Turkey and expanding into Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Varsapp supports circular consumption while generating measurable impact for both brands and users.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
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EGIAD Angels
VC Fund · Konak, Izmir, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Community startups

EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $64k–$2.3M; Angel $20k–$34k; Pre-Seed $100k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kolay — Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.
  • Twin Science & Robotics — AI literacy, combined with the safest tools, empowers your school to build real-world AI skills with confidence.
  • Skymod Technology — AI Transformation for Businesses
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Community Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 158 deals from 223 investors.

223
investors
in Turkey Community startups
158
deals
in Turkey Community startups
$301k
median round
in Turkey Community startups
26%
lead investors
lead at least one round
39%
Seed
most common funding stage
49/51
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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