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Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Turkey in January 2026

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

Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Turkey in January 2026

Investor Community Turkey investments
Aslanoba Capital 8
Earlybird Venture Capital 5
Ahu Serter 5
Omer Erkmen 5
Münteha Adalı 4
Joachim Behrendt 4
APY Ventures 4
Deniz Alexandra Duygu 3
TRANGELS 3
Umur Özal 3
KAYA 3
Varol Civil 3
Sina Afra 3
Kültepe Investment 2
STC Ventures 2
Erinç Özada 2
Ibrahim Ulukaya 2
Safa Rashtchy 2
Q Angels 2
Wamda Capital 2
Mehmet Onarcan 2
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 2
Volkan Bicer 2
Kivilcim Cayli 2
Eric Chen 2
Nevzat Aydın 2
Carman Chan 2
Protos Venture Capital 2
Doruk Pala 2
Kaan Boyner 2
Maxis 2
Huseyin Karayagiz 2
Ata Uzunhasan 2
MITON 2
Deniz Güvenen 2
Eric Chen 2
Jose Marin 1
Hakan Bas 1
Ahmet Bilgen 1
Alphan Manas 1
Bilişim Vadisi 1
Anibera 1
Semih Hakyemez 1
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu 1
VCDE Venture Partners 1
hiVC 1
Founder One 1
Teknoloji Yatirim 1
Angel Effect 1
DOMiNO Ventures 1
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Aslanoba Capital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • 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
Earlybird Venture Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • SLNG — SLNG is radically global infrastructure for speech AI.
  • Voyfai — Voyfai provides a platform to manage shipments, procurement, back-office tasks, and logistics services for freight forwarders.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Ahu Serter Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
  • Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
  • Tripy Mobility — Are you ready to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.
Omer Erkmen Angel
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
Münteha Adalı Angel
Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Baby, Farming
  • Seed, Grant
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Ingosa — Power your customer experience and boost your sales with intelligent virtual assistants and conversational display ads with Ingosa!
  • 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.
  • 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 Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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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.
APY Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Upsonic — Upsonic is a platform that allows users to create artificial intelligence agents designed to perform tasks in businesses. The platform prevents AI agents from hallucinating.
  • Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
  • Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.
Deniz Alexandra Duygu Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Deniz Alexandra Duygu
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
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TRANGELS VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
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.
  • Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
  • Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.
Umur Özal Angel
Umur Özal is an angel investor.
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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.
KAYA VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Czech Republic, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • TopK — TopK features native support for both vector search and keyword search in a single, unified system. With its powerful query expression language, TopK enables you to build reliable search applications (semantic search, RAG, multi-modal, you name it) without juggling multiple databases or services. Our unified retrieval engine will evolve tosupport document transformation, query understanding (parse metadata filters from user query), and adaptive ranking (provide more relevant results by sending “relevance feedback” back to TopK) under one roof.
  • E2B — Add code interpreting in your AI apps and AI agents.
  • Riptides — Riptides is the non-human identity fabric for your workloads and AI agents, and they trust Every Connection. Even the Autonomous Ones.
Varol Civil Angel
Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Cloud Storage, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A
  • 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
Sina Afra Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
Kültepe Investment VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Shippn — Shop online from more than 40 countries and get it delivered to your doorstep! Sign up for free and start shopping from anywhere in the world with Shippn.
  • Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
  • 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.
STC Ventures VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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
  • Fashion, Developer APIs, Professional Services
  • Series C, Series B, Series A
  • United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Modanisa — Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
  • 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
Erinç Özada Angel
Erinç Özada is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Baby, Gaming
  • Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WeWALK — WeWALK is on a mission to enhance our visually impaired community's safety, independence, and social inclusion through mobility tech.
  • 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.
Ibrahim Ulukaya Angel
Ibrahim Ulukaya
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Gaming, Farming
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
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.
  • 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.
Safa Rashtchy Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
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
  • 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.
Q Angels VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, Sweden
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!
Wamda Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
  • qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
  • Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
Mehmet Onarcan Angel
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
  • 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.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
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
  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Maib — Moldova Agroindbank is a universal bank.
  • Banque du Caire — Banque du Caire is a banking company that specializes in providing BDC online banking, phone banking, and mobile banking app. The company was founded in 1952 and headquartered in Al Qahirah, Egypt.
  • Yapı ve Kredi Bankası — Yapi Kredi Bankasi, established in 1944, is one of the first nationwide private banks in Turkey. It is engaged in credit cards, assets management, non-cash loans, leasing, factoring, private pension funds and non-life insurance. It is 80% owned by Koc Finansal Hizmetler (KFH), whose combined financial services network consists of over 13 millioncustomers and 835 branches in Turkey.Yapi Kredi was acquired by Mehmet Emin Karamehmet's Çukurova Holding in 1984. In 2003, Çukurova Holding reached an agreement with the Turkish bank regulator to sell the majority of its shares in Yapi Kredi within two years. In 2005, the majority of shares in Yapi Kredi was acquired by the owners of Koçbank. Koç Finansal Hizmetler (KFH) was an equal partnership between Koç Holding and Italian banking giant, Unicredit. In 2006, Koçbank was merged into Yapı Kredi, leaving 80% of Yapi Kredi owned by KFS.
Volkan Bicer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • Online Games, iOS, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
  • Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
  • 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!
  • Evolution Group — Evolution Group is an operator of mobile advertising services.
Kivilcim Cayli Angel
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.
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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 Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • t1 (aka t1 protocol) — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.
  • 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!
Nevzat Aydın Angel
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
  • A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
Carman Chan Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
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
  • 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.
Protos Venture Capital VC Fund · Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland
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
  • Mobile Apps, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Poland, France, Turkey
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.
Doruk Pala Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Doruk Pala
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Investment focus
  • Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
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.
Kaan Boyner Angel
Kaan Boyner is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Minoto
  • TutumluAnne — TEXAS88 dikenal sebagai situs judi slot terpercaya yang menyediakan play demo slot gratis tanpa melakukan deposit untuk member texas88.
Maxis VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dengage — Create dynamic customer engagements driven by valuable data insights. Design omni-channel campaigns on one user-friendly platform, on-cloud or on-site.
  • OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
  • Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
Huseyin Karayagiz Angel · Yeniköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Huseyin Karayagiz
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Investment focus
  • Software, AgTech, Battery
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
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.
Ata Uzunhasan Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Baby
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Italy, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Juphy — Juphy offers communication platform.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Replenit — Boost retention with smart replenishment & AI-driven repurchases. Automate repeat purchases and grow your store with Replenit.
MITON VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Human Resources
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Graet — Make your mark in the sports and earn money on the first platform for prospective hockey players.
  • Aim — Aim is a private business briefing for founders and venture capitalists. So you don't have to, Aim keeps tabs on your company bubble. Establish your business hypotheses and receive regular updates on insights that are truly important.
  • DeepScout.ai — DeepScout.ai is a technology-first company that uses AI for data-backed decisions about pricing and assortment.
Deniz Güvenen Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Deniz Güvenen
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Investment focus
  • Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
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.
Eric Chen Angel · Los Altos, California, United States
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • t1 (aka t1 protocol) — t1 protocol cross-chain applications and scalability are facilitated by real-time proofs and immediate settlement.
  • 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!
Jose Marin Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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.
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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.
Hakan Bas Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games
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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.
Ahmet Bilgen Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt's smart energy management technology allows consumers to optimize energy use and cut electricity expenditures.
  • Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
  • admarket.co — Admarket is a trailblazing AdTech startup that's reshaping the advertising landscape. By offering a streamlined and secure platform for reserving, purchasing, and selling ad spaces, it connects advertisers and media owners like never before. With just one click, advertisers can book various types of ad spaces - including TV, radio, digitalscreen, outdoor, in-store, and in-flight - from anywhere in the world.Admarket simplifies the process of securing ad spaces from preferred media owners and agencies, while its payment service provider, Stripe, ensures top-notch security for customer credit card information. Media owners benefit by gaining access to a global customer base and boosting their revenue.Designed for ease of use, Admarket allows advertisers to view ad spaces on a map, similar to hotel booking sites. Its innovative AdsChange feature enables media owners to swap ad spaces with one another, like exchanging billboard space for radio ads. Plus, advertisers can swiftly broadcast urgent announcements via TV or radio.Looking ahead, Admarket aims to leverage AI technology for identifying sector-specific advertising needs, planning, and design. It will also incorporate automatic bid strategies for outdoor media, TV, and radio ad spaces. Advertisers will be able to view cost-effective advertising options on various timeframes through chart data, akin to flight ticket pricing. Moreover, the AdBroker feature will enable media owners to earn additional income through Admarket's profit-sharing program.In a nutshell, Admarket is a groundbreaking AdTech startup that's revolutionizing the advertising industry by streamlining ad space booking for advertisers and expanding the customer base for media owners. With plans to introduce even more cutting-edge features, Admarket will continue to drive innovation for both advertisers and media owners.
Alphan Manas Angel
Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye Kıbrıs
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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.
Bilişim Vadisi VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
Bilişim Vadisi is a technology development zone in Turkey that ensures the production of high-value-added products and new technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Macellan SuperApp — Create your digital wallet with Macellan SuperApp, load your balance, pay with QR, join campaigns, and manage your subscriptions.
  • MotionWorks — Motionworks make the forefront of a new era in television, harnessing the power of innovative video and ad technologies to transform the way TV programming is consumed and monetized. We are not simply upgrading the old system; we are completely redesigning it. We are integrating the fragmented views of TV on different screens into a unified,tailored experience for each viewer with our end-to-end video services and integrated advertising solutions. Our patented technology bridges the gap between linear and digital impressions, providing marketers with a single picture and unprecedented control. As a result, the viewer experience is smoother and more engaging, and advertising is more effective and efficient. We're not just improving the viewer experience by reinventing how we consume and monetize TV content; we're also saving money.
Anibera VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Anibera operates as a full-service animation studio with specialties in high-quality animation production from concept to completion.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Children, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
Semih Hakyemez Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Enabling to democratize the education with bringing the miracles of technology, I am helping the sponsors of tomorrow to utilize their knowledge on their way to become more innovative and entrepreneurial than ever before. Also, I am a firm believer of equal opportunity principle in regards to education and since the very first days of DopingTechnology my work has proven to create opportunities for the next generations.
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Investment focus
  • Toys, PC Games, Online Games
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Gamester — Gamester is a social gaming company located in Istanbul, Turkey. It develops and markets social games focusing on social interaction, playability and entertainment.Founded in 2009, Gamester provides users with free-to-play accessibility across a variety of social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Google + and more. Hordemaster, Baldety,Oynaturka and Townster are some of the games developed by Gamester.Onur Karci, TurhanYigitbasi and Volkan Taban are the co-founders of Gamester.
  • Tiny Minies — Tiny Minies is an educational software that creates educational and learning games for preschoolers and children aged two to six.
  • Gamester Kids — Gamester's goal is to assist parents in giving their kids access to safe and instructive media so they can get the most out of their screen time. Their products are designed for families to play together every day to create, connect, and develop.
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu Angel · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Baby
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Invidyo — Invidyo is a baby tech company that combines hardware, software, and deep data analysis to help parents track a child’s development.
  • 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.
VCDE Venture Partners VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
VCDE Venture Partners was started in 2008 in Frankfurt/Germany and is a growth equity investment firm with a clear focus on technology companies in the field of software, the internet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.Their main purpose is to build and develop successful growth companies. By partnering with outstandingentrepreneurs and management teams venturecapital.de delivers true value beyond financing and pro-actively works with portfolio companies to accelerate growth.They look for companies, that have a proven business model and through a strong value proposition address large markets and deliver real value to their customers be it consumers or enterprises. Out entrepreneurs‘ fund „venturecapital.de“ is funded by 150 European tech entrepreneurs, founders and industry veterans. It constitutes one of the strongest and most value adding business networks in Europe with an excellent platform for an exchange of expertise and know-how between investors, the fund and its portfolio companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SEO, Automotive
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Turkey, India
Portfolio highlights
  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • 123Fahrschule — 123fahrschule.de - consolidating and digitizing the German driving school market
  • StalkBuyLove — Shop the most premium and exquisite styles from stalkbuylove.com. Womens Tops, Dresses, Jumpsuits, Co-Ords and Trousers. Shop today and experience SBL2.0.
hiVC VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • Education, Life Science, Food Delivery
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany
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 person-to-person rental platform.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
Founder One VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
  • The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.
  • Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
Teknoloji Yatirim VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Teknoloji Yatırım is the first actor investing in early-stage technology companies in Turkey. Aiming at preparing the venture capital ecosystem for new players, Teknoloji Yatırım designs, develops and manages innovative tools to meet the financing needs of technology companies in the early and growth stages. What We Do: - Direct Investments: Wemake equity investments to technology companies having internationalization potential. - Co-Investments and Follow-on Investments: We make co-investments and follow-on investments to technology companies at scaling and growth stages, together with other Venture Capital Funds. - Consultancy Services: We offer consultancy solutions in the design, implementation and management of innovative investment tools and models.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Analytics
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
  • BRANDEFENSE — Brandefense platform is a proactive digital risk protection solution for organizations. Our AI-driven technology constantly scans the dark, deep, and surface web.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
Angel Effect VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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
DOMiNO Ventures VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months
DOMiNO Ventures is a venture capital fund focusing on high-tech, pure-digital and first-day global startups in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Lumian — Lumian Energy of Things Platform is an IoT-based hardware agnostic platform that collects and visualizes data in real time, analyses energy data with machine learning models and offers energy saving and decarbonization solutions. The Platform is designed to effortlessly integrate with third party systems, connect up to millions of devices, whilesimultaneously orchestrating them through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
  • Picogrid — Picogrid builds a unified platform for autonomous systems. Connect, command, and monitor sensors and autonomous systems at global scale.
  • Algoma — We automate real estate development for developers to lower costs and save time. Proptech, startup, AI, real estate, construction, multifamily development, apartment construction, housing projects, residential, urban, project management, high-rise residential construction, energy-efficient construc
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