Top 10 Digital Media Angel Investors in Turkey (October 2026)

Kerim Kotan

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 19
Round size: Seed $9.9k–$2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $715k–$3M
Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

Buluttan — Buluttan delivers AI-powered hyper-local weather intelligence for energy, aviation, agriculture, logistics, and insurance. Accurate forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and operational decision support.
Werover — AI & IoT solutions for predictive maintenance
Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage

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Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 35
Round size: Seed $500k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$450k
Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience.
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

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Kerem Tokcan

Investment focus

Industry: Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Angel, Convertible Note
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Round size: Angel $100k–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

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Rauf Cem Erkli

Investment focus

Industry: Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
Stage:Angel, Convertible Note
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

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Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $400k–$1.8M; Convertible Note $3M–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon, ESG and energy data
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.
Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.

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Ismail Oygur is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of NewGen. He previously worked at Punch İstanbul as a Founding Partner. Ismail Oygur attended Istanbul University.

Investment focus

Industry: Sports, Broadcasting, Digital Media
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Sports Digitale — Sports Digitale is a sports media company that works in a variety of sports, such as basketball and football and creates content for social media and YouTube. The company builds a comprehensive brand in sports communication by working on e-commerce, app development, event management, and influencer marketing projects.

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Alp Saul - Cofounder and Chairman of the Board @ Pronet

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, VoIP, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $101k–$200k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

AloTech — At AloTech, we gained years of experience in helping businesses around the world ace their contact center operations.With our SaaS that provides:- Scalability, - Time/cost efficiency, - CX-centric processes, - Innovative tools and features, and - Next-gen capabilities,AloTech will be a game-changer for you too! Contact us to learn moreabout how AloTech can help you perfect your contact center operations.
idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Sports Digitale — Sports Digitale is a sports media company that works in a variety of sports, such as basketball and football and creates content for social media and YouTube. The company builds a comprehensive brand in sports communication by working on e-commerce, app development, event management, and influencer marketing projects.

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Hande Enes

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 24
Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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[Hasan Aslanoba](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/hasan-aslanoba) is one of the leading angel investors in Turkey and is also the founder of Aslanoba Capital, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, and SaaS. [Hasan Aslanoba](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/hasan-aslanoba) started working in 1991 as the CEO of Erikli Water, his family business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance. In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry. [Hasan Aslanoba](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/hasan-aslanoba) served as the joint venture’s local partner and CEO, creating one of the world’s largest water bottling plants in Bursa. As a result of the economic value that he created, [Hasan Aslanoba](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/hasan-aslanoba) and his company have been among Bursa’s tax leaders in recent years. [Hasan Aslanoba](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/hasan-aslanoba) left his role as CEO of Erikli Water in 2012 in order to focus on the activities of angel investments in the technology sector. He introduced innovative internet-based business models such as Tazedirekt and Webnak through his company, Aslanoba Food. [Hasan Aslanoba](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/hasan-aslanoba) graduated from the [Istanbul University](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/istanbul-university) Management Program and received an MBA from San Diego National University in 1988.

Investment focus

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

Investor stats

Total investments: 115
Round size: Seed $200k–$2.3M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.

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