Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Turkey (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
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5 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | iOS, Software, macOS | |
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Murat Tayhan
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel | Training, Service Industry | $50k–$50k |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Estonia, United States | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Software, FinTech, Education | $140k–$1M |
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel | Training, Service Industry | |
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Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel | Training, Service Industry | |
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Onur Yaşamtepe
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Privacy, Security | $390k–$420k |
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Mehmet Celikol
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Rental, Travel | $100k–$420k |
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Duran Cesur
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech | $390k–$420k |
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Cantekin Dincerler
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, Internet, Education | |
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Ahmet Fuat Korkmaz
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | |
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Baris Sivri
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | |
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Tuğra Gönden
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, SaaS, PropTech | |
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Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, Internet, Education | |
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Ahu Serter
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | $64k–$482k |
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ONUR BAYINDIR
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $110k–$2M |
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Osman Alp Arli
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $369k–$1.1M |
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Barış Conger
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Melih Odemis
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $170k–$1.9M |
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Mustafa Sandal
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Ayla Cönger
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Mekan Yusupov
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Tutoring, Education, Online Portals | |
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Education, Communities | |
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Furkan Tanrıverdi
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Gaming, Software, Edutainment | |
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Nazan Demir
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Gaming, Software, Edutainment | |
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Ahmet Bilgen
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, E-Commerce | $50k–$1.2M |
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Gürhan Kök
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | EdTech, E-Learning | |
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Esat Uğurlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | EdTech, E-Learning | |
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Sadık Gençoğlan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | EdTech, E-Learning | |
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İstem Özden Alpar
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Human Resources, EdTech, Internet | $400k–$482k |
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İzzet Halyo
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Education, Artificial Intelligence, Dental | $140k–$755k |
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Hemra Ashyrov
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Tutoring, Education, Online Portals | |
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Engin Özören
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Education, Communities, Product Management | |
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Burak Günsev
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | FinTech, Finance, Education | |
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Erinç Özada
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, Baby | $11k–$4.5M |
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Erman Taylan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Convertible Note | Education, Communities, Product Management | |
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Gokmen Bolayir
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Convertible Note | Content, Education, Communities | $100k–$250k |
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Halit Develioglu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Convertible Note | Education, Communities, Product Management | |
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Civan Sözkesen
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Fitness, Wellness | |
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Rıza Kaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | E-Learning | |
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Cezmi Aydogdu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Online Games, Mobile | $130k–$2.7M |
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Altan Atabarut
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Wedding, Big Data, Software | |
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Onur Canlıtepe
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, Education, Machine Learning | $333k–$420k |
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Münteha Adalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | AgTech, Biotechnology, Baby | $63k–$3.6M |
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Rıza Kadılar
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | AgTech, EdTech, Farming | $330k–$2.5M |
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Sinan Güler
Angel
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1 | United States, Turkey, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Apps | $180k–$2.5M |
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Erhan Tezakar
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Convertible Note | Education, Communities, Service Industry | |
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Nilüfer Günhan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, FinTech, Finance | |
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I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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- Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
- Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
Murat Tayhan
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- Industry: Training, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Angel $50k–$50k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled Hub — Skilled Hub creates jobs in the technology industry and offers services in the areas of human resources and education.
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1M; Angel $140k–$346k; Convertible Note $250k–$730k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
- Yancep — Yancep is a web-based application. The company offers portfolios that can be modeled according to the investment goals and risk preferences of users. Investors can become anyone with this platform.
- HrPanda — Streamline your hiring process with HRPanda's advanced applicant tracking system. Manage job postings, track candidates, and simplify recruitment all in one intuitive platform. Transform your hiring with HRPanda!
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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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
- 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.
Mehmet Murat İsen
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- Industry: Training, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled Hub — Skilled Hub creates jobs in the technology industry and offers services in the areas of human resources and education.
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
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- Industry: Training, Service Industry
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled Hub — Skilled Hub creates jobs in the technology industry and offers services in the areas of human resources and education.
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
Onur Yaşamtepe
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- Industry: EdTech, Privacy, Security
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $390k–$420k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
- Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
Mehmet Celikol
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- Industry: EdTech, Rental, Travel
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $100k–$420k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Viravira — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Duran Cesur
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- Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $390k–$420k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
- Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
- VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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- Industry: EdTech, Internet, Education
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
- Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
Ahmet Fuat Korkmaz
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
Baris Sivri is a Partner at Ceecat Capital.
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
Tuğra Gönden is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Grifon Capital.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, PropTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Erdal Asim Durukan
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- Industry: EdTech, Internet, Education
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
- 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.
Ahu Serter
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$482k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
ONUR BAYINDIR
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $110k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Babiot — Babiot develops electronics online tools to access control and tracking systems. It offers indoor navigation, wireless technologies, and location-based services to safely track people. Babiot is based in Essen, Germany.
- Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
- PlusDisc — PlusDisc provides tools for Candidate Assessment and Personality Tests.
Osman Alp Arli
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $369k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Increase your renewable portfolio IRR by 0.5-3% through better performance analysis and predictive maintenance and availability management.
- Healmeup — Evimdekipsikolog.com is a digital platform that provides accessible, easy, and cost-effective expert support to anyone who wants to get psychological counseling while struggling with the difficulties of life. Evimdekipsikolog.com works with a large number of experienced Psychologists and Psychological Counselors who are licensed and trained invarious fields.
- 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.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Round size: Seed $170k–$1.9M; Angel $275k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$510k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIOM — Pioneering in non-invasive glucose monitoring technology, seamlessly integrated with health metrics for a revolutionary wearable experience.
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Ayla Cönger
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Mekan Yusupov
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- Industry: Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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- Industry: eSports, Education, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
- 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.
Furkan Tanrıverdi is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Edutainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bucked Games Dijital Oyun Teknolojileri — A game studio that designs and develops educational and casual games.
Nazan Demir is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Gaming, Software, Edutainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bucked Games Dijital Oyun Teknolojileri — A game studio that designs and develops educational and casual games.
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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- Industry: Software, Education, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.2M; Angel $74k–$140k; Pre-Seed $50k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt provides a dedicated solution for energy management systems.
- 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.
Gürhan Kök
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- Industry: EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Esat Uğurlu
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- Industry: EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Sadık Gençoğlan
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- Industry: EdTech, E-Learning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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Browse database — It's Free!İstem Özden Alpar is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Human Resources, EdTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $400k–$482k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
- 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.
İzzet Halyo
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- Industry: Education, Artificial Intelligence, Dental
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $300k–$755k; Angel $140k–$200k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dentalPrices — Your dental health is important to you. Don't postpone your appointment anymore, make an online appointment now.!
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
- Robomotion — Robomotion is an AI-powered automation platform. Build, deploy, and manage intelligent agents and cloud workflows to streamline your business processes.
Hemra Ashyrov
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- Industry: Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
Engin Özören
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- Industry: Education, Communities, Product Management
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Education
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Erinç Özada is an angel investor.
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- 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.
Principal at Paribu Ventures / Jack of many trades, master of some
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- Industry: Education, Communities, Product Management
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Investment focus
- Industry: Content, Education, Communities
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Convertible Note $100k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
- 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.
Halit Develioglu is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OPLOG.Cambridge
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- Industry: Education, Communities, Product Management
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Civan Sözkesen
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- Industry: EdTech, Fitness, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
- ParentWiser — Parent education app.
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- Industry: E-Learning
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Voltran — Voltran is a subscription-based digital platform for high school students.
Cezmi Aydogdu
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
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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- 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 AI portfolio studio building, testing and scaling consumer apps and B2B AI tools.
- 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.
Investment focus
- Industry: Wedding, Big Data, Software
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Early Stage Investor in Industrial Digitalisation and Decarbonisation, Angel Investor, Mentor, Experienced Investment Banker
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Kingdom, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $333k–$420k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
- Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
- Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.
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- Industry: AgTech, Biotechnology, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $63k–$3.6M
- 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.
Rıza Kadılar is an angel investor.
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- Industry: AgTech, EdTech, Farming
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $330k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pacha — Pacha makes healthy nutrition snacks made with natural collagen and protein chips.
- 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.
- 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.
Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $180k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Digime — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.
- Uniqgene — Uniqgene combines the innate genetic data of individuals with physical parameters and transforms them into meaningful data, thus aiming to always be by your side by offering personalized reports to athletes, sports clubs and people who love to engage in sports activities.
- 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.
Co-Founder & CEO @ oCüzdan Founder @ oWallet
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- Industry: Education, Communities, Service Industry
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NomadVibe — NomadVibe is a media firm that delivers instructive, useful, motivating, and high-quality material for digital nomads.
- 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.
Nilüfer Günhan
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- Industry: Gaming, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
- Teleporter — 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.
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