Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Edtech startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024
Investor | EdTech Turkey investments |
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Founder One | 3 |
Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 2 |
Keiretsu Forum | 2 |
TechOne VC | 2 |
Boğaziçi Ventures | 2 |
Alesta Yatırım | 2 |
TÜBİTAK | 2 |
APY Ventures | 2 |
Civan Sözkesen | 1 |
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund | 1 |
Murat Tayhan | 1 |
Techventure | 1 |
Aslanoba Capital | 1 |
Gedik Investment | 1 |
Halkbank | 1 |
Tamer Capital | 1 |
Seedthrift Ventures | 1 |
Alima Ventures BV | 1 |
Nezih Sipahioğlu | 1 |
Papara | 1 |
Melih Odemis | 1 |
EIC-Fund | 1 |
Koray Gultekin Bahar | 1 |
Ayla Cönger | 1 |
Rıza Kaya | 1 |
Collective Spark | 1 |
nVentures | 1 |
Mehmet Murat İsen | 1 |
BadiWorks | 1 |
Burak Günsev | 1 |
Socios | 1 |
Cerebrum Tech | 1 |
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen | 1 |
Mekan Yusupov | 1 |
Hemra Ashyrov | 1 |
ONUR BAYINDIR | 1 |
Kivilcim Cayli | 1 |
Portera Ventures | 1 |
Barış Conger | 1 |
Aza Ventures | 1 |
Hande Enes | 1 |
Family & Friends | 1 |
Ayberk Kuday | 1 |
Nilüfer Günhan | 1 |
Tarvenn Ventures | 1 |
Erdal Asim Durukan | 1 |
Mustafa Sandal | 1 |
Lima Ventures | 1 |
OVH Cloud For Startups | 1 |
Virgosol Information and Software Solutions | 1 |
Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Information Technology, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
- The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.
- Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
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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Investment focus
- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
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.
Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
- Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
- Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
- Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
- Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
- Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
- Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
- Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Civan Sözkesen
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Investment focus
- EdTech, Psychology
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- ParentWiser — Parent education app.
Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
- OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
- Pangea VR — VR and Console Game Studio
Murat Tayhan
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Investment focus
- Training, Service Industry
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
techVenture supports the growth of technology entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, people, and venture capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Web Apps, E-Learning
- Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Gedik Investment is an investment banking advisory and brokerage firm in Turkey providing research and brokerage services to domestic and foreign clients. The company is a member of Borsa Istanbul (BIST) and is authorized by the Capital Markets Board (CMB). Today, it has the largest customer base of any non-bank local brokerage house, with around34,000 clients and counting. Gedik Investment boasts a widespread distribution network, with 28 main branches spread across Turkey’s primary cities.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed
- Turkey
Halkbank is a financial services firm that provides banking and lending services. Their services include accepting deposits, the issuance of cash and non-cash loans, purchasing checks and bank bills, performing custody services, rendering insurance agency transactions, and trading the capital market instruments issued to perform intermediaryservices.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed
- Turkey
Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
- Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
- Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
Seedthrift Ventures incubate early phases of blockchain with capital, support, and promotion.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, Germany, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Sekuya — Sekuya is an anime gaming metaverse platform that transform the gaming landscape through a community-driven approach in an entirely new anime epic fantasy universe.
- Edu3Labs — Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology.
- Safeverse — Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
Alima Ventures BV is an investment firm of Turkey
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Fashion
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
- Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
- Magnus — Power your investment with the AI magic. Sky is the only limit.
Nezih Sipahioğlu
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Investment focus
- Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
- Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.
Papara provides simple, fair, and supersonic banking services without boundaries that a bank would have. Shortly, it is the future of banking. With over 7.5 Million Users, Papara is the most trusted and loved finance app both on AppStore and Google Playstore with a rating of 4.9
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Investment focus
- Internet, Security, Software
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- 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.
- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
EIC offers investors the opportunity to co-invest in the most innovative start-ups and SMEs in the EU
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Grant, Series A
- France, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- EyeLights — EyeLights is a Head Up Display GPS. It allows motobikers to truly experience the ride by keeping their eyes on the road. Eyelights is the first universal motorcycle accessory that projects guidance, danger zones and traffic directly into your field of vision. A dangerous bend, a nearby stopper or speed over limitations, EyeLights warns you. Simple,uncluttered, they adapted the display for motorcycle riding.The EyeLights product installs in less than 5 minutes on your full-face, convertible or jet helmet. Their compact optical technology allows you to view your GPS more than 2 meters away while enjoying audio functions for more than 8 hours. The product is compatible with sun visors, insensitive to rain or fog and weighs less than 100g.
- Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
- Smart Immune — Smart Immune is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing the next generation of hematopoietic stem cell-based biotherapies to change the prognosis and life quality of patients with devastating diseases. The company's first cell therapy program is based on T cell progenitors or ProTcellsTM (CD7+/CD34-; CD5- cells)curative power to enable a short, polyclonal, and safe post-transplantation immune recovery. This program be completed by integrative developments from targeted conditioning to gene therapy and genome editing enabling clinicians to access new-generation treatments for a wide variety of inherited blood disorders and blood cancers.
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
- HrPanda — 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!
Ayla Cönger
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Rıza Kaya
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Investment focus
- E-Learning
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Voltran — Voltran is a subscription-based digital platform for high school students.
Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Greece
Portfolio highlights
- Cenoa — Convert your local currency to dollars in minutes and send it back to any bank account in your country and 30+ others.
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
- Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
Being founders ourselves, we know the pains of raising capital. We're a seed fund focusing on B2B Fintech startups in South & Southeast Asia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Arediana — Arediana goal is to address the shortage of information regarding women's health and supplementation at all stages of their lives.
- Hishabee — Empowering 300,000+ unbanked small businesses to access embedded finance Hishabee finances informal retailers to stock products at zero upfront cost so they can stock now, sell and pay later. Track your business records using Hishabee and get access to instant finance. Equipping MSME with the right tools for growth Small businesses are key to our
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Mehmet Murat İsen
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Investment focus
- Training, Service Industry
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
BadiWorks is an youth communication agency that provides services in the fields of online and offline training for university students.
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Investment focus
- Education, Consulting
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Orbis Overseas Education Consultancy — Orbis is the group company of Atlas Overseas Education that provides academic education consultancy to access high quality education.
Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Creators of Fan Tokens
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Investment focus
- Sports, Analytics, Education
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Comparisonator — Comparisonator is the next-generation football recruitment platform. Compare, search, virtually transfer and recruit with unmatched precision across 271 leagues.
An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- gigl — gigl is a video / mobile-first recruitment platform. We use 60-second videos by employers and applicants to capture motivated applications, speed-up the hiring process by 80% and reduce costs by connecting end-to-end users - and removing the middleman. gigl's short-video concept captures society's "do everything on a mobilephone" behaviour - our platform is used by over 40,000 people already and promotes personality (in both job descriptions and job applications) over lifeless written applications. We thrive in all industries - from retail, hospitality to office work. In short - anywhere where personality is critical to inward and outward success!
- Predica.ai — Predica.ai turns data into AI-powered business value
- GFDS Inc. — Since in 2013, we develop high-quality visual solutions supported with augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), internet of things and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as providing exclusive software and hardware products for our national and international customers. We define our company as a “content factory”, ableto develop various visual contents to almost all technological platforms. We pride on having a strong high-performance computing farm, announced as a success story in the USA Silicon Channel in 2014. Being familiar to all new technological concepts and research, we offer our customers our high level of know-how to add value into their business. We offer various services related with our production pipeline, composed of competent CGI, advanced technology development and visual design specialsits, artists and developers. We offer innovative solutions for the following titles: *Education and Training *Industry and Defense *AI *Marketing *Entertainment *Software *HardwareWe undertake numerous projects for the needs of the sectors below: *Industry *Defense Industry *Entertainment *Sales and Marketing *Education/ Occupational Training *MediaWe are proud to be the partners, solution providers and distributor of the leading technology companies of the world: Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, Epson, One Stop Systems, Magic Leap, VuforiaTHE FUTURE IS OURS, LET'S DESIGN IT TOGETHER!
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
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Investment focus
- Training, Service Industry
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
Mekan Yusupov
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Investment focus
- Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
Hemra Ashyrov
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Investment focus
- Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dersimix — Dersimix is a platform that connects private tutors with students via online or face-to-face sessions.
ONUR BAYINDIR
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Investment focus
- Software, Marketing, Consulting
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Germany
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.
- PlusDisc — PlusDisc provides tools for Candidate Assessment and Personality Tests.
- Volans Video Agency — Volans Video Agency is full-service creative video agency for brands and agencies. Explainer Videos, 3D Videos, Promotion Videos, Testimonial Videos!
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Property Management, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
- Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Portera Ventures is an investment firm based in UK
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- Software, Web Apps, E-Learning
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
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- 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.
Aza Ventures is your dependable partner in the volatile world of cryptocurrency investments.
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- Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed
- Turkey, Vietnam, United States
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- DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
- Edu3Labs — Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology.
- Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
Hande Enes
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- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait.it — Empowering your 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.
Early Stage Investors
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- Education, Digital Media, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, France, Jordan
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- Edu3Labs — Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology.
- Yoon — Building better mobility solutions for Africa
- Digital Boom — The Middle East Marketing & Advertising News
Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Nilüfer Günhan
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- Gaming, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
- Teleporter — Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together. Focused on gamers, inspired by the world’s best MMORPGs, and amplified by video-gaming enthusiasts, we dream of building a universe for gamers using technology, artistry, and magic.Our players in Teleporter can play manybuilt-in games, watch game streams, find like-minded others, and hang out together in fantastic 3D environments. Teleporter: WoG universe feels like and works like a game, but it also allows players to do many different things they usually love to do with other gamers. Our dream is to shape the future of gamers getting together digitally.
Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions.
We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances.
Our business is to build yours…
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
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- RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
- Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
- Madcraft Studios — Madcraft Studios develops games for computer and mobile platforms.
Erdal Asim Durukan
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- EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
- Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
OVH, legally OVH Groupe SAS, is a French cloud computing company which offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services.
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- Software, Education, Health Care
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
Virgosol is a next-gen QA & Software Testing Services provider co-headquartered in Istanbul and offshore test labs around Turkey in 5 different cities. Virgosol testing services covers Test Consultancy and Management, Functional and Non-Functional testing, Test Automation, DevOps, Agile, Web, Mobility and WebService/API to name a few.Virgosol is pioneering the next-gen Continuous Testing practices with a team of young, passionate testers focused on test automation, CI/ CD and shift left methodologies. With its in-house testing solutions, global pool of skilled testers, specialist testing approach and global delivery model, Virgosol is helping its clients transform their QA function to reduce production defects, reduce QA cycle times and lower overall QA costs. Virgosol has proven record of implementing projects in stipulated time frames & budget with a team of experienced test professionals having rich experience in technology as well as vertical domains.
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- EdTech, Gaming, Information Technology
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Piagmo Tech — It was formed in 2021 as a technological firm that uses Montessori Pedagogy to develop the cognitive and mental skills of preschool children. Important studies will be carried out all over the world in order to get the support of Tübitak and academic experts in their domains.
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