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Top 50 Education Startup Investors in Turkey (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Education startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Education startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Maxis
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $82k–$2.5M
Founder One
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Health Care $73k–$1.7M
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $9k–$1.5M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Information Technology $82k–$1.5M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$2.8M
TÜBİTAK
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $3k–$2.5M
Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $10k–$5M
Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Turkey Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $102k–$8.6M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
TechOne VC
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $175k–$2.8M
EIC-Fund
VC Fund
1 France, Turkey Seed, Grant, Series A Health Care, Information Technology, Software
Hande Enes
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Social Media $29k–$4.1M
Socios
VC Fund
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Sports, Analytics, Education
Seedthrift Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, Germany, Hong Kong Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Civan Sözkesen
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed EdTech, Psychology
Gedik Investment
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Virgosol Information and Software Solutions
VC Fund
1 Turkey Pre-Seed EdTech, Gaming, Information Technology
Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Mustafa Sandal
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Aza Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, Vietnam, United States Seed Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
Family & Friends
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Jordan Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Education, Digital Media, Information Technology
Evox Capital
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Software, Education
Microsoft for Startups
VC Fund
1 United States, India, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Artificial Intelligence Factory
VC Fund
1 Turkey Banking, Finance, Financial Services
TT Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Ahmet Bilgen
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy $15k–$1.2M
Ayla Cönger
Angel
1 Turkey Seed FinTech, Finance, Education
Mekan Yusupov
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
Halkbank
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $165k–$11M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $18k–$702k
Portera Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed Software, Web Apps, E-Learning
Cerebrum Tech
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Corporate Round Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
nVentures
VC Fund
1 Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangladesh Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $25k–$2.6M
BadiWorks
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed Education, Consulting
Melih Odemis
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $170k–$1.9M
ONUR BAYINDIR
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Software, Internet, Freelance $110k–$2.2M
Ayberk Kuday
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Burak Günsev
Angel
1 Turkey Angel FinTech, Finance, Education
Hemra Ashyrov
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Tutoring, Education, Online Portals
Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Collective Spark
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Greece Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $193k–$8M
Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel
1 Turkey Seed EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy $186k–$1.6M
Alima Ventures BV
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Fashion $300k–$600k
Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Software, Marketing, E-Learning
Nilüfer Günhan
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, FinTech, Finance
Murat Tayhan
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Training, Service Industry
Techventure
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed Software, Web Apps, E-Learning
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Turkey Education startups

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $82k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance.
  • Dengage — Dengage is a Customer Experience Data Platform (CXDP) with built-in CDP powered by full marketing automation capabilities.
  • Stay Group — The Stay Group operates a collection of luxury hotels in Turkey under brands such as The Stay Bosphorus, The Stay Nişantaşı, Bebek Hotel by The Stay, Warehouse by The Stay, and others. Their properties are located in prominent areas like Istanbul, Alacati, and Bodrum, offering upscale accommodations with artistic and modern design elements, oftenfeaturing panoramic views of the Bosphorus. They emphasize personalized service, bespoke events, and sustainable practices in their hospitality offerings. The group's hotels also integrate art collections and provide facilities for private events, workshops, and celebrations, aiming to create unique and memorable guest experiences.
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Founder One
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Education startups

Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.9M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
  • PoiLabs — PoiLabs has solutions for shopping malls, museums, industries, warehouses, hospitals and more. You can visit our website to learn more about our solutions.
  • Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 97
  • Round size: Seed $9k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • Ni-CAT Battery Materials and AI Company — Ni-CAT is working on AI-assisted research and development of next-generation battery materials, which is the key to the transition to battery electric vehicles. Ni-CAT believes that the speed of EV transition is still not enough to prevent global warming and replace carbon-based fuels in near future, and it is not related to money or resources. Webelieve that speeding up EV transition is possible with our novel methodology, which combines three approximation to the solution: our unique AI-assisted materials research, digitalized reactor farm and our novel surfactant-assisted synthesis.As the electrification of the automotive industry expands, we deliver state-of-the-art technologies to meet the industry’s high-quality standards. To help our customers to step up the EV transition, we will be working on our research and development of lower-cost/higher performance, ultra-high energy density battery materials to serve innovative solutions for a brighter future. With our expertise in the application of machine learning in material science, we are developing low cobalt/high nickel lithium cathode materials. Cathode determines the type of a lithium battery and is the limiting factor for nickel-based batteries. Further improvement in battery performance is possible through AI-assisted custom high nickel cathode materials with increased charge rate, charge to discharge ratio, tap density, or any other specifications. By our unique computer-controlled digital reactor farm, we numerize synthesis parameters and output specifications for the machine learning algorithm we have been developing.
  • Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $82k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — 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.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Onedocs — Onedocs' solutions simplify contract management operations, allowing users to simply generate, monitor, approve, and track contracts.
  • Upsonic — Upsonic is a platform that allows users to create artificial intelligence agents designed to perform tasks in businesses. The platform prevents AI agents from hallucinating.
  • Mindtail — Based in Istanbul, Mindtail is a mobile gaming studio dedicated to crafting the next evolution of hybrid mobile games. Founded by industry veterans whose previous titles have reached over 300+ million players worldwide
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TÜBİTAK
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Grant $3k–$230k; Pre-Seed $20k–$521k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Navirid — Navirid is a technology company specializing in IoT and embedded systems, dedicated to developing advanced radar technologies and safety solutions to connect motorcyclists to life and enhance their riding experience.The radar-based systems we develop provide riders with real-time environmental awareness, establishing a new safety standard inmotorcycle use with critical features like blind spot detection, collision warning, and multi-target tracking.Our vision is to make motorcycles an integral part of the intelligent transportation ecosystem; our mission is to connect riders more firmly to life on every journey.
  • VulnHero — VulnHero is an AI-powered offensive security platform that delivers continuous full-stack security testing, exploit-aware vulnerability intelligence, and contextual attack surface management in a single solution.By combining live CVE & exploit telemetry, technology stack discovery, exploitability-first risk scoring, and automated validationworkflows, VulnHero helps organisations identify and prioritise what’s actually exploitable across their entire digital landscape.Built for CISOs, AppSec teams, and red teams, the platform integrates with existing SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, and DevSecOps pipelines, providing actionable, evidence-based insights instead of scanner noise.
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
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Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $12k–$5M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Latissim — Latissim offers personalized beauty and care boxes.
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
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Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 187
  • Round size: Seed $102k–$3.6M; Series A $778k–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Bliss — Bliss is an AI-powered online therapy platform that provides online mental health and wellness services to make mental health support more accessible, affordable, and culturally sensitive. The company connects individuals with licensed therapists and mental health professionals for video, audio, and messaging-based counseling sessions. Its platformincludes therapist matching tools, secure communication systems, appointment scheduling, and multilingual support designed for users seeking culturally aligned care. Bliss supports mental health needs related to anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, stress management, and personal development through remote therapy services. The company also offers mental wellness programs for businesses, providing employee support resources, coaching access, and digital mental health services for distributed teams. Its services are designed to make therapy and emotional support accessible through online and mobile-based interactions.
  • AiM Medical Robotics — We Think in Real Time.
  • Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak — Eat our pure, naturally grown, & direct farmse products, grown without use of harmful chemicals brought to directly from Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak; they'll fill your body with energy, nutrients, & antioxidants.
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% 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.
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TechOne VC
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $400k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.4M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
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EIC-Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Health Care, Information Technology, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Grant, Series A
  • Geography: France, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

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 — Mistikist uses binaural beats for sleep and focus. This helps you relax, lower stress, and increase productivity in just 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.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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Socios
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Creators of Fan Tokens

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Analytics, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Comparisonator — Comparisonator is the next-generation football recruitment platform. Compare, search, virtually transfer and recruit with unmatched precision across 271 leagues.
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Seedthrift Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Seedthrift Ventures incubate early phases of blockchain with capital, support, and promotion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Civan Sözkesen
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Civan Sözkesen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Psychology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ParentWiser — Parent education app.
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Gedik Investment
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Yancep — Yancep is a micro saving, and micro investment application.
  • Finfree — Finfree is an application that enables financial trading, stock market learning, and acts as a virtual stock exchange.
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Virgosol Information and Software Solutions
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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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Mehmet Murat İsen
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Mehmet Murat İsen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Training, Service Industry
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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Mustafa Sandal
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Aza Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Aza Ventures is your dependable partner in the volatile world of cryptocurrency investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Vietnam, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
  • GameBeast — GameBeast is a multi-chain gaming platform developer in the Solana ecosystem.Gamebeast offers a wide range of games, from minigames to AAA blockbusters, giving consumers more token consumption options.
  • Orochi Network — Orochi Network's Verifiable Data Infrastructure is a promising step towards a more secure, scalable, and user-friendly Web3.
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Family & Friends
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Early Stage Investors

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Digital Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United States, France, Jordan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — Discover the latest in the tech scene in the middle east from news, investment, tech stacks, innovation, to creative marketing campaigns.
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Evox Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

A new age crypto fund that invests in great teams and amazing projects.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • Finceptor — Become an early investor of Web3's top projects with over 250,000 other backers.
  • Hebys NFT Search Engine — HEBYS is a robust and comprehensive NFT platform that includes products such as a search engine, marketplace, launchpad, and API Gateway with multi-chain capabilities and AI features. Currently, HEBYS has indexed over 146 million NFTs and 3.8 million collections. All data is automatically and continuously pulled from the major blockchains.Besides the on-chain data it collects, it also provides off-chain data such as active sales, bids/offers, and more from well-known marketplaces. HEBYS all-in-one platform and multi-chain automatized infrastructure eliminate the need to visit many websites and use different tools. Hebys verifies assets to distinguish original from fake items, uses machine-learning-based price estimation to evaluate sales, and returns search results in milliseconds with rich narrow-down options. HEBYS also provides several marketplace data explorations on one page, portfolio management tools to track investments, the ability to directly buy from other marketplaces without leaving the platform, and a feature to chat with owners by wallet address without the need for an email.
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Microsoft for Startups
VC Fund · Redmond, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Microsoft for Startups is a global program designed to help startups scale with free access to Azure cloud and a streamlined path into selling alongside Microsoft and our vast partner ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • UniPay — UniPay is an eCommerce platform for infrastructure and industry-lacking regions that offers 5 products that enable trust, promote transparency, and enforce accountability.
  • Emission Sentri — Drive emission management and reduction with insights
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Artificial Intelligence Factory
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Artificial Intelligence Factory is a goal-oriented program focusing on cooperation and investment with Turkish AI initiatives, offering various support mechanisms for growth and international success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
  • ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
  • Workintech AI — Workintech is an AI-based learning platform teaches coding and other tech skills
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TT Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

TT Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Turk Telekom.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
  • Milvus Robotics — Transform material handling with autonomous mobile robots solutions and fleet software. Smarter, safer, and scalable automation.
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
  • Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
  • Branchsight — Made with Framer
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Ahmet Bilgen
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.2M; Angel $15k–$140k
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt's smart energy management technology allows consumers to optimize energy use and cut electricity expenditures.
  • Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
  • admarket.co — Admarket is a trailblazing AdTech startup that's reshaping the advertising landscape. By offering a streamlined and secure platform for reserving, purchasing, and selling ad spaces, it connects advertisers and media owners like never before. With just one click, advertisers can book various types of ad spaces - including TV, radio, digitalscreen, outdoor, in-store, and in-flight - from anywhere in the world.Admarket simplifies the process of securing ad spaces from preferred media owners and agencies, while its payment service provider, Stripe, ensures top-notch security for customer credit card information. Media owners benefit by gaining access to a global customer base and boosting their revenue.Designed for ease of use, Admarket allows advertisers to view ad spaces on a map, similar to hotel booking sites. Its innovative AdsChange feature enables media owners to swap ad spaces with one another, like exchanging billboard space for radio ads. Plus, advertisers can swiftly broadcast urgent announcements via TV or radio.Looking ahead, Admarket aims to leverage AI technology for identifying sector-specific advertising needs, planning, and design. It will also incorporate automatic bid strategies for outdoor media, TV, and radio ad spaces. Advertisers will be able to view cost-effective advertising options on various timeframes through chart data, akin to flight ticket pricing. Moreover, the AdBroker feature will enable media owners to earn additional income through Admarket's profit-sharing program.In a nutshell, Admarket is a groundbreaking AdTech startup that's revolutionizing the advertising industry by streamlining ad space booking for advertisers and expanding the customer base for media owners. With plans to introduce even more cutting-edge features, Admarket will continue to drive innovation for both advertisers and media owners.
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Ayla Cönger
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Ayla Cönger

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mekan Yusupov
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Mekan Yusupov

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Halkbank
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $165k–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
  • Mistikist — Mistikist uses binaural beats for sleep and focus. This helps you relax, lower stress, and increase productivity in just minutes.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$702k
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • 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
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Portera Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Portera Ventures is an investment firm based in UK

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Apps, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Cerebrum Tech
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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!
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • 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.
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nVentures
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

NVentures is a seed fund with a specific focus on investing in B2B (business-to-business) fintech startups located in the regions of South and Southeast Asia. The fund aims to support early-stage companies within the fintech sector that are operating in business-oriented domains. By providing financial backing and potentially other resources,nVentures seeks to foster innovation and growth within the fintech ecosystem of South and Southeast Asia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bangladesh

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $25k–$329k
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dossiers — Dossiers brings onboarding, screening, and monitoring together into one platform. Fight financial crime with AI-powered trust infrastructure built for banks, fintechs, and financial institutions.
  • 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
  • Shopbook — Record credit, send reminders, and collect payments on your phone. Free app for shopkeepers.
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BadiWorks
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Education, Consulting
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

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.
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Melih Odemis
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $170k–$1.9M; Angel $275k–$524k; Pre-Seed $200k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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!
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ONUR BAYINDIR
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

ONUR BAYINDIR

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Freelance
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$2.2M
  • 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.
  • 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!
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Ayberk Kuday
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Burak Günsev
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Hemra Ashyrov
Angel · Ashgabat, Ahal, Turkmenistan · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Hemra Ashyrov

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Mustafa Kemal Sözkesen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Training, Service Industry
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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Collective Spark
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

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

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Greece

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$5M; Pre-Seed $193k–$2.6M; Series A $1.4M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
  • Synnada — Real-Time Data Product Simple, Powerful & Blazingly Fast. Synnada helps you build interactive, collaborative, intelligent, real-time applications for your mission-critical systems, within minutes and with ease. Powered by SQL and ML.
  • Fundomundo — Fundomundo is an online education platform for children and young people aged 3 to 18.
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Erdal Asim Durukan
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Erdal Asim Durukan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • 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.
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Koray Gultekin Bahar
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Sharing Economy
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $186k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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.
  • 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!
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Alima Ventures BV
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Alima Ventures BV is an investment firm of Turkey

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Nezih Sipahioğlu

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Marketing, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ideasoft — IdeaSoft is a Turkish software company founded on March 23, 2005. It provides businesses and individuals with web-based software solutions, software design, desktop software solutions, e-commerce solutions, and more.IdeaSoft's clients include MODA, Puma, TRT, Turk Hava Yollari, FEM, LOYA, Nelson, ENplus, Essenso, Bellona, Soley, BunDesign, Fonex, and more.
  • 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.
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Nilüfer Günhan
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Nilüfer Günhan

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Investment focus

  • 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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Murat Tayhan
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

Murat Tayhan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Training, Service Industry
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Skilled — Skilled provides full assistance for anyone seeking a successful career in technology by providing training and placement services.
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Techventure
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Education startups

techVenture supports the growth of technology entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, people, and venture capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Web Apps, E-Learning
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • 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.
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Education Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 43 deals from 67 investors.

67
investors
in Turkey Education startups
43
deals
in Turkey Education startups
$100k
median round
in Turkey Education startups
28%
lead investors
lead at least one round
44%
Seed
most common funding stage
67/33
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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