Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Turkey in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Energy startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Energy companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Energy Startup Investors in Turkey in November 2024
Investor | Energy Turkey investments |
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TRANGELS | 4 |
Founder One | 4 |
500 Istanbul | 4 |
TechOne VC | 3 |
Earlybird Venture Capital | 3 |
Yılmaz Yıldız | 3 |
Fark Labs | 3 |
Nevzat Aydın | 3 |
Boğaziçi Ventures | 3 |
212 | 3 |
Ömer Aras | 2 |
Faruk Eczacıbaşı | 2 |
Haluk Can Hür | 2 |
Logo Ventures | 2 |
Emre Kurttepeli | 2 |
Ahu Serter | 2 |
Tarık Bayar | 2 |
Ercan Solmaz | 2 |
Revo Capital | 2 |
Özgür Trakya | 2 |
Diffusion Capital Partners | 2 |
ERBAN | 2 |
Meltem Kirişçi | 2 |
Uğur Şeker | 2 |
Toshiba Corporation | 2 |
Firat Isbecer | 2 |
EGIAD Angels | 2 |
Ömer Faruk Akarca | 2 |
Nuri Cem Erbak | 2 |
Smartup Partners | 1 |
Ahmed Faruk Karslı | 1 |
Deniz T. | 1 |
Vestel Ventures | 1 |
Kamil Sözen | 1 |
Arya Ventures | 1 |
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund | 1 |
SOSV | 1 |
Yagiz Gokdemir | 1 |
Akbank | 1 |
Samuel Jaudel | 1 |
Kerim Kotan | 1 |
Nuh Kar | 1 |
Enis Fakioglu | 1 |
Onder Oztarhan | 1 |
Aras Bulut İynemli | 1 |
Koray Gultekin Bahar | 1 |
YEO | 1 |
APLUS Enerji | 1 |
Genesis Consortium | 1 |
TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ | 1 |
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
- Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
- Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
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
- MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
- The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.
- Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
- Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
- Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.
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!
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Keel — Keel is a London-based startup offering modern businesses a much-needed third choice between off-the-shelf and no-code tools. Keel has developed a powerful programmable operations platform which offers all the benefits of bespoke tooling without the need to build from scratch.Keel was founded in 2022 by Benoit Machefer, Tom Frew and Jon Bretman,who directly experienced the frustration of being underserved by off-the-shelf software when scaling the fastest growing online pharmacy in Europe to over $130m revenue. The company represents a compelling vision of a future without legacy ERP, where ops teams and engineers work more closely together building bespoke tools on the robust and secure Keel platform.
- terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
- Picus Security — The Complete Security Control Validation Platform | Stay proactive by validating your security controls with attack scenarios, empower your Red, Purple, Blue teams.
Yılmaz Yıldız
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Investment focus
- Waste Management, Procurement, Retail
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovationstrategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. We use this approach for our 4 focus verticals: mobility, life sciences, sustainable lifestyle, and emerging technologies, which we call our curiosity cabinet.We back change-makers who transform industries and create new ones. Our sweet spot is investing early, and we continue to provide support and investment up to Series A. We envision a better future by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform legacy businesses and build future-proof startups.We also drive innovation and transformation through collaborative intelligence. We build a unique ecosystem that connects difference-makers, leading corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across our 4 verticals.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
- M-Based — M-based is an initiative aiming to develop eco-friendly alternative material technologies using mycelium, a component of the mushroom. Its R&D efforts focus on developing mycelium-based vegan leather to address environmental concerns and animal ethics violations in the textile industry.
- Ion membranes — Ion membranes is a company that designs and manufactures ion exchange membranes and separators for the green energy industry. Our products are used in batteries, electrolyzers, fuel cells, chlor-alkali facilities, electrodialysis water treatment processes, and other applications that require ionic range separation.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
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.
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Ömer Aras
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Investment focus
- Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech Bioinformatics translates genome-wide molecular data (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Microbiomics, etc.) into biotechnology solutions primarily for use in precision medicine.
Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center
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Investment focus
- iOS, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
- Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
Haluk Can Hür
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Retail, Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing
Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.
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Investment focus
- Software, Retail, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Baby, Information Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Harcy — Harcy is an R&D organization that uses waste to create new types of building materials to strengthen the circular economy. First, it developed Harcy Polyester Wool, a building thermal insulation material made from textile waste. With its high performance and ease of application, Harcy Polyester Wool is a contender to replace the previousinsulation materials while recycling two kilograms of textile waste per square meter into the economy.
- Ampherr — Ampherr provides cutting-edge, intelligent energy storage solutions based on different chemical variations of lithium-ion cells, such as NMC, LTO, and LFP, for all types of electrical cars and stationary applications. Manufacturer of battery packs, focus on delivering application-specific products for practically all use cases while combiningquality, cutting-edge engineering, and agile service.
- Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
Tarık Bayar
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Ercan Solmaz
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
Özgür Trakya
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Doktar Technologies — We lead digitization and digital transformation in agriculture with digital services, sensors, satellites and other agricultural technologies.
- Enhencer — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.
- Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
ERBAN is an accredited angel investor network that aims to revive the entrepreneurship ecosystem with the support of angel investors, to realize value added projects and contribute to their growth. It has the opportunity to address a wide audience by establishing connections with professional organizations and chambers.ERBAN's vision is tocontribute to the country's economy as a result of bringing enterprises together with necessary capital and becoming corporate companies operating in the international arena. ERBAN is headquartered in Kayseri, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Battery, Industrial
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Batron Arge — Batron Arge, which provides battery design and production services, was established in 2017 with the Tübitak 1512 Teknogirişim capital support program and started to serve its customers in the field of battery and medical industry. Although our company is new, it was founded by engineers with more than ten years of experience in battery mechanicsand electronics, embedded system design, test engineering, and project management. Battery designs, which will meet the requirements of international standards and will be at competitive levels in terms of cost, are primarily offered to customer evaluation. In our country, limited supply sources for standard and customer-specific battery design lead device designers to unreliable far east products. Being a reliable domestic product supplier in this regard is one of the most important goals of BATRON R&D. By working as a member of the same project team with device designers, by providing fast and effective reactions to design changes, by offering reliable products to the designer and the user, our work continues with the increasing enthusiasm to make our company a world brand and represent our country in this sector.
- Baron Energy — Baron Energy is an oil and gas exploration and development company. The company is engaged in the acquisition, operation, and exploitation of producing oil and gas properties in Texas. Baron performs petroleum management and business development services for client companies focused on acquiring assets.
Meltem Kirişçi
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Uğur Şeker
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Investment focus
- Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
- Seed
- Turkey, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Toshiba Corporation is a manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products such as information and communications systems; digital consumer products; electronic devices and components; power systems including nuclear energy; industrial and social infrastructure systems; and home appliances.Toshiba Corporation was founded in1939 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Software, Manufacturing
- Series C, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Japan, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- REXEV — REXEV is a company that combines next-generation technologies such as AI, IoT, and autonomous driving with energy management technology.
- Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
- SmartPulse Technology Inc. — The platform includes automated process management as well as integrated algorithmic trading and optimization. Generators and consumers can monitor operations, manage forecasts, employ autotrader functions, participate in a virtual and/or real balancing pools. The platform also acts as a marketplace for forecasting service providers and powerretail operations. SmartPulse also has a self-developed IoT platform.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
- Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.
- artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
Ömer Faruk Akarca
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Nuri Cem Erbak
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Investment focus
- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Smartup Partners is an Investment firm.
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Investment focus
- Sustainability
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Sustable — Sustainability Management
Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Art, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
Deniz T.
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Investment focus
- PaaS, SaaS, Solar
- Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- SmartPulse Technology Inc. — The platform includes automated process management as well as integrated algorithmic trading and optimization. Generators and consumers can monitor operations, manage forecasts, employ autotrader functions, participate in a virtual and/or real balancing pools. The platform also acts as a marketplace for forecasting service providers and powerretail operations. SmartPulse also has a self-developed IoT platform.
Vestel Ventures is the corporate investment company of Vestel Group of Companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Social Impact
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
- Rierino — Rierino is the ultimate combination of composable commerce, embedded intelligence, and low-code/no-code (LCNC) capabilities to improve the flexibility, speed, and cost-effectiveness of enterprise-grade software development. Its high-impact modules provide the much-needed rapid customization capability for medium-to-large enterprises that isnot available through standard packaged solutions.
- Mega Fortuna — Mega Fortuna is a leading creator and producer of apps and games. To accomplish this, we mix client needs and lifestyle trends with industry-leading technology.
Kamil Sözen
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Farming, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Founded in partnership by Arya Women Investment Platform and İşbank, Arya Ventures aims to make early- stage and series A investments in gender-balanced startups in Turkey's ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
- Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
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- 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
SOSV is a global, deep tech venture capital firm that operates the HAX and IndieBio startup development programs focused on human and planetary health. SOSV invests $500,000 in startups at their inception as they onboard either HAX or IndieBio for a 4-6 month period designed to accelerate the raise of their next institutional round. SOSV joins thelater rounds of HAX and IndieBio graduates.
HAX, based in a 35,000 sq ft facility in Newark, NJ, is equipped with machine tools, 3D printers, chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering labs, as well as on-staff engineering and design experts. SOSV's IndieBio has locations in NYC and San Francisco, both of which offer extensive services and facilities to founders including on-site BSL-2 labs, well equipped lab benches and hoods, and advanced lab equipment, such as chromatography equipment.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Software
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, United Kingdom
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- unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
- NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
- Sodex Innovations — Sodex Innovations is a company which is specialized in developing assistance-systems and automating-kits for excavators
Yagiz Gokdemir
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
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- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
- Botgate AI — Capture, Respond and Channelise information to give personalized and quick responses to generate leads with our AI Tools, Chatbots, and Messaging API.
Akbank is a commercial bank providing financing to cotton producers.
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- Electric Vehicle, Waste Management
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- VOLTLA — Voltla facilitates the life of electric vehicle owners by enabling all electric charging stations to be viewed from a single point.
- Metriqus — Metriqus is committed to providing gaming studios with a complete platform to maximize their marketing performance.
- Waste Log — Waste Log digitizes waste processes and disposal.
Samuel Jaudel is an individual investor.
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- Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Kerim Kotan
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- Software, SaaS, Medical Device
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Canada, United Kingdom
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- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Sports Digitale — the leading independent sports media company in Turkey in every field of sports, from football and basketball to combat sports, Formula 1, with 1 million subscribers
- TelomEye Pharmaceuticals — TelomEye Pharmaceuticals provides treatments to prevent and improve age-related ophthalmologic disorders.
Nuh Kar is a CEO at Solitek Engineering Energy and Electrical Systems.
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- Energy, Battery, Renewable Energy
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Ratio Energy — Ratio provides the energy management, optimization and trading for energy storage and distribution.
Enis Fakioglu is a Managing Director at ENISOLAR Enerji A.S.
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- SaaS, Solar, Energy
- Angel
- Turkey
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- solarVis — solarVis is a B2B white-label SaaS company digitalizing solar energy pre-feasibility analysis, purchasing and loan processes. It makes ordering a solar power plant project as easy as buying a refrigerator. It decreases customer acquisition costs and increases sales force of solar companies.
Onder Oztarhan
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- Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Nivogo — Nivogo renews goods that couldn't pass to the consumption stage by putting them through a 6-step process and bring them to consumers.
Aras Bulut İynemli is a Turkish actor.
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- Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Nivogo — Nivogo renews goods that couldn't pass to the consumption stage by putting them through a 6-step process and bring them to consumers.
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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- Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
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- 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 — hrPanda - Shaping tomorrow's talent landscape, a next-gen Application Tracking System
YEO is a power generation, transmission, and distribution corporation that focuses on automation and electrification. YEO provides electrification, automation, and digitization solutions. They provide design, engineering, procurement, integration, installation, and commissioning projects as the EPC contractor for clients ranging from traditionalstate-owned utilities to independent power plant developers.
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- Energy, Manufacturing, Renewable Energy
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Ion membranes — Ion membranes is a company that designs and manufactures ion exchange membranes and separators for the green energy industry. Our products are used in batteries, electrolyzers, fuel cells, chlor-alkali facilities, electrodialysis water treatment processes, and other applications that require ionic range separation.
APLUS Enerji Investment Consulting Technology & Trade Co. is an independent consultancy and technology development company with a strong focus in the energy value chain. APLUS strives to bridge the gap between OT, IT and Quant domains by providing performant, transparent and user-friendly software tools and reports based on the state-of-the artmathematical approaches. The products offered by APLUS include short and long term load and price forecasting, integrated energy trade and risk management solution and plant dispatch optimization tools. In addition to providing consultancy for its tools and the business processes around these tools, APLUS also provides financial and technical feasibility studies for power plants, technical and market consultancy for Smart Grid projects and finally regulatory and strategic consultancy for international clients interested in the Turkish Energy market.
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- PaaS, SaaS, Solar
- Seed
- Turkey
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- SmartPulse Technology Inc. — The platform includes automated process management as well as integrated algorithmic trading and optimization. Generators and consumers can monitor operations, manage forecasts, employ autotrader functions, participate in a virtual and/or real balancing pools. The platform also acts as a marketplace for forecasting service providers and powerretail operations. SmartPulse also has a self-developed IoT platform.
An alliance of venture funds and corporations to promote human and planetary health.
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- Biotechnology, Fashion, Architecture
- Seed
- United States, Brazil, Turkey
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- MAA'VA — MAA’VA™ is developing a proprietary sustainable carbon negative construction material, turning plastic and nonplastic waste into eco-material, advancing solutions to climate change crisis, waste crisis, global river sand shortage, water scarcity and rapid urbanization. Our eco-concrete can be used for both conventional and 3D printingconstruction. By optimizing 3D printing technology we can build environmentally friendly low cost housing with eco-concrete in one day for 1/10th of the construction cost and half of the construction waste.
- West~bourne — delicious, nutrient-rich, and planet conscious snacks, spices and mixes, so you can eat well, do better, and gather often.
- Gozen Bioworks — Gozen Bioworks is a bio-tech company that invents and develops next-gen microbe-derived biomaterials.
TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ
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- Sustainability, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Malty — Malty engages in the sustainable food industry.
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