Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Enterprise startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024
Investor | Enterprise Turkey investments |
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Aslanoba Capital | 26 |
Boğaziçi Ventures | 15 |
Alesta Yatırım | 15 |
Omer Erkmen | 14 |
Revo Capital | 13 |
TechOne VC | 13 |
StartersHub | 12 |
APY Ventures | 11 |
Keiretsu Forum Turkey | 11 |
Nexus Ventures | 10 |
Earlybird Venture Capital | 10 |
Nevzat Aydın | 10 |
Diffusion Capital Partners | 10 |
Logo Ventures | 8 |
Maxis | 8 |
Arz Portfolio | 8 |
500 Istanbul | 8 |
212 | 8 |
StartupFon | 7 |
ACT Venture Partners | 7 |
Joachim Behrendt | 7 |
Sertaç Özinal | 7 |
Keiretsu Forum | 7 |
Finberg | 6 |
Albaraka Fintech Fund | 6 |
Angel Effect | 6 |
Lima Ventures | 6 |
TRANGELS | 6 |
Bedii Can Yucaoglu | 5 |
Sabancı Ventures | 5 |
Utku Öz | 5 |
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund | 5 |
F+ Ventures | 5 |
Vinci Venture Capital | 5 |
Emre Acikel | 5 |
Firat Isbecer | 5 |
Fark Labs | 5 |
Teknogirişim GSYF | 4 |
Tarvenn Ventures | 4 |
Melih Odemis | 4 |
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan | 4 |
BIC Angels | 4 |
Burak Dayıoğlu | 4 |
Fatih Isbecer | 4 |
Ak Portfoy | 4 |
Collective Spark | 4 |
Hasan Aslanoba | 4 |
QNBEYOND Ventures | 4 |
Teknasyon | 4 |
Inveo Ventures | 4 |
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
- Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
- Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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.
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!
An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
- IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
- PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
- Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
- Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Abonesepeti — Abonesepeti is one and only subscription management platform in Turkey. While subscribers can make smart subscription decisions and easily manage their subscriptions, Service providers can easily gain incremental subscribers by using Abonesepeti’s online and offline sales platforms. Abonesepeti raised seeds round in 2017 via www.sirketortagim.comAngel Investor Ban. Up to Date; Abonesepeti generate 16x growth based on revenue and serves more than 1M subscribers.
- Hummingdrone — Hummingdrone provides cutting-edge autonomous drones and software solutions designed specifically for the solar energy industry.
- Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Rapido — Rapido bike taxi provides the best intra-city commuting services and is currently operating in 100+ cities. It is considered as the most affordable choice.
- Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
- Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.
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
- Loyi — Loyi is a loyalty platform. Its no-code, white-label solutions provide individualized, gamified experiences.
- TILT — TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards.
- Involve Space — Involve Space provides solutions for space-based activities via a customizable and cost-effective stratospheric pseudo satellite.
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.
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
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!
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
- Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
- Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
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
- Information Technology, Manufacturing, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
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.
- StartupCentrum — StartupCentrum is a digital community that gets startups, talents, investors and incubators together.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
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.
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
StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates.
ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Jori — Multimodal AI platform to power apparel resale and recycling.
- Hedge — Hedge offers $0 commission individual & group investing, an inclusive network of communities, and interactive learning resources to help you build your financial future.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
Early stage deep tech investor
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Rototip — On demand CNC manufacturing Rototip Milling Turning Bespoke Manufacturing
- Qubitrium — Explore innovative quantum solutions at Qubitrium. Elevate your journey with cutting-edge products, services, and trainings. Your quantum future...
- Meddenovo Drug Design — Meddenovo is at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery, pioneering a specialized technology platform designed specifically for cyclic peptides. Our innovative approach leverages a unique blend of AI technologies and molecular modeling to significantly enhance the efficiency and success rates of drug development processes. Cyclic peptidesrepresent a groundbreaking class of compounds in pharmaceutical research. These molecules combine the best attributes of small molecules and large biologics, offering exceptional binding affinities, stability, and specificity. At Meddenovo, we are leaders in harnessing the potential of cyclic peptides, developing tailored solutions that push the boundaries of traditional drug discovery. Beyond small organic molecules, our expertise extends to peptide-based medicines and metal chelators, giving us a competitive edge in novel drug research and development. We excel in creating unique chemical spaces tailored to your needs and provide custom computational solutions for predicting drug resistance, elucidating biochemical reaction mechanisms, and conducting metal affinity analysis. At Meddenovo, we are dedicated to precision and reliability in drug discovery. Our approach reduces failure rates and improves outcomes, accelerating the journey from research to market. Our mission is to empower scientists worldwide with advanced, user-friendly AI tools, democratizing access to cutting-edge drug discovery technologies.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
- Internet, Gaming, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
- Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
- AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hayhay — Hayhay operates a mobile application that manages financial transactions. It provides an online tool that sends, receives, and processes different kinds of payments. Hayhay was founded in 2020 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
Fintech fund of Albaraka Turk
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
- Vomsis — Vomsis is a application which collects all the bank banks on a single screen and helps to check balance and account movements.
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together.
Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- & 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.
- Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
- Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
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.
Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
- Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
- Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.
Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Fernhay Solutions — Discover Fernhay's revolutionary eQuad (eCargo Bike) - the ultimate zero-emission solution that's making cities cleaner and greener.
- 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.
- ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
Utku is a Partner based in our Istanbul office. He is the leader of the “Digital and Analytics” Practice in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, helping clients create value with data, innovative tools and techniques. He serves a wide range of industries, including financial services, telecoms, manufacturing and retail.
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- Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
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- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
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
F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia, United States
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- Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
- Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
- Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
Vinci is a venture capital investment firm strategically funded by Inci Holding, a family-owned, industrial holding company active in the manufacturing of wheels, car and industrial batteries, hotel equipment, and logistics services. We are a financial investor but beyond funding, we aim to add value by providing corporate resources, experience,and the long-term view of a true strategic partner for small businesses. Our lead investor, Inci Holding, allows us to provide hands-on support and actively contribute to the growth and prosperity of our investees. Vinci is run by a team made up of Inci Board members and experienced venture capital professionals, who bring relevant know-how to support start-ups on their path to commercial success.
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- Logistics, Software, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany
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- Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
- Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
- SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).
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- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
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- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
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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- Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- 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.
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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- SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
Venture capital arm of KT Portföy
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- Software, Computer Vision, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- İletmen — İletmen is a food delivery app which takes packages, products or orders from your business and deliver them to your customers.
- Akaunting — Akaunting is a free, open-source, and online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers. Send invoices and track expenses.
- BulutKlinik — BulutKlinik is an online hospital information management system that offers patient, financial & medical tracking information in one system.
Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions.
We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances.
Our business is to build yours…
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
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- RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
- Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
- Madcraft Studios — Madcraft Studios develops games for computer and mobile platforms.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
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- 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!
I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com
Web: https://alibabaoglan.com
Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos
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- TV, CRM, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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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.
- N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
- Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.
BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
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- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- EvdekiBakıcım — EvdekiBakıcım empowers young generation so they can reach their full potential. EvdekiBakıcım aims to lead innovation in care, tutoring and activity categories.
Dayioglu holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Engineering and holds CISSP, CSSLP, CRISC, CIPT certificates with a strong technology background. He is an active angel investor.
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- Big Data, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Turkey
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- Audit Now — AuditNow is a software platform to modernize how internal audit teams collaborate and deliver results faster and more efficiently.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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- Internet, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- Mindway VR — Mindway is a fully immersive meditation app that proves mindfulness doesn't have to be boring.
- Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management.
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- Information Technology, Software, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States
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- Virasoft — ViraSoft’s ambition is to be the first choice in the field of digital pathology in Turkey and in mid-term enabling to give service to the neighboring countries. Together with the R&D activities, we aim to improve the efficiency and effectivity in the pathology process and reach significant diagnosis results.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- 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.
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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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Greece
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- Cenoa — Convert your local currency to dollars in minutes and send it back to any bank account in your country and 30+ others.
- Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
- Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Singapore
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- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
Like every other aspect of our lives financial services are changing. The next 10 years will be nothing like before.We know visionary founders will play a key role to pioneer this change. That is why we are driven to partner with audacious teams who also have strong resilience.As a strategic investor we are aiming to explore any chance tocollaborate as earliest as possible, where we can contribute with our insights and explore the potential opportunities within QNB Group.Our presence as QNB Group in more than 30 countries serving 24 million customers with a full spectrum of financial products, makes us confident we can bring an extensive global network and our business expertise thus when we partner, we deliver critical support besides capital to accelerate growth.So if you think you are that team, contact us and let’s define what’s beyond of banking together!
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Graphic Design
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- FirstBatch — FirstBatch is building collaboration and user-centric tools for AGI
- Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and 172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.
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- Apps, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
- Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
Backed by our entrepreneurial and venture capital knowhow,we are creating value with the innovative and scalable tech companies.
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- Software, SaaS, Consulting
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
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- Retter — Develop fast, powerful web apps
- B2Metric — B2Metric is an AI-powered predictive data analytics solution that optimizes your marketing budget by understanding customer journey behavior
- Malwation — At Malwation, we are your trusted cybersecurity partner, specializing in comprehensive malware analysis, sanitization, and simulation solutions.With an unwavering commitment to safeguarding your enterprise
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