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Top 30 eSports Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Middle East eSports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Middle East eSports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Kushal Shah
Angel
3 United States, Egypt, Singapore Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed eSports, Mobile Apps, Telecommunications $100k–$60M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Internet, Gaming $55k–$2.5M
Hande Enes
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Social Media $29k–$4.1M
Ercan Ergül
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $100k–$3.7M
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Soccer, Sports $80k–$1.1M
Brad Kotansky
Angel
1 United States, Israel, South Korea Series A, Seed, Series B Internet, Software, E-Commerce $900k–$10M
Selin Kiper
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Dylan Collins
Angel
1 Israel, United Kingdom Seed, Series A SaaS, eSports, Messaging
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Education, Communities
Kaan Karapınar
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Can Hicbezmez
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
İrfan Ündevli
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Alexander Abramyan
Angel
1 United Arab Emirates Angel Gaming, eSports, Mobile Apps
Emre Gerçek
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed iOS, Apps, Gaming
Semiramis Kulak
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Sercan Akkaş
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Apps, iOS, SaaS $90k–$600k
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Andrey Belozerov
Angel
1 Russian Federation Seed Apps, EdTech, FinTech
Marc Merrill
Angel
1 United States, Israel, Norway Seed, Series A Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment $1.2M–$13M
Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Recipes, eSports, Delivery
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Cem Büyükkaya
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
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Kushal Shah
Angel · 3 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Kushal Shah is a Co-Founder of Dubai Angel Investors. He was a Board Member at Airalo. He studied at the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Mobile Apps, Telecommunications
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Egypt, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.4M; Series B $20M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Derq — Derq built an award-winning platform powered by AI and predictive analytics helping eliminate crashes, save lives, and create safer and smarter roadways. Our real-time analytics platform feeds a live dashboard available to road owners and operators and sends alerts to connected vehicles and infrast
  • GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
  • YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brix — Brix Money is a blockchain platform tokenizing sovereign yield from emerging markets into programmable on-chain assets like the iTRY stablecoin, backed by Turkish money market funds for DeFi applications.
  • Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
  • Defy — The cryptocurrency space's #1 most-trusted DeFi mobile app platform.Welcome to the space of decentralized finance. Use to earn feature is waiting for you. Connect/Create your wallet and start to earn! We support the future of finance. Buy, sell, swap, transfer cryptocurrency; track all cryptocurrency movements on networks.The TraderBag platform is the Easiest & Most Reliable Way to manage your DeFi portfolio and make copy-trade. You don't need to spend hours drawing graphs to be able to analyze.Reach all cryptocurrencies from a single platform. You can trade on all major networks(support multi-chain).Manage your crypto portfolio easily. Buy, sell, convert, transfer…You don't need to be an expert in the crypto space.Make your transactions securely with other wallets thanks to the Anti Money Laundering (AML) service.Track Talented Traders and Cryptocurrency wallets instantly with TraderBag!Thanks to TraderBag, get instant notification when there is a trade in the trader or whale wallets you follow and do not miss the opportunities.Easily see what coins are in crypto wallets; Search with WEB3 wallet address or wallet QR code and see cryptocurrencies, track wallet.Connect or Create your own crypto wallet 100% securely with WEB3 and Get 500 TRBAG. Keep earning TRBAG from the transactions you make with your wallet.Artificial intelligence robots research the market and give you instant news about the newly listed cryptocurrencies.Secret crypto wallets of popular people in the Trader Bag app.Trader Bag prepares daily cryptocurrency market analysis for you. You can instantly follow the most bought and sold cryptocurrencies daily, hourly, weekly. You can instantly see which crypto billionaires are investing in from the market analysis.You will not miss the market with the news it creates for you by examining the analyzes produced by artificial intelligence robots.You can easily access the purchase and sale price details of digital assets in the crypto bags of the people you follow.If you think that you are doing a very good analysis and following the market, you can start earning TRBAG through Trader Bag.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Brad Kotansky
Angel · Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Brad Kotansky is the Chief Financial Officer of Copperstate Farms. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Onist Technologies.Brad Kotansky has always been a serial investor: while pursuing his undergraduate BComm degree at McGill University, Brad was a member of the finance club and interned at ScotiaMcLeod for a wealth advisor; upon graduation,his passion for investing led him to Wall Street where he spent over a decade working as an investment banker, and later as an analyst and portfolio manager for various hedge funds; in 2012, he founded Prickly Pear Ventures, a real estate development firm in Phoenix, Arizona, to capture opportunities from fallout of the Real Estate crisis of 2009 (the portfolio of single-family homes he amassed was ultimately sold to ARPI, a publicly traded REIT in 2013). To this day, Brad continues to be very active in the angel and seed investing world having invested in companies such as Coupang, Synchtank, Playsight, New Hive and Jingle Punks. But one thing Brad had always wanted to do was start and operate a business of his own. Ari’s business plan was tweaked, and together the pair embarked on a search for a technical founder.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, South Korea

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Series A $900k–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coupang — Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations. It offers its customers possible prices and product selection within a convenient and personalized shopping environment.Powered by technology and operations, Coupang has set out to transform the end-to-end customer experience from revolutionizinglast-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi.
  • NewHive — New Hive is the blank canvas of the web. It's mission is to encourage creative expression online.
  • PlaySight Interactive — Connecting the next generation of athletes with a cutting-edge video and analysis tools for any sport at any level. Discover the PlaySight SmartCourt and platform
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Selin Kiper
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Selin Kiper

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Dylan Collins
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them.He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros andActivision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month.An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy.As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, eSports, Messaging
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Israel, United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
  • Levellr — Levellr software helps creators & brands to build, manage and monetise messaging communities within existing apps, including Discord & Telegram. Our tools, which sit on top of Discord & Telegram, help our customers to acquire powerful-first party data on superfans, build highly engaged communities & generate tangible revenueopportunities, whilst also providing our customers with community strategy & on-going moderation services to ensure their communities thrive.
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Education, Communities
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Kaan Karapınar
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Kaan Karapınar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Can Hicbezmez is the Co-founder of Arya Diamond.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Born in Istanbul in 1982, Orkun Saitoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then studied Computer Engineering at Montpellier University and completed his master's degree at Paris Pierre-Marie Curie University in Paris. In the second year of his graduate study, he became part of the team of B2B, B2C sites in the TUI group and startedhis career as a Software Engineer. During the first years of his career, he supported the design and integration of PayPal solution in France and the Benelux and later on became a part of business development and sales team during Scandinavian, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Russian market expansion. Orkun, later on became a part of a global team managing PayPal’s relationship with startups against Stripe and Braintree competition. In 2014, after living abroad for 14 years he decided to move back to Turkey to establish his own startup company. It is during this period that Orkun met with iyzico’s co-founders Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın to become the COO of iyzico knowing that the company would emerge as the payment champion of the region. Orkun is currently in charge of all of iyzico’s sales, marketing and operations teams.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel · Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Mustafa Emre Gündüz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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İrfan Ündevli
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

İrfan Ündevli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Alexander Abramyan
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Alexander Abramyan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fotrum — Fotrum Project - competitive matchmaking platform
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Emre Gerçek
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Emre Gerçek

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Investment focus

  • Industry: iOS, Apps, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Semiramis Kulak
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Semiramis Kulak

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, iOS, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$600k; Pre-Seed $120k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lugath — Lugath automates content localization with the power of AI translation.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • CatchJobs — CatchJobs is an application that offers staffing and recruitment services to users. It is a video-based employment platform connecting hospitality job seekers with employers.
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Andrey Belozerov is an entrepreneur and investor. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Russian Federation

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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Marc Merrill
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Israel, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$13M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
  • OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
  • Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Kaan Kalıpçı

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recipes, eSports, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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Cem Büyükkaya
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Cem Büyükkaya

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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Kaan Kural
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Barış Before
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Barış Before

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel · 1 investments in Middle East eSports startups

Gizem Nilay Tuna

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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