Top 35 eSports Angel Investors in Middle East (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Kushal Shah
Angel
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3 | United States, Egypt, Singapore | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | eSports, Software, Telecommunications | $100k–$60M |
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Internet | $63k–$2.5M |
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Soccer, Sports | $80k–$1.1M |
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Selin Kiper
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A, Convertible Note | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Kaan Karapınar
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Kaan Kural
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Alexander Abramyan
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Angel | Gaming, eSports, Mobile Apps | |
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Semiramis Kulak
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Andrey Belozerov
Angel
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1 | Russian Federation | Seed | Apps, EdTech, FinTech | |
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Erdem Gezer
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Ercan Ergül
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A, Convertible Note | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Dylan Collins
Angel
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1 | Israel, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | SaaS, eSports, Messaging | |
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Education, Communities | |
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Barış Before
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Faisal Alabdelsalam
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps | $150k–$2M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Brad Kotansky
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, South Korea | Series A, Seed, Series B | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $900k–$10M |
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A, Convertible Note | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Apps, iOS, SaaS | $120k–$600k |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $15k–$11M |
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Hande Enes
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $29k–$4.1M |
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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İrfan Ündevli
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Marc Merrill
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Norway | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment | $1.2M–$15M |
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Recipes, eSports, Delivery | |
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Ali Ilci
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Switzerland, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | Hotel, Advice, Gaming | $123k–$400k |
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Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel
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1 | Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports | $165k–$1.2M |
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Emre Gerçek
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | iOS, Apps, Gaming | |
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Cem Büyükkaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Shukhrat Ibragimov
Angel
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1 | Tajikistan | Convertible Note | SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | |
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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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- Industry: eSports, Software, 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.
Sertaç Özinal
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $64k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
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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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- 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–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Selin Kiper
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. 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.
Kaan Karapınar
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- 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
Kaan Kural
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
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- 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
Alexander Abramyan
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fotrum — Fotrum: Empowering Mobile Gamers through Competitive GamingHave you ever wondered why PC games like Dota 2 and Counter-Strike remain incredibly popular for years, while many competitive mobile games struggle to maintain traction over time, even in the most successful regions? The secret sauce lies in community-driven activities. Just take a lookat CS:GO, where the community plays on platforms like Faceit, hosts tournaments, and fosters the growth of esports.Introducing Fotrum, the all-in-one ecosystem designed specifically for the mobile gaming market. At Fotrum, we've tackled the user retention challenges faced by mobile game publishers head-on by offering real competition and growth opportunities to mobile gamers on our innovative competitive platform.One of the major hurdles we've addressed is the lack of APIs provided by mobile game publishers. We've developed special bots that revolutionize the gaming experience. These bots are capable of creating lobbies, inviting players, initiating games, collecting in-game statistics, and much more. By bridging this technological gap, we ensure a seamless and enriched gaming experience for our users.But that's not all. Fotrum also provides an advanced toolkit tailored to esports organizations. Our toolkit includes an automated tournament system that simplifies the hosting of qualifications through our bot system, a targeting system to help teams find skilled players, and native integrations for tournament organizations, allowing for monetization opportunities.Fotrum has also played a pivotal role in creating the esports market for Standoff 2 in the CIS region. By providing a dedicated platform for competitive play, Fotrum has cultivated a thriving community of Standoff 2 enthusiasts, offering them a place to showcase their skills, compete in tournaments, and elevate the esports scene in the region.Currently, Fotrum supports popular games such as Standoff 2, PUBG Mobile, and Brawl Stars, with plans to expand our list of supported games in the near future. Mobile Legends will be added to our platform within a couple of months, further diversifying the gaming options available to our users.Behind Fotrum's success is a team of 15 highly experienced individuals in the game industry and software engineering. Our team brings invaluable expertise from some of the largest fintech companies, ensuring that Fotrum operates at the cutting edge of technology and gaming.Join the Fotrum community today and unlock the true potential of mobile gaming. Experience our advanced matchmaking system, access to tournaments, esports team system, comprehensive statistics, and game analysis. With Fotrum, mobile gamers can finally embark on a journey of growth, competition, and success.
Semiramis Kulak
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Rıfat Elhadef
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Erdem Gezer
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- 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 — Git Kargo; Yeni Nesil Kargo #gitkargo
Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. 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.
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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- 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.
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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- 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 — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
Can Hicbezmez is the Co-founder of Arya Diamond.
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- 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
Barış Before
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Faisal Alabdelsalam is the Founder and CEO of Zetta Technologies. He previously worked at STC as a Database Manager. Faisal Alabdelsalam attended King Saud University.
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- Industry: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bekia — We are proud to say that Bekia is the most flexible company when it comes to recycling.
- SIDEUP — SIDEUP provides you with all the necessary tools to grow your business through a hassle-free experience from local and global logistics support, storage services, and innovative and real-time dashboards.
- T7D Gaming — Gaming infrastructure for 600M+ players across MENA. Home of Pulse.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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 — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
- ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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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- 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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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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.
Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.
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- Industry: Apps, iOS, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $209k–$600k; Pre-Seed $120k–$123k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Kidolog — Kidolog offers developmental processes for children from pregnancy to the age of 18 and provides support in different categories to children and parents. They provide counseling services via video, voice, or messaging. Their purpose is that the child development process is carried out by their skilled personnel in collaboration with parents.
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- 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.
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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- 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 developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
- 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.
Hande Enes
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- 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.
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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- 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 — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
İrfan Ündevli
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- 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
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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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- Industry: Gaming, Video Games, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: United States, Israel, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$15M
- 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.
Kaan Kalıpçı
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- 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.
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Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor
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- Industry: Hotel, Advice, Gaming
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Switzerland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Pre-Seed $123k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pardon AI — Boost your business with Pardon AI 3.0, cutting-edge technology. Discover AI-driven insights to increase sales, enhance customer satisfaction, and streamline operations. Transform your hospitality experience today!
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- Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.
Gizem Nilay Tuna
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Gaming, eSports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $165k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
- 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).
- Glamera — Glamera B2B2C: SaaS platform to power beauty salons, spa, Gym and barber shops, to optimize sales, booking, marketing, inventory and HR. Glamera White Label: Every service provider can create his own website, to help his customer in pre-booking his services. Glamera B2C: Mobile application for end user to book beauty and wellness appointment.
Emre Gerçek
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- Industry: iOS, Apps, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Kidolog — Kidolog offers developmental processes for children from pregnancy to the age of 18 and provides support in different categories to children and parents. They provide counseling services via video, voice, or messaging. Their purpose is that the child development process is carried out by their skilled personnel in collaboration with parents.
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- 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.
Cem Büyükkaya
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
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- 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
Shukhrat Ibragimov is a Group CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Eurasian Resources Group.
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- Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: Tajikistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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- zypl.ai — We help financial institutions, government entities make more accurate decisions
- Galaxy Racer — Galaxy Racer provides content creators with brand endorsement deals, streaming contracts, creator collaborations, digital rights management, monetization, online and offline event opportunities, social media management and content programming.
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