Top 25 ESports Angel Investors in Turkey in February 2025
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Esports startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 ESports Angel Investors in Turkey in February 2025
Investor | eSports Turkey investments |
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Sertaç Özinal | 2 |
Hande Enes | 1 |
Nevzat Aydın | 1 |
Sina Afra | 1 |
Selin Kiper | 1 |
Orkun Saitoğlu | 1 |
Erdem Gezer | 1 |
Cem Büyükkaya | 1 |
Kaan Karapınar | 1 |
Gizem Nilay Tuna | 1 |
Rıfat Elhadef | 1 |
Demirhan Büyüközcü | 1 |
Kaan Kural | 1 |
Kaan Kayabalı | 1 |
Barış Before | 1 |
Ercan Ergül | 1 |
Mustafa Emre Gündüz | 1 |
İrfan Ündevli | 1 |
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut | 1 |
Kaan Kalıpçı | 1 |
Sercan Akkaş | 1 |
Barbaros Özbugutu | 1 |
Semiramis Kulak | 1 |
Can Hicbezmez | 1 |
Emre Gerçek | 1 |
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
- Internet, Gaming, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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.
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.
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
Selin Kiper
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Investment focus
- Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Series A
- Turkey
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.
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
- Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Series A
- Turkey
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.
Erdem Gezer
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Cem Büyükkaya
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Kaan Karapınar
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Gizem Nilay Tuna
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Rıfat Elhadef
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Kaan Kural
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Barış Before
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
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Investment focus
- Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. 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.
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
İrfan Ündevli
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Kaan Kalıpçı
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Investment focus
- Recipes, eSports, Delivery
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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.
Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, Fruit
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
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
- Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Semiramis Kulak
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Can Hicbezmez
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Emre Gerçek
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Investment focus
- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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