# Top 30 ESports Startup Investors in Turkey in June 2026 ## Sertaç Özinal - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming Sertaç Özinal ## ACT Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology Early stage deep tech investor ## Demirhan Büyüközcü - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio ## Cem Büyükkaya - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Cem Büyükkaya ## Orkun Saitoğlu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports 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. ## Selin Kiper - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports Selin Kiper ## Barbaros Özbugutu - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Soccer, Sports 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) ## Hande Enes - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media Hande Enes ## Nevzat Aydın - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Kaan Kayabalı - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: eSports, Education, Communities Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc. ## Kaan Kalıpçı - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Recipes, eSports, Delivery Kaan Kalıpçı ## Alesta Yatırım - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative. ## twozero Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment. ## StartupFon - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019. ## İrfan Ündevli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports İrfan Ündevli ## Rıfat Elhadef - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Rıfat Elhadef ## Semiramis Kulak - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Semiramis Kulak ## Gizem Nilay Tuna - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Gizem Nilay Tuna ## Sina Afra - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet 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. ## Can Hicbezmez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Can Hicbezmez ## Sercan Akkaş - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Fruit Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti. ## Ercan Ergül - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports 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. ## Geometry Venture Development - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups. ## Fethi Ahmet Özbulut - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Fethi Ahmet Özbulut ## Kaan Kural - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Kaan Kural ## Emre Gerçek - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Emre Gerçek ## Kaan Karapınar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Kaan Karapınar ## Mustafa Emre Gündüz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Mustafa Emre Gündüz ## Erdem Gezer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Erdem Gezer ## Barış Before - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Barış Before # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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