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Top 25 Fashion Startup Investors in Turkey

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Fashion startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Fashion companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Fashion Startup Investors in Turkey

Investor	Fashion Turkey investments
Aslanoba Capital	8
Sina Afra	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
Wamda Capital	2
STC Ventures	2
212	2
Angel Effect	2
Earlybird Venture Capital	2
APY Ventures	2
Burak Divanlıoğlu	1
Barbaros Özbugutu	1
Onur Gargılı	1
Hakan Bas	1
Alima Ventures BV	1
Volkan Bicer	1
Albaraka Fintech Fund	1
Goldman Sachs	1
Serkan Borancılı	1
Genesis Consortium	1
Inventures	1
Lima Ventures	1
Arda Turan	1
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development	1
Emre Kurttepeli	1
Mehmet Ayan	1

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Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

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Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, 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.
Mowico — Mowico, an online no-code eCommerce app maker, enables eCommerce businesses to create Android and IOS mobile apps with unlimited customization.
Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.

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.

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.

We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.

STC Ventures is an independently managed venture capital fund whose anchor investor is the Saudi Telecom Company. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs to create market leading technology businesses. We are focused on equity investments that will help to build leading companies in the information technology, telecommunications, and digitalmedia/entertainment sectors. One of the key objectives of our fund is to support the development of innovative technology companies in the GCC, wider MENA region and Turkey, in addition to funding globally minded international companies seeking capital and access to the MENA region.

Investment focus

Fashion, Developer APIs, Professional Services
Series C, Series B, Series A
United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Modanisa — Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
yallacompare — Compare the best car insurance, credit card and personal loan providers in Dubai & the UAE with yallacompare

212 invests in growth-stage tech companies across Turkey, CEE, and MENA. Currently, our fund manages €75 million of committed capital, and 25 investments. Our strategy is to invest in B2B tech solutions that have demonstrated traction, a clear product-market fit, and are ready to scale internationally. ‘Test local, go global’ is 212’s guidingprinciple. In addition to investing in startups, we put significant effort into mentoring, supporting, and advising our portfolio companies.212 was founded by a seasoned group of veterans with the common vision of cultivating an eco-system in Turkey and its region. Each of our team members brings to the table a proven track record of success in multi-cultural disciplines in both global corporations and start-ups and an unwavering focus on strategy, operation, and execution.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them

We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
& New Me — Discover your new aesthetic companion in Turkiye with This is New Me. Explore top treatments, real reviews, and active doctors, all with accredited clinics for a safe and seamless experience.
Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
Draftwise — DraftWise deals with knowledge management and business intelligence that assists law firms to procure quality contracts swiftly. It enables clients to avail and customize the security according to their requirements. DraftWise was founded in 2020 by Emre Ozen, Ozan Yalti, and James Ding and was headquartered in New York.
Greenlyte Carbon Technologies — Greenlyte Carbon Technologies develops and markets an efficient low temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rototip — Rototip is a manufacturing Marketplace.
Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.

Burak Divanlıoglu is the founder at GittiGidiyor, a Turkish e-shopping mall offering auctions, stores, and fixed price listings.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
Series A, Series B, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com

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)

Investment focus

Retail, Soccer, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)

Onur Gargılı

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.

Alima Ventures BV is an investment firm of Turkey

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Fashion
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
Magnus — Power your investment with the AI magic. Sky is the only limit.

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.

Investment focus

Online Games, iOS, Mobile
Seed
Turkey, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
Rollic Games — Rollic is a game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play hyper-casual games for iOS and Android. Games released by Rollic include Go Knots 3D, Flipper Dunk, Onnect – Pair Matching Puzzle, Pixel Shot 3D, Picker 3D, Repair Master 3D, Tangle Master 3D, Water Shooty, and Wheel Smash.
Ontrail Store — Ontrail Store offers a wide range of clothes and accessories.

Fintech fund of Albaraka Turk

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
Vomsis — Vomsis is a application which collects all the bank banks on a single screen and helps to check balance and account movements.
denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Funding Round, Series C, Series B
United States, India, China

Portfolio highlights

Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.
Divcon Controls — Divcon Controls - Your Texas Building Automation Specialists
Montage Hotels & Resorts — Montage Hotels & Resorts, a hotel management company, consists of a collection of luxury hotels, resorts and residences that are perfect

Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Shoes
Series A, Angel, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com

Meet the unqiue investing entities that originated at SOSV and remain closely aligned with our fund.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Fashion, Architecture
Seed
United States, Brazil, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MAA'VA — MAA’VA™ is developing a proprietary sustainable carbon negative construction material, turning plastic and nonplastic waste into eco-material, advancing solutions to climate change crisis, waste crisis, global river sand shortage, water scarcity and rapid urbanization. Our eco-concrete can be used for both conventional and 3D printingconstruction. By optimizing 3D printing technology we can build environmentally friendly low cost housing with eco-concrete in one day for 1/10th of the construction cost and half of the construction waste.
West~bourne — delicious, nutrient-rich, and planet conscious snacks, spices and mixes, so you can eat well, do better, and gather often.
Gozen Bioworks — Gozen Bioworks is a bio-tech company that invents and develops next-gen microbe-derived biomaterials.

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
Seed, Series A, Angel
Turkey, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.

Arda Turan is a Turkish footballer.

Investment focus

Fashion, Jewelry, Shopping
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Lidyana.com — Lidyana.com is a Turkish fashion e-commerce website selling a wide collection of branded clothing, accessories, shoes, bags, and cosmetics. The website features its products in categories for men, women, and kids.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Finance
Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
Turkey, United States, Egypt

Portfolio highlights

PL-SUN — PL-SUN is a holding company of UAB Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos (AEI).
KAM — KAM is a grocery food shop that provides competitive prices.
Ipoteka Bank — Ipoteka 94% state-owned bank, is fully involved in policy reforms and state development programs in Uzbekistan.

Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.