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Top 20 Finance Angel Investors in Turkey

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Finance Angel Investors in Turkey

Investor	Finance Turkey investments
Firat Isbecer	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
Sevda Taner	1
Ali Altug KOCA	1
Ahmet Bilgen	1
Sema Sarsar	1
Ayla Cönger	1
Mustafa Sandal	1
Arman Eker	1
Ayberk Kuday	1
Nazan Zeybek	1
Barış Conger	1
Ihsan Elgin	1
Burak Günsev	1
Metin Tarakçı	1
Akif Cahit Erdoğan	1
Nilüfer Günhan	1
Koray Gultekin Bahar	1
Yakup Doğan	1
Orhan Ayanlar	1

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Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

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.

Sevda Taner

Investment focus

Finance
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KrediKarti.co — Finding better products for your financial life should be as easy as watching videos or sharing viral contents. KrediKarti.co enables you to check all of them in one site.

Ali Altuğ Koca is the co-editor of Webrazzi, a tech blog featuring issues on internet and digital markets, startups, investments, technological developments, and events. Koca was previously a product manager at Crenvo and finished his higher education at Doğuş Üniversitesi.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.

Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit

Investment focus

Education, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
admarket.co — Outdoor,Billboard,Taxi,Bus,Print,sms Advertising,book ad spaces in The USA-admarket
Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.

Sema Sarsar

Investment focus

Finance
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KrediKarti.co — Finding better products for your financial life should be as easy as watching videos or sharing viral contents. KrediKarti.co enables you to check all of them in one site.

Ayla Cönger

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Arman Eker - CEO @ Trendbox

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Robotics
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Robomotion — What is Robotic Process Automation - RPA? Robomotion offers you the opportunity to automate your repetitive tasks such as Browser Automation, Content Marketing, SAP or Excel!

Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Nazan Zeybek

Investment focus

Finance
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

KrediKarti.co — Finding better products for your financial life should be as easy as watching videos or sharing viral contents. KrediKarti.co enables you to check all of them in one site.

Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.

Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Education
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.

Metin Tarakçı

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.

Akif Cahit Erdoğan

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.

Nilüfer Günhan

Investment focus

Gaming, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

manibux — ManiBux is a pocket money management system and prepaid card where parents can take responsibility for their young people's money, where they can send and receive easy and safe pensions for their children and provide control.ManiBux is an application where our children can safely manage and track their allowances, they can learn to save withdiscounts for them, and they will be able to have fun, freedom, responsibility and acting together with their families who will support them in their early years.
Teleporter — Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together. Focused on gamers, inspired by the world’s best MMORPGs, and amplified by video-gaming enthusiasts, we dream of building a universe for gamers using technology, artistry, and magic.Our players in Teleporter can play manybuilt-in games, watch game streams, find like-minded others, and hang out together in fantastic 3D environments. Teleporter: WoG universe feels like and works like a game, but it also allows players to do many different things they usually love to do with other gamers. Our dream is to shape the future of gamers getting together digitally.

Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.

Investment focus

Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
HrPanda — hrPanda - Shaping tomorrow's talent landscape, a next-gen Application Tracking System

Yakup Doğan

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.

Orhan is a Partner of Mediterra and serves on the investment committee. Prior to joining the team in 2011, Orhan was with Bedminster Capital Management, a US$320 million private equity fund focusing on Southeast Europe and Turkey. Prior to joining Bedminster, Orhan worked at private equity and investment banking houses including Is Private Equity,the corporate finance division of Unlu&Co and the debt capital markets division of Bear Stearns, NY.Orhan has completed the Chartered Financial Analyst® Program, has BA in Economics and BSc in Finance from Boston University and is a Robert College graduate.Orhan serves on the Board of Directors of Logo Yazilim, Soke Un, Mobiliz and Glasshouse. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Mikro Odeme.

Investment focus

Apps, EdTech, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Twin Science & Robotics — Twin's educational applications and hands-on kits help children explore SDGs and prototype solutions for sustainability.
Funverse Games — Funverse Games is a game development studio that develops blockchain games on many platforms.

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