Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Turkey in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 50 Finance Startup Investors in Turkey in November 2024
Investor | Finance Turkey investments |
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Tamer Capital | 4 |
Finberg | 3 |
StartersHub | 3 |
Nevzat Aydın | 2 |
APY Ventures | 2 |
Revo Capital | 2 |
Firat Isbecer | 2 |
DAAL | 2 |
Ava Labs | 1 |
Alameda Research | 1 |
Arman Eker | 1 |
Huobi Capital | 1 |
Maxis | 1 |
Colendi | 1 |
Akif Cahit Erdoğan | 1 |
Logo Ventures | 1 |
Lima Ventures | 1 |
International Finance Corporation | 1 |
Nilüfer Günhan | 1 |
Yakup Doğan | 1 |
IFC Venture Capital Group | 1 |
Gate Inside Ventures | 1 |
Ali Altug KOCA | 1 |
Gains Associates | 1 |
Ihsan Elgin | 1 |
Orhan Ayanlar | 1 |
StartersHub XO | 1 |
Neo Portfolio | 1 |
ScaleX Ventures | 1 |
Aslanoba Capital | 1 |
L2G Ventures | 1 |
Sema Sarsar | 1 |
Nazan Zeybek | 1 |
Koray Gultekin Bahar | 1 |
Burak Günsev | 1 |
Diffusion Capital Partners | 1 |
Mustafa Sandal | 1 |
TechOne VC | 1 |
Metin Tarakçı | 1 |
Ayberk Kuday | 1 |
Barış Conger | 1 |
Ahmet Bilgen | 1 |
DES Elektronik | 1 |
Sevda Taner | 1 |
Pytch Ventures | 1 |
Alper Çetinkaya | 1 |
Turkey Development Fund | 1 |
Igsas | 1 |
KT Portföy | 1 |
OYAK | 1 |
Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
- 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.
- Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hayhay — Hayhay operates a mobile application that manages financial transactions. It provides an online tool that sends, receives, and processes different kinds of payments. Hayhay was founded in 2020 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
- IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
- PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
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.
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
- Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
- Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crait.it — Empowering your eComm 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.
The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Tunisia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates
Portfolio highlights
- Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
- Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
- Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
AVA Labs makes it simple to launch finance applications using blockchain technology–with highly scalable and efficient networks, customizable public and private blockchains, the capability to create any digital asset, and more. We are empowering people to build an open, simple, and democratic internet of finance.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Grant, Funding Round
- United States, Turkey, Chile
Portfolio highlights
- Onomy Protocol — The Forex and Real World Asset Hub
- Playground — Playground makes it easy to create NFTs that can change and evolve with new attributes added by the creator or authorized collaborators, over time.
- Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm that provides liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital assets markets. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
- Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
- Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.
Arman Eker - CEO @ Trendbox
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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!
HTX serves its 10 million+ users worldwide with secure and stable trading services. Here at HTX, you can buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, SHIB, and over 500 quality cryptocurrencies anywhere, anytime.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, South Korea, United States
Portfolio highlights
- DRepublic — DRepublic is a metaverse company who are the developers behind the upcoming 3A blockchain game Cradles.
- MYSO Finance — MYSO is leveraging a unique DeFi lending primitive known as Zero-Liquidation Loans, enabling scalable and cost-efficient credit markets with no liquidation risk
- Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
- Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
- Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Credibility and microcredit platform
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Casual Games, Business Development
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- 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.
- kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
Akif Cahit Erdoğan
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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.
Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.
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Investment focus
- Software, Retail, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
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.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
- 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.
A strong and engaged private sector is indispensible to ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. That's where IFC comes in - we have more than 60 years experience in unlocking private investment, creating markets and opportunities where they are needed most.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
- India, Brazil, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ronesans Holding — Ronesans Holding offers construction, real estate development, energy, industrial facilities and health infrastructure development services.
- Datagroup-Volia and Lifecell — Datagroup-Volia and Lifecell is a leading fixed-mobile operator.
- Building Logistics Services (BLS) — Building Logistics Services (BLS) is a logistics services company that provides warehousing, transportation, light assembly services.
Nilüfer Günhan
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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.
Yakup Doğan
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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.
IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Funding Round, Series B, Series C
- United States, India, Brazil
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.
- Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
- Liquid Intelligent Technologies — Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Founded by successful entrepreneurs to help new comers. Gate Inside developed a new model of startup funding. Twice a year they invest a small amount of money. The startups move to their incubation center for 3 months. Founders get required help from mentors and other entrepreneurs like themselves in a unique working environment.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Sports, Charity
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fitmap — A unique marketplace where people meet trainers and coaches from various branches of sport and health all around the world.
- Jib Games — We are a venture-backed game studio based in Istanbul, developing & publishing MMORPGs since 2009. Our games have been played by 25 million players in 8 countries.We believe that a good education brings self-awareness which drives happiness. Our mission is to dream, design, create and develop better and happy ways to get educated.Currentlyworking on Polity, a gaming platform where players can choose to excel in various professions as a citizen in an open virtual world. These professions derive from popular casual games. We target worldwide (esp. Tier 1) 16+ years old lifelong gamers.
- Zonetix Market Research — Zonetix is a zero-party data market research company operating in emerging markets.
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.
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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.
GAINS Ventures is a venture capital based in Europe, investing in innovative founders and entrepreneurs shaping the future with technology. We focus on Crypto, Blockchain, Web3 Investments, Early-stage Investments, NFT Ventures, Web3 Gaming, AI in Blockchain, and more. GAINS also own a launchpad.
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Gaming, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- Sekuya — Sekuya is an anime gaming metaverse platform that transform the gaming landscape through a community-driven approach in an entirely new anime epic fantasy universe.
- Safeverse — Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
- STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.
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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.
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.
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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.
XO is a 6 month long global program with KPI based objectives that guarantees investment upon program completion.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Paym.es — Paymes is a fintech startup providing payment solutions for social commerce with a mission to help sellers to enter e-commerce faster, easier, and safer. We are one of the fastest-growing startups in the region with operations in Turkey, Azerbaijan, and now spreading in the GCC market. We are providing easy payment solutions and features under the3 categories.Pay with Messenger Apps. Facebook Messenger Payment Bot: Providing the ability for the merchants to accept payments in the Facebook Messenger app without downloading any extra application. WhatsApp Payment Bot: Providing the ability for the merchants to accept payments in WhatsApp without downloading any extra application. Web.Paym.es Payment Bot: Providing the ability for the merchants to accept payments on the browser without downloading any extra application.Payment Collection Solutions Corporate Collection Panel: Platform creates a fast and easy solution for the collection of payments. You can create a payment profile and share it with your customer via SMS, eMail, or get a payment link and share it via different communication channels. QR Code Payment: Allows merchants to accept payments via QR code with dynamic and static pricing. Face to Face Payments: Turns your mobile phone into the POS machine in seconds.ECommerce Solutions Open API: For the eCommerce solutions and Startups. Ready Plugins: Ready to use plugins for opensource eCommerce solutions like Opencart, woo-commerce, and more. Paymes Online Store: Allows users to list their products and sell them smoothly with payment ready integration.Shortly Paymes is a frontier payment solution of social commerce. It's smart (Using AI to assist), channel-independent, accepts global payments, as simple as chatting with a friend, and while doing all of these you don’t need to download an extra app, it's already on your phone.
- Eyedius Technology — Eyedius Technology is a high-tech company that develops image-processing technologies to ensure security in all areas of life. The high-level security technologies we have developed are used in all business areas such as offices, hotels, business centers as well as sites and residential areas and they provide 360 degrees of security for everyaspect of your life.
Neo Portfolio engages in the management of money market, real estate, venture capital, and private equity funds.
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Investment focus
- Sales, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round
- 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.
- BIMCRONE — BIMCRONE is a cloud platform that creates a digital twin of the project, making all phases of the building lifecycle traceable, from planning to demolition. BIMCRONE increases profit (%3-%9), and efficiency (-) by digitalizing, monitoring, and reporting project data from planning, construction, and facility management to demolition.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
ScaleX invests in exceptional founders from unexpected places, supporting their journey to global success.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Cyber Security
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Turkey, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Opnova — Opnova breaks through the rework barrier in IT, security, and compliance operations, delivering intelligent automation to workflows where implementing conventional automation was not previously practical or possible.
- Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.
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.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- 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
L2G Ventures provides the opportunity to invest and support the startups with calculated risk and high returns.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Series A
- 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.
Sema Sarsar
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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.
Nazan Zeybek
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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.
Koray Gultekin Bahar is a Co-Founder & CEO at Figopara.Koray attended Eastern Mediterranean University.
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- Software, Digital Marketing, Sharing Economy
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
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- 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 — Streamline your hiring process with HRPanda's advanced applicant tracking system. Manage job postings, track candidates, and simplify recruitment all in one intuitive platform. Transform your hiring with HRPanda!
Burak Günsev - Advisor @ manibux
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- FinTech, Finance, Education
- Angel
- Turkey
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- 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.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Doktar Technologies — We lead digitization and digital transformation in agriculture with digital services, sensors, satellites and other agricultural technologies.
- Enhencer — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.
- Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
Mustafa Sandal - Advisor @ manibux
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- 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.
TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, 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.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
Metin Tarakçı
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- FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
Ayberk Kuday - Advisor @ manibux
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- 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.
Barış Conger - Advisor @ manibux
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- 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.
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
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- Education, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- 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.
Company provides maintenance services for Automated Teller Machines.
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- Finance, Hardware, Service Industry
- Series A
- Turkey
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- DGI Works — DGI Works they provide banking products, produces security and performance banking products
Sevda Taner
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- Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
Pytch is owned and managed by a core team of experts with decades of combined experience in payment processing, banking technology, fund raising and Mergers & Acquisitions. Our team members have worked with many FinTech market leaders over the years, large incumbent corporations as well as lean and disruptive organisations. We understand all aspects of this sector intimately and aim to share our expertise with our partners with full transparency and simplicity.
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- Retail, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Turkey
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- NarPOS — we serve many sales points such as Cafes, Markets, Restaurants, Hotels, Patisseries, Schools, Colleges, Hospitals, Canteens, Restaurants and Bars with our dynamic staff consisting of expert engineers, technicians, technicians and production staff.--- Table Tracking Module One of the system features of Narposun, the Ercesa Yazılım RestaurantAutomation System Brand, is the Table Tracking Module. Our aim; Developing Technology, taking into account the ever-increasing demands and difficult-to-measure competitive conditions,...--- Package Service Tracking Module Package Service Tracking Module Get one step ahead of your customers with the Qualified Takeaway Service Tracking Module, which recognizes your customers when the phone rings for restaurants, restaurants and cafes. With the Package Service Tracking Module, measure, report and track your package orders and...---- Trendyol Integration Module Trendyol Integration Module Trendyol is the software that brings the most up-to-date b2c solution of recent times. With the campaigns it carries out with its own motorcycle and the small commission it receives from the restaurant, it is taking firm steps towards putting its name in golden letters in the sector. As NarPOS...----- Yemeksepeti Integration Module Yemeksepeti Integration Module What is Food Basket? Food Basket; It is a package service provided by an intermediary institution that is used by at least two out of every three companies today. Since it is a world-famous application, it is a preferred, popular and highly profitable sales method. ...---- GETIR INTEGRATION GETIR INTEGRATION Getir, which appears as a phone application, was founded by Nazım Salur, the founder of BiTaksi. Getir, which started its adventure with the market and continues with Yemek, is a takeaway service program that uses its own couriers even if you do not have a courier. ...---- Order Tracking System with Mobile Application Order Tracking System with Mobile Application Ercesa Yazılım Restaurant Automation Program is now in your pocket. With the Narpos Terminal application, order tracking is easier than ever. Moreover, your customer can determine his favorite products and access his favorite product list when he visits again and again. It's complicated...---- Website Online Order Module Website Online Order Module Technology Giant Ercesa Software offers the best modules to you, the users, with its Narpos Automation System. One of these is the Website Online Ordering System. You provide Restaurant Service, but do you pay commission to intermediary companies?---- Tablet Menu Integration with Finedine Menu Ercesa Yazılım, with its Restaurant Automation System Brand Narpos, invites you to technology by integrating with all applications that will make your job easier. It is the most important greeting method of businesses and allows your customer to decide about you in the first minute.---- Courier Assignment Mobile Application Courier Assignment Mobile Application With the courier assignment that we developed in cooperation with KirazSoft, all incoming calls, fetch, trendyol, Yemeksepeti and website orders are delivered to the courier's mobile phone. This way, the courier can get directions, customers...---- Mobile Order Integration Module Mobile Order Integration Module Are you ready to join the world of technology with Ercesa Software's Mobile Order Integration module? With our iOS and Android compatible application, you will exceed the performance you get from the handheld terminal. Access your menus and submenu groups...---- Courier Tracking System Courier Tracking System Considering the ever-increasing market conditions and competition, one of the technologies produced to enable businesses to provide faster, higher quality and more preferred services is the Courier Tracking Program. Courier Tracking Program, Both Customer...---- E-Invoice E-Archive Module E-Invoice E-Archive Module E-Invoice; It is an invoicing process between the buyer and the seller that is arranged entirely digitally through the Revenue Administration. E-invoice has all the information that should be on a normal invoice and is issued completely electronically. Paper...
- Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
- Extra Loyalty Solutions — Extra Loyalty Solutions help clients to stimulate their sales and engage better with their customers on EXTRA Loyalty Infrastructure and Analytics Platform.
Alper Çetinkaya
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- Banking, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Fingate.io — Fingate.io is a local startup that provides services in the fields of Service Banking (BaaS) and open banking. Fingate offers non-bank channels for access to bank products and services.
Turkey Development Fund aims to develop the enterprise ecosystem by investing in new generation startups.
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- Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- BEAM Teknoloji A.S. — BEAM Teknoloji A.S. is an IT company specialized in outsourced software testing.
- Eatron Technologies — Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control - Eatron Technologies
Igsas invests in the future of agriculture with its soil analysis project. Igsas provides fertilizers required by Turkish farmers and industrialists to Turkish agriculture and industry through both production and import, and is now one of Turkey's leading industrial enterprises.
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- Banking, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Fingate.io — Fingate.io is a local startup that provides services in the fields of Service Banking (BaaS) and open banking. Fingate offers non-bank channels for access to bank products and services.
KT Portföy is an asset management company that offers innovative and halal investment opportunities with participation finance principles.
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- FinTech, Construction, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- Adsby (formerly Magnetiq) — Digital Marketing SAAS Soluiton
- Fimple — Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle.
- Poliark — It is developing AI to create a more sustainable, efficient, and ecologically friendly future by completely altering building and city planning, design, construction, and operation processes.
OYAK is a Turkish pension fund with over 350,000 members and approximately $20 Billion USD in assets as of 2022. The OYAK Holding Investment Subsidiary Group is one of the largest industrial and investment groups in Turkey. The group was the former owner of ING Oyak Bank (sold to ING Bank in 2007) and the Oypa supermarket chain. The group co-ownsOyak-Renault, a car manufacturer, and steel producer Erdemir. They boast a wide range of successful investments across Europe, the Middle East and globally.
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- Software, Information Technology, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, Australia, United States
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- 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.
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- Mukellef | a Workhy Company — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
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