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Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Turkey

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC 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

Investor	Finance Turkey investments
Tamer Capital	4
StartersHub	3
Nevzat Aydın	2
DAAL	2
APY Ventures	2
Revo Capital	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Finberg	2
Orhan Ayanlar	1
Gate Inside Ventures	1
IFC Venture Capital Group	1
MetLife Foundation	1
Logo Ventures	1
Eczacıbasi Momentum	1
Burak Günsev	1
Neo Portfolio	1
ScaleX Ventures	1
Akif Cahit Erdoğan	1
Yakup Doğan	1
Ali Altug KOCA	1
Arman Eker	1
Metin Tarakçı	1
Ayla Cönger	1
Ayberk Kuday	1
Mustafa Sandal	1
Gains Associates	1
Huobi Capital	1
Barış Conger	1
Ahmet Bilgen	1
Colendi	1
KT Portföy	1
DES Elektronik	1
Sevda Taner	1
L2G Ventures	1
Sema Sarsar	1
Pytch Ventures	1
Nazan Zeybek	1
Ihsan Elgin	1
Alper Çetinkaya	1
Turkey Development Fund	1
Ava Labs	1
Koray Gultekin Bahar	1
Igsas	1
TechOne VC	1
Sabancı Ventures	1
Aslanoba Capital	1
Alameda Research	1
OYAK	1
International Finance Corporation	1
Maxis	1

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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.

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.

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to distrup the system for good.

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.
Nerf IT — GAMENESS is a super app enriched with crypto and NFT, where you can participate in tournaments, education, and events within esports.
Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.

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.

The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
Ordera — Ordera is a mobile application focusing on enhancing the pick-up (takeaway) experience in the F&B industry, using Ordera people will be able to place and pay for their orders before their arrival to the venue and pick them up on the go in less than 30 seconds whether from the store or even from their cars like a virtual drive-thru. And with ourbuilt-in loyalty program, the more people use the application the more free-stuff they collect from their favorite venues. On the other hand, Ordera helps venue owners to increase their sales, know their customers, and maintain their loyal ones!
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).

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.

Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HyperBeeAI — Breaking barriers and enabling disruptive AI solutions by reducing computing costs via small-footprint AI models.
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.
Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.

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.

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aquanow — Aquanow is a leading infrastructure and liquidity provider that enables institutional and enterprise use-cases for digital assets. Each month, billions of dollar value pass through our platform enabling a broad range of financial services for our clients. From our offices in Canada and Hong Kong, we serve an international customer base thatincludes the world’s fastest-growing financial institutions, internet platforms, and progressive businesses.Aquanow is privately funded, and guided by experienced financial executives and professional traders.
Trendbox — Trendbox collects real-time data from retailer of FMCG, PetShops, Hardware Stores, Pharmacy. Then instant smart reports are generated with AI and serviced to manufacturers and distributers.Some of our value added reports that we services: “Who is my competitor? Or Sold together?", "Was the promotion effective?", "What shouldmy price level be?", ”What should my stock level be? ", ”Where should I prioritize in distribution? ", "Did I position the products in my portfolio correctly?" If you want to see the sales, region and consumer behavior trends, then yes Trendbox is what you are looking for! SELL IT SMARTER, NOW!
wamo — Get a better business account with wamo. Physical & virtual cards, team accounts. Do it all from one app. Ready in 10 minutes!

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.

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.

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.

IFC supports technology ventures that are creating new opportunities in emerging markets, transforming industries, and driving inclusive growth while realizing strong returns.

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.

MetLife Foundation is committed to expanding opportunities for low- and moderate-income people around the world.MetLife Foundation partner with nonprofit organizations and social enterprises to create financial health solutions and build stronger communities, while engaging MetLife employee volunteers to help drive impact.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
Ecomm-App — Ecomm-App is an online platform that helps online merchants to manage their inventory in real-time and invoice in seconds.
Fellow Pay — The faster, easier and fairer way to get your invoices paid and speed up your payment cycle. For B2B SMEs with long payment cycles across all industries.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria

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 — Lower your emission where it is made!

Eczacıbaşı Momentum invested in three venture companies and a venture capital fund; Their goal is to invest US$30 million over the next five years as they continue to partner with funds and startups that shape the new normal of modern life, focusing on well-being, consumption, and home-living.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Information Technology, Neuroscience
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Newlab — Systems for scale
Ecomercek — Ecomercek offers a wide range of skin, body, and hair care products.
RS Research — RS Research is a next generation therapeutics company developing novel nanomedicines. We have developed a pioneering class of nanocarriers with which we currently have proprietary programs in various stages of preclinical development for treatment of cancer.Our nanocarrier platform is highly tunable with a plug & play approach, allowingspeedy development of targeted nanomedicines with superior performance.Along with moving our very own candidates toward clinic, we provide preclinical services to industrial and academic partners. We have specific expertise in biosimilar characterization as well as in vivo experiment design.

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.

Neo Portfolio engages in the management of money market, real estate, venture capital, and private equity funds.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Real Time
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.
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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Cyber Security
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Turkey, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Coqui — Coqui, Freeing Speech.
Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Germany, Singapore, India

Portfolio highlights

GEMS — GEMS is an Esports 3.0 aggregator Platform that combines the elements of GameFi, Esports, Metaverse and SocialFi (GEMS).
Safeverse — Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, South Korea, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bit2Me — Buy and sell cryptocurrencies from home. With the security, ease, and speed that only Bit2Me can provide.
DRepublic — DRepublic is a metaverse company who are the developers behind the upcoming 3A blockchain game Cradles.
Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network

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.

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.

Credibility and microcredit platform

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.

KT Portföy is an asset management company that offers innovative and halal investment opportunities with participation finance principles.

Investment focus

FinTech, Construction, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Adsby (formerly Magnetiq) — Digital Marketing SAAS Soluiton
Fimple — Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle.
Poliark — Use simple text inputs to craft 3D models through AI

Company provides maintenance services for Automated Teller Machines.

Investment focus

Finance, Hardware, Service Industry
Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

DGI Works — DGI Works they provide banking products, produces security and performance banking products

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.

L2G Ventures provides the opportunity to invest and support the startups with calculated risk and high returns.

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Retail, FinTech, Finance
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

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.

Alper Çetinkaya

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Financial Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Waste Management
Series A, Seed, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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 — Redefining Automotive Software - Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Grant, Funding Round
United States, Turkey, Chile

Portfolio highlights

Magna — Token Vesting and DeFi investment management. Track your fundraise, execute your TGE, and manage your token unlocks in one compliant cap table platform.
Onomy Protocol — The Forex and Real World Asset Hub
Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.

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

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.

Investment focus

Banking, Finance, Financial Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
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 — Lower your emission where it is made!

Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fernhay Solutions — Discover Fernhay's revolutionary eQuad (eCargo Bike) - the ultimate zero-emission solution that's making cities cleaner and greener.
Segmentify — Bring Growth to Life: Explore how you can create unique experiences for each customer in real-time and optimise customer lifetime value!
Supply Chain Wizard — SPEED, SIMPLICITY, SCALABILITY IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Consulting Services DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRACK & TRACE PROCESS EXCELLENCE & RPA DIGITAL FACTORY CONSULTING Software as a Service DIGITAL FACTORY IoT & AI

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

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

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

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.

OYAK is the pension fund of the Turkish Armed Forces.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Australia, United States

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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Series B
India, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Lion's Head — Lion's Head is a commercial property platform that focuses on prime office properties with international blue-chip tenants in the CEE region.
Indorama Fertilizers — Indorama Fertilizers operates a world-class, 1.4 million metric tonnes per annum urea manufacturing facility based in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The plant has been developed to global environmental, social and construction standards. It plays a key role in supporting the agricultural sector in Nigeria by providing a reliable supply of fertilizers forlocal farmers, thereby enabling import substitution and supporting the diversification needs of the Nigerian economy. Indorama Fertilizers is also advantageously located to serve neighboring West African countries and key Western hemisphere markets, including North America, South America and Europe
Shadowfax — Best last mile delivery service provider across Food, E-commerce, Groceries, Pharma, FMCG, Consumer durables, Auto, BFSI, Telecom, Freight forwarding & Apparel.

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
arabunu.com — arabunu is a price comparison website with e-commerce and price comparison experiences.

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