# Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Turkey in June 2026 ## Idacapital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Logistics, E-Commerce idacapital Innovation Fund is the first Impact Fund in Turkey investing across technology-enabled business verticals in Health Tech, Financial Inclusion, Edu Tech, Clean Tech, Agro Tech in and around Turkey. ## Finberg - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established. ## APY Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups. ## Revo Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds. ## Collective Spark - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success. ## StartersHub - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good. ## Alesta Yatırım - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative. ## Maxis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank ## Boğaziçi Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision. ## Earlybird Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities. ## Sabancı Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors. ## RePie Asset Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes. ## Mindvest Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Mindvest primarily invests in early stage fintech startups. ## Aslanoba Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software 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. ## TT Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence TT Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Turk Telekom. ## Keiretsu Forum Turkey - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors. ## Sertaç Özinal - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming Sertaç Özinal ## Wamda Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Financial Services We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies. ## Tamer Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance 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. ## Albaraka Turk - Type: VC Fund - Location: Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Albaraka Turk specializes in providing financial services through its branches. It is able to serve its clients globally by the help of a wide network of correspondent banks, comprising of over 207 banks operating in about 60 countries around the world. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Umraniye. ## QNBEYOND Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Information Technology, Software Like every other aspect of our lives financial services are changing. The next 10 years will be nothing like before.We know visionary founders will play a key role to pioneer this change. That is why we are driven to partner with audacious teams who also have strong resilience.As a strategic investor we are aiming to explore any chance tocollaborate as earliest as possible, where we can contribute with our insights and explore the potential opportunities within QNB Group.Our presence as QNB Group in more than 30 countries serving 24 million customers with a full spectrum of financial products, makes us confident we can bring an extensive global network and our business expertise thus when we partner, we deliver critical support besides capital to accelerate growth.So if you think you are that team, contact us and let’s define what’s beyond of banking together! ## KT Portföy - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Construction KT Portföy is an asset management company that offers innovative and halal investment opportunities with participation finance principles. ## Quona Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing financial inclusion around the globe. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world. ## Ali Kolaghassi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping Ali Kolaghassi ## Elevator Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, SaaS Elevator Ventures is the Corporate Venture Capital Entity of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI). Its focus is on early stage and growth investments in fintechs, enabling technologies in Central/Eastern Europe. Discover more! ## Istanbul Startup Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Local, Hardware Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs. ## Lima Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech 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. ## Tunç Mehmet Berkman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping Tunç Mehmet Berkman ## Emre Tok - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA - Former VP of Growth – Free-Now - Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $) - Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK - Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey - Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services ## Tera Portfoy - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Online Games, Gaming, Mobile Tera portfoy is a financial institution that offers products and investments. ## Sevda Taner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Finance, Analytics, Cryptocurrency Sevda Taner ## Aktif Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, FinTech Aktif Ventures builds digital ventures from the ground up and bring them to scale by using ideas and resources. ## Gedik Investment - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Gedik Investment is an investment banking advisory and brokerage firm in Turkey providing research and brokerage services to domestic and foreign clients. The company is a member of Borsa Istanbul (BIST) and is authorized by the Capital Markets Board (CMB). Today, it has the largest customer base of any non-bank local brokerage house, with around34,000 clients and counting. Gedik Investment boasts a widespread distribution network, with 28 main branches spread across Turkey’s primary cities. ## Nexus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. ## Teknogirişim GSYF - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Logistics, Accounting Venture capital arm of KT Portföy ## Spark Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence Spark Capital invests in products we love by creators we admire across all sectors and stages. ## Q Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups. ## Arz Portfolio - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio. ## Ak Portfoy - Type: VC Fund - Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Financial Services Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management. ## Speedinvest - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Speedinvest is a globally active European venture capital firm built on a simple belief: many move more. From six offices across EMEA, our sector-focused investment teams back relentless founders from pre–Seed to Growth with long-term conviction, providing day-one access to our global network of corporate customers, experts, industry leaders, andtop-tier follow-on investors to scale smarter and faster. Building lasting companies like Bitpanda (Austria), Moove (Nigeria), Gigs (U.S.), Tide (UK), ARX Robotics (Germany), Wayflyer (Ireland), GoStudent (Austria), Seqera Labs (Spain), and Cylib (Germany) — together. Big ideas may start with one. But scaling and winning take The Power of More. ## DAAL - Type: VC Fund - Location: Al Khobar, Ash Sharqiyah, Saudi Arabia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space. ## Atakan Atalar - Type: Angel - Location: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Rental, Software Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University. ## TechOne VC - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## OYAK - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kurtulus, Sirnak, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile 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. ## Şafak Müderrisgil - Type: Angel - Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, FinTech, Leasing Şafak Müderrisgil is the Co-founder and Chair of Executive Committee at Etkiyap (Impact Investing Turkey). She attended University of Oxford. ## StartupFon - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019. ## OBSS Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: InsurTech, Information Technology OBSS Ventures empowers early-stage startups by combining investment with hands-on technology expertise. As the venture arm of OBSS Technology, it goes beyond capital, providing startups with software development and product expertise through a unique tech-for-equity model. By focusing on scalable technology solutions, OBSS Ventures enables foundersto accelerate growth and navigate competitive markets. With a $15M fund and a strategic co-investment network, it invests $250K-$2M in startups across Europe, the UK, and the Middle East, with a strong focus on AI, fintech, logistics, and digital platforms. ## Firat Isbecer - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software 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. ## Nihan Colak Erol - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Travel, FinTech Nihan Colak Erol - Founder & COO @ Wingie Enuygun Group ## Caglar Erol - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Retail, Travel, Fashion Caglar Erol is the co-founder of cember.net, a Turkish online business networking platform acquired by XING AG in January 2008.Erol is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in Turkey. His first investment after cember.net was doktorsitesi.com, a health site in Turkey. He also invested in Tasit.com, Gelirortaklari affiliate network, andCivicSolar.Erol currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Enuygun.com, a service comparison site on bank loans, insurance, flight tickets, ADSL, and mobile phone tariffs.