Top 10 Fitness Angel Investors in Turkey (June 2026)

Çağrı Emre Korkmaz

Investment focus

Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

CRwizard —
İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.

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

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $727k–$9M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$380k
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Crait AI — 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.

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Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.

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Ozan Çağlar İnaç

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.

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Umur Gencoglu is a Board Member at Gencoglu Grup.

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.

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Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.

Investment focus

Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $440k–$755k
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.

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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

Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

Total investments: 48
Round size: Seed $233k–$3.7M; Angel $84k–$3M
Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.

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İzzet Zakuto

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Music, AgTech
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $350k–$788k
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.

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Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $300k–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Garajyeri — NAGATOTO88 menyediakan link alternatif Nagatoto resmi untuk akses lancar serta update keluaran togel HK terupdate, aman, dan terpercaya setiap hari.
Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.

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