Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Turkey in September 2025

Investor	Food and Beverage Turkey investments
Hasan Aslanoba	6
500 Istanbul	5
Founder One	5
TRANGELS	5
RePie Asset Management	3
Ahu Serter	3
Enis Hulli	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	3
Maxis	3
Sankonline	3
Tarvenn Ventures	2
EGIAD Angels	2
Mehmet Emin Çiftçi	2
Uğur Şeker	2
212	2
GirişimTürk	2
Q Angels	2
Aslanoba Capital	2
Ramazan Evren	2
Yılmaz Yıldız	2
Ayşe Araz	2
Ömer Faruk Akarca	2
Tarık Bayar	2
Finberg	2
Alesta Yatırım	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Ali Ilci	2
Meltem Kirişçi	2
Emre Kurttepeli	2
Kültepe Investment	2
Ibrahim Ulukaya	2
Huseyin Karayagiz	2
Nuri Cem Erbak	2
Özgür Trakya	2
Logo Ventures	2
Fark Labs	2
Revo Capital	2
Agah Ugur	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Ömer Duran	2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	2
Yahya Ülker	2
twozero Ventures	2
TÜBİTAK	2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu	2
Ercan Solmaz	2
Boğaziçi Ventures	1
Emre Acikel	1
Heaventures	1
KFW DEG	1

business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.

Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.

Investment focus

EdTech, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.

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.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, Canada, Germany

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.
VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
Goldtag — Digital Asset Development

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
Tripy Mobility — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.

Enis is a General Partner of 500 Startups and the Host of cc: Podcast. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant at McGill University. He graduated from McGill University and Istanbul Technical University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
TrueMeter — EcoTrove is your energy concierge for cheaper, greener and more predictable power bills.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dengage — Dengage is a Customer Experience Data Platform (CXDP) with built-in CDP powered by full marketing automation capabilities.
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.

Sankonline is a corporate venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies building game-changing technologies.

Investment focus

Apps, SaaS, Tea
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Turkey, United States

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.
Hirize — Extract data from any file format with AI-driven, market-leading accuracy. Empower HR, finance, healthcare, with automated parsing.
Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions. We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances. Our business is to build yours…

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
Madcraft Studios — Enhance your Trials of Osiris performance with our Destiny 2 Trials Carry guides. Learn strategies to secure wins and climb the ranks!

EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Turkey, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
Phoca — Phoca is a software company that specializes in the designing and development of hyper casual games for enthusiastic individuals.
Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.

Mehmet Emin Çiftçi is an industrialist based on Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently serving as a Board Member at Akkök Holding

Investment focus

Shipping, Logistics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

Uğur Şeker

Investment focus

Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey, Estonia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
Keyrails — Keyrails provides financial services through its registration with FINTRAC, offering foreign exchange dealing and money transfer services. The company integrates with Auth0 to ensure secure access and authentication across its APIs. Keyrails offers USD virtual accounts and API-powered modern financial services, primarily targeting Sub-SaharanAfrican fintechs. The platform supports on-shore, ACH-enabled, named USD accounts, facilitating seamless financial operations for emerging market fintechs.
PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.

Investment Company

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Wedding, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Reneva — Reneva is a beverage company providing healthy and delicious drinks.
PackUpp Fast Delivery — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
eTasin — https://etasin.com
Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!

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

Ramazan Evren

Investment focus

Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Yılmaz Yıldız

Investment focus

Waste Management, Procurement, Retail
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.

Ayşe Araz

Investment focus

Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Ömer Faruk Akarca

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Tarık Bayar

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

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, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-born energy storage company focused on battery technologies that will accelerate the adoption of EVs and expand energy storage solutions.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.

Haluk Can Hür

Investment focus

Mobile, Retail, Shopping
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing

Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor

Investment focus

Hotel, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.

Meltem Kirişçi

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Shippn — Shop online from more than 40 countries and get it delivered to your doorstep! Sign up for free and start shopping from anywhere in the world with Shippn.
Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.

Ibrahim Ulukaya

Investment focus

AgTech, Gaming, Farming
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.

Huseyin Karayagiz

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Battery
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Batron Energy — Batron is an Energy Electronics Company that offers services in the field of smart Energy Management and Li-Ion Storage Systems.

Nuri Cem Erbak

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

Özgür Trakya

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

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, Retail, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

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.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovationstrategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. We use this approach for our 4 focus verticals: mobility, life sciences, sustainable lifestyle, and emerging technologies, which we call our curiosity cabinet.We back change-makers who transform industries and create new ones. Our sweet spot is investing early, and we continue to provide support and investment up to Series A. We envision a better future by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform legacy businesses and build future-proof startups.We also drive innovation and transformation through collaborative intelligence. We build a unique ecosystem that connects difference-makers, leading corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across our 4 verticals.

Investment focus

SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
M-Based — M-based is an initiative aiming to develop eco-friendly alternative material technologies using mycelium, a component of the mushroom. Its R&D efforts focus on developing mycelium-based vegan leather to address environmental concerns and animal ethics violations in the textile industry.
MaestroHub — MaestroHub is a Single Source of Truth industrial data governance platform to overcome data architecture and integration challenges faced in digital transformation. MaestroHub points data sources to a smart data layer with drag & drop features and automatically creates contextualized data packages in real-time with Unified Namespacearchitecture. MaestroHub is the first self-diagnostic Unified Namespace solution with DataOps capabilities.

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

Vivoo — Get personalized wellness insights with Vivoo's innovative, science-backed products. Understand your body's needs and take control of your body. Shop now!
Alpaka Games — Alpaka Games is a mobile gaming company.
Virgosol Information and Software Solutions — Virgosol is a next-gen QA & Software Testing Services provider co-headquartered in Istanbul and offshore test labs around Turkey in 5 different cities. Virgosol testing services covers Test Consultancy and Management, Functional and Non-Functional testing, Test Automation, DevOps, Agile, Web, Mobility and WebService/API to name a few.Virgosol is pioneering the next-gen Continuous Testing practices with a team of young, passionate testers focused on test automation, CI/ CD and shift left methodologies. With its in-house testing solutions, global pool of skilled testers, specialist testing approach and global delivery model, Virgosol is helping its clients transform their QA function to reduce production defects, reduce QA cycle times and lower overall QA costs. Virgosol has proven record of implementing projects in stipulated time frames & budget with a team of experienced test professionals having rich experience in technology as well as vertical domains.

Agah Uğur

Investment focus

Software, Apps, CRM
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Workhy — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
Mükellef — Mükellef is a fintech company that provides financial services, digital transformation, and accounting services.

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

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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.

Ömer Duran

Investment focus

Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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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.
N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.

Yahya Ulker is the CEO at Yildiz Ventures.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yenir — Yenir is a platform Yenir that sells fresh products without producing waste.
Refabric — Refabric stands as a premier provider of artificial intelligence software tailored for the fashion industry, establishing a new benchmark for creativity and efficiency driven by data, while promoting sustainable manufacturing practices. The company delivers comprehensive AI solutions that tackle challenges throughout the fashion value chain,beginning with ideation and design and continuing through production and commercialization. Notably, Refabric is the first and only AI fashion enterprise to receive recognition from LVMH.
Istegelsin — Istegelsin is an online supermarket that offers the next generation market shopping experience for consumers. The company solves the market shopping problems by developing technologies to provide mobile solutions that bring the freshest fruits and vegetables kept on cold storages, products from the best brands, out-of-the-oven bakery products tohouse for the same prices as the regular supermarkets. Istegelsin was foundedi n 2018 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.

Investment focus

Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
FineDine — Finedine is a growing tech company that provides data-driven digital menus for a smarter and more profitable dining experience. Finedine Menu app tracks customer behavior and collects insights on what to keep and what to improve. The order management feature helps streamline the ordering process and improve table turnover. Restauranteurs can alsocollect instant feedback and contact information from guests to take action towards enhancing the dining experience. Finedine is used in 45 countries.
Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

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Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.

M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
Chooch — Chooch Autonomous AI provides hospitals and healthcare systems touchless, automated inventory management. No manual tracking. No stockouts.

Ercan Solmaz

Investment focus

Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Kalfa — Kalfa is a human-assisted digital business platform for financial advisors. It also offers transferring receipts and invoices to the system, mobile applications, e- auto bank transactions, preparing accrual records, and insurance policies, enabling operational work to be more controllable and faster from a single center.
Artiwise — Artiwise gathers all client feedback on a single platform by monitoring all customer communication channels. It makes decisions by using artificial intelligence to analyse client communication channels like call centre conversations, chatbot interviews, and surveys.
UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.

Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments

KFW DEG offers financing, advice and support to private sector enterprises operating in developing and emerging-market countries. Their customers can rely on their expertise: They can benefit from their market knowledge, their 21 locations worldwide, and their international network. For entrepreneurial success and development.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Finance, FinTech
Debt Financing, Funding Round, Grant
India, Kenya, United States

Portfolio highlights

ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
ACWA Power — ACWA Power is a developer, investor, co-owner and operator of a portfolio of power generation, renewable energy and desalinated water production plants.
CreditAccess Grameen — CreditAccess Grameen provides micro financial products and services for women from rural poor and low income households in India. It offers microcredit loans for income generation, family welfare, emergency, and home improvement, as well as micro insurance services covering life insurance, health insurance, and national pension scheme.CreditAccess Grameen also provides non-financial services, such as enterprise development, financial literacy promotion, basic health/nutrition education, basic medical services, special medical services for women and children, and training for women and women's rights/gender issues education. Vinatha M. Reddy founded Grameen Koota Financial Services in 1999. It became CreditAccess Grameen in January 2018, with its headquarters in Bengaluru in India.