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Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Turkey in December 2024

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in Turkey in December 2024

Investor Food and Beverage Turkey investments
Hasan Aslanoba 6
500 Istanbul 5
TRANGELS 4
Sankonline 3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 3
Enis Hulli 3
Aslanoba Capital 2
Uğur Şeker 2
Ayşe Araz 2
Emre Kurttepeli 2
Tarvenn Ventures 2
212 2
Agah Uğur 2
Alesta Yatırım 2
Tarık Bayar 2
Meltem Kirişçi 2
Nuri Cem Erbak 2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu 2
Özgür Trakya 2
EGIAD Angels 2
Haluk Can Hür 2
Ramazan Evren 2
Yılmaz Yıldız 2
Revo Capital 2
Ercan Solmaz 2
Ali Ilci 2
Ömer Duran 2
Firat Isbecer 2
TÜBİTAK 2
GirişimTürk 2
Ömer Faruk Akarca 2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 2
Boğaziçi Ventures 1
Idacapital 1
Cana Güneş 1
Kamil Sözen 1
Tuba Yazıcı 1
Inveo Yatirim Holding 1
Ahmet Özokur 1
Şerif Aras Doğruel 1
Madilet Eda Akyumuk 1
hiVC 1
Özgür Ülkü 1
Your Compass 1
Aydın Harezi 1
Cem Şibay 1
Founder One 1
Ozkan Hacıoğlu 1
Eksim Ventures 1
Ayşe Güçlü Onur 1
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Hasan Aslanoba Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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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 Istanbul VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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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.
TRANGELS VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
  • 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.
  • Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
Sankonline VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sankonline is a corporate venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies building game-changing technologies.
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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 — Resume parser and matching AI-powered with GPT Technology, supercharge your hiring with our wide range of recruitment solutions
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
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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.
Enis Hulli Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Gaming, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • DiffuseDrive — Search, Identify and Fill AI Data Gaps for Computer Vision in Autonomous Machines.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Intryc — Sample tickets, evaluate human and AI agents, and unlock customer insights with the power of AI with Intryc.
Aslanoba Capital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Uğur Şeker Angel
Uğur Şeker
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Investment focus
  • Marketing, Gaming, Big Data
  • Seed
  • 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.
Ayşe Araz Angel
Ayşe Araz
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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.
Emre Kurttepeli Angel
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.
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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.
Tarvenn Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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…
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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 — Madcraft Studios develops games for computer and mobile platforms.
212 VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Agah Uğur Angel
Agah Uğur
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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.
  • Mukellef | a Workhy Company — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
  • 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!
Alesta Yatırım VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OneNewOne — 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.
  • Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
Tarık Bayar Angel
Tarık Bayar
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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.
Meltem Kirişçi Angel
Meltem Kirişçi
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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.
Nuri Cem Erbak Angel
Nuri Cem Erbak
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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.
Serkan Omerbeyoglu Angel
M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kito Pet Food — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
  • Chooch — Chooch Vision AI combines computer vision with Generative AI to provide context to video and image data for faster, more precise insights.
Özgür Trakya Angel
Özgür Trakya
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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.
EGIAD Angels VC Fund · Konak, Izmir, Turkey
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.
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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.
  • 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.
  • artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
Haluk Can Hür Angel
Haluk Can Hür
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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
Ramazan Evren Angel
Ramazan Evren
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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 Angel
Yılmaz Yıldız
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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.
Revo Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
Ercan Solmaz Angel
Ercan Solmaz
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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.
Ali Ilci Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor
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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 specializes in financial services tailored specifically for creators across various platforms. The company focuses on enhancing creators' revenue profiles and addressing their unique financial needs through customized solutions. With a keen understanding of platform dynamics and macro trends, Copyright Capital offers accessto capital and strategic business advice to help creators mitigate risks associated with algorithm changes and platform uncertainties. The firm engages in detailed analysis and forecasting of revenue flows, ensuring a data-driven approach to financial support. Whether dealing with agencies or individual creators, Copyright Capital aims to provide financial solutions that align with each creator's specific situation and goals, thereby fostering a more secure and prosperous environment for creative content production.
Ömer Duran Angel
Ömer Duran
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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.
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
TÜBİTAK VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
GirişimTürk VC Fund
Investment Company
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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.
Ömer Faruk Akarca Angel
Ömer Faruk Akarca
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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.
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan Angel · Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
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
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Investment focus
  • TV, CRM, Apps
  • Seed, 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.
Boğaziçi Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
Idacapital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MentalUp — Educational games for kids of all ages. Choose from over 150+ fun and engaging award-winning games. Easy-To-Use. 100% Free + No Ads. Play Now!
  • QDelivery — Boost delivery efficiency, scale operations, and provide top-notch customer experience with the most advanced delivery software.
  • DIGINAK.COM — DIGINAK.COM is a state of art "Digital Transportation Platform". The platform generates spot transportation service for SMEs via online platform. The platform creates 30 days late payment option, Credit Cart Payment alternative, all risk insurance and 7/24 CRM.
Cana Güneş Angel
Cana Güneş
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Investment focus
  • Food Delivery, Cloud Data Services
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Kamil Sözen Angel
Kamil Sözen
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — 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.
Tuba Yazıcı Angel
Tuba Yazıcı
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Investment focus
  • Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
Inveo Yatirim Holding VC Fund · Maltepe, Istanbul, Turkey
Inveo Yatirim Holding is a new generation value investor. They make investments in rising corporations. They provide information and capital and amplify these corporations by maximising their market position.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, CleanTech, Advertising
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
Ahmet Özokur Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
General Partner
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Investment focus
  • Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
Şerif Aras Doğruel Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sheriff Aras Dogruel serves as Founding Partner at MAYALEGAL Law Firm.
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Investment focus
  • Organic Food, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Vego — Vego is a vegan vegetarian food ordering app.
Madilet Eda Akyumuk Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Madilet Eda Akyumuk
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Investment focus
  • Mobile Apps, Food Delivery
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • YEMMEK — Restaurants, shops, markets and dozens of services are in your pocket with a new generation marketplace application.
hiVC VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey
hiVC is an early-stage venture capital that connects early-stage startups with winning business models to achieve global success.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Life Science, Food Delivery
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
  • Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Özgür Ülkü Angel
Özgür Ülkü
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Farming, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — 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.
Your Compass VC Fund · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Your Compass's mission is to assist businesses and organizations in achieving peak performance and improving their capacity to define strategies, engage personnel, and align processes.
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Investment focus
  • Cooking
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Fork N Knife — Fork N Knif is a tech-enabled cloud kitchen that helps brand owners expand their delivery services at zero investment cost. Through their KaaS platform, they enable restaurants to open delivery-only locations with minimal cost. Fork N Knif is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey and was founded in 2022.
Aydın Harezi Angel
Aydın Harezi
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Investment focus
  • Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
Cem Şibay Angel
Cem Şibay
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Health Care, Food and Beverage
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Fit Brokoli — Fit Brokoli is an online dietitian service platform that uses machine learning to provide personalised nutrition advice.
Founder One VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Information Technology, Health Care
  • 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.
  • The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.
  • Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
Ozkan Hacıoğlu Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Özkan Hacıoğlu is a Co-Founder & CEO at Neredekal.com.
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Investment focus
  • Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Pardon — Contact us for the best quality Smart QR Menu for restaurants, cafes and hotels, quick reference and much more. What are QR menu prices?
Eksim Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Eksim Ventures supports potential business models and ideas by strengthening the power of technology. The firm was founded by Eksim Holding in 2021 and has 35 years of experience in smart capital.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bottobo Robotics — Bottobo Robotics is a robotic company aiming to revolutionize and democratize the autonomous mobile robot landscape. We build collaborative AMRs that work in harmony with human workforces helping organizations in boosting warehouse picking productivity AMR, autonomous mobile robots, 3D Lidar
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Enqura Information Technologies — Enhanced, Qualified and Rational KYC (Know Your Customers) and KYB solutions at Enqura. Discover our banking and finance security solutions.
Ayşe Güçlü Onur Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ayşe Güçlü Onur
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Investment focus
  • Food Delivery, Cloud Data Services
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
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