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Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Turkey in November 2024

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Gaming startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Turkey in November 2024

Investor Gaming Turkey investments
Hasan Aslanoba 6
Akin Babayigit 5
Firat Isbecer 4
Enis Hulli 3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 3
Ali Ilci 3
Emre Can 2
Fatih Isbecer 2
Kaan Gunay 2
Hande Enes 2
Haluk Can Hür 2
Ömer Faruk Akarca 2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu 2
Tarık Bayar 2
Meltem Kirişçi 2
Nuri Şahin 2
Ömer Duran 2
Ayşe Araz 2
Ercan Solmaz 2
Özgür Trakya 2
Firat Ileri 2
Nuri Cem Erbak 2
Deniz Devrim Cengiz 2
Alexis Bonte 2
Sertaç Özinal 2
Uğur Şeker 2
Kaan Karamanci 2
Kristian Segerstrale 2
Yılmaz Yıldız 2
Sercan Akkaş 2
Emre Kurttepeli 2
Ramazan Evren 2
Agah Uğur 2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan 2
Tunç Yalgın 2
Can Hicbezmez 1
Ozgür AKSOY 1
Kaan Kayabalı 1
Emre Gerçek 1
Burak Saglik 1
Ugur Ethem AYDIN 1
Doruk Akpek 1
Ozhun Olgar 1
Alpcan Erdoğan 1
Kaan Kalıpçı 1
Emir Gönensin 1
Şerif Aras Doğruel 1
Emre Karaca 1
Damla Sener Akkaynak 1
Semiramis Kulak 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.
Akin Babayigit Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King,Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps, PC Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Layer AI, Inc — The Collaborative MLOps platform
  • Cypher Games — Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story. We aim to shape the future of mobile gaming together with our colleagues, investors and thought partners.
  • Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
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.
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 — Save time and money for robotics companies with DiffuseDrive. Access high-fidelity synthetic data instantly to improve computer vision development and eliminate idle waiting.
  • 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.
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.
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.
Emre Can Angel
Emre Can
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Investment focus
  • Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Fatih Isbecer Angel
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Mindway VR — Mindway is a fully immersive meditation app that proves mindfulness doesn't have to be boring.
  • Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
  • Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
Kaan Gunay Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kaan Gunay - Co-Founder & CEO @ Firefly
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Casual Games
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
Hande Enes Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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
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.
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.
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 Şahin Angel
Nuri Şahin
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Investment focus
  • Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Firat Ileri Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Firat is a Partner at Hummingbird Ventures. His current portfolio includes Armut, Argent, Aspire, Billiontoone, Brigit, Ciceksepeti, Instacarro, Kernal Biologics and Layer.He previously worked with Frontier Car Group, Gram Games, Peak Games and Merlin prior to their acquisition. He is interested in marketplaces, frontier tech, fintech and gaming.Previously, he worked at J.P. Morgan at the Emerging Markets Structuring and Solutions group. He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Management Science and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Ace Games — Gaming
  • Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.
  • Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
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.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz Angel
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Alexis Bonte Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Alexis is a Venture Partner at Atomico advising on new investments in France, Spain & Portugal and Eastern Europe as well as sourcing and accelerating growth in the games, blockchain and travels vertical. He is passionate about high-impact, purpose-driven companies, and he currently serves on the boards of Bossa Studios and OhBiBi, Atomico’slatest game investment. He splits his time between London, Paris, Bucharest, Stockholm and Madrid.Alexis is co-founder and CEO of games company eRepublik Labs (eRepublik.com, Age of Lords, World at War, War and Peace) a “free-to-play” pioneer that he sold in June of 2017 to Stillfront Group. Alexis remains the company’s CEO, and is also the Group COO for Stillfront, giving him a unique mix of investor as well as operational expertise. Prior to Erepublik Labs, Alexis was part of the first wave of internet start ups and was with lastminute.com for six years right up to its $1.1B trade sale to Sabre in 2005.Alexis has numerous angel investments, mainly in Europe, and has been active in supporting the development of the European digital ecosystem through events and associations.Alexis is fluent in French, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian and understands basic Romanian if pushed. A long time ago he was a national sailing champion in Portugal, but now he prefers to stay dry and play chess with one of his three children.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Finland, Portugal, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • AudioMob — Monetizing mobile games non-intrusively using audio ads! AudioMob are the creators of Audio Enhanced Banners & Rewarded Audio
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
Sertaç Özinal Angel
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Gaming, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
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.
Kaan Karamanci Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Marketing, Automotive
  • Seed, Angel, Series B
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.
  • Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
Kristian Segerstrale Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kristian Segerstrale is the Co-founder of Initial Capital and Board member of Supercell, as well as the Co-founder and CEO of Playfish. Kristian has been at the forefront of the rapidly transforming game industry since 2001.He was a co-founder of mobile gaming pioneer Macrospace – today Glu Mobile (Nasdaq: GLUU) in 2001 through the successfulIPO in 2007. He left to co-found Playfish, the social gaming pioneer, where he served as CEO through the company’s rapid growth to 60 Million players and the subsequent acquisition by Electronic Arts for $400M in 2009. After a period as EVP Digital at Electronic Arts driving the aggressive transformation of the company from packaged goods to digital, Kristian left in March 2013 to focus on startups. Today Kristian leads seed stage investments with Initial Capital and serves on the board of Supercell, the #1 iOS game company.Kristian has previously served on the board of LOVEFiLM, the European streaming video pioneer until its acquisition by Amazon.com.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Online Games, PC Games
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Finland, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Battlebound — Battlebound is on a mission to build memorable lifelong gaming communities that invite players into Heroic Stories, creating deep connections and positive life changes. Heroic stories are thrilling gameplay moments that bring players together and enrich players lives inside and outside the game. We believe blockchain technology will deepen these moments and enrich the player experience when paired with world-class gameplay.
  • Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
  • Lightforge Games — Lightforge Games is a new, all-remote video game studio on a quest to change how the world plays RPGs.
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.
Sercan Akkaş Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Fruit
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Lugath — Lugath automates content localization with the power of AI translation.
  • Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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.
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.
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!
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.
Tunç Yalgın Angel · Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
Tunç Yalgın was Entrepreneur and investor, passionate about everything high-tech, disruptive and, even better, both!
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Mobile, Sports
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
  • Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
  • Hero Concept — Hero Concept is a computer games company that develops visionary reimaginations of the timeless classics of arcade gaming. The company studies the histories of the ever-present classics in order to carry them into the 21st century--with panache. Hero Concept was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Can Hicbezmez Angel
Can Hicbezmez
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Ozgür AKSOY Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Özgür AKSOY is an SEO manager at Webtures, a digital agency that specializes in providing internet marketing, SEO, and social media marketing solutions. AKSOY obtained his BA from Süleyman Demirel University and went on to Anadolu University to obtain his master’s degree.
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Investment focus
  • Casual Games
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Gulliver's Games — Gulliver's Games is a mobile gaming company that aims to create amazing experiences for mobile casual gamers around the world.
Kaan Kayabalı Angel
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
Emre Gerçek Angel
Emre Gerçek
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Burak Saglik Angel
Burak Saglik - Co-Founder @ Teknasyon
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
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.
  • Otsimo — Otsimo offers special education and speech therapy apps for autism, down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Click to see our autism apps!
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
Ugur Ethem AYDIN Angel
I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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Investment focus
  • iOS, Software, macOS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
Doruk Akpek Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Doruk Akpek is a Co-Founder of BEIJE.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Sorb — SORB is a sports drink containing electrolytes that were created for people who lead an active lifestyle. It is carefully made for the rapid recovery of minerals that are essential to the body.
Ozhun Olgar Angel
Ozhun Olgar
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
Alpcan Erdoğan Angel
Alpcan Erdoğan
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Ratic — Maximize revenue with
Kaan Kalıpçı Angel
Kaan Kalıpçı
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
Emir Gönensin Angel
Emir Gönensin
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Sorb — SORB is a sports drink containing electrolytes that were created for people who lead an active lifestyle. It is carefully made for the rapid recovery of minerals that are essential to the body.
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.
Emre Karaca Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Emre Karaca
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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.
Damla Sener Akkaynak Angel
CFO
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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.
Semiramis Kulak Angel
Semiramis Kulak
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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