Top 50 Gaming Angel Investors in Turkey in December 2024

Investor	Gaming Turkey investments
Hasan Aslanoba	6
Akin Babayigit	5
Firat Isbecer	4
Ali Ilci	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	3
Enis Hulli	3
Kaan Karamanci	2
Kristian Segerstrale	2
Agah Uğur	2
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	2
Tunç Yalgın	2
Ayşe Araz	2
Ercan Solmaz	2
Özgür Trakya	2
Nuri Cem Erbak	2
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	2
Yılmaz Yıldız	2
Sercan Akkaş	2
Emre Kurttepeli	2
Ramazan Evren	2
Serkan Omerbeyoglu	2
Kaan Gunay	2
Fatih Isbecer	2
Hande Enes	2
Ömer Duran	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Ömer Faruk Akarca	2
Meltem Kirişçi	2
Nuri Şahin	2
Tarık Bayar	2
Emre Can	2
Firat Ileri	2
Alexis Bonte	2
Sertaç Özinal	2
Uğur Şeker	2
Ihsan Elgin	1
Alper Afsin Ozdemir	1
Stephane Kurgan	1
Cem Şibay	1
Kaan Kural	1
Burak Saglik	1
Ugur Ethem AYDIN	1
Şerif Aras Doğruel	1
Özgür Ülkü	1
Jose Marin	1
Ali Kutay	1
Kerim Kotan	1
Michael Moritz	1
Mehmet Sacit Sungu	1
Hakkı Alkan	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.

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.

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 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, 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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.

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 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.

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.

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.
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!

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

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 was Entrepreneur and investor, passionate about everything high-tech, disruptive and, even better, both!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nuri Cem Erbak

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

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.

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.

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Kaan Gunay - Co-Founder & CEO @ Firefly

Investment focus

Gaming, Casual Games
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Ace Games — Gaming

Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid

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.

Hande Enes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nuri Şahin

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.

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.

Emre Can

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.

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Ace Games — Gaming
Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.

Alper Afsin Ozdemir

Investment focus

Food and Beverage
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.

Stephane Kurgan has served on our Board of Directors since April 2012 and as our chief operating officer since April 2011. Stephane has more than 20 years of management experience at high-growth technology businesses. Prior to joining King, Stephane served as the chief financial officer atTideway Systems Ltd., a data centre management software company that was acquired by BMC Software, Inc. He has also served as senior vice president and managing director of enba plc, held various sales and product management roles at Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing BV and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. Stephane has served as a member of the Board of Directors of HK Ltd. since January 2006 and previously served on the Board of Directors of Lasker Fund LP and Gladstone Capital Management LLP until December 2012. Stephane holds a B.A. in Economics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, a Diploma in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS School, Italy and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, France. Papa Pear Saga is the only King game where Stephane is remotely ahead of his wife.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Developer APIs
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Qargo — Qargo is a new kind of transport management software for automated logistics management. Using advanced AI, Qargo streamlines your entire workflow into one easy interface. Grow your business, not your workload with Qargo TMS.
ZirooPay — IroFit mobile card reader allows small businesses accept card payments anywhere they operate, even in areas with poor internet connection. By ensuring widest possible coverage area and effective operations, merchants increase sales and buyers are better served. We improve the overall purchasing experience for billions living in areas withpoor/no Internet connection.
Ramp Growth — How many users will your mobile game acquire, and how much more will they pour into your virtual economy? Try Ramp to find out.

Cem Şibay

Investment focus

Personal Health, Family, Software
Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
Fit Brokoli — Fit Brokoli is an online dietitian service platform that uses machine learning to provide personalised nutrition advice.

Kaan Kural

Investment focus

eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.

Burak Saglik - Co-Founder @ Teknasyon

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

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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.
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.

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.

Investment focus

iOS, Software, macOS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey

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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.

Sheriff Aras Dogruel serves as Founding Partner at MAYALEGAL Law Firm.

Investment focus

Organic Food, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Pre-Seed
Turkey

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Vego — Vego is a vegan vegetarian food ordering app.

Özgür Ülkü

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

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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.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

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Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Printify — Sell custom t-shirts, phone cases, and 800+ products with your designs printed on demand. We will handle printing and shipping to your customers.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Turkey, Germany

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HiveMQ — HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. They make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable and scalable manner. Over 100 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on their product in production for mission critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoTproducts.
REscan — Transforming spaces into data
Strikedeck — Medallia's software platform provides keen insights to improve customer experience, contact center experience, employee experience and digital experience.

Kerim Kotan

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Medical Device
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Turkey, Canada, United Kingdom

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FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Sports Digitale — the leading independent sports media company in Turkey in every field of sports, from football and basketball to combat sports, Formula 1, with 1 million subscribers
TelomEye Pharmaceuticals — TelomEye Pharmaceuticals provides treatments to prevent and improve age-related ophthalmologic disorders.

Michael Moritz is Chairman & Partner of Sequoia Capital where he has worked since 1986. He has always had an eclectic set of investment interests and today represents Sequoia's interests in Klarna, Green Do, and Stripe, LinkedIn the world's professional nework, Instacart, PopSugar, the entertainment and fashion site for women24-7-customer an outsourcing customer service company and The Melt a grilled cheese restaurant chain.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, FinTech
Series B, Series A, Series D
United States, Sweden, Turkey

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Getir — Getir combines urban logistics and mobile technology to provide instant delivery of goods in urban areas. Its application enables its users to order a range of products and pay for them through their credit cards. Once purchased, the goods will be delivered to its users. The application features live tracking, which enables its users to track thelocation of their orders.Getir was launched in 2015 by Nazim Salur, Serkan Borancili, Tuncay Tutek, Dogan Dalyan, and Mert Salur and is based in Istanbul.
Monzo — Spend, save and manage your money, all in one place. Open a full UK bank account from your phone, for free.
Geneva — Geneva is the group chat app connecting you to the people you want to meet and the things you want to do in your city. Discover groups near you, chat, meet new people, and find (or plan your own!) events and meetups.

Mehmet Sacit Sungu

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Local
Seed, Angel
Turkey

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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.
Diici — Diici is a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem guide.
eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

Hakkı Alkan is the Founder and CEO at ShiftDelete.

Investment focus

Apps, Gaming, Mobile Apps
Angel, Seed
Turkey

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Pickies — Pickies is a company that provides consumers with a simple, quick, and safe ordering procedure and facilitates simple online payments and orders.
Poda — PODA is a new-generation work cabinet that allows you to work anywhere you choose, With its workstation, chair, rapid internet connection, UV-C air and environment sterilization, air conditioning, and sound insulation features,
Lumier Games — Lumier Games is a game development studio located in Istanbul. Currently actively developing mobile web3 games.