Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024
Investor | Gaming Turkey investments |
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WePlay Ventures | 12 |
Boğaziçi Ventures | 10 |
Ludus | 9 |
Tarvenn Ventures | 6 |
Alesta Yatırım | 6 |
Hasan Aslanoba | 6 |
Akin Babayigit | 5 |
Hummingbird Ventures | 5 |
500 Istanbul | 5 |
TRANGELS | 4 |
Firat Isbecer | 4 |
Griffin Gaming Partners | 4 |
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund | 3 |
Play Ventures | 3 |
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan | 3 |
212 | 3 |
Makers Fund | 3 |
Sankonline | 3 |
EGIAD Angels | 3 |
Ali Ilci | 3 |
Enis Hulli | 3 |
Lima Ventures | 3 |
B4YO Capital | 2 |
Tera Portfoy | 2 |
Serkan Omerbeyoglu | 2 |
500 Emerging Europe | 2 |
Kaan Gunay | 2 |
Ramazan Evren | 2 |
GirişimTürk | 2 |
Meltem Kirişçi | 2 |
Sertaç Özinal | 2 |
Revo Capital | 2 |
Özgür Trakya | 2 |
Uğur Şeker | 2 |
Yılmaz Yıldız | 2 |
Ömer Duran | 2 |
Haluk Can Hür | 2 |
Ayşe Araz | 2 |
Nuri Cem Erbak | 2 |
Ömer Faruk Akarca | 2 |
Emre Kurttepeli | 2 |
Kristian Segerstrale | 2 |
Diffusion Capital Partners | 2 |
Aslanoba Capital | 2 |
Nuri Şahin | 2 |
Kültepe Investment | 2 |
Actera Group | 2 |
Ercan Solmaz | 2 |
Deniz Devrim Cengiz | 2 |
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan | 2 |
We are a Gaming VC that invests in early-stage game studios in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We invest in early-stage Mobile, PC, Console and Web game
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
- Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- One Percent — One Percent is a multiplayer Third-Person Shooter action game incorporating E-sports aspects such as strategy and tactics that focus on individual and team performance. people collaborate with friends or other people to fulfill objectives in game modes and defeat other teams. The One Percent design team created every level, character, clothes,emote, costume, and many other components in order to deliver a unique experience. The first edition of the game was created in a distinct Cyberpunk universe, and it is hoped that the team's design and technological skills will allow them to add other maps, concepts, and universes to the game.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, Singapore, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
- Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
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.
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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- 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.
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 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.
Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.
- Salient Motion — A next-generation supplier for aerospace and defense, specializing in advanced electric propulsion.
- Starpath Robotics — Starpath designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, reducing the cost of deep space transport, and enabling humans to be a multi planet species.
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.
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.
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.
Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing across the broad gaming ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ForthStar — ForthStar operates as a gaming company with a mission to make free-to-play hits.
- Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
- Second Dinner Studios — Second Dinner is a small, sleek, and absurdly vigorous new game studio. We may be small, but we've got BIG DREAMS!
Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
- 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.
- Pangea VR — VR and Console Game Studio
Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Finland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Social First — We create games that are social experiences, span decades and extend beyond gaming; giving our players platforms to create meaningful relationships with people all across the world.
- Darkbright Studios — Darkbright Studios is the developer of Smolbound, a Web3 life sim RPG.
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.
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
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Hybe IM — HYBE INTERACTIVE MEDIA (HYBE IM) is broadening the scope of HYBE's entertainment offerings by creating games and publishing them for people all over the world. HYBE IM creates numerous contents and services by combining cutting-edge interactive media technology with music, artists, and entertainment components, resulting in new viewpoints andexperiences.
- Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
- THINKR — THINKR provides advertising, video production, content, UX design, and animation services.
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.
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
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.
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.
Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
- Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
B4YO Capital is established to assist entrepreneurs to develop their business.
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Casual Games, Online Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Tarifist — Tarifist offers easy to access and share food recipes.
- Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Tera portfoy is a financial institution that offers products and investments.
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Investment focus
- Online Games, Mobile, Banking
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fimple — Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle.
- 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.
- Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
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.
500 Emerging Europe help the companies from Emerging Europe scale globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Turkey, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
- Daytona — Daytona is a self-hosted and secure open source development environment manager.
- 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.
Kaan Gunay - Co-Founder & CEO @ Firefly
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Casual Games
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Ace Games — Gaming
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.
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.
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.
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
- Internet, Gaming, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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
- HyperBeeAI — Breaking barriers and enabling disruptive AI solutions by reducing computing costs via small-footprint AI models.
- Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.
- Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Ayşe Araz
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- 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.
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.
Ömer Faruk Akarca
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- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.
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- 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.
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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- Gaming, Online Games, PC Games
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Finland, India
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- 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.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Doktar Technologies — We lead digitization and digital transformation in agriculture with digital services, sensors, satellites and other agricultural technologies.
- Enhencer — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.
- Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
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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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
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- 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
Nuri Şahin
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- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
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- Medialyzer — Measure, analyze and increase the online impact of TV advertising.
- artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
- Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.
Actera is the largest private equity firm primarily focusing on investments in Turkey, advising funds with assets exceeding US$3.3 billion. Portfolio companies of such funds collectively employ over 70,000 people and generate more than US$5 billion in revenues. Funds advised by Actera have generated the highest returns in the asset class from the Turkish market on a consistent basis.
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- Gaming, Software, SaaS
- Private Equity, Seed, Series B
- Turkey
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- Akinon — Akinon is a cloud-based headless commerce platform with an integrated next-generation application suite including marketplace capabilities.
- Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.
- Libra Softworks — Libra Softworks is a gaming company that makes mobile games.
Ercan Solmaz
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- Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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- 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.
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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- 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.
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