Top 50 Gaming Startup Investors in Turkey in January 2026

Investor	Gaming Turkey investments
Ludus	13
WePlay Ventures	12
Boğaziçi Ventures	11
Tarvenn Ventures	6
Play Ventures	6
Alesta Yatırım	6
Hasan Aslanoba	6
APY Ventures	6
Founder One	6
RePie Asset Management	6
Akin Babayigit	6
TRANGELS	5
Maxis	5
500 Istanbul	5
Hummingbird Ventures	5
EGIAD Angels	4
Griffin Gaming Partners	4
Firat Isbecer	4
Collective Spark	3
e2vc	3
Enis Hulli	3
Sankonline	3
Balderton Capital	3
Geometry Venture Development	3
212	3
Firat Ileri	3
Kültepe Investment	3
Makers Fund	3
Ali Ilci	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	3
Lima Ventures	3
Ahu Serter	3
Laton Ventures	3
Tera Portfoy	3
Index Ventures	3
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	2
TÜBİTAK	2
B4YO Capital	2
Emre Can	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Kristian Segerstrale	2
Nuri Şahin	2
Diffusion Capital Partners	2
Ercan Solmaz	2
Yılmaz Yıldız	2
Ömer Faruk Akarca	2
Libertus Capital	2
Sertaç Özinal	2
Tarık Bayar	2
Mehmet Ayan	2

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
Alpaka Games — Alpaka Games is a mobile gaming company.
TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with AI-Powered Performance Management Software. Align for Excellence with F4E.
Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Play Ventures is a venture funding that invests globally in games and game services startups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Appcharge — Built for mobile gaming, we help publishers grow revenue and personalize every player interaction and checkout.
Circle Games — Circle Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to create high-quality experiences with user-centered design.
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.

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
ConverJinn — AI-powered product categorization and conversion optimization for online stores. Boost conversions and make every product page count.
Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.

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.

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Upsonic — Upsonic is a platform that allows users to create artificial intelligence agents designed to perform tasks in businesses. The platform prevents AI agents from hallucinating.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Hayhay — Hayhay operates a mobile application that manages financial transactions. It provides an online tool that sends, receives, and processes different kinds of payments. Hayhay was founded in 2020 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
Goldtag — Digital Asset Development

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

Sett — Sett AI is building technology that helps mobile game teams find winning creatives faster and grow their games into global hits.
Layer AI — 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.

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Dengage — Create dynamic customer engagements driven by valuable data insights. Design omni-channel campaigns on one user-friendly platform, on-cloud or on-site.
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
Refine — Refine AI is a powerful platform that helps developers build better Refine applications with AI assistance.
Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tavrn — Tavrn provides state of the art, AI-powered demand letters and medical chronologies for attorneys.
OneTwoSmile — One Two Smile, the invisible alternative to braces, moves your teeth through a series of aligners. Each aligner moves your teeth slightly and is engineered to use the right amount of force in the right place at the right time. Every two weeks, you will move onto the next stage of aligners so your teeth will gradually move into the desired positionthat was mapped by our certified smile designers and certified orthodontist.100% as effective, for 70% lessOne Two Smile aligners are clinically proven to be as effective as braces without the hassle, wiring, or pain. We work with state certified orthodontists in your city to diagnose your case and create a personalized treatment plan. By sending your aligners directly to you we are able to offer our aligners for 70% less than other aligner brands. With an average treatment time of 5 months, One Two Smile is ideal for mild to moderate cases.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
Phoca — Phoca is a software company that specializes in the designing and development of hyper casual games for enthusiastic individuals.
Skymod Technology — Skymod is a technology company providing a platform that addresses the challenges businesses face in adopting AI by simplifying prompt engineering, ensuring data security, and offering integrated solutions within a unified platform, eliminating the need for extensive coding knowledge and streamlining workflows.

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the gaming industry The firm invests across the broad gaming ecosystem, including content, software, and platforms.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Zoot — ZOOT (getzoot.us) is a free-to-play social gaming platform offering casual arcade-style games like Plinko, Mines, Crash, and Dice, with sweepstakes prize options allowing players to win real cash rewards. It operates legally in most U.S. states, using virtual currencies—Gold Coins and Sweeps Coins—with no traditional slots or table games. ZOOTemphasizes simple, engaging gameplay inspired by early Flash games, combined with daily bonuses, quests, and a social community focus
Super Banana — We're Remote First, and Hiring Globally. Come see our open roles.
Amplitude Studios — We are a team of experienced quality-driven video game lovers, who want to create the finest strategy games hand-in-hand with our players.

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
Synnada — Real-Time Data Product Simple, Powerful & Blazingly Fast. Synnada helps you build interactive, collaborative, intelligent, real-time applications for your mission-critical systems, within minutes and with ease. Powered by SQL and ML.
Fundomundo — Fundomundo is an online education platform for children and young people aged 3 to 18.

A regional specialist fund operating within the early-stage emerging europe to US pipeline; backing emerging european founders within Eastern Europe and bridging them to the US at the earliest of stages. We also back immigrant founders from emerging europe in key end-markets like San Francisco, NYC, London and Berlin alike.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

TrueMeter — EcoTrove is your energy concierge for cheaper, greener and more predictable power bills.
TrueMeter — TrueMeter's AI platform helps multi-unit businesses save up to 15% on electricity bills through automated rate optimization, renewable energy switching, and bill consolidation. Guaranteed savings for multi-location businesses.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
TrueMeter — TrueMeter's AI platform helps multi-unit businesses save up to 15% on electricity bills through automated rate optimization, renewable energy switching, and bill consolidation. Guaranteed savings for multi-location businesses.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
Hirize — Extract data from any file format with AI-driven, market-leading accuracy. Empower HR, finance, healthcare, with automated parsing.
Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series A, Series B, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Lyst — Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-starinvestors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.
Depop — Designer. Preloved. Vintage. Streetwear. Sneakers. Whatever your style. Find it on Depop.
VOI Technology — VOI is a micro-mobility startup that provides electric scooters for last-mile transportation. Douglas Stark, Filip Lindvall, and Fredrik Hjelm founded it in 2018. Its headquarters is located in Stockholm in Sweden.VOI Technology is aiming to create a system of electrically powered scooters around urban centers to provide an affordable,sustainable, and exhilarating way to commute while helping people to reduce their carbon footprint and cities to have a more sustainable transportation network.

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
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.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides file-centric security to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce third-party risk management. It blocks internal bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Ace Games — Gaming
Magic Games — Magic Games is a mobile gaming company with new genre of casual multiplayer puzzle games.
Heltia — 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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Modrinth — Rinth's goal is to provide creators with an easy to use and functional platform where their work can be experienced, downloaded, and shared by gamers worldwide. We aim to turn the hobby of modding games to a stable career.
Klang Games — Klang Games is an entertainment & game development studio in Berlin, developing the MMO Simulation and Virtual World, Seed. Klang is always hiring!
Neon Koi — Savage Game Studios is a dynamite team with expertise across all operational functions from art to tech and gameplay.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Shippn — Shop online from more than 40 countries and get it delivered to your doorstep! Sign up for free and start shopping from anywhere in the world with Shippn.
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

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
Tripy Mobility — Are you ready to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.

Laton Ventures is a venture capital firm.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Pine Games — Pine Games operates as a mobile gaming company that creates impactful experiences with widespread appeal.
Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.
Surpass Games — Surpass Games goal is to redefine the hybrid casual puzzle genre.

Tera portfoy is a financial institution that offers products and investments.

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.
Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.
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.

Index Ventures is an international venture capital firm with dual headquarters in San Francisco and London, investing in technology-enabled companies with a focus on e-commerce, fintech, mobility, gaming, infrastructure/AI, and security.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

BIT ODD — Gaming company building games filled with wonder, weirdness and delight
Dream Games — Join Dream Games and explore a vibrant universe of characters and puzzles. Discover why millions of players worldwide love our mobile games. Visit us to learn more about our games, company culture, and career opportunities.
Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

B4YO Capital is established to assist entrepreneurs to develop their business.

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.

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.

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

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.
Dead Astronauts — Dead Astronauts reinvents open-world game experiences with technical innovation at the core of the company and PLAYER CREATIVITY at the core of the games we make.

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.

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
Boby.ai — Boby.ai develops artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for end users
Gowit Technology — Unlock your retail media potential with GoWit's omnichannel Retail Media Advertising platform. Expand your audience reach, optimize bidding, and leverage first-party data for maximum conversions and privacy protection.

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.

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.

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.

decentralized applications, distributed applications, blockchain, early-stage investments, venture capital

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
The Open Network Foundation — A decentralized and open internet designed to onboard 500M people on-chain, built by the community using technology developed by Telegram.

Sertaç Özinal

Investment focus

Internet, Gaming, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
Finekra — Finekra is a Banking Application that manage all Banks from a single screen.
Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics

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.

Mehmet Ayan is a partner at Ludus Venture.

Investment focus

Online Games, Gaming, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Kidly — Kidly is an online broadcasting application that publishes illustrated and narrated books for kids and young children in the vicinity.
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.
Novart Space Technologies —