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Top 50 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Turkey in July 2025

A list of 50 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 VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Turkey in July 2025

Investor Gaming Turkey investments
WePlay Ventures 12
Boğaziçi Ventures 11
Ludus 10
Alesta Yatırım 6
Tarvenn Ventures 6
Founder One 6
RePie Asset Management 6
APY Ventures 5
Play Ventures 5
Hummingbird Ventures 5
500 Istanbul 5
EGIAD Angels 4
TRANGELS 4
Griffin Gaming Partners 4
Index Ventures 3
Makers Fund 3
Lima Ventures 3
Collective Spark 3
Sankonline 3
212 3
Laton Ventures 3
Geometry Venture Development 3
Balderton Capital 3
Heaventures 2
Kültepe Investment 2
Keiretsu Forum Turkey 2
twozero Ventures 2
GirişimTürk 2
Q Angels 2
B4YO Capital 2
Aslanoba Capital 2
Actera Group 2
TÜBİTAK 2
Fark Labs 2
Tera Portfoy 2
Diffusion Capital Partners 2
Finberg 2
Logo Ventures 2
500 Emerging Europe 2
e2vc 2
Arz Portfolio 2
Arcadia Gaming Partners 2
Revo Capital 2
Libertus Capital 2
LDA Capital 1
Turkcell 1
ELTORO - SECURITIES AND CONSULTING 1
Nuwa Capital 1
Inventures 1
23 Studios 1
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WePlay Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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 VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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Investment focus
  • Software, 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.
  • Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Ludus VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Alpaka Games — Alpaka Games is a mobile gaming company.
  • Playable Factory — Create, Edit, Iterate your 2D/3D playable ads. From ideation to iteration, we provide tailor-made solutions for designing and developing your ads. Check it out!
  • 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.
Alesta Yatırım VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Ono — 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.
Tarvenn Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions. We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances. Our business is to build yours…
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
  • Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
  • Madcraft Studios — Enhance your Trials of Osiris performance with our Destiny 2 Trials Carry guides. Learn strategies to secure wins and climb the ranks!
Founder One VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, 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.
  • The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.
  • Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
RePie Asset Management VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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
APY Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 10 investments in the past 12 months
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Circle Games — Circle Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to create high-quality experiences with user-centered design.
Play Ventures VC Fund · Grand Cayman, Midland, Cayman Islands · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
  • Circle Games — Circle Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to create high-quality experiences with user-centered design.
  • Studio42 — Mobile Game Developer
Hummingbird Ventures VC Fund · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
  • Ledgebrook — Best in class service and pricing from industry veterans delivered at the speed of InsurTech
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
500 Istanbul VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
  • Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
  • Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.
EGIAD Angels VC Fund · Konak, Izmir, Turkey
EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
  • Phoca — Phoca is a software company that specializes in the designing and development of hyper casual games for enthusiastic individuals.
  • 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.
TRANGELS VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
  • Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
  • Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.
Griffin Gaming Partners VC Fund · Los Angeles, San Luis Potosi, Mexico · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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 — Super Banana was created by a team of industry veterans who wanted to do things differently. Having worked at some of the biggest names in mobile gaming, they knew there was a better way. Ambitious and building for scale, Super Banana Studios cuts the red tape, empowers talent, and creates games that players genuinely love.
  • 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.
Index Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 54 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Boulevard — Boulevard is the first and only Client Experience Platform. Streamline bookings, optimize your schedule, and drive growth with a complete platform built just for you
  • Moment — Engineering the future of fixed income with the world's leading financial institutions.
  • Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
Makers Fund VC Fund · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Voldex — Voldex is an innovative video games studio focused on UGC (user-generated-content). It owns and operate several top Minecraft+Roblox games.
  • Donut — Donut is the first crypto agentic browser that uses the finest crypto in-domain model and a swarm of browsing agents.
  • Human Computer — Human Computer is an independent video game studio. Building games that matter. High-quality experiences that respect your time and push creative boundaries. Stories pull you in, computers provide the magic.
Lima Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • 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
Collective Spark VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Greece
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Invent Analytics — Invent.ai is empowering retailers with better planning and operational decisions that deliver immediate business value. Learn about our retail AI now.
  • Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
Sankonline VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sankonline is a corporate venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies building game-changing technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Tea
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Hirize — 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.
212 VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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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.
Laton Ventures VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Laton Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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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.
Geometry Venture Development VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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, 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.
Balderton Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 20 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • trawa — The partner for renewable and affordable electricity for businesses. Get electricity directly from solar and windparks with corporate PPAs.
  • Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.
  • Scalable Capital — The broker with trading flat rate: trade shares, ETFs, funds, cryptocurrencies & derivatives without commissions. Europe's leading digital asset management manages your ETF portfolio.
Heaventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
  • 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.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
Kültepe Investment VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey
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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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.
  • 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.
Keiretsu Forum Turkey VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Abonesepeti — Abonesepeti is one and only subscription management platform in Turkey. While subscribers can make smart subscription decisions and easily manage their subscriptions, Service providers can easily gain incremental subscribers by using Abonesepeti’s online and offline sales platforms. Abonesepeti raised seeds round in 2017 via www.sirketortagim.comAngel Investor Ban. Up to Date; Abonesepeti generate 16x growth based on revenue and serves more than 1M subscribers.
  • Hummingdrone — Hummingdrone provides cutting-edge autonomous drones and software solutions designed specifically for the solar energy industry.
  • Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
twozero Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
  • FineDine — Finedine is a growing tech company that provides data-driven digital menus for a smarter and more profitable dining experience. Finedine Menu app tracks customer behavior and collects insights on what to keep and what to improve. The order management feature helps streamline the ordering process and improve table turnover. Restauranteurs can alsocollect instant feedback and contact information from guests to take action towards enhancing the dining experience. Finedine is used in 45 countries.
  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
GirişimTürk VC Fund
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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.
Q Angels VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
  • eTasin — https://etasin.com
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
B4YO Capital VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
Aslanoba Capital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Actera Group VC Fund · Çengelköy, Istanbul, Turkey
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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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software, SaaS
  • Private Equity, Seed, Series B
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
TÜBİTAK VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
  • Mistikist — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
  • Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.
Fark Labs VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovationstrategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. We use this approach for our 4 focus verticals: mobility, life sciences, sustainable lifestyle, and emerging technologies, which we call our curiosity cabinet.We back change-makers who transform industries and create new ones. Our sweet spot is investing early, and we continue to provide support and investment up to Series A. We envision a better future by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform legacy businesses and build future-proof startups.We also drive innovation and transformation through collaborative intelligence. We build a unique ecosystem that connects difference-makers, leading corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across our 4 verticals.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • M-Based — M-based is an initiative aiming to develop eco-friendly alternative material technologies using mycelium, a component of the mushroom. Its R&D efforts focus on developing mycelium-based vegan leather to address environmental concerns and animal ethics violations in the textile industry.
  • MaestroHub — MaestroHub is a Single Source of Truth industrial data governance platform to overcome data architecture and integration challenges faced in digital transformation. MaestroHub points data sources to a smart data layer with drag & drop features and automatically creates contextualized data packages in real-time with Unified Namespacearchitecture. MaestroHub is the first self-diagnostic Unified Namespace solution with DataOps capabilities.
  • Ion Membranes — Ion membranes is a company that designs and manufactures ion exchange membranes and separators for the green energy industry. Our products are used in batteries, electrolyzers, fuel cells, chlor-alkali facilities, electrodialysis water treatment processes, and other applications that require ionic range separation.
Tera Portfoy VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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.
Diffusion Capital Partners VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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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.
  • Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
  • Gowit Technology — GoWit is a leading AdTech company, specializing in a multi-channel Retail Media Ads platform for online retailers. Our main objective is to empower businesses with comprehensive advertising solutions and maximize ad monetization. To reach a broader audience, we offer a variation of on-site & off-site advertising options such as SponsoredProducts, Sponsored Brands, Display, Video and In-Store Ads. With a clear focus on transparency, we are committed to helping our partners establish a powerful presence in the ever-growing world of retail.
Finberg VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Canada
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.
  • Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
Logo Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Retail, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway
Portfolio highlights
  • Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
500 Emerging Europe VC Fund · California, Kentucky, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Daytona — Deploy Al code with confidence using Daytona's lightning-fast infrastructure. 90ms environment creation, stateful operations, and enterprise-grade security.
  • Intryc — Sample tickets, evaluate human and AI agents, and unlock customer insights with the power of AI with Intryc.
  • Vidoc Security Lab — Ethical Hacking Automation platform for security teams
e2vc VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 10 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Turkey, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
  • Layer AI — The Collaborative MLOps platform
  • Circle Games — Circle Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to create high-quality experiences with user-centered design.
Arz Portfolio VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
  • Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
  • Branchsight — Branchsight enables you to manage the digital marketing activities of your multi-location brand from a single center. Branchsight's dealer-friendly, easy-to-use platform is an excellent tool designed to increase your global leverage by strengthening the awareness of your locations in the local market.
Arcadia Gaming Partners VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Arcadia Gaming Partners is a founder-led venture capital business that invests in the mobile game companies.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Bigger Games — Bigger Games, a dynamic mobile gaming company, is at the forefront of transforming the mobile gaming landscape. We aim for great execution and passionately work on each and every detail in our casual games to build the best experience for our players.
  • 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.
Revo Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
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
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Vivoo — At home testing made simple! Get personalized insights and expert advice tailored just for you. Begin your journey to wellness now!
  • Alpaka Games — Alpaka Games is a mobile gaming company.
Libertus Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
decentralized applications, distributed applications, blockchain, early-stage investments, venture capital
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Software, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Vietnam
Portfolio highlights
  • GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
  • BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
  • 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.
LDA Capital VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States
LDA Capital is an alternative investment group focused on investing in the global private and public markets. Their firm provides capital solutions to companies seeking financing in underserved markets and in complex conditions on a global basis. Our team has executed over $5 billion in transactions across 42 countries over the last 10 years.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Private Equity
  • Singapore, Italy, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Jada Ai — Jada Ai develops human-level artificial intelligence technology for collaboration between humans and machines.
  • Seedify — Seedify is a blockchain gaming-focused incubator and launchpad ecosystem empowering innovators and project developers through access to funding, community, and partnership building, and a full support system to help drive the future of gaming and blockchain. It is an investor in the blockchain games, NFTs, and metaverses
  • Gameness — Gameness is a Web3 platform that enhances the esports experience through cryptocurrency and NFTs. Users can engage in tournaments and events, leveraging blockchain technology to create a more interactive and rewarding environment for gamers. This platform aims to combine competitive gaming with the benefits of decentralization, allowing players toearn rewards and showcase their achievements in a vibrant community.
Turkcell VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkcell is a GSM-based mobile communications company providing a variety of audio and data communication services. With over 35 million subscribers as of 2013, Turkcell provides services to customers in over nine countries. Established in February 1994, Turkcell is the first Turkish company to be listed on the New York stock exchange.
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Investment focus
  • Security, E-Commerce, Gaming
  • Corporate Round, Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mobilfon — Mobilfon has a Renewal Center and a Renewal Authorization Certificate, which are only granted by the Ministry of Commerce to firms that meet certain conditions. This strategic investment enables Mobilfon to concentrate on employment and retailing. Mobilfon operates with the goal of building a strong shop network in order to be closer to its targetaudience and to provide the best possible customer experience. The investment's financial details were not published.
  • Procenne — Procenne produces digital security products and solutions.
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
ELTORO - SECURITIES AND CONSULTING VC Fund
El Toro is a result-oriented consultancy boutique specialized in management & IT consulting services based in The Kingdom of Bahrain.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Ratic — Maximize revenue with
Nuwa Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A radical investment platform reshaping the relationship between founders and capital.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia
Portfolio highlights
  • Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
  • Mascotte Health — Supercharge your practice with a strong operational team and state-of-the-art technology.
Inventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
23 Studios VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish Game Localization and Publishing Company
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, E-Commerce, E-Commerce Platforms
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Enucuzoyun.com — Enucuzoyun.com is a price-comparison platform for PC games. It lists only the official and legitimate digital game distributors all across the world. Besides being a price comparison website, Enucuzoyun.com also offers every gamer a lot of quality content all about gaming and gaming industry.
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