Top 15 Hospitality Startup Investors in Turkey in September 2025
A list of 15 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Hospitality startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Hospitality Startup Investors in Turkey in September 2025
Investor | Hospitality Turkey investments |
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Alper Şener | 2 |
Sekan Bagce | 2 |
Mehmet Celikol | 2 |
Sercan Alici | 2 |
Mehmet Onarcan | 2 |
Mehmet Celikol | 2 |
Emre Tok | 2 |
Burak Şen | 1 |
Nevzat Aydın | 1 |
Bahar Gücüyener Pardoroke | 1 |
Alesta Yatırım | 1 |
Keiretsu Forum | 1 |
Technology & Innovation Fund | 1 |
Angel Effect | 1 |
Diffusion Capital Partners | 1 |
Alper Şener
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Sekan Bagce
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Mehmet Celikol
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Investment focus
- Dental, Procurement, Property Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Viravira — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
- Dentalpiyasa — Dentalpiyasa connects dentists and dental warehouses, enabling direct procurement from manufacturers and importers.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Sercan Alici
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Investment focus
- Pet, Hospitality, Photography
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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.
- Albumera — Albumera provides photography services. They offer business, maternity, social media, and online photography services. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
- 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!
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, Social Network
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Ireland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
Mehmet Celikol
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Investment focus
- Rental, Travel, Boating
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Viravira — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
- 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.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA
- Former VP of Growth – Free-Now
- Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $)
- Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK
- Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey
- Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
Burak Şen
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Beauty, Mobile
- Angel, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Yeniben.com — Yeniben brings transparency to the elective medical & aesthetic treatment market which represents a wide range of services—from a simple skin treatment to cosmetic surgery. At the heart of Yeniben is a community of people sharing personal experiences, unbiased stories, and candid advice. Hundreds of medical experts also participate onYeniben. Doctors and clinicians have posted over one thousand answers to questions and routinely upload educational videos, special offers, and patient before & after photos. The company is an Istanbul based startup and has achieved profitability.
- Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
- A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
Bahar Gücüyener Pardoroke
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Investment focus
- Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
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.
Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- ALM Ortho — ALM Ortho, Osseointegration for Patient Matched Orthopedic Implant Solutions
- ActuatedMedical — Actuated Medical designs innovative medical devices that improve patient care and outcomes by solving unmet clinical needs with engineered motion.
- Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak — Eat our pure, naturally grown, & direct farmse products, grown without use of harmful chemicals brought to directly from Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak; they'll fill your body with energy, nutrients, & antioxidants.
Technology & Innovation Fund was added in 2013.
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Investment focus
- Baby, SaaS, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
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.
- 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.
- Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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.
- & 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.
- Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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 — 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.
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