Top 15 Hospitality Startup Investors in Turkey (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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3 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
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Mehmet Celikol
Angel
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2 | Turkey, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Dental, EdTech | $100k–$420k |
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Sekan Bagce
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management | |
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Angel Effect
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $20k–$996k |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Sercan Alici
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Pet, Music, Dating | $4k–$50k |
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Emre Tok
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile, Payments, Shopping | $884k–$2M |
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Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $350k–$2.7M |
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Alper Şener
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, PropTech, E-Commerce | $29k–$2M |
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Sinan Düztaş
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | SaaS, Mobile, Travel | |
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Technology & Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $250k–$4M |
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $17k–$4.6M |
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Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Turkey | Seed, Series A | Health Care, Software, Biotechnology | $85k–$10M |
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Burak Şen
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel, Series A | SaaS, Beauty, Mobile | |
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Agah Ugur
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Apps, Food and Beverage | $134k–$1.2M |
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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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- Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
Mehmet Celikol
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- Industry: Health Care, Dental, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $100k–$420k
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
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.
Sekan Bagce
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- Industry: Hospitality, Vacation Rental, Property Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $250k–$755k; Pre-Seed $20k–$996k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
- ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
Sercan Alici
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- Industry: Pet, Music, Dating
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Angel $4k–$50k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Keymate.AI —
- 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!
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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- Industry: Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $884k–$2M; Series A $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- 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.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $350k–$2.7M; Series A $985k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $32M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- FU — The FU carries out mortgage business, which guarantees the loans of banks and financial institutions, loans of non-financial institutions.
- TAZI — TAZI's Automated Machine Learning is understandable continuous machine learning from data and humans, enables business domain experts to use machine learning to ...
- V-Count — V-Count is a leading global provider of AI-powered visitor analytics and people-counting solutions for physical locations.
Alper Şener
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- Industry: FinTech, PropTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $29k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
Sinan Düztaş
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Travel
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.5M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DefensX — DefensX makes sure the users are safe working anywhere on any network or device including desktops, laptops, and, iOS & Android. DefensX bundles Remote Browser Isolation, Zero Trust File Protection, and Zero Trust Credential Exposure functionalities for secure remote work.
- Mükellef — Mükellef is a fintech company that provides financial services, digital transformation, and accounting services.
- OctoXLabs — Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Asset Management Solution #CSAM #CAASM
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $17k–$645k; Pre-Seed $26k–$150k; Convertible Note $30k–$4.6M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
- Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
- ConverJinn — AI-powered product categorization and conversion optimization for online stores. Boost conversions and make every product page count.
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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- Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 241
- Round size: Seed $85k–$3.3M; Series A $778k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Bliss — Skip long waitlists and expensive therapy. Book licensed online therapists in multiple languages with culturally informed care.
- BatteryPool — BatteryPool offers battery charging solutions for EV fleets and commercial vehicles.
- Apriority Financial — Apriority Financial is a debt optimization platform that manages and optimizes employee personal debt.
Burak Şen
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- Industry: SaaS, Beauty, Mobile
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
Agah Uğur
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- Industry: Software, Apps, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $134k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $400k–$425k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Malty — Malty manufactures malt-based healthy snacks that provide new food products made from sustainable components. The company uses sustainable and repurposed raw materials, and its products are natural and vegan, with no added sugar, preservatives, or flavor, allowing consumers to enjoy a snack with high nutritional value, dietary fiber, andnon-additive content.
- Workhy — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
- Mükellef — Mükellef is a fintech company that provides financial services, digital transformation, and accounting services.
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