Top 10 Hospitality Startup Investors in Turkey (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Ireland, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Apps, Internet, Social Media | |
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Mehmet Celikol
Angel
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2 | Turkey, The Netherlands | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Online Portals, Dental | $100k–$992k |
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Sercan Alici
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Pet, Music, Dating | |
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Emre Tok
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile, Payments, Shopping | $850k–$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, Analytics | $439k–$2.7M |
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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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Alper Şener
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps | |
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Technology & Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$4M |
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $9k–$1M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$3.7M |
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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: Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Ireland, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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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- Industry: Health Care, Online Portals, Dental
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, The Netherlands
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $100k–$992k
- 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.
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
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reminis — Reminisce is revolutionizing the photography, and how we capture the moment in general by leveraging the power of modern Artificial Intelligence.Reminis is a digital photo distribution platform that allows you to find your photographed moments in crowded events by using it's proprietary face recognition.We built the world-first AI beingable to instantly search faces in unlimited number of images. Simply introduce your face and let Reminis do the rest.
- 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 $850k–$2M; Series A $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $439k–$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
- V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
- Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
- Mikro Biyosistemler Inc. — Mikro Biyosistemler is a biomedical microsystems company focuses on development of microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems for biomedical applications.
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 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.
Alper Şener
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- 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 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.
Technology & Innovation Fund was added in 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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 — 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.
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
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $9k–$1M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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.
- Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
- Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
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: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
- 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 — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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