Top 50 Internet Startup Investors in Turkey in February 2025
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Internet startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Internet companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Internet Startup Investors in Turkey in February 2025
Investor | Internet Turkey investments |
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Aslanoba Capital | 17 |
Alesta Yatırım | 9 |
Nevzat Aydın | 9 |
Omer Erkmen | 8 |
StartersHub | 7 |
Earlybird Venture Capital | 7 |
Firat Isbecer | 6 |
ACT Venture Partners | 6 |
Sina Afra | 6 |
Boğaziçi Ventures | 6 |
Vinci Venture Capital | 5 |
Keiretsu Forum Turkey | 5 |
Bedii Can Yucaoglu | 5 |
Utku Öz | 5 |
Emre Acikel | 5 |
Nexus Ventures | 4 |
TRANGELS | 4 |
Angel Effect | 4 |
Sertaç Özinal | 4 |
Mehmet Onarcan | 4 |
Joachim Behrendt | 4 |
Maxis | 4 |
StartupFon | 3 |
Keiretsu Forum | 3 |
BIC Angels | 3 |
Teknoloji Yatirim | 3 |
Serkan Borancılı | 3 |
Collective Spark | 3 |
Albaraka Fintech Fund | 3 |
Fatih Isbecer | 3 |
F+ Ventures | 3 |
500 Istanbul | 2 |
Teknogirişim GSYF | 2 |
twozero Ventures | 2 |
Fark Labs | 2 |
Teknasyon | 2 |
Alp Saul | 2 |
Inventures | 2 |
Onur Topac | 2 |
Burak Divanlıoğlu | 2 |
Hande Enes | 2 |
Wesley Clover | 2 |
Mehmet Celikol | 2 |
Ahu Serter | 2 |
QNBEYOND Ventures | 2 |
ERT Clinical | 2 |
Bilişim Vadisi | 2 |
Kivilcim Cayli | 2 |
Güler Holding | 2 |
Melih Odemis | 2 |
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
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
- OneNewOne — 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.
- Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
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
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
- IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
- PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- eyva.ai — The decisonOS for beauty and personal care
- GEMMABio — GEMMABio, a new therapeutics company, will serve as the research and innovation arm to speed the research of and global access to life-changing advanced therapies for those living with rare diseases.
- Upvest — Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API. Upvest brings together everything that’s required to offer a broad range of investment products on the website and app. They are connected to the world’s leading asset providers and exchanges to provide the bestinvestments, at the best prices and execution speed.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Early stage deep tech investor
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Nextmol — Nextmol is your partner to accelerate chemicals discovery. Reduce time-to-market and get key insights about the behavior of your chemical molecules!
- Qubitrium — Explore innovative quantum solutions at Qubitrium. Elevate your journey with cutting-edge products, services, and trainings. Your quantum future...
- Meddenovo Drug Design — Meddenovo is at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery, pioneering a specialized technology platform designed specifically for cyclic peptides. Our innovative approach leverages a unique blend of AI technologies and molecular modeling to significantly enhance the efficiency and success rates of drug development processes. Cyclic peptidesrepresent a groundbreaking class of compounds in pharmaceutical research. These molecules combine the best attributes of small molecules and large biologics, offering exceptional binding affinities, stability, and specificity. At Meddenovo, we are leaders in harnessing the potential of cyclic peptides, developing tailored solutions that push the boundaries of traditional drug discovery. Beyond small organic molecules, our expertise extends to peptide-based medicines and metal chelators, giving us a competitive edge in novel drug research and development. We excel in creating unique chemical spaces tailored to your needs and provide custom computational solutions for predicting drug resistance, elucidating biochemical reaction mechanisms, and conducting metal affinity analysis. At Meddenovo, we are dedicated to precision and reliability in drug discovery. Our approach reduces failure rates and improves outcomes, accelerating the journey from research to market. Our mission is to empower scientists worldwide with advanced, user-friendly AI tools, democratizing access to cutting-edge drug discovery technologies.
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
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 continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
- 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.
Vinci is a venture capital investment firm strategically funded by Inci Holding, a family-owned, industrial holding company active in the manufacturing of wheels, car and industrial batteries, hotel equipment, and logistics services. We are a financial investor but beyond funding, we aim to add value by providing corporate resources, experience,and the long-term view of a true strategic partner for small businesses. Our lead investor, Inci Holding, allows us to provide hands-on support and actively contribute to the growth and prosperity of our investees. Vinci is run by a team made up of Inci Board members and experienced venture capital professionals, who bring relevant know-how to support start-ups on their path to commercial success.
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Investment focus
- Logistics, Software, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
- Intelijus — At Intelijus, we have embarked on a quest not just to innovate, but to transform the world through legal technology. Our mission is to empower legal professionals across the globe with LIVIA, our trailblazing Legal Virtual Assistant. LIVIA isn’t just another piece of AI technology. It’s a manifestation of our drive to revolutionize the legal field,making operational tasks more efficient so that the focus can return to the human side of law – to justice itself.Our vision stretches beyond the realms of the present into a future where justice is accessible to everyone. Through the power of LIVIA’s generative artificial intelligence, grounded in sophisticated natural language processing, we foresee a world where legal processes are not just optimized but completely redefined. A world where our technology becomes the cornerstone of decision-making in legal matters globally, ushering in an era of unprecedented accuracy and efficiency.
- Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
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.
Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
- Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
- Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.
Utku is a Partner based in our Istanbul office. He is the leader of the “Digital and Analytics” Practice in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, helping clients create value with data, innovative tools and techniques. He serves a wide range of industries, including financial services, telecoms, manufacturing and retail.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Analytics, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- 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.
Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
- Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
- Moneyview — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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.
- Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together.
Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- 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
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
- Internet, Gaming, FinTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- 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.
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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.
- Zuzzuu — Zuzzuu offers artificial intelligence tools to help digital sales and marketing enterprises.
- Pricing Coach — Pricing Coach offers price consultancy, analytics, and revenue simulations to optimize business pricing strategies.
StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates.
ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, E-Commerce, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Lumian — Lumian Energy of Things Platform is an IoT-based hardware agnostic platform that collects and visualizes data in real time, analyses energy data with machine learning models and offers energy saving and decarbonization solutions. The Platform is designed to effortlessly integrate with third party systems, connect up to millions of devices, whilesimultaneously orchestrating them through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
- Jori — Multimodal AI platform to power apparel resale and recycling.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
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
- Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
- Motion Gestures — Motion Gestures is a Canadian machine learning startup specializing in gesture recognition software. Motion Gestures specializes in machine learning-based gesture recognition software and was founded in Waterloo, Canada in 2016. The company aims to enable the rapid development and deployment of gesture-enabled interfaces for systems, devices, andapps. Its software supports advanced 2D and 3D gestures using motion, touch, and vision sensors and can be deployed on the cloud, gateway/hub, and embedded platforms. Developers are offered free licenses to the cloud SDK and can quickly create and test any gesture using their smartphones.
BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- EvdekiBakıcım — EvdekiBakıcım empowers young generation so they can reach their full potential. EvdekiBakıcım aims to lead innovation in care, tutoring and activity categories.
Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Hipporello — Turn your task management platform, Trello or Notion, into a powerful service desk. Manage customer support and ticketing easily. Try now for free!
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
- VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars.
Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK.
Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform.
Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Shoes
- Series A, Angel, Series B
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
- 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
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
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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- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Greece
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- Cenoa — Cenoa - Digital dollar account for global payments
- Salus — 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.
- 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.
Fintech fund of Albaraka Turk
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- Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
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- Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
- Vomsis — Vomsis is a application which collects all the bank banks on a single screen and helps to check balance and account movements.
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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- Internet, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- Mindway VR — Mindway is a fully immersive meditation app that proves mindfulness doesn't have to be boring.
- 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.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.
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- Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia, United States
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- Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
- 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.
- Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
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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- Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
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- 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.
Venture capital arm of KT Portföy
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- Software, Computer Vision, Supply Chain Management
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- İletmen — İletmen is a food delivery app which takes packages, products or orders from your business and deliver them to your customers.
- Akaunting — Akaunting is a free, open-source, and online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers. Send invoices and track expenses.
- BulutKlinik — BulutKlinik is an online hospital information management system that offers patient, financial & medical tracking information in one system.
twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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- Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
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- 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.
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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- SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
- 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.
- 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.
Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and 172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.
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- Apps, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
- Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
Alp Saul - Cofounder and Chairman of the Board @ Pronet
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- Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Volt — Volt is an on-demand inner-city peer-to-peer ridesharing app that connects car owners with passengers going in the same direction. Unlike traditional car hailing apps which dispatch cars to the passenger’s location, Volt connects passengers with cars already driving in traffic and heading to the same destination. Carowners earn back theirdrivingexpenses (~200€/mo - without making profit), while passengers enjoy rides that are 70% cheaper than taxi.
- idemama — Idemama is an online platform that provides its users with web and graphic design services. It is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Grupanya — Grupanya, launched in November 2009, is a group shopping site that offers daily deals on products and services in diverse categories. Discounts are offered as special deals for various dining, travel, beauty-related, and shopping activities around Turkey, enabling individuals to explore the city in different ways.
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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- 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.
Onur Topac was born in 1990 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul’s Austrian High School in 2009 and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Koç University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering at Ozyegin University. Mr. Topac started his career in finance in 2008as a web site specialist at Gedik Investment; subsequently, he interned at FXCM in London in 2012. The following year, he participated in the establishment of the Investment Banking Department at Gedik Investment, leading the way in the Department’s technological transformation. Since April 2015, he has served as CEO at Gedik Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklıgı A.S (Gedik Venture Capital Investment Partnership).
Onur Topac started to provide support to technology investments and ventures as an individual investor before obtaining the necessary certification to operate as an angel investor in 2015.
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- SaaS, Big Data, Hardware
- Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Poltio — We help the world's top brands access, engage with and learn from their users with interactive content and declared data.
- Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Burak Divanlıoglu is the founder at GittiGidiyor, a Turkish e-shopping mall offering auctions, stores, and fixed price listings.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
- Series A, Series B, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.
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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Canada, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
- Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
- VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
Mehmet Celikol
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- Rental, Travel, Boating
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- viravira.co — 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.
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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- Software, Baby, Information Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Greece, Germany
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- Harcy — Harcy is an R&D organization that uses waste to create new types of building materials to strengthen the circular economy. First, it developed Harcy Polyester Wool, a building thermal insulation material made from textile waste. With its high performance and ease of application, Harcy Polyester Wool is a contender to replace the previousinsulation materials while recycling two kilograms of textile waste per square meter into the economy.
- Ampherr — Ampherr provides cutting-edge, intelligent energy storage solutions based on different chemical variations of lithium-ion cells, such as NMC, LTO, and LFP, for all types of electrical cars and stationary applications. Manufacturer of battery packs, focus on delivering application-specific products for practically all use cases while combiningquality, cutting-edge engineering, and agile service.
- Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
Like every other aspect of our lives financial services are changing. The next 10 years will be nothing like before.We know visionary founders will play a key role to pioneer this change. That is why we are driven to partner with audacious teams who also have strong resilience.As a strategic investor we are aiming to explore any chance tocollaborate as earliest as possible, where we can contribute with our insights and explore the potential opportunities within QNB Group.Our presence as QNB Group in more than 30 countries serving 24 million customers with a full spectrum of financial products, makes us confident we can bring an extensive global network and our business expertise thus when we partner, we deliver critical support besides capital to accelerate growth.So if you think you are that team, contact us and let’s define what’s beyond of banking together!
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- Information Technology, SaaS, Graphic Design
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Dria — FirstBatch enables the path to Safe AGI through collaboration. We democratize access to synthetic data for AI/ML models through Dria - an AI agent network.
- HockeyStack — HockeyStack enables marketing teams to drive pipeline efficiently and sales teams to close deals faster with modern attribution, holistic buyer journeys, and account insights.
- Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
Clario generates the richest clinical evidence by fusing our deep scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform.
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- Fitness, Internet, Wellness
- Series A
- Turkey
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- Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
Bilişim Vadisi is a technology development zone in Turkey that ensures the production of high-value-added products and new technologies.
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- Software, Apps, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany
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- 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.
- Macellan SuperApp — Alternatif SuperApp provides digital wallet services and offers a secure mobile payment gateway. People can utilize the campaigns, use the digital wallets of numerous brands in a single application, and make secure QR code payments with the Alternatif SuperApp. Users of Alternatif SuperApp can shop quickly and without standing in line, share awallet for the amount and duration they choose, and take advantage of the campaigns.
- MotionWorks — Motionworks make the forefront of a new era in television, harnessing the power of innovative video and ad technologies to transform the way TV programming is consumed and monetized. We are not simply upgrading the old system; we are completely redesigning it. We are integrating the fragmented views of TV on different screens into a unified,tailored experience for each viewer with our end-to-end video services and integrated advertising solutions. Our patented technology bridges the gap between linear and digital impressions, providing marketers with a single picture and unprecedented control. As a result, the viewer experience is smoother and more engaging, and advertising is more effective and efficient. We're not just improving the viewer experience by reinventing how we consume and monetize TV content; we're also saving money.
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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- Travel, Property Management, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
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- Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
- Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Güler Holding is an investment firm based in Istanbul.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Procurement
- Seed, Corporate Round
- Turkey
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- 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.
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region.
Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey.
Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
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- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
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