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Top 50 Startup Investors in Turkey (August 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
100 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $17k–$4.6M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
74 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $100k–$2.5M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
72 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Software, Video Games $50k–$2M
Maxis
VC Fund
63 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
54 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps $244k–$38M
TT Ventures
VC Fund
49 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1k–$2.5M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
45 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
TRANGELS
VC Fund
43 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$1.4M
Keiretsu Forum Turkey
VC Fund
41 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $27k–$2M
Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund
38 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $350k–$2.7M
TechOne VC
VC Fund
38 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $30k–$2.4M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
35 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$3M
Finberg
VC Fund
32 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $490k–$20M
Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
29 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $100k–$3.9M
Founder One
VC Fund
29 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, EdTech, E-Commerce $100k–$1.4M
Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund
28 Turkey, United States, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $25k–$5M
Revo Capital
VC Fund
28 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $430k–$66M
AI Startup Factory
VC Fund
27 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $30k–$2.5M
ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund
26 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $66k–$725k
StartersHub
VC Fund
26 United States, Turkey, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$1.2M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
25 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $18k–$697k
Collective Spark
VC Fund
24 Turkey, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $193k–$8M
Inveo Ventures
VC Fund
24 Turkey, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $175k–$2M
Digiage
VC Fund
24 Turkey Seed Gaming, PC Games, Video Games $420k–$23M
WePlay Ventures
VC Fund
23 Turkey, Norway, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, PC Games $50k–$500k
Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund
23 United States, India, Turkey Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $85k–$10M
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
22 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Idacapital
VC Fund
22 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed FinTech, Logistics, E-Commerce $100k–$1M
Tarvenn Ventures
VC Fund
21 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Video Games $50k–$559k
Sina Afra
Angel
21 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Firat Isbecer
Angel
21 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Internet $20k–$3.8M
212
VC Fund
21 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $250k–$27M
Ludus
VC Fund
20 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Mobile, Software $405k–$4.2M
Angel Effect
VC Fund
20 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $20k–$996k
StartupFon
VC Fund
19 Turkey, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Financial Services, FinTech $50k–$5.6M
Ahu Serter
Angel
19 Turkey, United States, Greece Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Transportation, Electronics $87k–$3.6M
EGIAD Angels
VC Fund
18 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, E-Commerce $20k–$2.3M
Tamer Capital
VC Fund
17 Turkey, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software $65k–$6M
Sabancı Ventures
VC Fund
16 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence $200k–$20M
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
16 Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Series A Software, Retail, SaaS $600k–$22M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
16 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
16 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Internet $63k–$2.5M
Vestel Ventures
VC Fund
16 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Cyber Security $100k–$40M
Ak Portfoy
VC Fund
15 Turkey, Estonia, United States Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $486k–$5.5M
Eksim Ventures
VC Fund
15 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $150k–$3.5M
Kerim Kotan
Angel
15 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $9.9k–$3M
ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund
15 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology $345k–$9.5M
twozero Ventures
VC Fund
15 Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Fitness, Media and Entertainment, Apps $111k–$2M
Teknasyon
VC Fund
15 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$15M
TÜBİTAK
VC Fund
14 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $4k–$521k
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 100 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • 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.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 74 investments in Turkey startups, 15 in the past 12 months

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
  • Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 72 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • Industry: Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k; Series A $228k–$431k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 63 investments in Turkey startups

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hardal — Cookieless, first-party, server-side attribution tracking to improve ROAS. Unified attribution across Web, iOS, Android & Shopify Apps.
  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri — Sapro Temizlik Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. manufactures and exports a variety of sanitary products, including cosmetics, personal care items, and home cleaning products. The company is known for its private label wet wipes, which are produced with botanical ingredients. Sapro adapts its processes and products to meet the needs of the Earth andall living beings, emphasizing sustainability and innovation in its operations.
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 54 investments in Turkey startups

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • Vimesoft — Manage secure team communication and AI-powered learning with Vimesoft on one platform, while keeping your data under your control on your own infrastructure.
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TT Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 49 investments in Turkey startups

TT Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Turk Telekom.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $41k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $1k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • OctoXLabs — Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Asset Management Solution #CSAM #CAASM
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 45 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • obilet.com — Obilet.com, founded in 2012, is an end-to-end ticketing platform listing hundreds of bus operators, airlines and ferry companies as well as offerings from hotels and car rental companies. Obilet also provides bus operators with its best-in-class Inventory Management System (IMS) as a SaaS.Obilet is the indisputable market leader in Turkey both inB2B and B2C segments with 400+ bus carriers using its IMS software, 25 million visitors per month, and 15 million app downloads.Obilet is projected to sell more than 40 million tickets annually in 2024, making it one of the top-3 bus ticketing platforms in the world. Obilet also set its vision to be the one-stop-shop for whole needs of users regarding the tourism and travel products by expanding its category offerings with the addition of hotel booking and car rental services. Moreover, Obilet has launched its international expansion project in H2 2022, has one of the largest coverage of markets globally.
  • Meal Box — Meal Box is both on-demand and subscription based meal delivery player of Turkey; getting orders only by online channels (web, mobile, phone); serving healthy, delicious, everyday food in award-winning presentation with affordable prices in delivery service format.
  • StratiFi — An AI-powered client investment workflow software for wealth managers
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 43 investments in Turkey startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $29k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zippsi — Zippsi connects individual and corporate clients with vehicle leasing companies in a quick, efficient and smart way.
  • Trawell Data — Trawell Data is a mobile data services company that provides travelers to use mobile data on their mobile phones without changing phones or sim cards. It enables the phone to digitally connect and use the local operator. Trawell Data was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Syosset, New York.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Keiretsu Forum Turkey
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 41 investments in Turkey startups

Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$1.2M; Angel $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pakolino — Pakolino offers an activity crate that contain materials for art and knowledge activities for children. Pakolino's crates include materials and inspiration for projects related to music, gardening, and colors. Projects may include arts and crafts, science activities, imaginative play, and many more.Pakolino helps children in their naturalcreativity and curiosity while saving time for busy parents. Pakolino was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • 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.
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Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 38 investments in Turkey startups

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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TechOne VC
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 38 investments in Turkey startups

TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $30k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.4M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
  • Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 35 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • 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.
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Finberg
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 32 investments in Turkey startups

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $490k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 29 investments in Turkey startups

Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $250k–$3.9M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
  • Onedocs — Onedocs' solutions simplify contract management operations, allowing users to simply generate, monitor, approve, and track contracts.
  • Branchsight — Scale your multi-location brand with Branchsight. Easily manage local digital ads for dealers and franchises from a single, automated platform.
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Founder One
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 29 investments in Turkey startups

Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, EdTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$600k; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $7.9M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
  • PoiLabs — PoiLabs has solutions for shopping malls, museums, industries, warehouses, hospitals and more. You can visit our website to learn more about our solutions.
  • Werover — AI & IoT solutions for predictive maintenance
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Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 28 investments in Turkey startups

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $29k–$5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$150k; Equity Crowdfunding $171k–$205k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides Post-Authentication Data Security (PADS) to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce TPRM. It blocks bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 28 investments in Turkey startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$8.4M; Series A $1M–$45M; Series B $3.4M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CLEATUS — CLEATUS | Bring Government Contracting to Every Business with AI
  • a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
  • Turbo Law — The unified litigation platform trusted by top litigators. Handle review, drafting, research, and strategy at the depth a complex case actually demands.
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AI Startup Factory
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 27 investments in Turkey startups

Artificial Intelligence Factory is a goal-oriented program focusing on cooperation and investment with Turkish AI initiatives, offering various support mechanisms for growth and international success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$495k; Venture - Series Unknown $30k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
  • Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
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ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 26 investments in Turkey startups

The company's mission is to build angel investors with a platform that will bring together early stage initiatives. These platforms via venture capital from angel investors and is intended to ensure the transfer of knowledge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$400k; Angel $66k–$725k; Pre-Seed $71k–$236k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Itz Nutz — Itz Nutz is dedicated to making healthy eating both accessible and enjoyable for everyone by offering a delicious range of cashew-based, plant-based flavors that are nutritious, satisfying, and crafted to support a balanced lifestyle.
  • ThingsHappen — ThingsHappen - Your Personalized AI Broker
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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StartersHub
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 26 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $20k–$554k; Convertible Note $25k–$30k
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides Post-Authentication Data Security (PADS) to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce TPRM. It blocks bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 25 investments in Turkey startups

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
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Collective Spark
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 24 investments in Turkey startups

Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $247k–$5M; Pre-Seed $193k–$2.6M; Series A $1.4M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Heltia — Saat ini ayuslot sudah menghadirkan akses login game slot zeus pragmatic play terupdate 2026 yang sangat mudah di akses. Segera mainkan game slot zeus di ayuslot yang sudah terbukti akan membayar berapapun kemenangan para player.
  • Invent Analytics — Invent.ai is empowering retailers with better planning and operational decisions that deliver immediate business value. Learn about our retail AI now.
  • Call Center Studio — AI Infused Cloud Contact Center Software
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Inveo Ventures
VC Fund · Maltepe, Istanbul, Turkey · 24 investments in Turkey startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Backed by our entrepreneurial and venture capital knowhow,we are creating value with the innovative and scalable tech companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$1.8M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Poltio — We help the world's top brands access, engage with and learn from their users with interactive content and declared data.
  • Mindtail — Based in Istanbul, Mindtail is a mobile gaming studio dedicated to crafting the next evolution of hybrid mobile games. Founded by industry veterans whose previous titles have reached over 300+ million players worldwide
  • Portfoy Financial Tech Inc. — Portfoy Financial Tech is a financial technology company that provides a platform for tracking and managing investments. The app allows users to monitor stocks, cryptocurrencies, public offerings, and funds in real time. It offers instant balance tracking, showing the current value of investments and profit or loss. The platform includes tools foranalyzing performance and risk to support decision-making. It works with financial institutions and well-known companies as a trusted partners.
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Digiage
VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey · 24 investments in Turkey startups

Digiage is a gaming industry that provides training and mentoring to individuals.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, PC Games, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOGO Games — HOGO Games develops and publishes mobile games across various genres including puzzle, casual, and hyper-casual formats. The company focuses on creating accessible, quick-play experiences for audiences of mobile users. It also manages game publishing, offering marketing support, analytics, and game testing for independent developers. The companyemphasizes intuitive design, aiming to deliver games that prioritize user engagement and ease of use. It continues to expand its portfolio with releases aimed at both iOS and Android platforms.
  • Good Job Games — We were founded in 2017 with the motivation to reach people globally by giving them unique and unforgettable experiences with disruptive products.
  • Icarus Interactive Entertainment — Icarus Interactive Entertainment is a computer games company that provides services encompassing production and gamification.
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WePlay Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 23 investments in Turkey startups

We are a Gaming VC that invests in early-stage game studios in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We invest in early-stage Mobile, PC, Console and Web game

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Norway, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$500k; Pre-Seed $100k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Mixer — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
  • Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • One Percent — One Percent is a multiplayer Third-Person Shooter action game incorporating E-sports aspects such as strategy and tactics that focus on individual and team performance. people collaborate with friends or other people to fulfill objectives in game modes and defeat other teams. The One Percent design team created every level, character, clothes,emote, costume, and many other components in order to deliver a unique experience. The first edition of the game was created in a distinct Cyberpunk universe, and it is hoped that the team's design and technological skills will allow them to add other maps, concepts, and universes to the game.
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Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 23 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • 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.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 22 investments in Turkey startups

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Idacapital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 22 investments in Turkey startups

idacapital Innovation Fund is the first Impact Fund in Turkey investing across technology-enabled business verticals in Health Tech, Financial Inclusion, Edu Tech, Clean Tech, Agro Tech in and around Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Logistics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$1M; Pre-Seed $100k–$960k; Convertible Note $100k–$300k
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Faradai — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon, ESG and energy data
  • Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
  • DIGINAK — DIGINAK offers a B2B platform that provides end-to-end digital transportation through brokers (Agents) with high traceability and efficiency. In addition to digitalization, it also offers financial services which empowers economic cycle of logistics sector and financial structure of all stakeholders of it by keeping all stakeholders in the cycle.
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Tarvenn Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 21 investments in Turkey startups

Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions. We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances. Our business is to build yours…

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$559k
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
  • Hero Concept — Hero Concept is a computer games company that develops visionary reimaginations of the timeless classics of arcade gaming. The company studies the histories of the ever-present classics in order to carry them into the 21st century--with panache. Hero Concept was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Gyroscoping Games — Gyroscoping Games is a game developer which develops city-builder type games for PC.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 21 investments in Turkey startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 21 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $727k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • 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
  • Paket Mutfak — Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 21 investments in Turkey startups, 8 in the past 12 months

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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Ludus
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 20 investments in Turkey startups

Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $405k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tark Games — Funding and publishing deep, beautiful, and replayable indie games. Backing bold developers. Built for the long game.
  • Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
  • TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 20 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • 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
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StartupFon
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 19 investments in Turkey startups

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

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $50k–$4.7M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Creosafe — A white label end to end subscription platform revolutionizing fundraising for alternative investments
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.
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Ahu Serter
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 19 investments in Turkey startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Greece

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $87k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
  • Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
  • Tripy Mobility — Are you ready for the future of mobility? Download the Tripy app and start your journey with our shared electric vehicles.
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EGIAD Angels
VC Fund · Konak, Izmir, Turkey · 18 investments in Turkey startups

EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $64k–$2.3M; Angel $20k–$34k; Pre-Seed $100k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kolay — Kolay is a SaaS platform that combines employee engagement with core HR needs. We are helping HR professionals to streamline their day to day tasks with an easy to use and smart platform.
  • Twin Science & Robotics — AI literacy, combined with the safest tools, empowers your school to build real-world AI skills with confidence.
  • Skymod Technology — AI Transformation for Businesses
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Tamer Capital
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 17 investments in Turkey startups

Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $65k–$6M; Pre-Seed $72k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 68% lead, 32% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Apilex — AI for legal and law firms. 11M+ case-law database, semantic search, contract analysis, and automated legal draft generation.
  • Synops — Audio Book Summaries
  • Eaty AI — Eaty AI offers an AI-powered ordering platform that automates voice and digital food orders for restaurants. It enables phone and drive-thru ordering through conversational AI, handling customer interactions, order customization, and integration with existing POS systems. The platform provides analytics on customer preferences and order trends,enabling operators to optimize menus and streamline operations. It enhances efficiency by reducing manual entry and minimizing errors during order processing. Sales teams targeting restaurant technology buyers can leverage these insights to demonstrate how Eaty AI supports digital transformation in the hospitality industry.
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Sabancı Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in Turkey startups

Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $200k–$2.8M; Series A $2M–$20M; Convertible Note $250k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Wellbees — Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications.
  • Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.
  • QuEra Computing — QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers to date to tackle useful but classically intractable problems.
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Logo Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in Turkey startups

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Retail, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Count — V-Count is a leading global provider of AI-powered visitor analytics and people-counting solutions for physical locations.
  • Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
  • Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 16 investments in Turkey startups

Founded in 1997, Earlybird is a pan-European VC investor backing tech-enabled companies and investing in their growth and development. Funds include Earlybird, Earlybird Health, Growth Opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 364
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$34M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • TrillerTV — FITE is a direct-to-consumer digital live streaming service for combat sports. The platform is specializing in broadcasting professional wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing events. FITE streams a rich array of live pay-per-view events, subscription packages and thousands of hours of live and on-demand free programs to millions of fans aroundthe world.FITE's mission is to help fans discover and watch premium live events, and help programmers to distribute and monetize them. While FITE's beachhead market is combat sports, the product is designed to serve over time a much wider range of premium live programming.It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Uniondale, New York, United States.
  • Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in Turkey startups

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $64k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brix — Tokenized emerging markets yield. Trade the Macro.
  • Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
  • Defy — The cryptocurrency space's #1 most-trusted DeFi mobile app platform.Welcome to the space of decentralized finance. Use to earn feature is waiting for you. Connect/Create your wallet and start to earn! We support the future of finance. Buy, sell, swap, transfer cryptocurrency; track all cryptocurrency movements on networks.The TraderBag platform is the Easiest & Most Reliable Way to manage your DeFi portfolio and make copy-trade. You don't need to spend hours drawing graphs to be able to analyze.Reach all cryptocurrencies from a single platform. You can trade on all major networks(support multi-chain).Manage your crypto portfolio easily. Buy, sell, convert, transfer…You don't need to be an expert in the crypto space.Make your transactions securely with other wallets thanks to the Anti Money Laundering (AML) service.Track Talented Traders and Cryptocurrency wallets instantly with TraderBag!Thanks to TraderBag, get instant notification when there is a trade in the trader or whale wallets you follow and do not miss the opportunities.Easily see what coins are in crypto wallets; Search with WEB3 wallet address or wallet QR code and see cryptocurrencies, track wallet.Connect or Create your own crypto wallet 100% securely with WEB3 and Get 500 TRBAG. Keep earning TRBAG from the transactions you make with your wallet.Artificial intelligence robots research the market and give you instant news about the newly listed cryptocurrencies.Secret crypto wallets of popular people in the Trader Bag app.Trader Bag prepares daily cryptocurrency market analysis for you. You can instantly follow the most bought and sold cryptocurrencies daily, hourly, weekly. You can instantly see which crypto billionaires are investing in from the market analysis.You will not miss the market with the news it creates for you by examining the analyzes produced by artificial intelligence robots.You can easily access the purchase and sale price details of digital assets in the crypto bags of the people you follow.If you think that you are doing a very good analysis and following the market, you can start earning TRBAG through Trader Bag.
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Vestel Ventures
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in Turkey startups

Vestel Ventures is the corporate investment company of Vestel Group of Companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Cyber Security
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Series A $1M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Splitvolt — At Splitvolt, their mission is to deliver products that Empower the Adoption of Electric Vehicles(TM) by making the experience of owning and charging an electric vehicle a simple and affordable one.Tremendous progress has been achieved for adoption from the automotive industry and battery technology advancement, infrastructure and EVSE suppliersexpansion, to government incentives—both financial and convenience-based. Today, electric vehicles have ample range (300-400 miles) , plentiful remote charging infrastructure along major highway systems, cost 1/3 to operate compared to gas cars, and no longer require trips to the gas station or service centers for maintenance.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • Electric Miles — Unlock the Power of EV Charging
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Ak Portfoy
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 15 investments in Turkey startups

Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $486k–$3M; Series A $2.5M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Fimple — Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle.
  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Mindtail — Based in Istanbul, Mindtail is a mobile gaming studio dedicated to crafting the next evolution of hybrid mobile games. Founded by industry veterans whose previous titles have reached over 300+ million players worldwide
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Eksim Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 15 investments in Turkey startups

Eksim Ventures supports potential business models and ideas by strengthening the power of technology. The firm was founded by Eksim Holding in 2021 and has 35 years of experience in smart capital.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $447k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $150k–$2M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SmartAlpha — SmartAlpha is committed to developing products with a particular focus on ‘AI on ultrasound’. Artificial intelligence guided ultrasound interpretation product Nerveblox (www.nerveblox.com) is the first of its breed.
  • Patientdesk.ai — Patientdesk.ai is an AI-powered front desk platform aimed largely at dental clinics, automating patient interactions such as calls, bookings, insurance verification, and payment.
  • PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
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Kerim Kotan
Angel · 15 investments in Turkey startups

Kerim Kotan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $9.9k–$2M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $715k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Buluttan — Buluttan delivers AI-powered hyper-local weather intelligence for energy, aviation, agriculture, logistics, and insurance. Accurate forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and operational decision support.
  • Werover — AI & IoT solutions for predictive maintenance
  • Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
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ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 15 investments in Turkey startups

Early stage deep tech investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $345k–$3.2M; Series A $2.4M–$9.5M; Convertible Note $987k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • NxLite — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
  • Qubitrium — We offer advanced quantum technology solutions in cryptography, communication, and sensing. We develop and produce cutting-edge quantum products and provide services to integrate these technologies into industrial organizations.
  • Cellbricks Therapeutics — Cellbricks offers plastic surgery and transplant medicine that rely on artificial materials devoid of physiological functions or immunosuppressive transplants from human and animal sources. It offers the bio-fabrication of human tissue and organs, a widespread medical procedure that enables people to live longer and in better condition.
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twozero Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 15 investments in Turkey startups

twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Media and Entertainment, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M; Series A $111k–$2M; Convertible Note $500k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
  • FineDine — Finedine, a growing tech company, empowers restaurants with an AI-powered SaaS growth platform. FineDine helps restaurants grow at every stage, from attracting new customers through automated digital marketing to streamlining reservations, orders, payments, loyalty programs, and retargeting campaigns. Finedine creates a seamless omnichannelexperience for both restaurants and their guests. By analyzing customer behavior, FineDine provides actionable insights that help restaurateurs optimize their operations and make data-driven decisions. The platform simplifies restaurant management by offering an all-in-one solution, eliminating the need for multiple software programs.
  • 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.
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 15 investments in Turkey startups

More than a single company. An operating system designed to create, grow, and scale new ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
  • 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.
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TÜBİTAK
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 14 investments in Turkey startups

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Stage:Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$161k; Grant $4k–$230k; Pre-Seed $30k–$521k
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Navirid — Navirid is a technology company specializing in IoT and embedded systems, dedicated to developing advanced radar technologies and safety solutions to connect motorcyclists to life and enhance their riding experience.The radar-based systems we develop provide riders with real-time environmental awareness, establishing a new safety standard inmotorcycle use with critical features like blind spot detection, collision warning, and multi-target tracking.Our vision is to make motorcycles an integral part of the intelligent transportation ecosystem; our mission is to connect riders more firmly to life on every journey.
  • VulnHero — AI-Driven Offensive Security | Attack Surface Management | Exploit Intelligence | Continuous Testing
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
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Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 3k deals from 2.1k investors.

2.1k
investors
in Turkey startups
3k
deals
in Turkey startups
$332k
median round
in Turkey startups
33%
lead investors
lead at least one round
40%
Seed
most common funding stage
53/48
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.

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Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.

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Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

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Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.

Email search and export are paid features.

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Who built Shizune?

Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.

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