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Top 50 Startup Investors in Turkey (July 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
84 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $9k–$1M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
72 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$2.6M
Maxis
VC Fund
60 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce $100k–$2.5M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
55 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Malta Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Information Technology $50k–$2M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
47 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software $175k–$30M
TT Ventures
VC Fund
46 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1k–$2M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
46 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $171k–$38M
TRANGELS
VC Fund
42 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $24k–$1.4M
Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund
36 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Analytics $439k–$2.7M
TechOne VC
VC Fund
32 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $30k–$2.8M
Finberg
VC Fund
32 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology $244k–$20M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
30 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $100k–$3.7M
Keiretsu Forum Turkey
VC Fund
30 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $27k–$2.2M
Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
28 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $100k–$2.4M
Founder One
VC Fund
28 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Software, Health Care $100k–$1.4M
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
Revo Capital
VC Fund
26 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $430k–$38M
StartersHub
VC Fund
25 Turkey, United States, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$821k
Inveo Ventures
VC Fund
24 Turkey, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $175k–$2M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
23 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce $18k–$697k
Collective Spark
VC Fund
23 Turkey, United States, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $193k–$8M
ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund
23 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $50k–$400k
Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund
22 Turkey, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $10k–$5.7M
Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund
21 United States, India, Turkey Seed, Series A Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $102k–$8.6M
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
21 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Sina Afra
Angel
20 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Idacapital
VC Fund
20 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed FinTech, Logistics, E-Commerce $134k–$2M
Firat Isbecer
Angel
20 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Internet, Software $20k–$3.8M
212
VC Fund
20 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $250k–$27M
Ahu Serter
Angel
19 Turkey, Greece, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Manufacturing, Transportation $100k–$4M
Digiage
VC Fund
18 Turkey Seed Gaming, PC Games, Video Games $500k–$23M
Angel Effect
VC Fund
18 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $20k–$996k
Ludus
VC Fund
18 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Mobile, Software $405k–$7M
WePlay Ventures
VC Fund
18 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Video Games, Gaming, PC Games $15k–$525k
Tarvenn Ventures
VC Fund
17 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $50k–$600k
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
16 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.4M–$75M
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
16 Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Series A Software, Retail, SaaS $600k–$22M
EGIAD Angels
VC Fund
16 Turkey, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $64k–$2.2M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
16 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Financial Services, Internet, Gaming $55k–$2.5M
StartupFon
VC Fund
16 Turkey, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $50k–$5.2M
Sabancı Ventures
VC Fund
16 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Information Technology, Software, SaaS $200k–$20M
ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund
15 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology $345k–$9.5M
Nexus Ventures
VC Fund
14 Turkey, United States, India Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, SaaS $1k–$53M
Ak Portfoy
VC Fund
13 Turkey, Estonia, United States Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, Information Technology $150k–$5.5M
Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund
13 Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics $73k–$2.6M
Arya Ventures
VC Fund
13 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Internet $150k–$22M
Figen Korun
Angel
13 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A E-Commerce, Software, AgTech $29k–$2M
Tamer Capital
VC Fund
13 Turkey, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sports $29k–$6M
TÜBİTAK
VC Fund
13 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care $4k–$2.5M
Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund
13 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Software, SaaS, Analytics $550k–$2.8M
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 84 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
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $9k–$1M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
  • Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 72 investments in Turkey startups, 18 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, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $195k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% 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 make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
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Maxis
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 60 investments in Turkey startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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: 88
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.9M; 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 — Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance.
  • Promake — Promake is an AI platform that lets non-technical users build and manage billable web apps, mobile apps, games, and content using simple language prompts. No coding, no dashboards. Products are live on day one — with working UI, backend, payments, and hosting — and fully manageable via prompts. Promake replaces admin panels with chat, letting usersrun their business like texting a teammate. Unlike other AI builders that stop at drafts, Promake handles the full lifecycle: from first launch to every tweak and update after.
  • 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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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 55 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: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Malta

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 71
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k
  • 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.
  • NDG Studio Yazılım
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 47 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: 103
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • obilet.com — oBilet is the leading online bus ticket booking platform in Turkey. It is a great system for any bus traveller, making purchasing a domestic bus ticket from several companies simple and convenient at any time. It collects offerings from different bus companies, making it easy for the user to compare prices and choose the best option. Currently,the company has more than 400 bus firms on 40.000+ routes in the platform. oBilet also offers flight tickets but its primary focus is on the intercity bus market. Initially it started with team of two and 2000 tickets sold in a month. After pulling itself up by its bootstraps, oBilet took attraction of 2 Top Tier East Europe focused Venture Capitals (EarlyBird VC and EBRD’s venture capital investment arm) ended up with receiving funding. Now, operations are continued with the team of over 250 and statistics are highly impressive. During 2019, around 10 million tickets are sold, website is visited for over 160 million times and 5 million customers have downloaded mobile app which is selected Europe’s best travel application by MasterCard. The company expects even higher growth in 2020 through the high passenger potential of Turkey and dynamic atmosphere of the company.oBilet was founded by Yigit Gurocak and Ali Yilmaz in April, 2012. It is headquartered in Istanbul in Turkey.
  • StratiFi — StratiFi offers a client-profiling, risk analysis, and compliance software that makes monitoring, measuring, and communicating risk simple. The company believes in evaluating risks before chasing returns as a sound way to make strategic decisions with long-term finances in an uncertain world. StratiFi is building the technology that will become the"default" standard in the industry to evaluate and quantify hidden risks in portfolios and make investing safer, more reliable, and less volatile. The company was founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, California.
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TT Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 46 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: 68
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2M; Pre-Seed $1k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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 — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
  • 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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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 46 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, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 68
  • Round size: Seed $171k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M
  • 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 — Vimesoft is a platform that offers video conferencing, enterprise video and remote learning.
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 42 investments in Turkey startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $24k–$500k; Pre-Seed $29k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
  • Salty Enerji — Salty Enerji is a manufacturing company that designs energy storage infrastructure to enhance renewable power efficiency and distribution.
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Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 36 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, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $439k–$2.7M; Series A $985k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $32M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
  • Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
  • Mikro Biyosistemler Inc. — Mikro Biyosistemler is a biomedical microsystems company focuses on development of microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems for biomedical applications.
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TechOne VC
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 32 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: 59
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $30k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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 — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Atlas Space
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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 $244k–$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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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 30 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: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Keiretsu Forum Turkey
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 30 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: 41
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$2.2M; Angel $53k–$2M; Pre-Seed $250k–$550k
  • Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Popile — Popile is a platform that allows celebrities and their fans to interact.
  • MYTH AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
  • Remotify — Manage freelancer invoicing and international freelancing in one place. Issue compliant invoices and get paid globally without friction. Register Now!
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 28 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.4M
  • 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 — Made with Framer
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Founder One
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 28 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: EdTech, Software, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$600k; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% 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 — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
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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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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 26 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, Financial Services, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$5M; Series A $1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Cendra — Cendra is a platform for action-oriented AI agents that automate conversations and operations in the built world.
  • CLEATUS — CLEATUS is an AI-powered platform that helps government contractors discover contract opportunities, manage capture pipelines, and write winning proposals. We make government contracting accessible to any business, with AI that automates everything from finding opportunities to submitting winning proposals.Empowering government contractors withagentic AI for every stage of the contracting lifecycle. Effortlessly discover new opportunities, craft winning proposals, manage pursuits and win more work within a single, purpose-built platform designed for organizations of any size.
  • Turbo Law — Turbo Law is a privately held legal technology company that provides an AI-native execution platform designed to simplify complex, document-intensive litigation for defense law firms and insurance carriers.
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StartersHub
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 25 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: Turkey, United States, Latvia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$821k; Pre-Seed $20k–$550k; 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.
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
  • 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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Inveo Ventures
VC Fund · Maltepe, Istanbul, Turkey · 24 investments in Turkey startups, 7 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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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 23 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, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% 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 a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
  • 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 · 23 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: 43
  • Round size: Seed $193k–$5M; Pre-Seed $193k–$2.6M; Series A $1.4M–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Oda — Easily upgrade and organize your photos to better leverage your digital asset library and save time with marketing
  • 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.
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ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 23 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: 24
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$400k; Angel $60k–$142k; Pre-Seed $71k–$236k
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% 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 is an innovative Insurtech designed to transform consumer interactions with their insurance policies. By serving as a comprehensive digital insurance wallet, ThingsHappen enables users to consolidate, manage, and understand all their insurance coverage in one seamless interface. Leveraging advanced AI, natural language processing, anda semantic knowledge base, our platform turns complex policy language into clear, actionable information. Users benefit from personalized recommendations, proactive protection alerts, and asynchronous quote comparisons that facilitate informed, stress-free decision-making.Our mission is to simplify the opaque and fragmented insurance landscape, empowering consumers to make the most of their coverage while providing transparency and ease of use. ThingsHappen also supports insurance providers by enhancing customer engagement, streamlining operations, and offering valuable data insights for improved underwriting and product development. As a platform-agnostic solution, ThingsHappen redefines insurance from a passive product to an interactive, proactive service that aligns with modern consumer needs.
  • 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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Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 22 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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $12k–$5.7M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k; Equity Crowdfunding $171k–$205k
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Latissim — Latissim offers personalized beauty and care boxes.
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
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Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 21 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: 220
  • Round size: Seed $102k–$3.6M; Series A $600k–$8.6M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Bliss — Bliss is an AI-powered online therapy platform that provides online mental health and wellness services to make mental health support more accessible, affordable, and culturally sensitive. The company connects individuals with licensed therapists and mental health professionals for video, audio, and messaging-based counseling sessions. Its platformincludes therapist matching tools, secure communication systems, appointment scheduling, and multilingual support designed for users seeking culturally aligned care. Bliss supports mental health needs related to anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, stress management, and personal development through remote therapy services. The company also offers mental wellness programs for businesses, providing employee support resources, coaching access, and digital mental health services for distributed teams. Its services are designed to make therapy and emotional support accessible through online and mobile-based interactions.
  • 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 · 21 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 $50k–$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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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 20 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 online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
  • 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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Idacapital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 20 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–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Agrio — Agrio offers Value Chain Finance Solutions to Agricultural Production Actors including Farmers, Contractors, Vendors and Financial Institutions.
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 20 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, Internet, Software
  • 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: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 20 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: 67
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake — Promake is an AI platform that lets non-technical users build and manage billable web apps, mobile apps, games, and content using simple language prompts. No coding, no dashboards. Products are live on day one — with working UI, backend, payments, and hosting — and fully manageable via prompts. Promake replaces admin panels with chat, letting usersrun their business like texting a teammate. Unlike other AI builders that stop at drafts, Promake handles the full lifecycle: from first launch to every tweak and update after.
  • 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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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, Manufacturing, Transportation
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Greece, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% 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 to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.
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Digiage
VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey · 18 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: 20
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
  • Voyager — Voyager is a mobile growth company specializing in growth management and publishing services for gaming and non-gaming mobile apps.
  • 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.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 18 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, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$755k; Pre-Seed $20k–$996k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% 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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Ludus
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 18 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: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
  • Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
  • Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
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WePlay Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 18 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: Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$525k; Pre-Seed $100k–$200k
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% 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
  • 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.
  • 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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Tarvenn Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 17 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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
  • Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
  • Madcraft Studios — Enhance your Trials of Osiris performance with our Destiny 2 Trials Carry guides. Learn strategies to secure wins and climb the ranks!
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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: 347
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Curio — Be one of the first to access Rio, the leading AI for fact-checked news. Free for early users.
  • Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
  • Brightpick — Brightpick offers AI robots for warehouses to easily automate every step of their order fulfillment. The innovative Brightpick robots enable warehouses of any size to fully automate order picking, consolidation and dispatch, as well as stock replenishment. Brightpick Autopicker, the company’s award-winning flagship robot, is the only mobile robotin the world that robotically picks and consolidates orders directly in warehouse aisles. The Brightpick solution takes just weeks to deploy and allows companies to reduce their fulfillment labor to a minimum. Headquartered near Cincinnati, OH, Brightpick has more than 200 employees and hundreds of AI robots deployed across the US and Europe.
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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: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
  • 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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EGIAD Angels
VC Fund · Konak, Izmir, Turkey · 16 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, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $64k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% 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 — Skymod is a technology company providing a platform that addresses the challenges businesses face in adopting AI by simplifying prompt engineering, ensuring data security, and offering integrated solutions within a unified platform, eliminating the need for extensive coding knowledge and streamlining workflows.
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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, Internet, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $55k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brix — Brix Money is a blockchain platform tokenizing sovereign yield from emerging markets into programmable on-chain assets like the iTRY stablecoin, backed by Turkish money market funds for DeFi applications.
  • 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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StartupFon
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 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, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$4.7M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% 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
  • PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.
  • Atlas Space
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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, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $345k–$3.2M; Series A $2.4M–$9.5M; Convertible Note $987k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
  • 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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Nexus Ventures
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 14 investments in Turkey startups

Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1k–$4.7M; Angel $45k–$250k; Series A $6.2M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
  • Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
  • Moneyview — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.
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Ak Portfoy
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 13 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: 18
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Series A $2.5M–$5.5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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 — Promake is an AI platform that lets non-technical users build and manage billable web apps, mobile apps, games, and content using simple language prompts. No coding, no dashboards. Products are live on day one — with working UI, backend, payments, and hosting — and fully manageable via prompts. Promake replaces admin panels with chat, letting usersrun their business like texting a teammate. Unlike other AI builders that stop at drafts, Promake handles the full lifecycle: from first launch to every tweak and update after.
  • 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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Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey · 13 investments in Turkey startups

Bilişim Vadisi is a technology development zone in Turkey that ensures the production of high-value-added products and new technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $73k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
  • Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Saykal — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
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Arya Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 13 investments in Turkey startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Arya GSYF is Turkiye's first and only venture capital fund focused on gender balance. With a commitment to high returns and high impact, it offers unique

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $311k–$4M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1.5M; Series A $150k–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake — Promake is an AI platform that lets non-technical users build and manage billable web apps, mobile apps, games, and content using simple language prompts. No coding, no dashboards. Products are live on day one — with working UI, backend, payments, and hosting — and fully manageable via prompts. Promake replaces admin panels with chat, letting usersrun their business like texting a teammate. Unlike other AI builders that stop at drafts, Promake handles the full lifecycle: from first launch to every tweak and update after.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • 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.
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Figen Korun
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 13 investments in Turkey startups

Figen Korun

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, AgTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $29k–$2M; Pre-Seed $125k–$178k; Series A $111k–$180k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ni-CAT Battery Materials and AI Company — Ni-CAT is working on AI-assisted research and development of next-generation battery materials, which is the key to the transition to battery electric vehicles. Ni-CAT believes that the speed of EV transition is still not enough to prevent global warming and replace carbon-based fuels in near future, and it is not related to money or resources. Webelieve that speeding up EV transition is possible with our novel methodology, which combines three approximation to the solution: our unique AI-assisted materials research, digitalized reactor farm and our novel surfactant-assisted synthesis.As the electrification of the automotive industry expands, we deliver state-of-the-art technologies to meet the industry’s high-quality standards. To help our customers to step up the EV transition, we will be working on our research and development of lower-cost/higher performance, ultra-high energy density battery materials to serve innovative solutions for a brighter future. With our expertise in the application of machine learning in material science, we are developing low cobalt/high nickel lithium cathode materials. Cathode determines the type of a lithium battery and is the limiting factor for nickel-based batteries. Further improvement in battery performance is possible through AI-assisted custom high nickel cathode materials with increased charge rate, charge to discharge ratio, tap density, or any other specifications. By our unique computer-controlled digital reactor farm, we numerize synthesis parameters and output specifications for the machine learning algorithm we have been developing.
  • Digime — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.
  • Hummingdrone — Hummingdrone provides cutting-edge autonomous drones and software solutions designed specifically for the solar energy industry.
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Tamer Capital
VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 13 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, Software, Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $29k–$6M; Pre-Seed $72k–$750k
  • Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
  • 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.
  • Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
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TÜBİTAK
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 13 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 Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$2.5M; Grant $4k–$230k; Pre-Seed $20k–$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 — VulnHero is an AI-powered offensive security platform that delivers continuous full-stack security testing, exploit-aware vulnerability intelligence, and contextual attack surface management in a single solution.By combining live CVE & exploit telemetry, technology stack discovery, exploitability-first risk scoring, and automated validationworkflows, VulnHero helps organisations identify and prioritise what’s actually exploitable across their entire digital landscape.Built for CISOs, AppSec teams, and red teams, the platform integrates with existing SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, and DevSecOps pipelines, providing actionable, evidence-based insights instead of scanner noise.
  • 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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Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 13 investments in Turkey startups

Teknoloji Yatırım is the first actor investing in early-stage technology companies in Turkey. Aiming at preparing the venture capital ecosystem for new players, Teknoloji Yatırım designs, develops and manages innovative tools to meet the financing needs of technology companies in the early and growth stages. What We Do: - Direct Investments: Wemake equity investments to technology companies having internationalization potential. - Co-Investments and Follow-on Investments: We make co-investments and follow-on investments to technology companies at scaling and growth stages, together with other Venture Capital Funds. - Consultancy Services: We offer consultancy solutions in the design, implementation and management of innovative investment tools and models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$2.8M; Series A $773k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Branchsight — Made with Framer
  • BRANDEFENSE — Brandefense platform is a proactive digital risk protection solution for organizations. Our AI-driven technology constantly scans the dark, deep, and surface web.
  • 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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Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 2.7k deals from 1.8k investors.

1.8k
investors
in Turkey startups
2.7k
deals
in Turkey startups
$350k
median round
in Turkey startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
41%
Seed
most common funding stage
55/45
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.

With Shizune you can:

  • browse the database
  • use smart matching
  • enrich with emails
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All you need to find investors for your startup.

Who is Shizune for?

Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.

If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.

Is Shizune free?

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

Email search and export are paid features.

For full info, visit our pricing.

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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