Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Turkey
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Turkey
Investor | Media (entertainment) Turkey investments |
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Hande Enes | 4 |
Aslanoba Capital | 4 |
Teknasyon | 3 |
Earlybird Venture Capital | 3 |
twozero Ventures | 3 |
Omer Erkmen | 3 |
Doruk Pala | 2 |
Accion Venture Lab | 2 |
Kerim Kotan | 2 |
Barbaros Özbugutu | 2 |
Kerem Tokcan | 2 |
Emre Can | 2 |
Nuri Şahin | 2 |
Newid capital | 2 |
TRANGELS | 2 |
Nevzat Aydın | 2 |
Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 2 |
Kültepe Investment | 2 |
TechOne VC | 2 |
Deniz Güvenen | 2 |
Alper Akcan | 2 |
Revo Capital | 2 |
Firat Isbecer | 2 |
Bulent Tekmen | 2 |
Mustafa Namoglu | 1 |
Gamze Cizreli | 1 |
The TMRW Foundation | 1 |
Kivilcim Cayli | 1 |
Efe Duran Sarikaya | 1 |
Orkun Olgar | 1 |
Cerebrum Tech | 1 |
Rauf Cem Erkli | 1 |
PowerHouse | 1 |
Ozhun Olgar | 1 |
Gokhan Demir | 1 |
Ahmet Salih Palamut | 1 |
Q Angels | 1 |
Fatih Şahin | 1 |
Cem Ortabaş | 1 |
Tunç Mehmet Berkman | 1 |
Bilişim Vadisi | 1 |
Yalcin Ayaydin | 1 |
Alphan Manas | 1 |
212 | 1 |
Lima Ventures | 1 |
Ilkay Gundogan | 1 |
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan | 1 |
Alp Ulku | 1 |
Yasin Kavşak | 1 |
Özgür Ülkü | 1 |
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
- Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and 172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
- Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
- Draftwise — DraftWise deals with knowledge management and business intelligence that assists law firms to procure quality contracts swiftly. It enables clients to avail and customize the security according to their requirements. DraftWise was founded in 2020 by Emre Ozen, Ozan Yalti, and James Ding and was headquartered in New York.
- Greenlyte Carbon Technologies — Greenlyte Carbon Technologies develops and markets an efficient low temperature DAC process that captures CO2 from the air.
twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
- Cineshort — Cineshort is a mobile application where you can watch great films in your short moments during the day. We call it "Netflix for short film" Our main mission is to stream great films to millions of people with the "experience is king" perspective. So, If you have a 10-minute commuting time, we can show you great 8-minute snacks!While Cineshort provides viewers/audience a wonderful watching experience in their short time, it also offers film directors the opportunity to bring their films together with a wide audience and supports their professional sustainability by revenue sharing model.
- Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
Doruk Pala
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Investment focus
- Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- DüğünBuketi — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
- KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
- AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
- Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
Kerim Kotan
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
- TelomEye Pharmaceuticals — TelomEye Pharmaceuticals provides treatments to prevent and improve age-related ophthalmologic disorders.
Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)
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Investment focus
- Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
Kerem Tokcan
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Investment focus
- Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Emre Can
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Investment focus
- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Nuri Şahin
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Investment focus
- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- India, Kenya, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business banking accounts and funding solutions to make cash flow.
- NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
- Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- & New Me — Discover your new aesthetic companion in Turkiye with This is New Me. Explore top treatments, real reviews, and active doctors, all with accredited clinics for a safe and seamless experience.
- Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
- Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
- Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Medialyzer — Measure, analyze and increase the online impact of TV advertising.
- artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
- Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.
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
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Carbon Centrum — Lower your emission where it is made!
Deniz Güvenen
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Investment focus
- Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- DüğünBuketi — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
- KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Alper Akcan
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Investment focus
- Apps, Fitness, mHealth
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
- Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
- Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- HyperBeeAI — Breaking barriers and enabling disruptive AI solutions by reducing computing costs via small-footprint AI models.
- Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.
- Bumper — Split the cost of your car repairs and servicing into manageable monthly instalments with 0% interest. Fix it. Split it. Sorted.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Art, Gaming, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Mustafa Namoglu
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Investment focus
- Content, Shipping, Software
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Carrtell — By combining technological infrastructure and an experienced field team, carrtell produces customized, low-cost, and professional shipping solutions for e-commerce owners.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Gamze Cizreli is the Founder & CEO at BigChefs.
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Investment focus
- Q&A, Internet, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
The TMRW Foundation is a hybrid tech company that creates technologies that empower communication, gamification, and digitalization with the power of reality.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- SuperGears Games — SuperGears Games offers mobile game studio with a specialization in racing games. Mobile racing game platform that redefines the mobile gaming experience
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Property Management, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
- Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Efe Duran Sarikaya
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Investment focus
- Shipping, Shopping, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
Orkun Olgar
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
- Champy Games —
An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
- Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- gigl — gigl is a video / mobile-first recruitment platform. We use 60-second videos by employers and applicants to capture motivated applications, speed-up the hiring process by 80% and reduce costs by connecting end-to-end users - and removing the middleman. gigl's short-video concept captures society's "do everything on a mobilephone" behaviour - our platform is used by over 40,000 people already and promotes personality (in both job descriptions and job applications) over lifeless written applications. We thrive in all industries - from retail, hospitality to office work. In short - anywhere where personality is critical to inward and outward success!
- Predica.ai — Predica.ai turns data into AI-powered business value
- GFDS Inc. — Since in 2013, we develop high-quality visual solutions supported with augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), internet of things and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as providing exclusive software and hardware products for our national and international customers. We define our company as a “content factory”, ableto develop various visual contents to almost all technological platforms. We pride on having a strong high-performance computing farm, announced as a success story in the USA Silicon Channel in 2014. Being familiar to all new technological concepts and research, we offer our customers our high level of know-how to add value into their business. We offer various services related with our production pipeline, composed of competent CGI, advanced technology development and visual design specialsits, artists and developers. We offer innovative solutions for the following titles: *Education and Training *Industry and Defense *AI *Marketing *Entertainment *Software *HardwareWe undertake numerous projects for the needs of the sectors below: *Industry *Defense Industry *Entertainment *Sales and Marketing *Education/ Occupational Training *MediaWe are proud to be the partners, solution providers and distributor of the leading technology companies of the world: Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, Epson, One Stop Systems, Magic Leap, VuforiaTHE FUTURE IS OURS, LET'S DESIGN IT TOGETHER!
Rauf Cem Erkli
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Investment focus
- Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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Investment focus
- Video, Media and Entertainment
- Corporate Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Line Studio — Line Studio is an innovative storytelling and comics platform that is a digital environment where content creators can publish and monetize their work while users enjoy reading it.
Ozhun Olgar
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Investment focus
- Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
- Champy Games —
Gokhan Demir
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- Art
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
Ahmet Salih Palamut
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- Art
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.
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- Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, Sweden, Singapore
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- Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
- Finceptor — Become an early investor of Web3's top projects with over 250,000 other backers.
- eTasin.com — https://etasin.com
Fatih Şahin
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- Gaming, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.
Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.
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- Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Turkey, United States
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- Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
- PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
- İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
Tunç Mehmet Berkman
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- Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- HadsUp — HadsUp is a revolutionary Ad-Tech platform which combines AI and Hologram Technology
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
Bilişim Vadisi is a technology development zone in Turkey that ensures the production of high-value-added products and new technologies.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Büyütech — 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.
- Alternatif SuperApp — Alternatif SuperApp provides digital wallet services and offers a secure mobile payment gateway. People can utilize the campaigns, use the digital wallets of numerous brands in a single application, and make secure QR code payments with the Alternatif SuperApp. Users of Alternatif SuperApp can shop quickly and without standing in line, share awallet for the amount and duration they choose, and take advantage of the campaigns.
- MotionWorks — Motionworks make the forefront of a new era in television, harnessing the power of innovative video and ad technologies to transform the way TV programming is consumed and monetized. We are not simply upgrading the old system; we are completely redesigning it. We are integrating the fragmented views of TV on different screens into a unified,tailored experience for each viewer with our end-to-end video services and integrated advertising solutions. Our patented technology bridges the gap between linear and digital impressions, providing marketers with a single picture and unprecedented control. As a result, the viewer experience is smoother and more engaging, and advertising is more effective and efficient. We're not just improving the viewer experience by reinventing how we consume and monetize TV content; we're also saving money.
Yalcin Ayaydin
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- Q&A, Internet, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
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- inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye Kıbrıs
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- Q&A, Internet, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
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- inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
212 invests in growth-stage tech companies across Turkey, CEE, and MENA. Currently, our fund manages €75 million of committed capital, and 25 investments. Our strategy is to invest in B2B tech solutions that have demonstrated traction, a clear product-market fit, and are ready to scale internationally. ‘Test local, go global’ is 212’s guidingprinciple. In addition to investing in startups, we put significant effort into mentoring, supporting, and advising our portfolio companies.212 was founded by a seasoned group of veterans with the common vision of cultivating an eco-system in Turkey and its region. Each of our team members brings to the table a proven track record of success in multi-cultural disciplines in both global corporations and start-ups and an unwavering focus on strategy, operation, and execution.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
- Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
Ilkay Gundogan
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- Health Care, Apps, Printing
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Turkey
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- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- Terra — API that enables you to integrate with wearables, such as Garmin, Fitbit, Apple, Google, Polar, Eight Sleep, Oura and Others through a single source.
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com
Web: https://alibabaoglan.com
Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos
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- TV, CRM, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
- Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.
Alp Ulku is the Co-Founder at Litum Technologies. He completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing and Finance from San Francisco State University.
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- Digital Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
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- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Yasin Kavşak
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- Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Champy Games —
Özgür Ülkü
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- AgTech, Farming, Software
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
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