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Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in Turkey

Last updated: Aug 2024 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
Hande Enes	4
Aslanoba Capital	4
twozero Ventures	3
Omer Erkmen	3
Earlybird Venture Capital	3
Teknasyon	3
Alper Akcan	2
Emre Can	2
Nuri Şahin	2
Doruk Pala	2
Accion Venture Lab	2
Barbaros Özbugutu	2
TechOne VC	2
Kerim Kotan	2
Kerem Tokcan	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Newid capital	2
Ugur Ethem AYDIN	2
TRANGELS	2
Bulent Tekmen	2
Nevzat Aydın	2
Kültepe Investment	2
Deniz Güvenen	2
Revo Capital	2
Ozhun Olgar	1
Gokhan Demir	1
Alp Ulku	1
Yasin Kavşak	1
İzzet Zakuto	1
The TMRW Foundation	1
Cerebrum Tech	1
Rauf Cem Erkli	1
PowerHouse	1
Vedat Çavuşoğlu	1
Orkun Olgar	1
Founder One	1
Mustafa Namoglu	1
Fatih Şahin	1
Bilişim Vadisi	1
Alphan Manas	1
Özgür Ülkü	1
Murat Baysal	1
Emre Kenci	1
Q Angels	1
Ihsan Elgin	1
Kamil Sözen	1
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan	1
İlker Diker	1
Faruk Eczacıbaşı	1
Hamit Altıntop	1

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Hande Enes

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 eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Loyi — Loyi is a loyalty platform. Its no-code, white-label solutions provide individualized, gamified experiences.
Hive — Fulfillment with Hive means 100% peace of mind at up to 30% cost savings. Move your operations to Hive now.
Grand Games — Grand Games is shaping the future of gaming by creating genre-defining games played by millions worldwide.

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.

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

Alper Akcan

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed, Angel
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
Lisa AI — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.

Emre Can

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

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.

Doruk Pala

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.

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

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)

Investment focus

Retail, Soccer, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
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 — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

Kerim Kotan

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 — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!

Kerem Tokcan

Investment focus

Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.

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 funding solutions and business banking accounts 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

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.

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.

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

& New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.

Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, 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.

Deniz Güvenen

Investment focus

Wedding, Events, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Bounce Watch — Bounce Watch offers an AI-powered platform that provides actionable insights on startup performance and helps investors optimize scouting process and deal flow management
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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.

Ozhun Olgar

Investment focus

Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Cube Games — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Champy Games —

Gokhan Demir

Investment focus

Art
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.

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.

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.

Yasin Kavşak

Investment focus

Digital Entertainment
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Champy Games —

İzzet Zakuto

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.

The TMRW Foundation is a hybrid tech company that creates technologies that empower communication, gamification, and digitalization with the power of reality.

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

An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale

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

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.

Vedat Çavuşoğlu

Investment focus

Gaming, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

Orkun Olgar

Investment focus

Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Cube Games — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Champy Games —

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

Investment focus

EdTech, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Materix — Materix is a nanotechnology company collaborating with industry and academia to develop commercializable materials. The company uses thin films for surface properties, providing hydrophobic, photocatalytic, protection, and antibacterial functions.
The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.

Mustafa Namoglu

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)

Fatih Şahin

Investment focus

Gaming, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye Kıbrıs

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.

Özgür Ülkü

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

Murat Baysal

Investment focus

Gaming, Animation, 3D Technology
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.

Emre Kenci

Investment focus

Art, Retail, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

fucimo — Easily create, manage, and monetize your advertising and sponsorship opportunities with Fucimo. Ditch your old media kit and showcase your offerings like never before. Create a no-code online store for selling ads and sponsorships in just 5 min.
Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Sweden, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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

Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.

Kamil Sözen

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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

Investment focus

TV, CRM, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey

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.
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.

İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara

Investment focus

Art
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.

Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center

Investment focus

SaaS, Energy, Podcast
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon and ESG data.
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Hamit Altıntop

Investment focus

Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
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.

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