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Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Startup Investors in Turkey (September 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
9 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Software, Video Games $50k–$2M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
7 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming $100k–$2.5M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
6 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps $244k–$38M
TT Ventures
VC Fund
5 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $21k–$2M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
5 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Kerim Kotan
Angel
5 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $9.9k–$3M
Earlybird Digital East Fund
VC Fund
4 Seed $1.2M–$7.5M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $20k–$697k
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $26k–$4.6M
Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $31k–$2M
Sina Afra
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $100k–$11M
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$2.7M
Bulent Tekmen
Angel
4 Turkey, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Art, Video $200k–$4M
Hande Enes
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Digiage
VC Fund
4 Turkey Seed Gaming, PC Games, Video Games $420k–$23M
TRANGELS
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $55k–$1.4M
TechOne VC
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $30k–$2.4M
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Teknasyon
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Mobile Apps, Fitness $112k–$15M
BIC Angels
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Education $11k–$514k
The TMRW Foundation
VC Fund
3 Turkey Seed Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment $250k–$2.1M
Deniz Güvenen
Angel
3 Turkey, The Netherlands Pre-Seed, Seed Wedding, Events, Big Data
WePlay Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, Norway, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Video Games, PC Games $50k–$500k
Nuri Sahin
Angel
3 Turkey Angel, Pre-Seed Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games $403k–$486k
ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $66k–$725k
Firat Isbecer
Angel
3 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence $20k–$3.8M
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
3 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Soccer, Sports $80k–$1.1M
Faruk Eczacıbaşı
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Angel Software, SaaS, Big Data $400k–$3.5M
Kerem Tokcan
Angel
3 Turkey Angel, Convertible Note Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment $100k–$3.5M
Ihsan Elgin
Angel
3 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Software, Financial Services $244k–$4M
twozero Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Convertible Note Fitness, Media and Entertainment, Apps $111k–$2M
Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Electronics $160k–$3.7M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$75M
AI Startup Factory
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $30k–$2.5M
StartersHub
VC Fund
3 United States, Turkey, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$884k
Emre Can
Angel
3 Turkey Angel, Pre-Seed Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games $403k–$486k
Revo Capital
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $430k–$66M
Omer Erkmen
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Q Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media $100k–$3.1M
Onur Yaşamtepe
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed EdTech, Privacy, Security $390k–$420k
Alper Akcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, mHealth $400k–$2.5M
Newid capital
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Turkey Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech $1.3M–$6.9M
Gokce Gizer Clover
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Video, EdTech $400k–$1.5M
Duran Cesur
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech $390k–$420k
Albaraka Turk
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Germany, Malaysia Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Financial Services, Banking, FinTech $156k–$20M
Ludus
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Mobile, Software $405k–$7M
Ali Kutay
Angel
2 United States, Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Internet, Information Technology
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Private Equity Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing $5.1M–$369M
Tarvenn Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Video Games, E-Commerce $25k–$421k
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 9 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 7 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups, 14 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Seed $212k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Viseur AI — Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation.
  • Spektra Games — We create the most realistic simulation/racing games for mobile!
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • Vimesoft — Manage secure team communication and AI-powered learning with Vimesoft on one platform, while keeping your data under your control on your own infrastructure.
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TT Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 74
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$2M; Pre-Seed $21k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • OctoXLabs — Most Comprehensive Cybersecurity Asset Management Solution #CSAM #CAASM
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 5 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: iOS, Software, macOS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 83% lead, 17% follow

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.
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Kerim Kotan
Angel · 5 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Kerim Kotan

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Buluttan — Buluttan delivers AI-powered hyper-local weather intelligence for energy, aviation, agriculture, logistics, and insurance. Accurate forecasts, severe-weather alerts, and operational decision support.
  • Werover — AI & IoT solutions for predictive maintenance
  • Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
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Earlybird Digital East Fund
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Earlybird Digital East Fund is an investment firm that focuses on early stage companies in Eastern Europe and Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7.5M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FintechOS — FintechOS is the AI platform for financial product operations. Design, price, launch, and evolve financial products with governed AI and reduced core dependency.
  • Simr (formerly UberCloud) — UberCloud's HPC Simulation Platform helps engineers run faster simulations and helps overworked IT teams gain control.
  • Picus — The Complete Security Control Validation Platform | Stay proactive by validating your security controls with attack scenarios, empower your Red, Purple, Blue teams.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 39
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 134
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$600k; Pre-Seed $26k–$150k; Convertible Note $30k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
  • ConverJinn — AI-powered product categorization and conversion optimization for online stores. Boost conversions and make every product page count.
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $150k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • Faturalab — Faturalab is a mobile app that provides supply chain financing, payments, financial benefits, and capital management services.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$800k
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
  • ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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Bulent Tekmen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Video
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$200k; Convertible Note $250k–$475k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
  • Vimesoft — Manage secure team communication and AI-powered learning with Vimesoft on one platform, while keeping your data under your control on your own infrastructure.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Digiage
VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $420k–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HOGO Games — HOGO Games develops and publishes mobile games across various genres including puzzle, casual, and hyper-casual formats. The company focuses on creating accessible, quick-play experiences for audiences of mobile users. It also manages game publishing, offering marketing support, analytics, and game testing for independent developers. The companyemphasizes intuitive design, aiming to deliver games that prioritize user engagement and ease of use. It continues to expand its portfolio with releases aimed at both iOS and Android platforms.
  • Good Job Games — We were founded in 2017 with the motivation to reach people globally by giving them unique and unforgettable experiences with disruptive products.
  • Icarus Interactive Entertainment — Icarus Interactive Entertainment is a computer games company that provides services encompassing production and gamification.
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 60
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $55k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasance — Securely deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads across thousands of heterogeneous far-edge and IoT environments.
  • Trawell Data — Trawell Data is a mobile data services company that provides travelers to use mobile data on their mobile phones without changing phones or sim cards. It enables the phone to digitally connect and use the local operator. Trawell Data was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Syosset, New York.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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TechOne VC
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $115k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $30k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
  • Getmobil — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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BIC Angels
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$514k; Angel $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
  • Fithletic — Fithletic is an application designed to enhance the way individuals engage with sports and fitness. The platform offers a streamlined and user-friendly experience, allowing users to explore, evaluate, and select gyms or physical activities that best align with their preferences and schedules.
  • Evde Mimar — Evde Mimar is focused home painting. The company has biggest web site traffic in this industy in Turkey. Evde Mimar provide home service for become beautiful home.
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The TMRW Foundation
VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

A visionary profit-driven foundation revolutionizing technology with deep tech innovations like 3D, VR/AR, virtual twins, and AI.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

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
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Deniz Güvenen
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Deniz Güvenen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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
  • Weddingbouquet.com — 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.
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WePlay Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Mixer — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
  • Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • One Percent — One Percent is a multiplayer Third-Person Shooter action game incorporating E-sports aspects such as strategy and tactics that focus on individual and team performance. people collaborate with friends or other people to fulfill objectives in game modes and defeat other teams. The One Percent design team created every level, character, clothes,emote, costume, and many other components in order to deliver a unique experience. The first edition of the game was created in a distinct Cyberpunk universe, and it is hoped that the team's design and technological skills will allow them to add other maps, concepts, and universes to the game.
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Nuri Sahin
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Nuri Şahin is a Turkish football player.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $403k–$486k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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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ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $90k–$400k; Angel $66k–$725k; Pre-Seed $71k–$236k
  • Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Itz Nutz — Itz Nutz is dedicated to making healthy eating both accessible and enjoyable for everyone by offering a delicious range of cashew-based, plant-based flavors that are nutritious, satisfying, and crafted to support a balanced lifestyle.
  • ThingsHappen — ThingsHappen - Your Personalized AI Broker
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$450k
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience.
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

  • Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$430k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Faruk Eczacıbaşı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$1.8M; Convertible Note $3M–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon, ESG and energy data
  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
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Kerem Tokcan
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Kerem Tokcan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Angel, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $100k–$3.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$4M
  • Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow

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.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
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twozero Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
  • FineDine — Finedine, a growing tech company, empowers restaurants with an AI-powered SaaS growth platform. FineDine helps restaurants grow at every stage, from attracting new customers through automated digital marketing to streamlining reservations, orders, payments, loyalty programs, and retargeting campaigns. Finedine creates a seamless omnichannelexperience for both restaurants and their guests. By analyzing customer behavior, FineDine provides actionable insights that help restaurateurs optimize their operations and make data-driven decisions. The platform simplifies restaurant management by offering an all-in-one solution, eliminating the need for multiple software programs.
  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $160k–$3.7M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
  • Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Saykal — Saykal develops electronic product design technology intended for EV transformation. Saykal manufactures advanced sensing, detection, and imaging systems for strategic and scalable industries with automotive applications. Saykal aligns its product development with customer requirements and strives for timely delivery.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 394
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$14M; Series A $4.4M–$35M; Series B $6M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $422M in 2026

Portfolio highlights

  • Avrea — Avrea is the CI/CD platform built for the age of AI, helping teams ship software faster, more often, and with higher quality.
  • Hilo — Get stress-free readings round the clock with Hilo's clinically validated blood pressure monitor. Learn more
  • Neuracore — The robot skill creation engine: collect demonstrations, curate datasets, train imitation and reinforcement learning policies, and deploy them on real robots, all on one platform.
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AI Startup Factory
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 50
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$495k; Venture - Series Unknown $30k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
  • Kahuna — Kahuna helps independent artists grow with smarter distribution, interest free funding, marketing support, and real time analytics that increase royalties.
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StartersHub
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$884k; Pre-Seed $20k–$554k; Convertible Note $25k–$30k
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides Post-Authentication Data Security (PADS) to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce TPRM. It blocks bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
  • heybooster — heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Emre Can
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Emre Can

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Angel $403k–$486k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

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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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $430k–$8.4M; Series A $1M–$38M; Series B $3.4M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $86M in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • CLEATUS — CLEATUS | Bring Government Contracting to Every Business with AI
  • a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
  • Turbo Law — Turbo Law is a privately held legal technology company that provides an AI-native execution platform designed to simplify complex, document-intensive litigation for defense law firms and insurance carriers.
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Omer Erkmen
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Q Angels
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
  • eTasin — https://etasin.com
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Onur Yaşamtepe
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Onur Yaşamtepe

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EdTech, Privacy, Security
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $390k–$420k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
  • Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
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Alper Akcan
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Alper Akcan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

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 — 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 — 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.
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Newid capital
VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, AgTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: India, Kenya, Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$1.3M; Series A $6M–$6.9M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding 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
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Gokce Gizer Clover
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

GG is a startup advisor, investor, coach, and expert; focused on organizational strategy and leadership development for rapid-growth digital tech companies. GG is passionate about opportunities that enable her to use her creative and analytical skills to influence change for a sustainable future; socially, environmentally and economically, creatingvalue for all stakeholders.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Video, EdTech
  • Stage:Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Convertible Note $400k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Popile — Popile is a celebrity engagement platform that allows users to get unforgettable memories with celebrity shout-out videos and video calls. It may look like just a basic shout-out video platform at first look but the main benefit that Popile offers to users is being able to create unforgettable memories. The outcomes of each order are stories worthtelling and great memories. Popile gives people the opportunity to make a birthday different than the others, spread the news in the best possible way, or make a moment worth celebrating.Both the biggest Turkish TV - music celebrities and digital creators are in Popile. Lots of active and former athletes are in Popile. Even stars of viral Tiktok videos are in Popile. There are more than 400 celebrities in Popile, we are pretty sure that there is -at least- a celebrity for everyone. Their vision is to be the biggest celebrity engagement platform in the MENA region in 2 years.
  • SELECT — SELECT partners with elite restaurants, hotels, nightlife venues, retailers and more to give you access to VIP treatment in your city and across the globe. From unpublished rates at 1,300,000+ hotels, to complimentary cocktails at the hottest dining &...
  • Twin Science & Robotics — AI literacy, combined with the safest tools, empowers your school to build real-world AI skills with confidence.
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Duran Cesur
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Duran Cesur

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $390k–$420k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
  • Syntonym — Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized.
  • VMind AI — VMind is a frontier technology company building artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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Albaraka Turk
VC Fund · Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Albaraka Turk specializes in providing financial services through its branches. It is able to serve its clients globally by the help of a wide network of correspondent banks, comprising of over 207 banks operating in about 60 countries around the world. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Umraniye.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Malaysia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $390k–$2M; Equity Crowdfunding $156k–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lumnion — Al based Insurance Pricing Platform
  • Clean Services — Clean Services is an energy company that provides discovery, planning, installation, and after-sales services.
  • International Islamic Liquidity Management — International Islamic Liquidity Management is an international organisation established by central banks, monetary authorities.
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Ludus
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
  • Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
  • Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
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Ali Kutay
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HiveMQ — Turn industrial data into operational intelligence with HiveMQ. Connect, contextualize, analyze, and act across edge, on-prem, and cloud.
  • REscan — Transforming spaces into data
  • Peak Games — Peak is a leading technology company with a team who values progress. We believe that the best products are created when talented people form autonomous teams striving for impact.
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Private Equity
  • Geography: Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 491
  • Round size: Post-IPO Debt $17M–$369M; Debt Financing $5.1M–$225M; Private Equity $15M–$100M
  • Lead/follow: 76% lead, 24% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Akbank — Akbank provides banking transactions for economic, financial, and commercial endeavors and activities. Their banking applications include corporate and investment banking, commercial banking, SME banking, retail banking, payment systems, treasury transactions, private banking, and international banking services.
  • Infinity Power — Infinity Power is the largest African renewable energy company, offering innovative solutions in solar power, wind energy, and low-carbon hydrogen technologies. Discover our projects and commitment to sustainable energy solutions.
  • QNB Türkiye — QNB Finansbank is a Turkish bank with headquarters in Istanbul. That provides Banking service.
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Tarvenn Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 43
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$421k; Pre-Seed $25k–$25k
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

Stats across 240 deals from 295 investors.

295
investors
in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups
240
deals
in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups
$221k
median round
in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups
27%
lead investors
lead at least one round
36%
Seed
most common funding stage
49/51
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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