Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in Turkey in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors 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) Angel Investors in Turkey in May 2025
Investor | Media (entertainment) Turkey investments |
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Hande Enes | 4 |
Hande Enes | 4 |
Sina Afra | 4 |
Omer Erkmen | 3 |
Omer Erkmen | 3 |
Emre Can | 2 |
Nevzat Aydın | 2 |
Bulent Tekmen | 2 |
Kerim Kotan | 2 |
Emre Can | 2 |
Firat Isbecer | 2 |
Deniz Güvenen | 2 |
Alper Akcan | 2 |
Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 2 |
Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 2 |
Firat Isbecer | 2 |
Nuri Şahin | 2 |
Kerim Kotan | 2 |
Nevzat Aydın | 2 |
Deniz Güvenen | 2 |
Nuri Şahin | 2 |
Bulent Tekmen | 2 |
Barbaros Özbugutu | 2 |
Kerem Tokcan | 2 |
Kerem Tokcan | 2 |
Doruk Pala | 2 |
Alper Akcan | 2 |
Ihsan Elgin | 2 |
İlker Diker | 2 |
Barbaros Özbugutu | 2 |
Doruk Pala | 2 |
Hamit Altıntop | 1 |
Rauf Cem Erkli | 1 |
Koray Bahar | 1 |
Alp Ulku | 1 |
Demirhan Büyüközcü | 1 |
Vedat Çavuşoğlu | 1 |
Mustafa Vardalı | 1 |
Kaan Kalıpçı | 1 |
Yasin Kavşak | 1 |
Mustafa Namoglu | 1 |
Rıfat Elhadef | 1 |
Emre Kenci | 1 |
Yasin Kavşak | 1 |
Levent Sevinç | 1 |
Volkan Bicer | 1 |
Ufuk Sarı | 1 |
Sercan Alici | 1 |
N. Kemal Yılmaz | 1 |
Ahmed Faruk Karslı | 1 |
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait AI — 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.
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
- Crait.it — Empowering your 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.
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
Emre Can
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Investment focus
- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Art, Gaming, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Kerim Kotan
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
- TelomEye Pharmaceuticals — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
Emre Can
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Investment focus
- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — 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.
Deniz Güvenen
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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
- 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.
Alper Akcan
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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 — 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.
I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
- Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.
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Investment focus
- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
- Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
- Internet, 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.
Nuri Şahin
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Investment focus
- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Kerim Kotan
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Internet of Things
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Turkey, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
- TelomEye Pharmaceuticals — TelomEye Pharmaceuticals provides treatments to prevent and improve age-related ophthalmologic disorders.
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
- A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.
Deniz Güvenen
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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.
Nuri Şahin
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Investment focus
- Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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Investment focus
- Art, Gaming, Content
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)
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Investment focus
- Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Kerem Tokcan
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Investment focus
- Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Kerem Tokcan
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Investment focus
- Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Doruk Pala
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Investment focus
- Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- DüğünBuketi — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
- KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Alper Akcan
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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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara
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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.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- 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!
Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)
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Investment focus
- Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Doruk Pala
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Investment focus
- Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Hamit Altıntop
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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.
Rauf Cem Erkli
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Investment focus
- Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Koray Bahar is an investor at Ekmob.
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Investment focus
- Software, CRM, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
- OppZone — OppZone offers a wide range of content marketing services.
- Diştedavim — Diştedavim is a dental appointment platform that facilitates the appointment process in the field of dental treatment services.
Alp Ulku is the Co-Founder at Litum Technologies. He completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Marketing and Finance from San Francisco State University.
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Investment focus
- Digital Entertainment
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Vedat Çavuşoğlu
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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.
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Fitness, Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
- Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
- Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
Kaan Kalıpçı
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Investment focus
- Recipes, eSports, Delivery
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
Yasin Kavşak
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Investment focus
- Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Champy Games —
Mustafa Namoglu
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Investment focus
- Content, Shipping, Software
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Carrtell — By combining technological infrastructure and an experienced field team, carrtell produces customized, low-cost, and professional shipping solutions for e-commerce owners.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Rıfat Elhadef
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Investment focus
- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Emre Kenci
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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.
Yasin Kavşak
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- Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Champy Games —
Levent Sevinç is the Founder & CEO of Assessment Systems. He previously worked at HR Consultancy as a Human Resources Consulting. Levent Sevinç attended Istanbul University.
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- Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Musiwars — Musiwars is an online marketplace and digital legalizing platform that creates more opportunities for songwriters and composers.
Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.
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- Online Games, iOS, Mobile
- Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates
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- 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!
- Ontrail Store — Ontrail Store offers a wide range of clothes and accessories.
- Evolution Group — Evolution Group is an operator of mobile advertising services.
Ufuk Sarı is the Angel Investor.
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- Music, Dating, Podcast
- Seed
- Turkey
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- 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!
Sercan Alici
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- Pet, Hospitality, Photography
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
- Albumera — Stunning, convenient 30 minute photo shoots by talented local pros. Your session is complimentary - you only pay for the photos you love!
- 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!
N. Kemal Yılmaz is an Angel Investor.
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Investment focus
- Music, Dating, Podcast
- Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Art, Retail
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
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