Top 50 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in Turkey (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
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5 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A | iOS, Software, macOS | |
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Kerim Kotan
Angel
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5 | Turkey, Canada, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $9.9k–$3M |
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Analytics, E-Commerce | $29k–$1.9M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Software, Internet, E-Commerce | $100k–$3M |
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Bulent Tekmen
Angel
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4 | Turkey, Estonia | Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Art, Video | $200k–$4M |
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Hande Enes
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence | $29k–$4.1M |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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4 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $15k–$11M |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $20k–$3.8M |
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Nuri Sahin
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | $403k–$486k |
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Omer Erkmen
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, Analytics | |
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Emre Can
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | $403k–$486k |
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Faruk Eczacıbaşı
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Angel | Software, SaaS, Big Data | $400k–$3.5M |
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $244k–$4M |
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Soccer, Sports | $80k–$1.1M |
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Deniz Güvenen
Angel
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3 | Turkey, The Netherlands | Pre-Seed, Seed | Wedding, Events, Big Data | |
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Kerem Tokcan
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Angel, Convertible Note | Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment | $100k–$3.5M |
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Rauf Cem Erkli
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel, Convertible Note | Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment | |
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Emre Yildiz
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment | $250k–$2.1M |
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Ali Kutay
Angel
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2 | United States, Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, Information Technology | |
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Ilkay Gundogan
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Health Care, Apps, SaaS | $439k–$5.8M |
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Levent Sevinç
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment | |
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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İlker Diker
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Art, Music, Dating | |
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Duran Cesur
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, EdTech | $390k–$420k |
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Alper Akcan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Apps, Fitness, mHealth | $100k–$2.5M |
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Mustafa Namoglu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding | Software, Content, Shipping | $200k–$250k |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
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Doğan Baran Kurtoğlu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Animation, Marketing, Advertising | |
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Onur Yaşamtepe
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | EdTech, Privacy, Security | $390k–$420k |
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Doruk Pala
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Wedding, Events, Big Data | |
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Ibrahim Akman
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Gaming, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital | $250k–$2.1M |
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Nuri Şahin
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | |
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Gokce Gizer Clover
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Convertible Note, Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Video, EdTech | $400k–$1.5M |
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Onur Canlıtepe
Angel
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2 | United Kingdom, Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, Education, Machine Learning | $333k–$420k |
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Hamit Altıntop
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Angel, Pre-Seed | Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games | |
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Volkan Bicer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Singapore, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Online Games, Mobile | $130k–$2.7M |
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Tunç Mehmet Berkman
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | SaaS, Mobile, Payments | $9.9k–$2M |
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Korhan Kasap
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Marketing, Consulting, Advertising | |
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Tunç Yalgın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Video Games, SaaS, Mobile | $7k–$600k |
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Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Shipping, Shopping, Software | |
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Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | TV, CRM, Apps | |
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Deniz Devrim Cengiz
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Blockchain, FinTech, Apps | |
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Kamil Sözen
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | AgTech, Farming, Software | |
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Zoran Arsovski
Angel
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1 | Bulgaria | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Internet, Software | |
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Alphan Manas
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Q&A, Internet, Social Media | |
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Alp Ulku
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Digital Entertainment | |
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Vedat Çavuşoğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment | |
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Murat Baysal
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, Animation, 3D Technology | |
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Fitness, Software | |
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Yasin Kavşak
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Digital Entertainment | |
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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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- 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.
Kerim Kotan
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- 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
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- 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.
- Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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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- Industry: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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.
Bulent Tekmen is a co-founder of ininal, a payment system for the unbanked population in Turkey.
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- 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)
Hande Enes
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a 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.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $727k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
- Paket Mutfak — 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.
Nuri Şahin is a Turkish football player.
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- 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.
Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.
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- 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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- 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.
Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center
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- 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.
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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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $244k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% 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.
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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- 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)
Deniz Güvenen
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- 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.
Kerem Tokcan
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- 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.
Rauf Cem Erkli
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- Industry: Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Co-Founder @ SGlobe
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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
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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- 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 — The real-time Industrial Data Platform powering Agentic AI. Built on MQTT to connect, contextualize, and analyze AI-ready data from edge to 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.
Ilkay Gundogan
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom, Turkey, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- StudyStream — Join the world's #1 online community of students. 24/7 Focus Rooms available for all, so that you can find your new StudyGroup or StudyBuddy.
- Onchain labs — Onchain Labs offers scalable Web3 software-as-a-service solution for blockchain technology accessibility. OnchainLabs aims to revolutionize businesses by integrating blockchain technology into every aspect of their operations, fostering innovation, transparency, and trust. Their cutting-edge services aim to be the premier partner for businessesseeking to harness blockchain's transformative potential.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Music, Publishing, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MUSIWARS — Musiwars is an online marketplace and digital legalizing platform that creates more opportunities for songwriters and composers.
Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
- Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara
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- Industry: Art, Music, Dating
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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!
Duran Cesur
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- 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).
Alper Akcan is the founder and CEO of Mikro Odeme AS, a micropayments service provider in Turkey and the Middle East.Akcan worked for two years at Yapı Kredi Investments, for four years at Vestel Information Technologies, and for five years at Turkcell, the largest GSM operator in Turkey. He started Mikro Odeme after he left Turkcell in theyear 2008 and guided it to be the largest mobile payment company in Turkey.Akcan owns a bachelor’s degree in engineering, and an MBA and PhD in contemporary management. He currently lives in Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, mHealth
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $350k–$2.5M; Angel $100k–$346k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Usersdot — Usersdot uses data science and AI solutions to improve customer experience, increase operational efficiency and maximize sales performance
- 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.
CEO at ikas.com.
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- Industry: Software, Content, Shipping
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $200k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- egaranti — Egaranti is a web-based application that provides cloud solutions for businesses, allowing consumers to oversee their warranty processes from a centralized dashboard. Through its API-driven platform, Egaranti enables companies to swiftly integrate their e-commerce systems, marketplace platforms, and CRM systems for physical sales channels,facilitating the management of warranty processes from a single location. Consequently, consumers can efficiently manage all their product warranties through this cohesive platform.
- Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.
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- Industry: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
- Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
- Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
Entrepreneur, Brand Consultant Founder/CEO @volansvideoagency
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- Industry: Animation, Marketing, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volans Video Agency — Volans Video Agency is full-service creative video agency for brands and agencies. Explainer Videos, 3D Videos, Promotion Videos, Testimonial Videos!
Onur Yaşamtepe
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- 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.
Doruk Pala
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- Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ibrahim Akman is the Founder of Izmo Informatics. He attended Anadolu University.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Venture Capital
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $250k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Heaventures — Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.
- SuperGears Games — SuperGears Games offers mobile game studio with a specialization in racing games. Mobile racing game platform that redefines the mobile gaming experience
Nuri Şahin
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- Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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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- 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.
Early Stage Investor in Industrial Digitalisation and Decarbonisation, Angel Investor, Mentor, Experienced Investment Banker
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United Kingdom, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $333k–$420k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% 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.
- Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
- 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.
Hamit Altıntop
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- Industry: Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Online Games, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $130k–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Paydas — Paydas is a prop-fintech startup enabling individuals to invest digitally in income and appreciation of selected global real estate.
- Sentez — An AI portfolio studio building, testing and scaling consumer apps and B2B AI tools.
- 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.
Tunç Mehmet Berkman
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile, Payments
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $9.9k–$2M; Series A $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- HadsUp — HadsUp is a revolutionary Ad-Tech platform which combines AI and Hologram Technology
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Medialyzer — Measure and optimize your media impact with Medialyzer's data-driven attribution and planning tools.
Korhan Kasap
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- Industry: Marketing, Consulting, Advertising
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Volans Video Agency — Volans Video Agency is full-service creative video agency for brands and agencies. Explainer Videos, 3D Videos, Promotion Videos, Testimonial Videos!
Entrepreneur and investor, enjoys helping entrepreneurs and being part of their journey (currently obsessed with AI)
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- Industry: Video Games, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $7k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Convose —
- Sopsy — Sopsy is a next-generation e-commerce platform that enables small businesses and creators to launch online stores in minutes — without any technical knowledge. Founded in 2013 and restructured as a Delaware C-Corp in 2019, Sopsy operates between the United States and Türkiye, empowering thousands of entrepreneurs who value speed, simplicity, andsecurity in digital commerce.Currently expanding its product ecosystem, Sopsy is preparing to introduce two new tiers — Sopsy Free and Sopsy Plus — designed to make digital entrepreneurship even more accessible. These upcoming plans will integrate website creation, payment processing, and store management within a single seamless experience, enhanced by AI-powered tools, automated invoicing, and local payment integrations.Guided by the philosophy “Fast, Easy, and Secure,” Sopsy’s mission is to remove the complexity of selling online. With a growing community across Türkiye, Europe, and the Middle East, Sopsy is redefining how small businesses start, grow, and succeed in the digital economy — building a future where commerce is effortless, secure, and universal.
- 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.
Efe Duran Sarikaya
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- Industry: Shipping, Shopping, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
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Browse database — It's Free!I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos
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- Industry: TV, CRM, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- N'oluyo — N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV.
- Kahvegibikahve — Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it.
Deniz Devrim Cengiz
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- Industry: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Kamil Sözen
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- Industry: AgTech, Farming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Zoran and his team focus on Digital Marketing Consulting for B2B growth-stage companies supported by the leading technology VC funds.
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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Bulgaria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- myTeam — Helping Sports Clubs and Academies to optimize their daily processes and communication with their members
- Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.
Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye Kıbrıs
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- Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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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- Industry: Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Vedat Çavuşoğlu
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- Industry: Gaming, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Murat Baysal
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- Industry: Gaming, Animation, 3D Technology
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
Yasin Kavşak
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- Industry: Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Champy Games —
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