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

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
6 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $123k–$38M
Hande Enes
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Ireland Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Sina Afra
Angel
4 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Bulent Tekmen
Angel
3 Turkey, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note E-Commerce, Art, Video $200k–$4M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $84k–$3.7M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Information Technology $82k–$1.5M
twozero Ventures
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States Seed, Series A Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment $111k–$2M
Teknasyon
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile, Fitness $58k–$1.5M
TRANGELS
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $24k–$1.4M
Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.2M–$91M
Omer Erkmen
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Nuri Şahin
Angel
2 Turkey Angel, Pre-Seed Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $31k–$2.8M
APY Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $100k–$2.8M
Volkan Bicer
Angel
2 Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Online Games, Mobile, Software $99k–$2M
Ihsan Elgin
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Blockchain $180k–$8M
Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A iOS, Software, macOS
Firat Isbecer
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, SaaS, Software $20k–$9M
Newid capital
VC Fund
2 India, Kenya, Turkey Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Credit $1.3M–$6.9M
Deniz Güvenen
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Wedding, Events, Big Data
Q Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media $176k–$3.1M
TechOne VC
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $175k–$2.8M
Kerim Kotan
Angel
2 Turkey, Canada, United States Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, VoIP $450k–$4.5M
Accion Ventures
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Finance $500k–$33M
Alper Akcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, mHealth $400k–$2.5M
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Soccer, Sports $80k–$1.1M
Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund
2 India, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Doruk Pala
Angel
2 Turkey Seed Wedding, Events, Big Data
İlker Diker
Angel
2 Turkey Pre-Seed Art
Kerem Tokcan
Angel
2 Turkey Angel Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
Emre Can
Angel
2 Turkey Angel, Pre-Seed Printing, Collectibles, Card and Board Games
Revo Capital
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Ludus
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Gaming, Mobile, Software $405k–$7M
StartersHub
VC Fund
2 United States, Turkey, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$762k
Hasan Aslanoba
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Series B E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Özgür Ülkü
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Angel AgTech, Farming, Software
Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Shipping, Shopping, Software
Orkun Olgar
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
Cem Ortabaş
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
Gamze Cizreli
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Tunç Mehmet Berkman
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Mobile, Payments, Shopping
Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund
1 Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Ahmed Faruk Karslı
Angel
1 Turkey, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Art, Retail
Kamil Sözen
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Angel AgTech, Farming, Software
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
1 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • Vimesoft — Vimesoft is a platform that offers video conferencing, enterprise video and remote learning.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

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.
  • 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!
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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.
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Bulent Tekmen
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
  • 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.
  • Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$3.7M; Angel $84k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $82k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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twozero Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.6M; Series A $111k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
  • FineDine — Finedine is a growing tech company that provides data-driven digital menus for a smarter and more profitable dining experience. Finedine Menu app tracks customer behavior and collects insights on what to keep and what to improve. The order management feature helps streamline the ordering process and improve table turnover. Restauranteurs can alsocollect instant feedback and contact information from guests to take action towards enhancing the dining experience. Finedine is used in 45 countries.
  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and ​172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $58k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
  • Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $52k–$1.4M; Angel $24k–$500k; Pre-Seed $29k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • Salty Enerji — Salty Enerji is a manufacturing company that designs energy storage infrastructure to enhance renewable power efficiency and distribution.
  • 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.
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 318
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $3.5M–$34M; Series B $5M–$91M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $190M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Getsafe — Manage your insurance effortlessly in one app and get rewarded with Safepoints when you stay safe.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
  • Nosh Biofoods — We create nutritional and highly functional proteins from non-GMO fungi. Our proprietary ferementation process is minimal, scalable, and sustainable.
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Omer Erkmen
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Nuri Şahin
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Nuri Şahin

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $31k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
  • Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 101
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Upsonic — Upsonic is a platform that allows users to create artificial intelligence agents designed to perform tasks in businesses. The platform prevents AI agents from hallucinating.
  • Mindtail — Based in Istanbul, Mindtail is a mobile gaming studio dedicated to crafting the next evolution of hybrid mobile games. Founded by industry veterans whose previous titles have reached over 300+ million players worldwide
  • Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.
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Volkan Bicer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Games, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $99k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
  • Paxie Games — Paxie Games is a software firm that develops mobile games.
  • Novart Space Technologies
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
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Ugur Ethem AYDIN
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
  • Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Round size: Seed $727k–$9M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$380k
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital business funding to make cash flow.
  • NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
  • Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
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Deniz Güvenen
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Deniz Güvenen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bounce Watch — Bounce Watch offers an AI-powered platform that provides actionable insights on startup performance and helps investors optimize scouting process and deal flow management
  • Weddingbouquet.com — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
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Q Angels
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $176k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $400k–$605k
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.4M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
  • Carbon Centrum — Our innovative platform autonomously tracks individual CO2 footprints, creating first-ever Carbon IDs representing data-backed offsets. Companies competitively purchase these offsets via our platform, seamlessly connecting individuals, brands, and carbon markets.Users adopt eco-friendly habits, reduce emissions, and receive compensation.Companies purchase actual offsets towards net zero & create a new bridge toward insight & prediction into employee and customer demands.
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Kerim Kotan
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Kerim Kotan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, VoIP
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 54% lead, 46% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
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Accion Ventures
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Accion Ventures is an investment strategy that today pursues early-stage investments as part of Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$6.4M; Series A $2.6M–$33M; Series B $8M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jeitto — Jeitto is an app that joins the loan with the possibility of doing cell recharges and paying bills, aiming to transform people's financial experience with credit and convenience. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
  • Lami — Lami is an end-to-end digital insurance platform and API that enables companies across sectors to offer insurance products. Its API allows underwriters to connect with consumer-facing companies that can provide embedded insurance as a value add for existing customers, many of whom are uninsured.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
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Alper Akcan
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Alper Akcan

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
  • Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$380k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Accion Venture Lab
VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Accion Venture Lab is a leading early-stage investor in inclusive fintech, providing seed-first capital and strategic support to innovative startups that are meeting the financial needs of underserved people globally. Our global portfolio and local approach enable us to spot and respond to global trends faster, sharing learnings across geographies. Accion Venture Lab is an investment strategy of Accion and is managed by Accion Impact Management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 110
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
  • AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Doruk Pala
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Doruk Pala

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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İlker Diker
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

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!
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Kerem Tokcan
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Kerem Tokcan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Podcast, Digital Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Angel
  • 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.
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Emre Can
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Emre Can

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mythos Cards — Mythos Cards is the leading collectible card company of Turkey. The company holds licenses to top Turkish Super league clubs and entertainments properties. Innovation lays at the centre of Mythos Cards.
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Revo Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups, 8 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
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Ludus
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $405k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
  • Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
  • TaleMonster Games — TaleMonster is a multinational mobile game firm that genuinely wants to provide millions of gamers experiences they won't soon forget. By putting our passion at the center of everything we make, we hope to reinvent what casual in mobile gaming means.
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StartersHub
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$762k; Pre-Seed $20k–$550k; Convertible Note $25k–$30k
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides Post-Authentication Data Security (PADS) to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce TPRM. It blocks bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
  • HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
  • Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
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Hasan Aslanoba
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
  • RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
  • Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
  • Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
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Özgür Ülkü
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Özgür Ülkü

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Yalcin Ayaydin

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Efe Duran Sarikaya
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Efe Duran Sarikaya

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Investment focus

  • 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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Orkun Olgar
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Orkun Olgar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
  • Champy Games
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Cem Ortabaş
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
  • PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
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Gamze Cizreli
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Gamze Cizreli is the Founder & CEO at BigChefs.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tunç Mehmet Berkman
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Tunç Mehmet Berkman

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Payments, Shopping
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HadsUp — HadsUp is a revolutionary Ad-Tech platform which combines AI and Hologram Technology
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
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Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Alternatif SuperApp — Alternatif SuperApp provides digital wallet services and offers a secure mobile payment gateway. People can utilize the campaigns, use the digital wallets of numerous brands in a single application, and make secure QR code payments with the Alternatif SuperApp. Users of Alternatif SuperApp can shop quickly and without standing in line, share awallet for the amount and duration they choose, and take advantage of the campaigns.
  • MotionWorks — Motionworks make the forefront of a new era in television, harnessing the power of innovative video and ad technologies to transform the way TV programming is consumed and monetized. We are not simply upgrading the old system; we are completely redesigning it. We are integrating the fragmented views of TV on different screens into a unified,tailored experience for each viewer with our end-to-end video services and integrated advertising solutions. Our patented technology bridges the gap between linear and digital impressions, providing marketers with a single picture and unprecedented control. As a result, the viewer experience is smoother and more engaging, and advertising is more effective and efficient. We're not just improving the viewer experience by reinventing how we consume and monetize TV content; we're also saving money.
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Ahmed Faruk Karslı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Kamil Sözen
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

Kamil Sözen

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Eleven Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Turkey Media (entertainment) startups

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 141
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • LAM'ON — LAM'ON OOD was created with the intention of creating a product that would be recyclable or compostable, improve environmental and human health safety, and readily replace the existing petroleum-based plastic solutions.
  • Bitloops — Bitloops is an AI-powered application development platform that enables organizations to develop, maintain, and operate complex web applications with ease. It helps you easily modify system designs, deploy applications to production, and manage changes, new features, and products. The platform enables teams to innovate quickly and grow the productor business without compromising the product's usability, extendability, or maintainability. Bitloops makes it simpler than ever to create high-quality software utilizing best practices and techniques like DDD, BDD, TDD, hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, ports and adapters, CQRS, and event sourcing suitable for extending legacy systems as well as new initiatives.
  • Outfindo — Making bikes & e-bikes buying easy
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