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Top 40 Media (entertainment) VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Turkey in October 2024

A list of 40 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Media (entertainment) VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Turkey in October 2024

Investor Media (entertainment) Turkey investments
Aslanoba Capital 4
twozero Ventures 3
Teknasyon 3
Earlybird Venture Capital 3
Boğaziçi Ventures 2
Kültepe Investment 2
Revo Capital 2
TechOne VC 2
Newid capital 2
Accion Venture Lab 2
TRANGELS 2
Wesley Clover 1
The TMRW Foundation 1
PowerHouse 1
APY Ventures 1
Lima Ventures 1
Nexus Ventures 1
Inventures 1
Atanova Ventures 1
Hummingbird Ventures 1
Founder One 1
Ludus 1
Bilişim Vadisi 1
Kayacan Ventures 1
Keiretsu Forum Northwest 1
StartersHub 1
Bamboo Capital Partners 1
Tekton Ventures 1
Cerebrum Tech 1
Omidyar Network 1
212 1
Q Angels 1
Tarvenn Ventures 1
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 1
Actera Group 1
WePlay Ventures 1
StartupFon 1
seed + speed Ventures 1
Alitheia Capital 1
Kokteyl 1
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Aslanoba Capital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
twozero Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
  • Cineshort — Cineshort is a mobile application where you can watch great films in your short moments during the day. We call it "Netflix for short film" Our main mission is to stream great films to millions of people with the "experience is king" perspective. So, If you have a 10-minute commuting time, we can show you great 8-minute snacks!While Cineshort provides viewers/audience a wonderful watching experience in their short time, it also offers film directors the opportunity to bring their films together with a wide audience and supports their professional sustainability by revenue sharing model.
  • Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Teknasyon VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • Apps, Health Care, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
  • Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
Earlybird Venture Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 32 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Loyi — Loyi is a loyalty platform. Its no-code, white-label solutions provide individualized, gamified experiences.
  • TILT — TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards.
  • Involve Space — Involve Space provides solutions for space-based activities via a customizable and cost-effective stratospheric pseudo satellite.
Boğaziçi Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 11 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Information Technology, Gaming
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
  • Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
  • Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Kültepe Investment VC Fund · Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey
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
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Medialyzer — Measure, analyze and increase the online impact of TV advertising.
  • artlabs — ART Labs introduces tailor-made AR-commerce. A specially designed, effortless, 3D-powered boost for eCommerce
  • Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.
Revo Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 8 investments 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
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
  • Roamless — One eSIM, 60+ destinations. No plans, no expirations. Just easy, affordable, reliable mobile connectivity for travelers. Join the Roamless Revolution today.
  • Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
TechOne VC VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!
Newid capital VC Fund · Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Newid Capital invests internationally in growth-oriented financial services companies serving the underbanked.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Credit
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • India, Kenya, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Lulalend — Meet Lula. Meet Opportunity. We provide SMEs with all-digital funding solutions and business banking accounts to make cash flow.
  • NOW Money — NOW Money is the UAE's first digital payroll and mobile bank service developed specifically for low income workers.
  • Apollo Agriculture — BRINGING COMMERCIAL FARMING TO EVERYONE Andrew, 3 acre maize farmer and Apollo customer
Accion Venture Lab VC Fund · Washington, District of Columbia, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • India, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Semaai — Full-stack agri-tech solution for Indonesian farmers
  • AquaExchange — AquaExchange is a technology platform for shrimp and fish farmers.
  • Cashinvoice — Cashinvoice connects supply chain stakeholders and digitises invoice-to-cash processes to unlock working capital trapped within supply chains and accelerate business growth
TRANGELS VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
  • Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
  • Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
Wesley Clover VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Terry Matthews is founder and Chairman of Wesley Clover. Since 1972, Terry has founded or funded more than 100 companies, including Mitel and Newbridge Networks. Today, Wesley Clover has interests around the world in next-generation companies focused on technologies and applications across many industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • RFence — RFence is a start-up company that analyzes the radio frequency environment. They control the threats and risks involved, which is essential to keeping the site running smoothly and efficiently. They offer solutions that are designed for all sites with critical security needs for industrial sites such as logistics sites, government buildings, ports,airports, penitentiary facilities, etc.
  • Validient — Onboard Clients With Confidence - Automated Compliance Software, AML and due diligence solutions. Empower your business.
  • VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
The TMRW Foundation VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
The TMRW Foundation is a hybrid tech company that creates technologies that empower communication, gamification, and digitalization with the power of reality.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • SuperGears Games — SuperGears Games offers mobile game studio with a specialization in racing games. Mobile racing game platform that redefines the mobile gaming experience
PowerHouse VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
HOUSE OF Technology Power House recognizes that the future of communications ...
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Investment focus
  • Video, Media and Entertainment
  • Corporate Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Line Studio — Line Studio is an innovative storytelling and comics platform that is a digital environment where content creators can publish and monetize their work while users enjoy reading it.
APY Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 9 investments in the past 12 months
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Lima Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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.
Nexus Ventures VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Rapido — Rapido bike taxi provides the best intra-city commuting services and is currently operating in 100+ cities. It is considered as the most affordable choice.
  • Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
  • Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.
Inventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
Atanova Ventures VC Fund · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Atanova is an early stage investment company that discovers enterprises which will make high impact with their bright ideas while in their incubation phases.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Content
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Textoni — Connect with 28,000 content creators from 58 different countries! With our artificial intelligence solutions, you can filter the most accurate writers for your brand and industry, and you can reach your quality content very quickly!
  • RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • Artifica.io — Artifica.io creates products for the requirements of industries by utilizing artificial intelligence technologies.
Hummingbird Ventures VC Fund · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Lovable — Lovable is building software that builds software. We are makers of GPT Engineer app - an AI software engineer.
  • Salient Motion — A next-generation supplier for aerospace and defense, specializing in advanced electric propulsion.
  • Starpath Robotics — Starpath designs and manufactures robotic propellant production factories for the Moon and Mars, reducing the cost of deep space transport, and enabling humans to be a multi planet species.
Founder One VC Fund · Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
  • The Good Wild — The Good Wild produces plant-based products that enhance nutritional value. The brand offers sprouted and fermented legumes, aiming to preserve natural plant protein.
  • Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.
Ludus VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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
  • Gaming, Mobile, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, Singapore, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.
  • Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
  • Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
Bilişim Vadisi VC Fund · Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Alternatif SuperApp — Alternatif SuperApp provides digital wallet services and offers a secure mobile payment gateway. People can utilize the campaigns, use the digital wallets of numerous brands in a single application, and make secure QR code payments with the Alternatif SuperApp. Users of Alternatif SuperApp can shop quickly and without standing in line, share awallet for the amount and duration they choose, and take advantage of the campaigns.
  • MotionWorks — Motionworks make the forefront of a new era in television, harnessing the power of innovative video and ad technologies to transform the way TV programming is consumed and monetized. We are not simply upgrading the old system; we are completely redesigning it. We are integrating the fragmented views of TV on different screens into a unified,tailored experience for each viewer with our end-to-end video services and integrated advertising solutions. Our patented technology bridges the gap between linear and digital impressions, providing marketers with a single picture and unprecedented control. As a result, the viewer experience is smoother and more engaging, and advertising is more effective and efficient. We're not just improving the viewer experience by reinventing how we consume and monetize TV content; we're also saving money.
Kayacan Ventures VC Fund
Kayacan Ventures supports startups in artificial intelligence, blockchain, and high technology, providing financial and guidance to help them become pioneers and develop innovative solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Content, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Aiva — Aiva is a platform that enhances efficiency and personalized content production in industries such as digital marketing, media, education, and e-commerce.
Keiretsu Forum Northwest VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States
Keiretsu Forum is a community of private equity investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs with a network of over 50 global chapters and more than 2,500 investor members.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • iQure Pharma — iQure Pharma preclinical and clinical drug development
  • Levered Learning — Levered Learning is a classroom-tested and teacher-designed instructional system providing 3rd-5th grade mathematical learning. The company was founded in 2017 by Mitch Slater and is headquartered in Soquel, California, United States.
  • Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.
StartersHub VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
  • IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
Bamboo Capital Partners VC Fund · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bamboo Capital Partners is a commercial private equity firm making investments that matter. We find game-changing businesses then applies a mix of geographical and sector expertise to deliver financial and social returns.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • India, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Movii — Cuenta digital para pagarlo todo.
  • SMALA — SMALA is a used online clothing platform for children. They are the operator of an e-commerce clothing platform intended to offer quality second hand clothes. Their platform provides an integrated platform where clothes are selected carefully.
  • Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.
Tekton Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
TEKTON VENTURES is an international seed investment firm that partners at inception with forward looking company builders in leading technology hubs worldwide. The firm’s principals have over three decades of experience as early stage investors. Leveraging an extensive global network of entrepreneurs and investors, Tekton makes early stageinvestments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world.Passionate entrepreneurs exist in many parts of the world. Tekton Ventures focuses its investments in two different places: Silicon Valley and selected technology centers ( London and Israel); and the fast growing mobile/digitally connected markets in Asia (China, Korea and India).Our approach to global investing rests on partnerships with local venture ecosystems: we have built long standing relationships with some of the best local seed and venture investors in our geographies of focus.We see our unique global perspective as important to build transformational companies and make that knowledge available across our entire community of entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, South Korea, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital app designed to help Generation Z become financially independent. It allows users to manage their own money with solutions such as PIX (Brazil’s “instant-payment” method), prepaid credit card, allowance management and a virtual card, in addition to features that let users customise the app’s design and a marketplace withdiscounts on Gen Z’s most desired brands. Structured as a financial hub, NG.CASH aims to accompany its clients throughout their lives and increase financial literacy in the region.
  • Prósperos — Founded in 2023 by Vinay Pai and Salvador Chavez, Prósperos is delivering an innovative financial platform that allows millions of Latinos to manage their finances while taking care of their family in the USA and Latin America.The Prósperos platform provides two bank accounts and two cards– one for the account holder in the USA and one for theirfamily in Mexico, and soon Central and South America. With Prósperos, customers can say goodbye to slow and costly money-transfer solutions, and their families no longer need to wait in line to pick up cash. Within seconds, funds are available to family members in Latin America.
  • Lhoopa — Making homeownership achievable for every Filipino family.
Cerebrum Tech VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
  • Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • gigl — gigl is a video / mobile-first recruitment platform. We use 60-second videos by employers and applicants to capture motivated applications, speed-up the hiring process by 80% and reduce costs by connecting end-to-end users - and removing the middleman. gigl's short-video concept captures society's "do everything on a mobilephone" behaviour - our platform is used by over 40,000 people already and promotes personality (in both job descriptions and job applications) over lifeless written applications. We thrive in all industries - from retail, hospitality to office work. In short - anywhere where personality is critical to inward and outward success!
  • Predica.ai — Predica.ai turns data into AI-powered business value
  • GFDS Inc. — Since in 2013, we develop high-quality visual solutions supported with augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), internet of things and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as providing exclusive software and hardware products for our national and international customers. We define our company as a “content factory”, ableto develop various visual contents to almost all technological platforms. We pride on having a strong high-performance computing farm, announced as a success story in the USA Silicon Channel in 2014. Being familiar to all new technological concepts and research, we offer our customers our high level of know-how to add value into their business. We offer various services related with our production pipeline, composed of competent CGI, advanced technology development and visual design specialsits, artists and developers. We offer innovative solutions for the following titles: *Education and Training *Industry and Defense *AI *Marketing *Entertainment *Software *HardwareWe undertake numerous projects for the needs of the sectors below: *Industry *Defense Industry *Entertainment *Sales and Marketing *Education/ Occupational Training *MediaWe are proud to be the partners, solution providers and distributor of the leading technology companies of the world: Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, Epson, One Stop Systems, Magic Leap, VuforiaTHE FUTURE IS OURS, LET'S DESIGN IT TOGETHER!
Omidyar Network VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam, established Omidyar Network based on the belief that every person has the potential to make a difference. Since 2004, they have worked with their partners to create opportunities for people to tap that potential, enabling them to improve their lives and make powerful contributions to theircommunities.They support, scale, and champion the work of their partners in order to maximize social impact. As a philanthropic investment firm, they make both investments and grants, identifying like-minded organizations that they support, help scale, and collaborate with to help realize their full potential. Their efforts are organized around two investment initiatives Access to Capital, and Media, Markets and Transparency.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Education
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, India, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
  • Doubtnut — Doubt solutions for Maths, Science, CBSE, NCERT, IIT JEE, NEET & Class 6 to 12. Click, type question to get instant video answers solved by Doubtnut team.
  • Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
  • RailYatri — Indian Railways Train Enquiry, Insights & IRCTC eTicket booking - RailYatri
212 VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Q Angels VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Podcast, Blockchain
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, Sweden, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Catio — Cloud architecture platform enabling companies to excel with cloud native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution, with the help of AI.
  • Finceptor — Become an early investor of Web3's top projects with over 250,000 other backers.
  • eTasin.com — https://etasin.com
Tarvenn Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions. We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances. Our business is to build yours…
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
  • Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
  • Madcraft Studios — Madcraft Studios develops games for computer and mobile platforms.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 27 investments in the past 12 months
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • Allego — Discover the benefits of EV charging. Find out how Allego electric vehicle charging stations can enhance convenience and reduce emissions.
  • Ulker Biskuvi — Ulker Biskuvi manufactures chocolate, biscuits, crackers, chocolate-covered biscuits, cakes, cookies, and more. They are food manufacturers who manufacture biscuits and crackers for national and international markets.
  • Enefit Green AS — Enefit Green was established to unite all of the group's renewable energy production units into a single company. In addition to production units in Estonia, Enefit Green has a subsidiary in Latvia ‒ SIA Enefit Power and Heat Valka ‒ which produces electricity and heat in the town of Valka.
Actera Group VC Fund · Çengelköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Actera is the largest private equity firm primarily focusing on investments in Turkey, advising funds with assets exceeding US$3.3 billion. Portfolio companies of such funds collectively employ over 70,000 people and generate more than US$5 billion in revenues. Funds advised by Actera have generated the highest returns in the asset class from the Turkish market on a consistent basis.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Software, SaaS
  • Private Equity, Seed, Series B
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Akinon — Akinon is a cloud-based headless commerce platform with an integrated next-generation application suite including marketplace capabilities.
  • Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.
  • Libra Softworks — Libra Softworks is a gaming company that makes mobile games.
WePlay Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
We are a Gaming VC that invests in early-stage game studios in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We invest in early-stage Mobile, PC, Console and Web game
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Investment focus
  • Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
  • Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • One Percent — One Percent is a multiplayer Third-Person Shooter action game incorporating E-sports aspects such as strategy and tactics that focus on individual and team performance. people collaborate with friends or other people to fulfill objectives in game modes and defeat other teams. The One Percent design team created every level, character, clothes,emote, costume, and many other components in order to deliver a unique experience. The first edition of the game was created in a distinct Cyberpunk universe, and it is hoped that the team's design and technological skills will allow them to add other maps, concepts, and universes to the game.
StartupFon VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Jori — Multimodal AI platform to power apparel resale and recycling.
  • Hedge — Hedge offers $0 commission individual & group investing, an inclusive network of communities, and interactive learning resources to help you build your financial future.
  • Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
seed + speed Ventures VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Briink — Our AI helps private equity firms and companies automate and scale their EU Taxonomy and SFDR assessments. Get in touch today.
  • mogenius — mogenius radically simplifies cloud infrastructure for software developers. The code to cloud platform provides a completely automated workflow of deploying an application in Kubernetes - with hyperscale cloud resources, built-in CI/CD and DDoS protection so you can start coding in seconds. Never waste time on complicated, error-prone, andrepetitive configurations in your cloud infrastructure again, and focus on what you really love: building great applications.
  • Enginsight — Enginsight GmbH was founded in August 2017. With a highly motivated team, they are working together on the vision of providing companies with a solution that will enable them to safely and confidently navigate the digital future. Enginsight helps leading companies autonomously monitor and secure their entire IT landscape. Certified and highlytrained employees form the heart of Enginsight, together with partner companies around the globe. They analyze and monitor complete IT landscapes – recognize the connections and dependencies between websites and servers up to IoT-devices. The innovative software platform acts autonomously and points out the critical paths, risks and threats.
Alitheia Capital VC Fund · Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
Alitheia Capital specializes in identifying and providing investment opportunities in high-potential businesses throughout Africa.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, AgTech, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Nigeria, Ghana, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Lidya — Lidya is unlocking credit for africans by providing financial insititutions with the mos effective tools to streamline their loan processes
  • Haul247 — Haul247 is an end-to-end logistics technology platform with the aim to simplify Nigeria and Africa’s freight industry by leveraging technology to drive efficiency, transparency, safety and storage of goods. Our Web and Mobile app cloud-based online logistics platform offers a modern and simplified way of trucking, warehousing, reverse haulage andtracking at fingertips. It is powered by an artificial intelligence algorithm to increase efficiency to our customers by helping them make decisions that save them time and cost. Our high-quality service is additionally supported by a dedicated and experienced team which oversees and tracks every stage of your delivery/storage.
  • Complete Farmer — We are providing cutting-edge technological farming protocols and innovations with a unique business model and logistics that are revolutionizing...
Kokteyl VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
KOKTEYL offers its knowledge in information technologies to users in mobile and internet environments. It develops and operates functional systems with multiple users in the mobile and internet environment.KOKTEYL was established in 2002, primarily with the objective of developing B2C projects technology environments.KOKTEYL has divided itsin-house organization into two units: operations and business development. The operations unit provides content to operated and supported sites and applications, performs moderation, and provides technical support. The business development unit adds new functions to the existing projects and develops new projects.With its staff consisting of 30 people, KOKTEYL continues to create quality, creative and leading projects as a company that has developed and operated leading projects in the internet sector.
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Investment focus
  • PaaS, Music, Mobile
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Pepapp — Woman Health Mobile Applications
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