Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Turkey in May 2026
Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Turkey in May 2026
| Investor | Payments Turkey investments |
|---|---|
| Kamil Guclu | 2 |
| Cihan Demir | 1 |
| Amrish Rau | 1 |
| Emre Tok | 1 |
| Kerem Bilgin | 1 |
| Bilge Algul | 1 |
| Ravish Naresh | 1 |
| Akın İdil | 1 |
| Kunal Shah | 1 |
| Olugbenga Agboola | 1 |
| Edward Lando | 1 |
| Ilker Sozdinler | 1 |
| Ali Kolaghassi | 1 |
| Tunç Mehmet Berkman | 1 |
| Jitendra Gupta | 1 |
| E. Bora Uygun | 1 |
| İbrahim Ozer | 1 |
| Yusuf Sevim | 1 |
| Hys Sevim | 1 |
| Kutay Pinarci | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Kamil Guclu is active angel investor, Former Oracle Executive, Board Member of the Adastec, has been appointed as Senator at the Grand Assembly of the World Business Angels Investment Forum. Senator Guclu will represent Silicon Valley, US in the Global Startup Committee of the Grand Assembly.
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- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Igor — We are a neobanking company based in Istanbul that operates exclusively online without any traditional physical branch. Igor allows you to open a paperless account in less than 2 minutes.While not a bank itself, we provide banking and financial services in partnership with leading banks in Turkey through our web, mobile app and prepaid igor Card.We offer numerous features for individuals and merchants as a payment and PF solution. We are trying to help small and big businesses succeed on their own terms by accepting all credit and debit cards with better commissions than the regular market.
- ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
- NomadVibe — NomadVibe is a media firm that delivers instructive, useful, motivating, and high-quality material for digital nomads.
Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University.
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- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
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- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- India, Singapore, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
- CashFlo — CashFlo is India's only integrated AP automation and Supply Chain Financing Platform. Made for large Indian businesses, CashFlo is used by some of the biggest companies in India.
- OTPless — Authenticate customers with WhatsApp, SMS, Email, Biometrics, and more, with a 98% conversion rate on signup and sign-in.
- Jupiter — Getting access to Jupiter before others. 100% digital banking with no pain. Zero balance accounts, no hidden fees. Master your money, reap rewards on Jupiter app - partnered with an RBI licensed bank for max trust.
Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA - Former VP of Growth – Free-Now - Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $) - Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK - Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey - Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services
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- Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
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- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- 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.
Kerem Bilgin
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- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Igor — We are a neobanking company based in Istanbul that operates exclusively online without any traditional physical branch. Igor allows you to open a paperless account in less than 2 minutes.While not a bank itself, we provide banking and financial services in partnership with leading banks in Turkey through our web, mobile app and prepaid igor Card.We offer numerous features for individuals and merchants as a payment and PF solution. We are trying to help small and big businesses succeed on their own terms by accepting all credit and debit cards with better commissions than the regular market.
Bilge Algul - Co-Founder @ Veacon
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- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
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- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
Ravish Naresh is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Housing.com and Khatabook. Prior to that, he worked as a summer intern at Deloitte. Naresh holds a bachelor’s degree from IIT Bombay.
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- Software, Apps, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- India, United States
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- Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Equal Identity — Equal Identity operates as an ID-sharing platform.
- VoiceClub — VoiceClub is India's first audio-only app providing conversational therapy services in your local language. Connect with experts and find peace of mind.
Akın İDİL is a Co-Founder at Veacon.
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- Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
- Seed
- Turkey
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- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
Kunal Shah
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
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- Hoggy — Founded by IITians and invested- in by unicorn founders like Kunal Shah and Sameer Pitalwala, Hoggy is a Kid’s learning app that focuses on providing interactive learning for kids aged between 2 to 5 years, while maintaining an absolutely safe space for kids. Through this platform, we've made it possible for creators of kids' content tomonetize their content and earn independently of ads and sponsored content. Hoggy serves as a brilliant platform where such content creators can find their niche target audience and grow the number of their true fans exponentially.
- Magical Nest — "At Magical Nest, we design the most important room in the house, the kids' room."Our vision is to become synonymous with excellence in creating exceptional kid-friendly homes and show our customers just how easy it is to bring functionality, style and inspiration altogether in that little precious space inside your four walls.For us, a "kid-friendly home" is all about designing that best possible environment at home that is very unique to your kids, their likings and their inclinations as well to you, your home and your interests.
- Arrowhead — India's leading AI voice agent that handles inbound & outbound calls in real time. Automate customer conversations with AI voice calling agent from Arrowhead AI.
Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flutterwave. He previously worked at Africa Fintech Foundry as a Senior Entrepreneur In Residence. Olugbenga Agboola attended MIT Sloan School of Management.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Nigeria, Kenya, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United States, France, United Kingdom
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- Flent — Flent offers fully furnished designer homes.
- Swaive — Swaive operates a financial firm that invests in risk-free instruments. The organization allows you to park your money without risk.
- ToolBelt — The only platform built specifically for licensed pros in residential construction looking for work or finding labor.
Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO of United Payment.
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- E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Turkey, United States
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- ELYT — ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem.
- EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
Ali Kolaghassi
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- Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Series A, Seed
- Turkey
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- Lidio — Mobilexpress, the largest payment platform of Turkey, will carry on its activities as a “Lidio” group company. In our journey with “liberalizing payments” philosophy, we will deliver our new generation services to businesses and end users through Lidio brand. As soon as our Central Bank of Turkey license application process is approved, you will beable to access all our Lidio services.Meanwhile, we will keep providing services through Mobilexpress, the payment solutions partner of Turkey's largest companies and brands with more than 110 million annual transaction number and hosting more than 15 million securely stored cards. You may contact me or the team at any time to share your feedbacks and suggestions on this journey with the new Lidio brand
- 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.
Tunç Mehmet Berkman
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- Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter.
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- Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- India, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Sipay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
- Volopay — Volopay gives you control over your company's payments, expenses, budgets, and accounting. The best alternative for your business account. Join the hundreds of companies that trust Volopay.
- CoinCRED Global — CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.
E. Bora Uygun is the Founder and CEO of BORA&SONS. He holds a Ph.D. in information technologies from Marmara University and has an MBA from the same institution.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Turkey
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- Anyplace — Find furnished accommodations to rent for a month or longer. Choose apartments catered for remote work with an equipped home office and high-speed internet.
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
İbrahim Özer
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- CRM, Beauty, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
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- SHOPALM — Shopalm is an online payment solutions platform.
- HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
- Pusula Publishing — Compass, one of Turkey's top publishers of books on computer science, software, programming, and design, is the company behind the popular "Who's Afraid of Computers?" series. Compass also publishes periodicals, encyclopedias, and educational materials in the field of informatics.
Yusuf Sevim
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- Apps, FinTech, Software
- Angel
- Turkey
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- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
Hys Sevim
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- Apps, FinTech, Software
- Angel
- Turkey
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- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology.
With over 17 years of experience in strategy consulting, capital & finance management, strategic growth, business modelling and development; he helps scale-ups and enterprises to grow rapidly and sustainably in competitive and dynamic markets. A proven track record of leading and executing complex & high-impact cases and engagementsacross multiple industries and geographies, delivering solid value for clients, stakeholders and teams.His roles required overseeing the formulation, execution, and monitoring diversified portfolio of businesses, ranging from B2B to B2C, within various verticals such as energy, manufacturing, healthcare, finance to edge-technology.As well as having a startup portfolio as an angel investor, thanks to 10 years of senior leadership in M&A and 5 years of tech-enabled startup background, he lead the identification, evaluation, and integration of potential acquisition targets. These experiences cover LP fund raising, acquisitions, sell-side fundraising and joint venture initiatives in large scale mergers. Kutay is passionate to enable and facilitate the challenging visions through innovation and commercial growth as a tech-enthusiastic business leader and active investor.
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- Banking, FinTech, Payments
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Igor — We are a neobanking company based in Istanbul that operates exclusively online without any traditional physical branch. Igor allows you to open a paperless account in less than 2 minutes.While not a bank itself, we provide banking and financial services in partnership with leading banks in Turkey through our web, mobile app and prepaid igor Card.We offer numerous features for individuals and merchants as a payment and PF solution. We are trying to help small and big businesses succeed on their own terms by accepting all credit and debit cards with better commissions than the regular market.
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