# Top 20 Payments Angel Investors in Turkey in June 2026 ## Kamil Guclu - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments 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. ## Cihan Demir - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University. ## Amrish Rau - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. ## Emre Tok - Type: Angel - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping 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 ## Kerem Bilgin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments Kerem Bilgin ## Bilge Algul - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Bilge Algul - Co-Founder @ Veacon ## Tunç Mehmet Berkman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping Tunç Mehmet Berkman ## Yusuf Sevim - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Software Yusuf Sevim ## Sertaç Özinal - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming Sertaç Özinal ## Ravish Naresh - Type: Angel - Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet 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. ## Akın İdil - Type: Angel - Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Big Data, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency Akın İDİL is a Co-Founder at Veacon. ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Olugbenga Agboola - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance 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. ## Edward Lando - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology 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. ## Ilker Sozdinler - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Ilker Sozdinler is the Founder, CEO of United Payment. ## Ali Kolaghassi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Mobile, Payments, Shopping Ali Kolaghassi ## Jitendra Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Jitendra Gupta is the Founder of Jupiter. ## E. Bora Uygun - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech 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. ## İbrahim Ozer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: CRM, Beauty, Gaming İbrahim Özer ## Kutay Pinarci - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Payments 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.