# Aegean Ventures

> Aegean Ventures is a VC fund in Izmir backing Medical, Health Care and Real Estate. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Izmir, Turkey
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Oct 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aegeanventures/
- Website: https://aegean.ventures/

Aegean Ventures is a VC fund in Izmir focused on Medical and Health Care. Aegean Ventures invests in Early stage investment in innovative, high value-added, technological business ideas.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $25k–$900k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Medical | 1 | 13% |
| Health Care | 1 | 13% |
| Real Estate | 1 | 13% |
| Medical Device | 1 | 13% |
| Retail Technology | 1 | 13% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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. | $100K | Seed | Oct 23, 2024 |  |
| Hevi AI | Hevi AI provide innovative artificial intelligence-based solutions for medical imaging for a diverse spectrum of diseases varying from detection of critical pathologies to radiomics applications for oncology. | $609.3K | Seed | Jan 12, 2024 |  |
| 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. | $900K | Seed | Nov 21, 2023 |  |
| Popile | Popile is a celebrity engagement platform that allows users to get unforgettable memories with celebrity shout-out videos and video calls. It may look like just a basic shout-out video platform at first look but the main benefit that Popile offers to users is being able to create unforgettable memories. The outcomes of each order are stories worthtelling and great memories. Popile gives people the opportunity to make a birthday different than the others, spread the news in the best possible way, or make a moment worth celebrating.Both the biggest Turkish TV - music celebrities and digital creators are in Popile. Lots of active and former athletes are in Popile. Even stars of viral Tiktok videos are in Popile. There are more than 400 celebrities in Popile, we are pretty sure that there is -at least- a celebrity for everyone. Their vision is to be the biggest celebrity engagement platform in the MENA region in 2 years. | $100K | Seed | Jun 01, 2023 |  |
| Novus Technologies | Novus is a communication technologies company whose products focus on productivity and creativity in content creation using the state-of-the-art approaches in Artificial Intelligence. | $500K | Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| GINOA | GINOA provides NFT, metaverse, and artificial intelligence for collecting, trading, and investing strategy. They also provide Al-enabled pricing and hassle-free barter place services. | $350K | Seed | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Homster | Home buyers can make informed decisions by visualizing their future home to their own taste. They use automated interior design technology to create virtual tours from floor plans. They allow the creation of virtual tours from floor plans that can be personalized in seconds. They enable homebuyers to make informed buying decisions based on theirpreferences. | $550K | Pre-Seed | Mar 03, 2023 |  |
| Monday Hero | Monday Hero converts custom Sketch, Adobe XD and Figma designs into mobile app interfaces on iOS & Android platform. Users can get natively written source project with one click, and connect the backend services. | $25K | Seed | Sep 10, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Aegean Ventures invest in?

Aegean Ventures invests primarily in Medical, Health Care and Real Estate startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Aegean Ventures's check size?

Aegean Ventures typically joins rounds of $25k–$900k at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aegean Ventures participates in.

### When did Aegean Ventures last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aegean Ventures closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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