# Aksel Kastoryano

> Aksel Kastoryano is a seed investor at Plugger.ai (Istanbul) backing Big Data and Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Plugger.ai](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cameralyze)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Apr 2021
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aksel-kastoryano-32b727b0/?originalSubdomain=tr

Aksel Kastoryano is a seed investor at Plugger.ai in Istanbul focused on Big Data and Software. Aksel Kastoryano is the Co-Founder at Cameralyze.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |
| Training | 1 | 20% |
| Freelance | 1 | 20% |
| E-Learning | 1 | 20% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 2 | 40% |
| Hungary | 1 | 20% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Avatao | Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a wide range of security topics across the entire security stackfrom OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography. The platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers will actually learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. This way Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster. This in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products. | $1.3M |  | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Avatao | Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a wide range of security topics across the entire security stackfrom OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography. The platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers will actually learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. This way Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster. This in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products. | $1.3M | Series A | Apr 19, 2021 |  |
| Plugger.ai | Cameralyze, a SaaS company, is analyzing retails stores using CCTVs. It gives details about your customer and customer behaviors. | $35K | Pre-Seed | Jan 02, 2020 |  |
| Bionluk | A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired. |  | Angel | Jul 07, 2015 |  |
| Datapare | Our mission is providing companies to gain competitive advantage and it enables companies to activities such as campaign, pricing insightful and low costly. Gives you the following features: Right positioning on pricing Reduce your workload with automated algorithm Automated product matching Get continuous and historical data |  | Seed |  |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [212](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/212-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FastVentures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fastventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Speedinvest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/speedinvest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Plugger.ai

VC Fund · Istanbul, Turkey

Cameralyze, a SaaS company, is analyzing retails stores using CCTVs. It gives details about your customer and customer behaviors.

1 contacts available at Plugger.ai.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aksel Kastoryano | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aksel-kastoryano |

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## FAQ

### What does Aksel Kastoryano invest in?

Aksel Kastoryano invests primarily in Big Data, Software and Training startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Aksel Kastoryano last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Aksel Kastoryano closed in Apr 2021. Shizune tracks 5 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?

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