Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
Angel Investor
Istanbul, Turkey
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan is a seed investor in Istanbul focused on Mobile Apps and TV. I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com Web: https://alibabaoglan.com Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Ali Rıza Babaoğlan invests in
Stages Ali Rıza Babaoğlan invests in
Countries Ali Rıza Babaoğlan invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile Apps 2 (22%)
- TV 1 (11%)
- CRM 1 (11%)
- Coffee 1 (11%)
- Social 1 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (44%)
- Angel 1 (11%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (11%)
- Funding Round 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it. | $22K / Angel / Mar 29, 2021 | ||
| Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it. | $87K / Seed / Mar 29, 2021 | ||
| Kahvegibikahve started with a crowdfunding campaign to make brewing real coffee easy and available everywhere. With high quality coffee beans and special Fiber Filtre™, your coffee is brewed properly, and without any hassle, you enjoy it. | Seed / Mar 01, 2021 | ||
| 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. | Seed / Oct 09, 2020 | ||
| 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. | $168K / Pre-Seed / Oct 07, 2019 | ||
| N’oluyo is a TV program-based social platform and is your favorite buddy while watching TV. | Seed / Feb 29, 2016 | ||
| REM People is a new-generation retail analytics and technology company that provides AI-powered, omni-channel sales efficiency solutions. With our holistic approach, we help our clients track their "product journeys" by monitoring their retail merchandising operations and execution performance across offline, online, and printed channels.The most important distinguishing feature of REM People is that it offers integrated solutions that enable manufacturers, brands, and retailers to track their retail execution and sales performance across all channels with a holistic approach. In addition to the 4 SaaS products, we offer in the Retail Execution Management & Retail Analytics vertical, we also offer AI-Powered Sales Strategy Advanced Analytics and End-to-End Project Management & Consulting Services. | Seed / Jan 01, 2016 | ||
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What does Ali Rıza Babaoğlan invest in?
Ali Rıza Babaoğlan invests primarily in Mobile Apps, TV and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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When did Ali Rıza Babaoğlan last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Ali Rıza Babaoğlan closed in Mar 2021. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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