AI Startup Factory
VC Fund
Besiktas, Turkey
AI Startup Factory is a VC fund in Besiktas focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence Factory is a goal-oriented program focusing on cooperation and investment with Turkish AI initiatives, offering various support mechanisms for growth and international success.
- Total investments:
- 50
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 18%
Last updated:
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Industries AI Startup Factory invests in
Stages AI Startup Factory invests in
Countries AI Startup Factory invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $100k–$2.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $100k–$495k
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $30k–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (12%)
- Machine Learning 4 (8%)
- SaaS 3 (6%)
- Health Care 2 (4%)
Stage
- Seed 10 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (2%)
- Funding Round 1 (2%)
Country
- Turkey 11 (22%)
- United States 4 (8%)
- United Kingdom 1 (2%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Can Bakir
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kahuna is a platform that identifies, funds, and scales rising independent artists, using data to turn overlooked creators into high-yield digital assets. We combine predictive advances, marketing execution, and full stack distribution in a single product. Our AI models forecast royalty potential from streaming and social data, enabling us to issueadvances and recoup directly through our infrastructure. | Seed / Aug 12, 2026 | ||
| Focusing on privacy enhancement in the visual data domain, Syntonym is a generative AI startup specializing in pioneering synthetic face generation technology. With use cases ranging from autonomous mobility to visual anonymity in digital health services, Syntonym provides usable privacy solutions, ensuring both compliance and personal privacyprotection. With its patent pending technology, Syntonym replaces faces in image/video with hyper realistic synthetically generated ones. These faces do not correspond to any real individual, preventing the face from being identified and recognized. | Seed / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Flowla offers collaborative digital sales rooms for sellers & buyers, with a powerful layer of AI and advanced automation built in.It automates your entire mid-funnel: from the very first call, to onboarding & renewals, with a human always in the loop & in control.When AI agents are in action, they: - Auto-generate business cases,mutual action plans, and handoff notes - Identify economic buyers in the deal room & ping your team to multithread - Auto draft relevant follow-up emails when buyers go dark - Sync every single contact and activity to CRM.The aim is to drive your deals forward with perfect execution, every single time, with no tedious manual work on your team. All while giving your buyers a beautiful, organized deal room that unites everything they need, from the first call to go-live. | $2.5M / Seed / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| Büyütech is a mobility perception company developing sensor-agnostic, AI-driven vision systems for automotive, defense, and industrial mobility. The company designs and manufactures camera-based ADAS systems, including Front & Rear ADAS Cameras, Surround and Side-View Cameras, and Driver Monitoring Systems. Büyütech also develops a multi-sensorperception platform that enables safer, regulation-ready mobility across sectors. | $500K / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 26, 2025 | ||
| 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. | Seed / Nov 13, 2025 | ||
| Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 19, 2025 | ||
| Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions. | Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 29, 2025 | ||
| 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers. | $1.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| 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 public transportation operators. | $1M / Seed / Feb 18, 2025 | ||
| Workintech is an AI-based learning platform teaches coding and other tech skills | Seed / Feb 10, 2025 | ||
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FAQ
What does AI Startup Factory invest in?
AI Startup Factory invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 50 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is AI Startup Factory's check size?
AI Startup Factory typically joins rounds of $100k–$2.5M at Seed, $100k–$495k at Pre-Seed and $30k–$1.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds AI Startup Factory participates in.
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Who are the partners at AI Startup Factory?
The team at AI Startup Factory includes Can Bakir (CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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