# Barbaros Özbugutu

> Barbaros Özbugutu is a seed investor in Istanbul backing Retail, Soccer and Sports. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/barbaros_o?lang=en
- Website: https://www.iyzico.com/en

Barbaros Özbugutu is a seed investor in Istanbul focused on Retail and Soccer. Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $250k–$1.1M |
| Pre-Seed | $80k–$430k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 14% |
| Soccer | 1 | 14% |
| Sports | 1 | 14% |
| Content | 1 | 14% |
| Fashion | 1 | 14% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 4 | 57% |
| United States | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Crait AI | Crait.It offers an AI-powered product photo generator that converts product photographs and scenario inputs into photo-perfect final product shots. | $430K | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Swipeline Media | Start-up & tech stories in seconds | $250K | Seed | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Swipeline Media | Start-up & tech stories in seconds | $250K | Convertible Note | Jul 06, 2022 |  |
| Fuudy | Fuudy is a new Food ordering app | $1.1M | Seed | Sep 02, 2021 |  |
| Swipeline Media | Start-up & tech stories in seconds | $80K | Pre-Seed | Aug 16, 2021 |  |
| Clotie | Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish. | $400K | Seed | Mar 29, 2021 |  |
| Scoutium | Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store. | $2M | Series A | Jul 03, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TIBAS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100-y%C4%B1l-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Effect](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-effect) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI Startup Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artificial-intelligence-factory) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [İşbank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/isbank) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Lima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lima-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Barbaros Özbugutu invest in?

Barbaros Özbugutu invests primarily in Retail, Soccer and Sports startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Barbaros Özbugutu's check size?

Barbaros Özbugutu typically joins rounds of $250k–$1.1M at Seed and $80k–$430k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Barbaros Özbugutu participates in.

### When did Barbaros Özbugutu last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Barbaros Özbugutu closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 7 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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