Burak Balık
Co-Founder @ Boğaziçi Ventures
Burak Balık is a seed investor at Boğaziçi Ventures focused on Casual Games and Gaming. Burak Balik is one of the pioneers in the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem. He acted as a co-founder of a fintech and gaming company which were exited on 2013 and 2015. He became the co-founder of Bogazici Ventures, which is one of the leading asset management companies in Turkiye focusing on disruptive innovation.Burak is known as a hard coregamer, passionate fisherman and technology enthusiast.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Burak Balık invests in
Stages Burak Balık invests in
Countries Burak Balık invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Casual Games 4 (67%)
- Gaming 2 (33%)
- Apps 1 (17%)
- PC Games 1 (17%)
- Mobile Apps 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Toon Metal Games is a mobile gaming company that creates entertaining games with great gameplay experiences. | $250K / Pre-Seed / Dec 26, 2023 | ||
| Last Bite Games is a gaming studio that employs adaptable toolkits and successful social media targeting for a variety of projects. | $50K / Pre-Seed / Dec 14, 2023 | ||
| Frozen Pawn is a tiny independent gaming studio devoted to making distinctive and technically careful games. | $50K / Seed / Dec 08, 2023 | ||
| Gulliver's Games is a mobile gaming company that aims to create amazing experiences for mobile casual gamers around the world. | $1.5M / Seed / Mar 30, 2023 | ||
| It is a studio plans to publish the mobile casual games has developed in NFT form and publishing within the studio. | $231K / Seed / Feb 10, 2022 | ||
| Gulliver's Games is a mobile gaming company that aims to create amazing experiences for mobile casual gamers around the world. | $747.2K / Seed / Sep 09, 2021 |
Co-Investors
About Boğaziçi Ventures
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
Boğaziçi Ventures Contacts
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Burak Balık
Co-Founder
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Kenan Colpan
General Partner / BV Growth Fund
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Baris Ozistek
Founding Partner
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Oğuzhan Öztürk
Partner
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What does Burak Balık invest in?
Burak Balık invests primarily in Casual Games, Gaming and Apps startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 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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The most recent investment recorded for Burak Balık closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 6 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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