# Cihan Demir

> Cihan Demir is a seed investor at Finartz (Istanbul) backing Big Data and Blockchain. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Finartz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finartz)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Sep 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cidemir
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/cidemirr
- Website: https://x.com/cidemirr
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cihan.demir.9655

Cihan Demir is a seed investor at Finartz in Istanbul focused on Big Data and Blockchain. Cihan Demir is the Founder & CEO of Finartz. He previously worked at mypat as a Co-Founder. Cihan Demir attended Maltepe University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Big Data | 1 | 100% |
| Blockchain | 1 | 100% |
| Cryptocurrency | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ELYT | ELYT specialises in NFTs and metaverse exchange platform enabling NFT to produce value, and participate in the ecosystem. | $8M | Seed | Sep 19, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Finberg](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finberg) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Finartz

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Finartz.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cihan Demir | Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cihan-demir |

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## FAQ

### What does Cihan Demir invest in?

Cihan Demir invests primarily in Big Data, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Cihan Demir last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Cihan Demir closed in Sep 2022. Shizune tracks 1 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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