# Engin Utkan

> Engin Utkan is a seed investor in Istanbul backing Art and AgTech. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enginutkan/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/enginutkan
- Website: https://utkan.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/utkan.info/

Engin Utkan is a seed investor in Istanbul focused on Art and AgTech. A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $15k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Art | 1 | 20% |
| AgTech | 1 | 20% |
| Farming | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Big Data | 1 | 20% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Angel | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Salvor | These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 | https://salvor.io |
| Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. | Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry. | $500K | Seed | Nov 22, 2021 | https://makswin.com |
| Tarfin | Using its cloud-based platform and smart algorithms, Tarfin provides underbanked farmers with high-quality farm inputs and competitive point-of-sale financing. Tarfin is the winner of EFSE's 2016 Financial Inclusion Challenge. | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 23, 2018 | https://tarfin.com |
| Bionluk | A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired. |  | Angel | Jul 07, 2015 | https://bionluk.com |
| Bionluk | A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired. | $15K | Seed | Jul 07, 2014 | https://bionluk.com |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Collective Spark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collective-spark) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Wamda Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/wamda) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Engin Utkan invest in?

Engin Utkan invests primarily in Art, AgTech and Farming startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Engin Utkan's check size?

Engin Utkan typically joins rounds of $15k–$1.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Engin Utkan participates in.

### How do I contact Engin Utkan?

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### When did Engin Utkan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Engin Utkan closed in Jan 2023. Shizune tracks 5 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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