# Firat Isbecer

> Firat Isbecer is a seed investor at Commencis (Istanbul) backing SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Commencis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/commencis)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://tr.linkedin.com/pub/firat-isbecer/0/362/80
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Fisbecer
- Website: http://www.commencis.com

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $727k–$3.8M |
| Angel | $20k–$3.5M |
| Pre-Seed | $70k–$430k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 13% |
| Internet | 3 | 9% |
| Software | 3 | 9% |
| Food and Beverage | 3 | 9% |

55 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 31% |
| Angel | 7 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 19% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 6% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 13 | 41% |
| United States | 7 | 22% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Paket Mutfak | Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience. | $3.8M | Seed | Feb 16, 2026 |  |
| Paket Mutfak | Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience. | $2.7M | Seed | Oct 08, 2024 |  |
| 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 |  |
| Paket Mutfak | Paket Mutfak develops delivery-focused food brands and operates them from its ghost kitchens. They create restaurant brands for takeaway and serve good food all over the city with their cloud kitchens. The company allows consumers to use online digital channels to reinvent the local meal delivery experience. | $1.5M | Seed | Jun 14, 2023 |  |
| Podbee Media | Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts. | $3.5M | Angel | Dec 30, 2022 |  |
| Podbee Media | Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts. | $3.5M | Convertible Note | Dec 29, 2022 |  |
| Nomad Data | NoMad Data develops a data management platform that provides differentiated data to help businesses make better decisions. It connects businesses to a world of data for better decision making, marketing, storytelling, customer visibility, and more. The company was founded in 2020 and based in New York. | $3.2M | Seed | Dec 15, 2022 |  |
| Flora | We are a Bay Area-based sustainable e-commerce marketplace. We acquiring, nurture and grow e-commerce brands on a mission to make quality, sustainable products more accessible and affordable. Flora exists to empower people to live sustainably in their daily lives because we believe that inspiring small sustainable choices can lead to a big impact. | $9M | Seed | Sep 28, 2022 |  |
| Getmobil | Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price. | $1.5M | Seed | Sep 20, 2022 |  |
| İyi Yaşa | İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops. | $755K | Seed | May 23, 2022 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Galata Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galata-business-angels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Nokta Yatırım Holding A.Ş.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nokta-yat%C4%B1r%C4%B1m-holding-a-%C5%9F) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Albaraka Fintech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albaraka-fintech-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Correlation Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/correlation-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ludus](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ludus-9e0e) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maxis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maxis-19c6) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Commencis

VC Fund · Maslak, Turkey

Commencis is an award-winning technology company helping leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by its big data, analytics and cloud products. Putting digital at the core, the company transforms businesses to thrive and stay relevant in a demanding digital world. Commencis enables its clients to design and build digital experiences,create stronger and more meaningful relationships with their customers, and bring agility and scalability with cloud solutions. The products and solutions of Commencis are used by leading brands in financial services, insurance, airlines and retail in more than 20 countries. With more than 200 employees in its offices in London, Istanbul and Berlin, Commencis helps its clients around the globe to commence their next evolution and pave the way for a thriving digital society. Commencis was founded by the team of Pozitron which was acquired by London-based Monitise in 2014, making it one of the largest Turkish enterprise software acquisitions to its date. In a later research, Pozitron was also named one of the four most influential companies with the greatest network effect in the Turkish startup ecosystem.After the acquisition Pozitron continued its operations as Monitise MEA, a mobile-minded digital technology leader in the region. After a while, Monitise was acquired by the fintech giant Fiserv, the co-founders of Pozitron established their new tech company Commencis to help leading brands grow and scale in digital.

2 contacts available at Commencis.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Firat Isbecer | Co-founder and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firat-isbecer |
| Fatih Isbecer | Co-founder & Executive Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fatih-isbecer |

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## FAQ

### What does Firat Isbecer invest in?

Firat Isbecer invests primarily in SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Firat Isbecer's check size?

Firat Isbecer typically joins rounds of $727k–$3.8M at Seed, $20k–$3.5M at Angel and $70k–$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 Firat Isbecer participates in.

### When did Firat Isbecer last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Firat Isbecer closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 32 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?

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