# Gülsüm Çıracı

> Gülsüm Çıracı is a seed investor at Istanbul Startup Angels (Istanbul) backing Software and B2B. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Istanbul Startup Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/istanbul-startup-angels)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2023
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulsum-ciraci-0579316
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/Gulsumciraci
- Website: https://startupfon.com/

Gülsüm Çıracı is a seed investor at Istanbul Startup Angels in Istanbul focused on Software and B2B. Gülsüm Çıracı - Founding Partner @ Istanbul Startup Angels

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $500k–$884k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| B2B | 2 | 17% |
| SaaS | 2 | 17% |
| FinTech | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 67% |
| Angel | 2 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 5 | 42% |
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| Canada | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jori | Jori |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 19, 2023 |  |
| Hedge | Hedge is a multiplayer financial institution (FINRA/SEC broker-dealer) building Fidelity for GenZ. Hedge created the first-ever group investing product, which enables anyone to invest with family and friends. Hedge's mission is to restore upward mobility to the American Dream by empowering underserved families & communities to buildwealth together. |  | Seed | Jan 11, 2023 |  |
| Artifica.io | Artifica.io creates products for the requirements of industries by utilizing artificial intelligence technologies. | $500K | Seed | Sep 12, 2022 |  |
| Hirize | Hirize uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to automate the early stages of the screening process and free up valuable time for busy hiring teams.Hirize automates the initial screening process, starting with the application and ending with a curated shortlist of the most promising candidates.Each candidate's resume and cover letterget automatically analyzed and used to rate candidates in an unbiased and requirements-based manner. Next, Hirize allows candidates to self-schedule, and the data is easily transferable to assist you in building an excellent candidate database. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Aug 08, 2022 |  |
| Atlas Space | Atlas Space is a commercial technology company designed for project management, co-working, and social collaboration. The company's platform makes use of immersive technologies like virtual reality and 3D gamification to improve communication, gatherings, and project and team management skills for businesses and teams. This enables businessesto plan social events and realistic business activities for their organizations to take place in the metaverse. |  | Seed | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Atlas Space | Atlas Space is a business tech platform for social collaboration, co-working, and project management. | $500K | Seed | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Delivers.AI | Delivery droid operator | $884.1K | Seed | Jan 14, 2022 |  |
| iyisahne.com | Founded in March of 2015 and based in Beyoğlu, İstanbul, iyisahne is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book performance professionals for any kind of special events around Turkey online. With most preferred and experienced performers, iyisahne.com offers an easy way to book local entertainment and services for anytype of event. Whether a wedding orchestra or photographer for a wedding, a clown or magician for a birthday, or trio, quartet and DJ for a corporate event, iyisahne connects people to the performers for unique experiences in their special events, at any price point, with more than 300 music professionals for the first time in Turkey. |  | Seed | Oct 11, 2016 |  |
| TDSmaker | TDSmaker is the world’s most simple to use software for creating and editing professional data sheets. It is much easier to use than the desktop design software that businesses currently use to create data sheets, such as Microsoft Office, Quark, and Adobe Framemaker. Because TDSmaker is so easy to use, there is essentially zero learning curve forlearning how to use it. This saves businesses a tremendous amount of time and money in training costs.TDSmaker provides cloud-based professional data sheet design templates that make it fast and easy for a writer to create professional data sheets without needing to hire a graphic designer to perform the design elements of creating the data sheet. This makes data sheet creation much faster and far less expensive because a graphic designer is not needed.TDSmaker has a lower price point than competing products, making it a more affordable solution for businesses.It is 100% cloud based so you do not need to install or maintain any software, and you always have access to the latest version of the software. |  | Seed | May 31, 2016 |  |
| JETRACT | E-Auction: Digital Transformation For Your Auction Process Meet with your suppliers in cloud. Create competitive e-auctions with different auction types and high savings.E-Procurement: All of the procurement in the cloud. JETRACT enables you to complete your request for purchase, request for proposal, procurement approval and purchase orderprocesses on a digital platform. From beginning to end, all of the procurement process is optimised by a cloud based software. |  | Angel |  |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TechOne VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techone-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [AFM Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/afm-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [DOMiNO Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/domino-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Galata Business Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/galata-business-angels) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nexus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [StartupFon](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startupfon) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Istanbul Startup Angels

VC Fund · Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.

2 contacts available at Istanbul Startup Angels.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gülsüm Çıracı | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/g%C3%BCls%C3%BCm-%C3%87%C4%B1rac%C4%B1 |
| Kadir Boysan | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kadir-boysan |

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## FAQ

### What does Gülsüm Çıracı invest in?

Gülsüm Çıracı invests primarily in Software, B2B and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gülsüm Çıracı's check size?

Gülsüm Çıracı typically joins rounds of $500k–$884k 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 Gülsüm Çıracı participates in.

### When did Gülsüm Çıracı last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Gülsüm Çıracı closed in Dec 2023. Shizune tracks 12 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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