# İşbank

> İşbank is a VC fund in Istanbul backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 112 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 112
- Last investment: Jun 2024
- Lead investor: 3%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/isbankasi
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/isbankasi
- Website: http://www.isbank.com.tr/EN/home/Pages/home.aspx
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/isbankasi/

İşbank is a Turkish commercial banking service provider.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for İşbank. Shizune tracks 7 team members at İşbank. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/isbank?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 26 | 23% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 19 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 12 | 11% |
| AgTech | 10 | 9% |
| FinTech | 10 | 9% |

155 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Non-equity Assistance | 96 | 86% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 4% |
| Seed | 4 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 3% |
| Debt Financing | 1 | 1% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 77 | 69% |
| United States | 11 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 5% |
| Estonia | 3 | 3% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Adnan Bali | CEO | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adnan-bali |
| Emre Ölçer | Entrepreneurship Unit Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emre-%C3%B6l%C3%A7er |
| Hakan Aran | Chief Executive Officer | 20 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hakan-aran |
| Hüseyin Sunel | Branch Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/huseyin-sunel |
| İzlem Erdem | Deputy Chief Executive Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i-zlem-erdem |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hummingdrone | Hummingdrone provides cutting-edge autonomous drones and software solutions designed specifically for the solar energy industry. | $177.7K | Pre-Seed | Jun 26, 2024 |  |
| Ancient Greens | Ancient Greens specializes in the research, development, production, packaging, and distribution of various types of natural products. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| SeraCell | SeraCell is a technology company that develops smart irrigation and air conditioning system for greenhouse based enterprises. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Afara | Afara is an agtech company that conducts research and manufactures robots that perform agricultural activities by reducing labor needs for farmers and providing energy efficiency with environmentally friendly practices. Afara Agricultural Technologies Inc. was established in 2023 by receiving investment from the crowdfunding platform Fonlabuyusun.It is to manufacture and offer to farmers Afara robots in sufficient quantity and level to ensure complete collection of residual cotton in all cotton fields in the world, and to become a leading brand in the agricultural technologies sector. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| SoilBiom | SoilBiom strives to safeguard natural resources, particularly soil used for agriculture. creating nutrient and protection products tailored to plants and soil. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Bridgesoft | Bridgesoft is a software development company. It offers services like artificial intelligence, embedded systems, the Internet of Things, and others. They develop their artificial intelligence applications with deep learning, which is a sub-field of machine learning. They develop on cloud services, all its systems are designed to meet in a commonnetwork and service structure. It also develops Agri-Tech products like Smart SprayeX, which is AI-powered agricultural pesticide spraying machinery and equipment. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| UptechLabs | UptechLabs is an R&D business that develops projects in the areas of embedded system design, software, and sensor technologies. It enables to production of plants with the desired aroma and quality without using pesticides while using half as much energy, through the use of clever LED lighting and hydroponic plant growing systems. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Mar 26, 2024 |  |
| Zuzzuu | Zuzzuu offers artificial intelligence tools to help digital sales and marketing enterprises. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Korvo | Korvo is an end-to-end platform that helps digital content creators manage and scale their passion business. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Feb 01, 2024 |  |
| Branchsight | Branchsight enables you to manage the digital marketing activities of your multi-location brand from a single center. Branchsight's dealer-friendly, easy-to-use platform is an excellent tool designed to increase your global leverage by strengthening the awareness of your locations in the local market. |  | Non-equity Assistance | Feb 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 112 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Workup](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/workup-c9de) — VC Fund, 105 deals together
- [Hackquarters](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hackquarters-startup-launchpad) — VC Fund, 55 deals together
- [Kolektif House](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kolektif-house) — VC Fund, 27 deals together
- [Girisimcilik Vakfi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/girisimcilik-vakfi) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [TIBAS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100-y%C4%B1l-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Ankara Tekmer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ankara-tekmer) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does İşbank invest in?

İşbank invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Non-equity Assistance and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 112 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact İşbank?

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### Who are the partners at İşbank?

The team at İşbank includes Adnan Bali (CEO), Emre Ölçer (Entrepreneurship Unit Manager) and Hakan Aran (Chief Executive Officer), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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