# Istanbul Startup Angels

> Istanbul Startup Angels is a VC fund in Istanbul backing SaaS and Local. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5369713
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/istanbulangels
- Website: http://istanbulstartupangels.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Istanbulstartupangels/

Istanbul Startup Angels is a VC fund in Istanbul focused on SaaS and Local. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $50k–$175k |
| Angel | $45k–$250k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 9% |
| Local | 1 | 9% |
| Hardware | 1 | 9% |
| Internet | 1 | 9% |
| Security | 1 | 9% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Angel | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 3 | 27% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 5 | 45% |
| United States | 2 | 18% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gülsüm Çıracı | Founding Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/g%C3%BCls%C3%BCm-%C3%87%C4%B1rac%C4%B1 |
| Kadir Boysan | Founding Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kadir-boysan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Buy Buddy | Buy Buddy is the maker of Hitag, the smart apparel security tag and the connected analytics platform, that help the retailers manage inventory, customer behavior and employee efficiency. Hitag gives customers the option to automatically self-checkout on their phones, without the hassle of having to wait in line, while giving the dynamicinventory data to the store managers and the detailed analytics/reporting to the retailers.Beyond replacing the known RFID security against theft, Buy Buddy allows customers to directly pay through their mobiles and check out, skipping the queues at cash counters. Hitags collect in-store customer behavior, in-depth inventory data, dynamic employee performance, and product efficiency for retailers. The Buy Buddy platform in turn presents this data and reporting to companies in real-time.Buy Buddy is an end to end solution for retailers to democratize easy check-out, manage in-store inventory and make informed merchandising decisions based on dynamic data. |  | Seed | Sep 23, 2024 |  |
| MobilMed | Since 2015, we have been providing services in the field of mobile biomedical device design and application solutions. Our goal is to provide you with great customer experience and exceptional value services. | $50K | Seed | Mar 27, 2019 |  |
| LOKI | LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats. | $45K | Angel | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Parkkolay | Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems. | $66K | Angel | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Buy Buddy | Buy Buddy is the maker of Hitag, the smart apparel security tag and the connected analytics platform, that help the retailers manage inventory, customer behavior and employee efficiency. Hitag gives customers the option to automatically self-checkout on their phones, without the hassle of having to wait in line, while giving the dynamicinventory data to the store managers and the detailed analytics/reporting to the retailers.Beyond replacing the known RFID security against theft, Buy Buddy allows customers to directly pay through their mobiles and check out, skipping the queues at cash counters. Hitags collect in-store customer behavior, in-depth inventory data, dynamic employee performance, and product efficiency for retailers. The Buy Buddy platform in turn presents this data and reporting to companies in real-time.Buy Buddy is an end to end solution for retailers to democratize easy check-out, manage in-store inventory and make informed merchandising decisions based on dynamic data. | $50K | Seed | May 02, 2017 |  |
| Parkkolay | Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems. | $79K | Angel | Jan 01, 2017 |  |
| Parkkolay | Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems. | $50K | Angel | Oct 15, 2016 |  |
| 11Sight | At 11Sight, we are redefining customer interactions with AI-powered conversational agents that handle customer inquiries, book appointments, and close sales without human intervention—24/7, across all channels.Our conversational AI Agents serve as the first point of contact for customer and prospect conversations. They work with their humancounterparts, either resolve the customer requests or escalate them as appropriate. They are built to answer and to ask questions to drive desired outcomes. They reduce costs, increase revenues, and customer satisfaction.We are in production with hundreds of dealers and growing fast.A dealership using 11Sight’s AI Service Assistant reported: ✔ All customer calls handled 24/7 with no wait time, improving customer satisfaction ✔ Appointments and service revenue doubled ✔ Routine tasks fully automated, load on team members significantly reducedWith our existing customers and sales channels, we expect to exceed $2.5M ARR by the end of 2025.11Sight is a Delaware C-Corp founded by two Bay Area veteran entrepreneurs, Aleks Gollu and Farokh Eskafi. They have two positive exits each, one together. We have three patents and a fourth pending. | $100K | Angel | Jun 15, 2016 |  |
| Sinemia | Sinemia offers its users with unlimited cinema tickets to all movie theaters for a fixed monthly fee. The private cinema club enables its members to go to cinemas without limitations. Its AI technology is an integration of mobile application and payment card. Developed location-based technologies communicates with the Sinemia card and the membersget privilege experiences.Sinemia is founded in 2015 by Rifat Oguz. | $175K | Seed | Jun 01, 2016 |  |
| ACLTeslim | First marketplace solution in Turkey for the same-day and special delivery needs of SME's and enterprises. | $250K | Angel | Feb 08, 2016 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nexus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI Startup Factory](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/artificial-intelligence-factory) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aslanoba Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aslanoba-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Kybele Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kybele-investment) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nexus Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nexus-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Istanbul Startup Angels invest in?

Istanbul Startup Angels invests primarily in SaaS, Local and Hardware startups, most often at Angel and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Istanbul Startup Angels's check size?

Istanbul Startup Angels typically joins rounds of $50k–$175k at Seed and $45k–$250k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Istanbul Startup Angels participates in.

### How do I contact Istanbul Startup Angels?

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### Who are the partners at Istanbul Startup Angels?

The team at Istanbul Startup Angels includes Gülsüm Çıracı (Founding Partner) and Kadir Boysan (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### 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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