# Kenan Colpan

> Kenan Colpan is a seed investor at Boğaziçi Ventures (Istanbul) backing Human Resources and B2B. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Boğaziçi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bo%C4%9Fazi%C3%A7i-ventures)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Aug 2024
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenan-colpan-a549a845/

Kenan Colpan is a seed investor at Boğaziçi Ventures in Istanbul focused on Human Resources and B2B. Kenan Colpan - General Partner / BV Growth Fund @ Boğaziçi Ventures

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $200k–$3.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Human Resources | 2 | 25% |
| B2B | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |
| Software | 1 | 13% |
| Web Apps | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 7 | 88% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 13% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 7 | 88% |
| Estonia | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| F4e | F4e is an employee performance management platform that helps to manage and improve employee performance by using AI. | $1M | Seed | Aug 17, 2024 |  |
| Retter | Retter.io is a technology startup that focuses on serverless object-oriented cloud solutions. | $1.5M | Seed | Mar 15, 2024 |  |
| Buddy Performance | Buddy is an B2B HR Tech solution that helps leaders and managers realize the full potential of their staff members while fostering a people-centered work environment for everyone. The company provides a comprehensive suite of modules including surveys, instant feedback, recognition, and analytics. The goal is to enable businesses to establish aproductive and upbeat workplace, which will ultimately improve output and make workers happier. | $200K | Seed | Dec 28, 2023 |  |
| Kalfa | Kalfa is a human-assisted digital business platform for financial advisors. It also offers transferring receipts and invoices to the system, mobile applications, e- auto bank transactions, preparing accrual records, and insurance policies, enabling operational work to be more controllable and faster from a single center. | $790.5K | Seed | Mar 13, 2023 |  |
| Dusyeri | Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children. | $3.7M | Seed | Mar 25, 2022 |  |
| Producter | Producter is super tool for product companies who want to manage everything “all in one place” remotely. | $350K | Pre-Seed | Mar 10, 2022 |  |
| RoFoods | RoFoods offers micro markets for office spaces in companies. | $727K | Seed | Oct 31, 2019 |  |
| Tarentum | Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. | $700K | Seed | Jan 24, 2019 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Arya GSYF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arya-gsyf) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Albaraka Fintech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albaraka-fintech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Arya Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arya-ventures-139c) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bilişim Vadisi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bili%C5%9Fim-vadisi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Colendi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colendi) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Boğaziçi Ventures

VC Fund · Istanbul, Turkey

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

4 contacts available at Boğaziçi Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Burak Balık | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/burak-bal%C4%B1k |
| Kenan Colpan | General Partner / BV Growth Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kenan-colpan |
| Baris Ozistek | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baris-ozistek |
| Oğuzhan Öztürk | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/o%C4%9Fuzhan-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrk |

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## FAQ

### What does Kenan Colpan invest in?

Kenan Colpan invests primarily in Human Resources, B2B and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Kenan Colpan's check size?

Kenan Colpan typically joins rounds of $200k–$3.7M 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 Kenan Colpan participates in.

### When did Kenan Colpan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kenan Colpan closed in Aug 2024. Shizune tracks 8 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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