# Kivilcim Cayli

> Kivilcim Cayli is a seed investor at Pareto Ventures backing Travel and Leisure. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pareto Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pareto-ventures)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 8%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kivilcim-cayli-mba-ab229216/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/KivilcimCayli
- Website: https://www.pareto.vc/cayli

Kivilcim Cayli is a seed investor at Pareto Ventures focused on Travel and Leisure. Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $18k–$1.3M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 3 | 25% |
| Leisure | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 17% |
| Social Network | 2 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 50% |
| Angel | 1 | 8% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 4 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 25% |
| United States | 2 | 17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Teleporter | Teleporter is the World of Gamers in VR that brings us together in one digital place for all the ways gamers get together. Focused on gamers, inspired by the world’s best MMORPGs, and amplified by video-gaming enthusiasts, we dream of building a universe for gamers using technology, artistry, and magic.Our players in Teleporter can play manybuilt-in games, watch game streams, find like-minded others, and hang out together in fantastic 3D environments. Teleporter: WoG universe feels like and works like a game, but it also allows players to do many different things they usually love to do with other gamers. Our dream is to shape the future of gamers getting together digitally. | $450K | Pre-Seed | Nov 19, 2021 |  |
| UnderTheDoormat | UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation. | $1.2M | Equity Crowdfunding | Oct 11, 2019 |  |
| Adalethanim | Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey. | $17.7K | Seed | Jul 23, 2019 |  |
| UnderTheDoormat | UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation. | $971K | Equity Crowdfunding | Oct 17, 2018 |  |
| Yourkeys | 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.' | $1.3M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| Rejuvenation Water | Rejuvenation Water offers the world's first amino acid enriched spring water Rejuvenation Water is available at John Lewis, Costco, Spinneys UAE, and many more. | $524K | Seed | Jun 13, 2018 |  |
| Creosafe | Creosafe brings asset and cash ledger together and provides decentralized services through smart contracts. It provides a low cost & SEC compliant market on the Ethereum Blockchain for angel investors and VCs holding SAFE, SAFT, Convertible Notes and Equity, allowing- Asset backed security tokenization including VC portfolio - Liquidity -Asset and VC portfolio bundles - New Investment Opportunities - Risk Diversification |  | Angel | Jan 01, 2018 |  |
| Triple Global | They are all passionate travelers and explorers and one thing we all have in common is that our best travelexperiences have all been while hanging with locals, learning about their favorite spots, passion or discussing culture differences. As they talked about this with more and more people they realized there’s a lot of people like us - who arestruggling to get past the turist traps with Hop'On Hop'Off busses and inpersonal tour guide groups They started Triple to connect curious travelers with passionate local hosts. | $412K |  | Sep 20, 2017 |  |
| Local Guddy, Inc. | Local Guddy connects travelers and locals through unique local experiences and tours hosted by locals of the city all around the world!So far, Local Guddy has +400 tours in more than 40 countries.It is simple: locals create their own experiences/tours after selecting one of the guddy types below:Local Guddy - Shows the city with allthe hidden spots, views, gardens, etc.Food Walker - Shows the best places to taste local foods in walking distance.Pub Crawler - Shows the night life of the city with the best pubs / clubs.Hommy Chef - Cooks homemade local foods at home and host travelers for dinner or breakfast. |  | Seed | Jun 07, 2017 |  |
| CEOtudent | Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new. |  | Seed | Nov 19, 2016 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arya Women's Investment Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arya-women-s-investment-platform) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Collective Spark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/collective-spark) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pareto Ventures

VC Fund · Ankara, Turkey

Venture Capital Company

1 contacts available at Pareto Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kivilcim Cayli | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kivilcim-cayli |

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## FAQ

### What does Kivilcim Cayli invest in?

Kivilcim Cayli invests primarily in Travel, Leisure and Internet 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 Kivilcim Cayli's check size?

Kivilcim Cayli typically joins rounds of $18k–$1.3M 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 Kivilcim Cayli participates in.

### When did Kivilcim Cayli last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Kivilcim Cayli closed in Nov 2021. 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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