Koc GSYF VC
VC Fund
Koc GSYF VC is a VC fund focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Koç Group is one of Turkey's largest industrial and services groups in terms of revenues, exports, research and development investments, patent portfolio, employees, taxes paid and market capitalization on the Borsa Istanbul. With consolidated revenues of $25.5 billion, it ranks among the world's Fortune 500 list. Koç Holding hasleadingpositions with strong competitive advantages in various sectors, such as energy, automotive, consumer durables and finance. It has more than 97,000 employees and 10,000 dealers, agencies and after-sales service providers. Koç Group is celebrating its 90th anniversary.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Koc GSYF VC invests in
Stages Koc GSYF VC invests in
Countries Koc GSYF VC invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $800k–$2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (60%)
- Machine Learning 2 (40%)
- Retail 1 (20%)
- Banking 1 (20%)
- Finance 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Convertible Note 1 (20%)
Country
- Turkey 3 (60%)
- United States 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
Gengage
|
GenGage.ai transforms online shopping with AI that understands shopper needs and processes vast product catalogs to deliver personalized recommendations. Our platform replaces overwhelming product grids with guided shopping experiences, increasing conversion rates and cart values for retailers while making discovery intuitive for consumers. | $800K / Seed / Apr 04, 2025 | |
Fingate.io
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Fingate.io is a local startup that provides services in the fields of Service Banking (BaaS) and open banking. Fingate offers non-bank channels for access to bank products and services. | $1.2M / Seed / Apr 17, 2024 | |
Dataroid
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Dataroid is a digital analytics and customer engagement solution, which helps businesses gain insights into customer behavior across their channels and grow their customer lifetime value by engaging them in a relevant and personalized way. The platform enables digital product owners and marketers to collect and analyze real-time customerinteractions from web, mobile, and other customer channels, view unified user profiles, and create and distribute personalized messages across multiple engagement channels. Helping its clients to connect with over 40 million users, Dataroid solution is suitable for businesses with any size of user base across its digital channels. For more information, visit www.dataroid.com | $2M / Seed / Dec 19, 2023 | |
SmartAlpha
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SmartAlpha is committed to developing products with a particular focus on ‘AI on ultrasound’. Artificial intelligence guided ultrasound interpretation product Nerveblox (www.nerveblox.com) is the first of its breed. | $1.2M / Seed / Jun 15, 2023 | |
Vispera
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Vispera is an image recognition and analytics company that runs its proprietary technology. With that, we provide retailers and suppliers with the missing insights they need for better performance at all points of sale. The image recognition based automation we provide helps our clients monitor the performance of their in-store execution and takecorrective actions.Our business technology solutions have been shaped into products that help boost productivity for field operations and improve in-store performance of display units. We provide real-time data and guidance on the field team performance, as well as key retail execution metrics such as on-shelf availability, planogram compliance, shelf share, price tag readings, branding material visibility, etc. Among these metrics, problems with on-shelf-availability alone cost the retail sector 1.75 Trillion USD each year. Delivering and commoditizing IR services require expert knowledge which we have. Due to our high performance in accuracy, reporting dashboard flexibility and customer satisfaction we are recently seeing competitors’ clients convert to Vispera services. We maintain our technological edge as well as a robust but flexible product strategy.We want to make image recognition a commodity service for the global retail sector and enable perfect store execution and experience for retailers, suppliers and consumers alike. As such, we progressively move from an IR vendor into retail data analytics provider supported by IR-based evidential reality. | $1.9M / Convertible Note / Mar 14, 2023 |
Co-Investors
TIBAS Ventures
1 deal together
Chicago Booth Angels
1 deal together
Diffusion Capital Partners
1 deal together
Erdem Holding
1 deal together
İşbank
1 deal together
Omurga Capital
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Koc GSYF VC invest in?
Koc GSYF VC invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Retail startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Koc GSYF VC's check size?
Koc GSYF VC typically joins rounds of $800k–$2M 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 Koc GSYF VC participates in.
When did Koc GSYF VC last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Koc GSYF VC closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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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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