# Lima Ventures

> Lima Ventures is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/limaventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/limaventures
- Website: http://www.limaventures.com

Lima Ventures is a VC fund in Istanbul focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $18k–$697k |
| Pre-Seed | $50k–$100k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 18% |
| Software | 6 | 15% |
| FinTech | 3 | 8% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 8% |
| Mobile | 2 | 5% |

52 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 19 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 6 | 15% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 10% |
| Series A | 2 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 16 | 41% |
| Estonia | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ahmet Argun | Managing Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ahmet-argun |
| Resat Volkan Gunel | Founder & Head of International Operations | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/resat-volkan-gunel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mars Studios | Mars Studios is a mobile app growth and marketing agency that collaborates with publishers to achieve exceptional growth and marketing outcomes. | $50K | Pre-Seed | Jul 26, 2024 |  |
| heybooster | heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses. | $845K |  | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| heybooster | heybooster is the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses. | $821.3K | Seed | Apr 30, 2024 |  |
| Shippn | Shippn is a trusted community marketplace for people to be able to shop from anywhere in the world. Shippn hosts help shoppers from all around the world to have a local address in every country and shop conveniently like there are no borders.With Shippn, everyone can shop online from more than 15 countries in the world and receive their itemswith express delivery in 1-5 days after our hosts receive their packages regardless of where they live.People can dive into shopping action in USA to catch Black Friday deals or Christmas specials. They can buy a classy watch from Switzerland or handmade rug from Turkey with Shippn.Shippn connects people to shop from various countries, at great prices, in more than 25 cities and 15 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Shippn is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and open it to an audience of millions.Shippn works with worldwide trusted logistics partners like DHL, TNT, UPS, FEDEX and picks the best partner to deliver to members’ door fast and secure. | $547K | Seed | Mar 04, 2024 |  |
| Enqura | Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance. |  | Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| Studio Billion | Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. | $500K | Seed | Aug 03, 2023 |  |
| VRLab Academy | VRLab Academy makes million dollar wet labs available to everyone at lowest costs, through the PC and Virtual Reality technology. We started developing virtual science laboratories not only in physics, chemistry and biology subjects but also in medical biochemistry and advanced level subjects with our existing know-how. Our online educationplatform is cloud based, works with real scientific formulas and is curriculum correlated. Experiments are suitable from elementary schools up to universities. | $772.5K | Series A | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| GINOA | GINOA provides NFT, metaverse, and artificial intelligence for collecting, trading, and investing strategy. They also provide Al-enabled pricing and hassle-free barter place services. | $350K | Seed | May 03, 2023 |  |
| Magfi | A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting. |  | Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |
| Magfi | A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting. | $75K | Pre-Seed | Feb 23, 2023 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Lima Ventures invest in?

Lima Ventures invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Lima Ventures's check size?

Lima Ventures typically joins rounds of $18k–$697k at Seed and $50k–$100k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Lima Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Lima Ventures?

Public channels for Lima Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Lima Ventures?

The team at Lima Ventures includes Ahmet Argun (Managing Partner) and Resat Volkan Gunel (Founder & Head of International Operations). 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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