# Mehmet Onarcan

> Mehmet Onarcan is a seed investor at Mentors Network Turkey backing Social Media and Apps. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mentors Network Turkey](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mentors-network-turkey)
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Dec 2021
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehmetonarcan/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mehmetonarcan
- Website: https://x.com/mehmetonarcan
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mehmet.onarcan

Mehmet Onarcan is a seed investor at Mentors Network Turkey focused on Social Media and Apps. Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Social Media | 4 | 33% |
| Apps | 2 | 17% |
| Mobile | 2 | 17% |
| Internet | 2 | 17% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 17% |

33 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 42% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 25% |
| Angel | 2 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 8% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 7 | 58% |
| Germany | 1 | 8% |
| Ireland | 1 | 8% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Missafir | Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests. | $550K | Convertible Note | Dec 02, 2021 |  |
| Missafir | Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests. |  | Seed | Sep 30, 2020 |  |
| Missafir | Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2020 |  |
| Doktorderki | Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey. |  | Seed | Dec 01, 2016 |  |
| 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 | Sep 01, 2016 |  |
| Erasmusinn | Erasmusinn is a housing platform that helps students find off campus housing and make reservations online. Students can choose from among flat-shares, apartments, studios, and rooms in over 10 countries. Erasmusinn was launched by Ender Akgül, Can Köseoğlu, and Nicolas Akavi in 2015 and is based in Dublin, Ireland. |  | Seed | Apr 01, 2016 |  |
| Scorp | "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views. | $1.9M | Seed | Aug 10, 2015 |  |
| Bionluk | A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired. |  | Angel | Jul 07, 2015 |  |
| Temizlikyolda | Temizlikyolda is a Saas Technology for House Cleaning companies. Monitoring your Business with improved Cloud Dashboard. | $15K | Angel | Feb 03, 2015 |  |
| Connected2.me | Connected2.me; a global messaging platform with 25M+ registered users. Users are acquired by viral growth. It has anonymity feature that is not available in other messaging platforms, which allows communication without revealing your identity. | $515K |  | Dec 19, 2014 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [BIC Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bic-angel-invesments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Center](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kworks-entrepreneurship-research-center) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Inventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/inventures-turkey) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Keiretsu Forum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keiretsu-forum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Keiretsu Forum Turkey](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keiretsu-forum-turkey) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Mentors Network Turkey

VC Fund · Esentepe, Turkey

Mentors Network Turkey is a consultancy network network of consultants, mentors and experts in the field of innovation and new generation entrepreneurship working closely with startups and scaleups. The company also engages in custom design, corporate innovation, intrapreneurship, open innovation, cultural transformation, acceleration and digitaltransformation projects for the clients needs. The company also organizes trainings on entrepreneurship, mentorship and venture capital investment.

1 contacts available at Mentors Network Turkey.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mehmet Onarcan | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mehmet-onarcan |

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## FAQ

### What does Mehmet Onarcan invest in?

Mehmet Onarcan invests primarily in Social Media, Apps and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed 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.

### When did Mehmet Onarcan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mehmet Onarcan closed in Dec 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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