# Omer Hayrı Erkmen

> Omer Hayrı Erkmen is a seed investor at Mindsite backing Software and Analytics. See 27 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Mindsite](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mindsite-a79f)
- Total investments: 27
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 15%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omererkmen
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/omererkmen
- Website: https://x.com/omererkmen

Omer Hayrı Erkmen is a seed investor at Mindsite focused on Software and Analytics. Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $110k–$1.9M |
| Angel | $44k–$250k |
| Pre-Seed | $29k–$100k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 11% |
| Analytics | 2 | 7% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 7% |
| Marketplace | 2 | 7% |
| Social Media | 2 | 7% |

39 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 19% |
| Angel | 3 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 7% |
| Convertible Note | 1 | 4% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 10 | 37% |
| United States | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mindsite | Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility. | $2M |  | Jan 14, 2026 |  |
| Blaze Labs | Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale. | $1.3M | Seed | Sep 25, 2025 |  |
| Onlayer | Detect, monitor and remediate data breach and compliance risks of your company and your merchants. | $1M | Seed | Feb 04, 2025 |  |
| Mindsite | Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility. | $1.5M | Seed | Jul 01, 2024 |  |
| WeFarm | WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms. | $50K | Pre-Seed | Dec 15, 2023 |  |
| Salvor | These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will. | $100K | Pre-Seed | Jan 01, 2023 |  |
| Mindsite | Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility. | $1.9M |  | Dec 29, 2022 |  |
| Mindsite | Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility. | $1.9M | Seed | Dec 29, 2022 |  |
| Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. | Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry. | $500K | Seed | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Onlayer | Detect, monitor and remediate data breach and compliance risks of your company and your merchants. | $44K | Angel | Jul 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 27 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Maxis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maxis-19c6) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Finberg](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finberg) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [KAYA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kaya-8ed9) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tacirler Portfolio Future Impact Fund GSYF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tacirler-portfolio-future-impact-fund-gsyf) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel Effect](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-effect) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BIC Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bic-angel-invesments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Mindsite

VC Fund · Istanbul, Turkey

Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility.

5 contacts available at Mindsite.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ali Alperen Durak | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-alperen-durak |
| Ali Göksu Özkan | co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ali-g%C3%B6ksu-%C3%B6zkan |
| Hakan Utku Özdemir | Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hakan-utku-%C3%B6zdemir |
| İsmail Arapzade | co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/i-smail-arapzade |
| Omer Hayrı Erkmen | Mentor, cofounder, investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/omer-erkmen |

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## FAQ

### What does Omer Hayrı Erkmen invest in?

Omer Hayrı Erkmen invests primarily in Software, Analytics and E-Commerce startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 27 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Omer Hayrı Erkmen's check size?

Omer Hayrı Erkmen typically joins rounds of $110k–$1.9M at Seed, $44k–$250k at Angel and $29k–$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 Omer Hayrı Erkmen participates in.

### When did Omer Hayrı Erkmen last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Omer Hayrı Erkmen closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 27 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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