# Onur Topac

> Onur Topac is a seed investor at Gedik Investment (Istanbul) backing Software and Apps. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Gedik Investment](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gedik-investment)
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Apr 2022
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/onur-topac-a938b354/

Onur Topac is a seed investor at Gedik Investment in Istanbul focused on Software and Apps. Onur Topac was born in 1990 in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul’s Austrian High School in 2009 and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree from Koç University, Department of Industrial Engineering in 2013. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in Financial Engineering at Ozyegin University. Mr. Topac started his career in finance in 2008as a web site specialist at Gedik Investment; subsequently, he interned at FXCM in London in 2012. The following year, he participated in the establishment of the Investment Banking Department at Gedik Investment, leading the way in the Department’s technological transformation. Since April 2015, he has served as CEO at Gedik Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Ortaklıgı A.S (Gedik Venture Capital Investment Partnership). Onur Topac started to provide support to technology investments and ventures as an individual investor before obtaining the necessary certification to operate as an angel investor in 2015.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $350k–$637k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| Apps | 1 | 17% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| FinTech | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 50% |
| Equity Crowdfunding | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 3 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Yancep | Yancep is a web-based application. The company offers portfolios that can be modeled according to the investment goals and risk preferences of users. Investors can become anyone with this platform. | $350K | Seed | Apr 05, 2022 |  |
| Insumo | Insumo is a personalized and adaptive productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools. |  | Seed | Aug 20, 2021 |  |
| Thread In Motion | Thread in Motion is an IIoT company that develops a wearable technology platform designed to increase operational efficiency in production and logistics facilities. They digitize workers with wearable technology products and provide machine-human interaction with IoT devices also create and analyze them with their software platform. |  | Seed | Sep 24, 2020 |  |
| Thread In Motion | Thread in Motion is an IIoT company that develops a wearable technology platform designed to increase operational efficiency in production and logistics facilities. They digitize workers with wearable technology products and provide machine-human interaction with IoT devices also create and analyze them with their software platform. | $637K | Seed | Jun 19, 2019 |  |
| Poltio | Poltio helps brands better understand and extend their user segments' value to drive revenue and build relationships with their customers. It accomplishes with interactive content creation platform to easily build highly engaging interactive content to embed in and across the brand's own digital channels. | $300K | Equity Crowdfunding | Jul 13, 2017 |  |
| Thread In Motion | Thread in Motion is an IIoT company that develops a wearable technology platform designed to increase operational efficiency in production and logistics facilities. They digitize workers with wearable technology products and provide machine-human interaction with IoT devices also create and analyze them with their software platform. |  | Seed |  |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Appcent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/appcent) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [hiBoost](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiboost-e121) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Sabancı Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sabanc%C4%B1-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [StartersHub](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startershub) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Vinci Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/vinci-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Gedik Investment

VC Fund · Istanbul, Turkey

Gedik Investment is an investment banking advisory and brokerage firm in Turkey providing research and brokerage services to domestic and foreign clients. The company is a member of Borsa Istanbul (BIST) and is authorized by the Capital Markets Board (CMB). Today, it has the largest customer base of any non-bank local brokerage house, with around34,000 clients and counting. Gedik Investment boasts a widespread distribution network, with 28 main branches spread across Turkey’s primary cities.

2 contacts available at Gedik Investment.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kadircan Karadut | Group CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kadircan-karadut |
| Onur Topac | Board Member and CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/onur-topac |

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## FAQ

### What does Onur Topac invest in?

Onur Topac invests primarily in Software, Apps and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Equity Crowdfunding stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Onur Topac's check size?

Onur Topac typically joins rounds of $350k–$637k 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 Onur Topac participates in.

### When did Onur Topac last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Onur Topac closed in Apr 2022. Shizune tracks 6 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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