# Sharks & Partners

> Sharks & Partners is a VC fund in Göktürk backing Internet and E-Commerce. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Göktürk, Turkey
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sharks-partners/
- Website: https://www.sharksandpartners.com

Sharks & Partners is an investment firm.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $80k–$2.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Internet | 3 | 20% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 20% |
| SaaS | 2 | 13% |
| Software | 2 | 13% |
| Analytics | 2 | 13% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 13% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 5 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mehmet Celikol | Founding Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mehmet-celikol |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Wellbees | Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications. | $3.6M | Series A | Jun 22, 2026 |  |
| Hardal | Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance. | $1.6M | Seed | May 11, 2026 |  |
| Lumnion | Lumnion develops a state-of-the-art AI-driven pricing platform for P&C and Health Insurance. With the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Lumnion provides a unique Lumnion offers a unique end to end platform that can connect to any core system, automating data preparation with more precise risk pricing, impact analysis, anddynamic pricing. Lumnion’s open platform allows the use of all widely accepted Machine Learning Algorithms, including XG Boost, Random Forest, Decision Tree, as well as GLM and GAM for risk modeling. Moreover, Lumnion has also developed its own methodology to make any black box machine learning algorithms transparent to become operationally usable. The results of any of the ML algorithms are opened up, showing variables to be used, their significance, and interactions with multiple dimensions. The ML based advisory module helps relieve actuaries from operational work and improves model results dramatically providing advice on the portfolio on a real time basis.With its integrated Pricing Engine, Lumnion can push any commercial price decision into the market instantly, allowing for faster time to market given today’s rapidly changing market conditions. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Flowla | Flowla offers collaborative digital sales rooms for sellers & buyers, with a powerful layer of AI and advanced automation built in.It automates your entire mid-funnel: from the very first call, to onboarding & renewals, with a human always in the loop & in control.When AI agents are in action, they: - Auto-generate business cases,mutual action plans, and handoff notes - Identify economic buyers in the deal room & ping your team to multithread - Auto draft relevant follow-up emails when buyers go dark - Sync every single contact and activity to CRM.The aim is to drive your deals forward with perfect execution, every single time, with no tedious manual work on your team. All while giving your buyers a beautiful, organized deal room that unites everything they need, from the first call to go-live. | $2.5M | Seed | Jan 27, 2026 |  |
| 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 |  |
| SuLe | SuLe is a legal tech startup dedicated to making legal services more accessible, fast, and affordable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups, by leveraging technology to simplify legal processes, reduce costs, and provide timely support across a wide range of business needs. |  | Seed | Sep 11, 2025 |  |
| Dentalpiyasa | Dentalpiyasa connects dentists and dental warehouses, enabling direct procurement from manufacturers and importers. | $200K | Seed | Oct 14, 2024 |  |
| Viravira | Viravira.co is Europe's leading online yacht charter and sea experiences platform, connecting boat owners with those who want to rent a boat. viravira.co was founded in 2016 with the mission to make the yacht booking experience easier, more transparent and safer for the sailing community.We continue to work hard to make yacht holidays one ofthe leading holiday options for travellers, to make sailing holidays more accessible, to offer instant booking opportunities and to provide an easy and reliable yacht booking experience. | $100K | Seed | Aug 29, 2024 |  |
| Mizanplus Kitchens | Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network. | $1M | Seed | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| 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 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Turkey Development Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/turkey-development-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arya Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arya-ventures-139c) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Finberg](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finberg) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Maxis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maxis-19c6) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tacirler Portfolio Future Impact Fund GSYF](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tacirler-portfolio-future-impact-fund-gsyf) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sharks & Partners invest in?

Sharks & Partners invests primarily in Internet, E-Commerce and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sharks & Partners's check size?

Sharks & Partners typically joins rounds of $80k–$2.5M 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 Sharks & Partners participates in.

### How do I contact Sharks & Partners?

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### Who are the partners at Sharks & Partners?

The team at Sharks & Partners includes Mehmet Celikol (Founding Partner). 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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