Taner Halicioglu
Founding Partner @ Seed San Diego
Greater San Diego Area, United States
Taner Halicioglu is a seed investor at Seed San Diego in Greater San Diego Area focused on SaaS and Advertising. Taner Halicioglu - Founding Partner @ Seed San Diego
- Total investments:
- 5
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Industries Taner Halicioglu invests in
Stages Taner Halicioglu invests in
Countries Taner Halicioglu invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (40%)
- Advertising 2 (40%)
- B2B 1 (20%)
- EdTech 1 (20%)
- Content 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Convertible Note 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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CTGT
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CTGT builds efficient, trustworthy AI, preventing errors and maximizing ROI with secure, reliable enterprise-grade solutions. | $7.2M / Seed / Feb 20, 2025 | |
Zesty.io
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Zesty.io is a cloud platform for brand marketing teams to build content-rich websites that engage customers and accelerate sales. Successfully deployed by global customers like Sony Electronics, Astroglide, and Rocket League, the Zesty.io SaaS platform is a low-risk opportunity for mid-market and enterprise brands to speed, scale and secure globaldistribution, customer engagement, and website management of digital content.Founded in 2010 by Randy Apuzzo and Andy Fleming, Zesty.io is VC-funded and headquartered in San Diego, California. | $1.5M / Seed / Dec 20, 2017 | |
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Zesty.io
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Zesty.io is a cloud platform for brand marketing teams to build content-rich websites that engage customers and accelerate sales. Successfully deployed by global customers like Sony Electronics, Astroglide, and Rocket League, the Zesty.io SaaS platform is a low-risk opportunity for mid-market and enterprise brands to speed, scale and secure globaldistribution, customer engagement, and website management of digital content.Founded in 2010 by Randy Apuzzo and Andy Fleming, Zesty.io is VC-funded and headquartered in San Diego, California. | $1.3M / Seed / May 24, 2017 | |
SOCi
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SOCi is the leader in AI-powered marketing solutions for multi-location businesses. With its proprietary Genius AI™ and suite of Genius Agents™, SOCi provides a first-of-its-kind, AI-powered digital workforce capable of handling the workload of 1,000 local marketers™, empowering brands to achieve unmatched digital visibility, strengthen customerengagement, and scale faster than ever before.SOCi is recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies, and is trusted by nearly 1,000 top brands—including Ford, Ace Hardware, Kumon, Liberty Tax, and more—to automate and optimize local marketing tasks across all locations. Founded in 2012 and backed by leading strategic investors, SOCi is transforming how multi-location brands manage and scale their marketing efforts. | $2.3M / Convertible Note / Feb 23, 2016 | |
Portfolium
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Portfolium partners with colleges and universities to help students connect learning with opportunity. The ePortfolio network helps connect 3.75M+ students from over 190 partner institutions with 50,000+ employers based on their proven skills and competencies. Portfolium's cloud-based platform empowers students with lifelong opportunities tocapture, curate, and convert skills into job offers while giving learning institutions and employers the tools they need to assess competencies and recruit talent.The platform is used by over 3600 institutions to help assess the effectiveness of their programs and courses, certify students’ competencies, and empower students to showcase their achievements and skills with evidence.It was founded in 2014 by Aerospace Engineer, Adam Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California. | $900K / Seed / Jul 31, 2014 |
Co-Investors
Gradient
2 deals together
ClearVision Equity
1 deal together
General Catalyst
1 deal together
GrowthX
1 deal together
Liquid 2 Ventures
1 deal together
Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate
1 deal together
About Seed San Diego
Capital and intellectual value that measurably moves companies forward.
Seed San Diego Contacts
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Taner Halicioglu
Founding Partner
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Doug Hecht
Capital Partner
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Eric Gasser
Founding Partner
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Kelly Abbott
Partner
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What does Taner Halicioglu invest in?
Taner Halicioglu invests primarily in SaaS, Advertising and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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