# TÜBİTAK

> TÜBİTAK is a VC fund in Ankara backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 41 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Turkey
- Total investments: 41
- Last investment: Mar 2025
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tubitak/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/tubitakiletisim
- Website: http://www.tubitak.gov.tr
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tubitak

TÜBİTAK is a VC fund in Ankara focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $50k–$161k |
| Grant | $4k–$230k |
| Pre-Seed | $30k–$521k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 32% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 12 | 29% |
| Health Care | 7 | 17% |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 15% |

80 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 20 | 49% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 24% |
| Seed | 4 | 10% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 28 | 68% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sedat Çiftçi | Chief Senior Researcher | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sedat-ciftci |
| Cemal Gürsel | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cemal-g%C3%BCrsel |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Viseur AI | Viseur AI delivers a cutting-edge medical imaging solution powered by artificial intelligence. Our platform provides robust, scalable, cost-effective long-term radiology and digital pathology solutions through end-to-end automation. | $520.7K | Pre-Seed | Mar 18, 2025 |  |
| Navirid | Navirid is a technology company specializing in IoT and embedded systems, dedicated to developing advanced radar technologies and safety solutions to connect motorcyclists to life and enhance their riding experience.The radar-based systems we develop provide riders with real-time environmental awareness, establishing a new safety standard inmotorcycle use with critical features like blind spot detection, collision warning, and multi-target tracking.Our vision is to make motorcycles an integral part of the intelligent transportation ecosystem; our mission is to connect riders more firmly to life on every journey. | $30K | Pre-Seed | Mar 12, 2025 |  |
| VulnHero | VulnHero is an AI-powered offensive security platform that delivers continuous full-stack security testing, exploit-aware vulnerability intelligence, and contextual attack surface management in a single solution.By combining live CVE & exploit telemetry, technology stack discovery, exploitability-first risk scoring, and automated validationworkflows, VulnHero helps organisations identify and prioritise what’s actually exploitable across their entire digital landscape.Built for CISOs, AppSec teams, and red teams, the platform integrates with existing SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, and DevSecOps pipelines, providing actionable, evidence-based insights instead of scanner noise. | $170K | Grant | Mar 01, 2025 |  |
| Mistikist | Mistikist is a unique self-discovery experience that offers a way to clear your mind, relax, and rejuvenate with the aid of audio-visual content. Enjoy the simple, yet powerful experience of self-discovery sessions with our app.Take some time out of your day to relax with the sacred geometry experience.Easily clear your mind and relax withMistikist in the palm of your hand. The soothing sounds, music, and binaural beats will restore peace within minutes. Let your thoughts drift away as you experience a vibrant world of color, patterns, and live music.Never worry about anxiety or stress again. With Mistikist, you can clear your mind and relax in minutes.- The latest in mind-body science, proving how the brain processes sound. - Music and binaural sound waves made to offer an immersive experience. - A portal into a calming world of color, sound, and light - Experience a meditative experience unlike any other. - The most natural and powerful way to reduce stress and anxiety in just minutes. - Generate a deep sense of peace with the power of the mind.Have you been looking for a way to relax? Now you can! Mistikist features tranquil music, soothing visuals, and binaural beats to help you clear your mind and find peace.Nowadays, more and more people have difficulty in learning and suffer from mental problems due to the rush of everyday life and events and there are plenty of applications offering solutions to those problems. Creating Mistikist with lots of specially crafted sounds and images in order to change your brain frequencies, insert positive messages into your subconscious mind and help your brain regulate its chemistry so that you can have a better mood, we aim to provide you a long term solution for sleep problems and de-stressing.Providing these solutions in 12 different languages, we are trying to create an environment where you can experience the beauty & magic of binaural beats and sacred geometry in perfect harmony. Briefly, we are not here to provide you a temporary solution but a permanent and efficient solutions for your everyday life. Our main purpose is to provide you a space where you can enjoy your moment to take a breath and get rid of the daily problems permanently.What is included in Mistikist?Binaural Beat Meditations Scientific studies show that it is possible to entrain the human brain into certain frequencies via binaural beats. As there are 5 different frequencies in the human brain, each one is related to a specific purpose, we provide these 5 frequencies; Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, Theta.Sacred Geometry Being used since ancient civilizations, sacred geometry has always been an integral part of peace and comfort in any environment. As human-brain is delighted with the harmony of nature, people feel pretty calm and happy in the places where sacred geometry is being used consciously. Therefore, Mistikist contains plenty of visuals inspired by sacred geometry.Our Top Features: Exclusive Binaural Beat & Sacred Geometry contents Weekly blog posts Personal Note-taking & voice recording to track your progress User-friendly and user-oriented interfaceMistikist’s library offers plenty of contents about topics including: Relaxation Concentration Sleep Happiness Anger Self-Confidence Motivation Colors & Sacred Geometry Change & Courage Self-Love | $161K | Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |
| VulnHero | VulnHero is an AI-powered offensive security platform that delivers continuous full-stack security testing, exploit-aware vulnerability intelligence, and contextual attack surface management in a single solution.By combining live CVE & exploit telemetry, technology stack discovery, exploitability-first risk scoring, and automated validationworkflows, VulnHero helps organisations identify and prioritise what’s actually exploitable across their entire digital landscape.Built for CISOs, AppSec teams, and red teams, the platform integrates with existing SIEM, SOAR, ticketing, and DevSecOps pipelines, providing actionable, evidence-based insights instead of scanner noise. | $90K | Grant | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Cellsway | Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes. | $1.1M | Grant | Oct 09, 2023 |  |
| Orbiba Robotics | Orbiba stands for "an organic bond" motto. The basic philosophy is the idea that ​​“People become what they eat”. It believes that the cleaner the basic foods that sustain a person's life, the cleaner his body, and spiritual and intellectual development will be. Orbiba Robotics is an agriculture teknoloji startup that we establishedto produce affordable robot platforms that process data with AI for every individual who wants to contribute to the field of clean agriculture. With this initiative, we want to support organic agriculture practitioners who take the initiative to solve the problem of access to safe food, the awareness of which is increasing day by day in the world, with smart small robots that we will design and develop, with minimal carbon footprint, using renewable energy, low cost and high return on investment. While providing this support, we aim to provide solutions in line with new technological developments by discussing the difficulties experienced in organic agriculture with our relevant stakeholders. The values ​​of our initiative; 1- Beneficial to nature and what it contains 2- Innovative 3- Sharing with humanity with open source philosophy. | $107.9K | Grant | Sep 01, 2023 |  |
| Cyclizm | Cyclizm reports the most appropriate green hydrogen production method to domestic and foreign companies that want to invest in green hydrogen, by simulating critical parameters, such as; benefit/cost analysis, hydrogen production cost, carbon footprint reduction calculation, investment depreciation calculation and ROI. Cyclizm helps to reachoptimum green hydrogen production model with its AI supported algorithm in order to reduce hydrogen production costs and achieve optimum hydrogen production with 4 different products:1. Cyclizm H2INV (Invest): It is a new green investment decision support system for companies that want to invest in green hydrogen production. Cyclizm H2INV will report the following results to reduce the cost of installation, raw material sources, operation and green hydrogen production: Calculation of green hydrogen production cost through solar, wind and biomass. Hourly hydrogen production forecasts Comparison and optimization of 3 different production method Find the best production method through AI process. (Hybrid production included.)2. Cyclizm H2INC (Increment): It provides decision support services during the transition to green hydrogen for businesses that produce brown and gray hydrogen . It reports the data provided for existing hydrogen production in the cloud and compares it with the new highest cost/benefit green hydrogen production facility investment. Risk analysis of the investment Calculation of carbon footprint reduciton Comparison of current hydrogen production with new green hydrogen production Find the best way to invest in green hydrogen.3. Cyclizm H2COMP (Compare): The storage and transportation of green hydrogen produced by renewable energy are very costly. With the Cyclizm H2COMP package, you can minimize storage and transportation costs. Cyclizm H2COMP will report on the hydrogen produce/sell/stop decision support. Thus, it will reduce large amounts of energy waste, and ensure the realization of production and supply when necessary. Hydrogen production forecast Hydrogen demand calculation Comparison of production and storage costs Find the most accurate time to produce and supply4. Cyclizm H2PLN (Plan): Cyclizm H2PLN enables the customer to instantly monitor data such as production, cost, resource, forecast on a single portal after the hydrogen investment. In the program interface, the customer will be able to continue their production planning and instant data requests. The wind, and solar data which varies monthly, seasonally or even daily, will be able to follow securely via Cyclizm and will be optimized for the production planning. Instant hydrogen production potential Instant source control Comparison of hydrogen production and forecast Daily, weekly and annual reports | $25K | Grant | Feb 01, 2023 |  |
| Counterfake | CounterFake is a SaaS service that automatically detects fake products on online channels with a unique AI-based smart malware detection system. We are the only web scanner that works in a smart way to remove fake goods and their malicious traffic behind them. Our major goal is to change the retail industry with advanced security solutions andprofessional monitoring services supporting online sellers and e-marketplaces from all over the world. | $30K | Grant | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| Hevi AI | Hevi AI provide innovative artificial intelligence-based solutions for medical imaging for a diverse spectrum of diseases varying from detection of critical pathologies to radiomics applications for oncology. | $50K | Grant | Jul 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 41 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kosgeb](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kosgeb) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Arya Women's Investment Platform](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arya-women-s-investment-platform) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aslanoba Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aslanoba-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bal Brothers Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%AE%F0%9D%97%B9-%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%BF%F0%9D%97%BC%F0%9D%98%81%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BF%F0%9D%98%80-%F0%9D%97%A9%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%98%81%F0%9D%98%82%F0%9D%97%BF%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%98%80) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Decacorn Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/decacorn-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [European Innovation Council](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eic-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does TÜBİTAK invest in?

TÜBİTAK invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Grant and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 41 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is TÜBİTAK's check size?

TÜBİTAK typically joins rounds of $50k–$161k at Seed, $4k–$230k at Grant and $30k–$521k 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 TÜBİTAK participates in.

### How do I contact TÜBİTAK?

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### Who are the partners at TÜBİTAK?

The team at TÜBİTAK includes Sedat Çiftçi (Chief Senior Researcher) and Cemal Gürsel (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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