# Teknoloji Yatirim

> Teknoloji Yatirim is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Analytics. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Turkey
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last fund: Jan 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/teknoloji-yatirim-a.s./
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/tekyatirim
- Website: https://www.teknolojiyatirim.com.tr/tr/iletisim

Teknoloji Yatirim is a VC fund in Ankara focused on Artificial Intelligence and Analytics. Teknoloji Yatırım is the first actor investing in early-stage technology companies in Turkey. Aiming at preparing the venture capital ecosystem for new players, Teknoloji Yatırım designs, develops and manages innovative tools to meet the financing needs of technology companies in the early and growth stages. What We Do: - Direct Investments: Wemake equity investments to technology companies having internationalization potential. - Co-Investments and Follow-on Investments: We make co-investments and follow-on investments to technology companies at scaling and growth stages, together with other Venture Capital Funds. - Consultancy Services: We offer consultancy solutions in the design, implementation and management of innovative investment tools and models.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $550k–$2.4M |
| Series A | $773k–$2.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 21% |
| Analytics | 4 | 17% |
| SaaS | 3 | 13% |
| Software | 3 | 13% |
| Health Care | 3 | 13% |

45 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 42% |
| Series A | 5 | 21% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 12 | 50% |
| United States | 3 | 13% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Elif Can İnalkoç Gedikli | Investment Director | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elif-can-i-nalko%C3%A7-gedikli |
| Selin Afşaroğlu | Senior Investment Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/selin-af%C5%9Faro%C4%9Flu |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Branchsight | Branchsight enables you to manage the digital marketing activities of your multi-location brand from a single center. Branchsight's dealer-friendly, easy-to-use platform is an excellent tool designed to increase your global leverage by strengthening the awareness of your locations in the local market. | $550K | Seed | Jun 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 |  |
| BRANDEFENSE | Brandefense team visionBe the global leader in cyber threat intelligence and brand monitoring services via solving SOC’s complex challenges. We are here for helping Brandefense customers to protect their brands and reputations against cyber threats.Lets do it togetherDetect. Alarm. Prevent. We will eliminate the noise and be our customer’seyes and ears. By focusing on the cyber threats. Their mission is ours. We will always be ready to be with our customers with our know-how and technical skills. | $2.8M | Seed | Dec 21, 2023 |  |
| 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. |  | Convertible Note | Jul 31, 2023 |  |
| VRLab Academy | VRLab Academy makes million dollar wet labs available to everyone at lowest costs, through the PC and Virtual Reality technology. We started developing virtual science laboratories not only in physics, chemistry and biology subjects but also in medical biochemistry and advanced level subjects with our existing know-how. Our online educationplatform is cloud based, works with real scientific formulas and is curriculum correlated. Experiments are suitable from elementary schools up to universities. | $772.5K | Series A | Jun 28, 2023 |  |
| Fazla Gıda | Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste. | $6M | Series B | Jun 07, 2023 |  |
| Wask | Wask is a digital marketing software. All digital advertisers can manage and report a Ad accounts, Its İntegratable with Facebook & Instagram Ads, Google Ads, Twitter Ads and Linkedin Ads. | $2.4M | Seed | Mar 28, 2023 |  |
| Whole Surplus | Whole Surplus is a B2B Food Surplus Management System specialized in Retail. Whole Surplus provides a tech platform for retailers to manage unsold inventories with highest recovery value both financially and environmentally, through donation of unsold inventory to food banks or recycling of the surplus. The for-profit platform is already a SaaSprovider for some of the largest retailers in Europe, enabling bottom-line improvement, management of sourcing decisions at SKU level and added implied environmental, social impact. |  | Series A | Feb 23, 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 | Seed | Dec 29, 2022 |  |
| Hipporello | Hipporello is a no-code power-up building platform for Trello. It comes with a visual no code power-up builder for unique processes. Users can either build a power-up from scratch for their custom needs or they can use any of ready to use power-ups like Service Desk, Applicant Tracking System, Status Page, Blog, etc. Users can centralize manybusiness processes in Trello by adding multiple power-ups into their Hipporello Workspace where they can manage people, web pages, tasks, contacts and requests. | $1.8M | Seed | Dec 01, 2022 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TechOne VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techone-vc) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Turkey Development Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/turkey-development-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Turkiye Teknoloji Gelistirme Vakfi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/turkiye-teknoloji-gelistirme-vakfi) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fark Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/difference-labs) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Esor Investments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/esor-investments) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Finberg](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/finberg) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Teknoloji Yatirim invest in?

Teknoloji Yatirim invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Teknoloji Yatirim's check size?

Teknoloji Yatirim typically joins rounds of $550k–$2.4M at Seed and $773k–$2.2M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Teknoloji Yatirim participates in.

### How do I contact Teknoloji Yatirim?

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### Who are the partners at Teknoloji Yatirim?

The team at Teknoloji Yatirim includes Elif Can İnalkoç Gedikli (Investment Director) and Selin Afşaroğlu (Senior Investment Analyst). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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