# Türk Telekom

> Türk Telekom is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Turkey
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/166540
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/turk_telekom
- Website: http://www.turktelekom.com.tr
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TurkTelekom

Türk Telekom is a VC fund in Ankara focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Turk Telekom group provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN, GSM to wide band internet. Türk Telekom group companies have 17.3 millions of PSTN customers, 6 millions of ADSL customers and 12.6 million GSM customers as of Mach 31, 2009. With its modern network substructure, covering the whole country, the group companies offer a widerange of services to its personal and corporate customers. Turk Telekom, who is the owner of the 99,9% of shares of the companies TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.S. and AssisTT, is also the owner of 81% of the shares of Avea, which is one of the three GSM operators in Turkey. Turk Telekom also supports Albtelecom in Albania. The 55% of the shares of Türk Telekom belongs to Oger Telekomunikasyon A.S. and the 30% of the shares belongs to Undersecretariat of Treasure of Turkey. The remaining 15% of shares has been offered to public.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $25k–$11M |
| Pre-Seed | $17k–$200k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 57% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 57% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 29% |
| Apps | 1 | 14% |
| Travel | 1 | 14% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 43% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 29% |
| Grant | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Turkey | 4 | 57% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Caner Çelikel | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caner-%C3%A7elikel |
| Cemil Soylu | Senior Network Architect | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cemil-soylu |
| Engin Danışman | Line Operations PAN Expert | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engin-danisman |
| Fatih Mercimek | Optical Transmission Expert | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fatih-mercimek |
| mehmet ozdem | Network Architecture & Design Group Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mehmet-ozdem |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Metatime | Metatime is a technology and finance company that offers a single distributed blockchain ecosystem that enables a user to manage all from a single screen which is operating centers located in Turkey, Lithuania, Switzerland, UK and USA. | $11M | Seed | Mar 20, 2023 |  |
| MYTH AI | Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses. | $200K | Seed | Dec 26, 2022 |  |
| MYTH AI | Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Dec 26, 2022 |  |
| XENA VISION | Xena Vision works on "Activity Recognition"​ and "Human Behaviour Analysis"​. At our company, provide you an intelligent way of capturing happenings all around. Performing realtime emergency/abnormal human activity recognition via video cameras. violence, heart attack, unconciousness, injury | $25K | Seed | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| XENA VISION | Xena Vision works on "Activity Recognition"​ and "Human Behaviour Analysis"​. At our company, provide you an intelligent way of capturing happenings all around. Performing realtime emergency/abnormal human activity recognition via video cameras. violence, heart attack, unconciousness, injury | $25K | Seed | Jun 22, 2021 |  |
| Robomotion | Robomotion handles dull everyday tasks with robotic process automation technology. Delegate tasks to software robots and they can work 24/7. | $16.6K | Pre-Seed | Oct 18, 2019 |  |
| Frizbit | Frizbit is a marketing orchestration platform helping marketers increase revenue and user engagement by processing all user behavior data in real-time to predict optimal communication and engage personally with customers in multi-channel. By using Frizbit, websites can send the right message, to the right customer at the right time in anautomated way triggered by various scenarios. Visitors don't have to download an app and notifications can be delivered even if they are NOT on the website. Frizbit customers reach the highest CTRs (around 10%) within online marketing channels.The main customers enjoying the marketing automation with Frizbit are e-commerce and news media companies. Frizbit is building machine learning algorithms to optimize the user engagement and communication. | $2K | Grant | Jul 03, 2017 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ITUARI Teknokent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ituari-teknokent) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BluLive](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blulive) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Elyaf Tekstil](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/elyaf-tekstil) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Keiretsu Forum](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/keiretsu-forum) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Türk Telekom invest in?

Türk Telekom invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Turkey. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Türk Telekom's check size?

Türk Telekom typically joins rounds of $25k–$11M at Seed and $17k–$200k 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 Türk Telekom participates in.

### How do I contact Türk Telekom?

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### Who are the partners at Türk Telekom?

The team at Türk Telekom includes Caner Çelikel (Founder), Cemil Soylu (Senior Network Architect) and Engin Danışman (Line Operations PAN Expert), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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