Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in Turkey (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
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5 | Turkey, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $175k–$30M |
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APY Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $100k–$2.8M |
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Logo Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail, SaaS | $600k–$11M |
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Maxis
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce | $82k–$2.5M |
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Inventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail | $1.9M–$4.3M |
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Ali Demir Akel
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Convertible Note, Seed, Series A | Retail, Analytics, 3D Printing | |
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $100k–$2.5M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $84k–$3.7M |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, SaaS, Software | $20k–$9M |
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Kültepe Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $31k–$2.8M |
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Angel Effect
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $20k–$996k |
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Ömer Aras
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Biopharma, Marketing | $400k–$4M |
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Emre Kenci
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, Retail, Internet | |
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Akis Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Corporate Round | Retail, Shipping, Shopping | |
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212
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $250k–$27M |
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Revo Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Financial Services | $430k–$38M |
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Techmine Gsyo
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Onur Gargılı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $1.2M–$75M |
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TechOne VC
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $175k–$2.8M |
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Yılmaz Yıldız
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Procurement, Waste Management, Retail | $64k–$992k |
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BDC Venture Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Japan | Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $603k–$16M |
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Sente Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Turkey, Israel | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software | $50k–$1.5M |
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $18k–$702k |
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Inventram
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Retail, Robotics, Analytics | $616k–$5.2M |
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Keiretsu Capital
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, India | Series A, Seed | Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical | $700k–$5.5M |
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Koc Holding
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Series A | Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $1M–$15M |
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Pytch Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, FinTech, Finance | $50k–$2M |
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Candan Karabagli
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Series A | Retail, Analytics, Biopharma | |
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Artificial Intelligence Factory
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Banking, Finance, Financial Services | ||
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StartersHub
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Turkey, Latvia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $20k–$762k |
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Rho Canada Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Italy | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Analytics, Internet | $750k–$37M |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | |
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Oskar Hartmann
Angel
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1 | Germany, Russian Federation, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive | |
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Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, Machine Learning, Analytics | |
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Yildiz Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Internet, E-Commerce | |
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Inveo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | |
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Cem Topcuoglu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing | |
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Sercan Isik
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing | |
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Ata Uzunhasan
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Italy, Poland | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Baby | |
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Şafak Müderrisgil
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, FinTech, Leasing | |
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Esor Investments
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Convertible Note | Retail Technology, Software, Analytics | |
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Uygar Mesudiyeli
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Wedding, Software, E-Commerce | |
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Ebru Dorman
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Health Care, Apps, Fitness | $100k–$480k |
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Alpay Berk Caglayan
Angel
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1 | Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom | Private Equity, Pre-Seed | Digital Marketing, Advertising, Art | |
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Aras Bulut İynemli
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods | |
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Music, AgTech | $350k–$788k |
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Turkey Development Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Information Technology, Software, SaaS | |
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Onder Oztarhan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Recycling, Manufacturing | |
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EGIAD Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Angel | Software, E-Commerce, AgTech | $64k–$2.2M |
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Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
- CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 101
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Upsonic — Upsonic is a platform that allows users to create artificial intelligence agents designed to perform tasks in businesses. The platform prevents AI agents from hallucinating.
- Mindtail — Based in Istanbul, Mindtail is a mobile gaming studio dedicated to crafting the next evolution of hybrid mobile games. Founded by industry veterans whose previous titles have reached over 300+ million players worldwide
- Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.
Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.
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- Industry: Software, Retail, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
- Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
- Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $82k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Hardal — Centralize your first-party data and connect it from any source to any destination for a better performance.
- Dengage — Dengage is a Customer Experience Data Platform (CXDP) with built-in CDP powered by full marketing automation capabilities.
- Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.3M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
- Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
- Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
Ali Demir Akel
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- Industry: Retail, Analytics, 3D Printing
- Stage:Convertible Note, Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Zaxe — Discover the Unique FDM 3D Printing Experience. Zaxe 3D Printers Provides Easy to Use with xDestop Slicer Software. Get Advantage in Additive Manufacturing with Zaxe Filaments
- Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
- Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
- Branchsight — Made with Framer
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Seed $233k–$3.7M; Angel $84k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Shark Guitar — Premium electric guitars manufactured with robotic precision. Shark Guitars mean freedom of versatility, customization and portability.
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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- Industry: Internet, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $727k–$9M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$380k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $31k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PackUpp — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
- Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
- Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $175k–$755k; Pre-Seed $20k–$996k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- & New Me — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
- Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
Ömer Aras
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- Industry: Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
Emre Kenci
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- Industry: Art, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- fucimo — Fucimo is a technology-driven two-way marketplace in media & advertising that aims to democratize the industry and make it accessible to all. Our journey is fueled by our commitment to provide innovative solutions that leverage technology to make marketers and media owners more accessible and empower them to partner more effectively. We areworking towards creating a world where the media advertising industry is truly inclusive and accessible to all, and where marketers and publishers have the necessary tools and support they need to succeed in an efficient and effective manner.At fucimo, we believe that technology can help build meaningful relationships and nurture a supportive community through trust, kindness, and care. We take ownership of our work, holding ourselves accountable for the success of fucimo and our users, and we strive to make a positive impact on the industry as a whole.Join us in our mission to shape the future of media advertising, using the power of technology to build a better, more inclusive industry for everyone.
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Akis Gayrimenkul Yatirim Ortakligi AS, a subsidiary of Akkok Holding, is a Turkey-based real estate investment trust
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- Industry: Retail, Shipping, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nivogo — Nivo ana sayfa
- VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
- Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$20M; Series B $250k–$27M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
- Eluvium —
- PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.
Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $430k–$4M; Series A $1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- CLEATUS — CLEATUS is an AI-powered platform that helps government contractors discover contract opportunities, manage capture pipelines, and write winning proposals. We make government contracting accessible to any business, with AI that automates everything from finding opportunities to submitting winning proposals.Empowering government contractors withagentic AI for every stage of the contracting lifecycle. Effortlessly discover new opportunities, craft winning proposals, manage pursuits and win more work within a single, purpose-built platform designed for organizations of any size.
- Alpaka Games — Alpaka Games is a mobile gaming company.
- Virgosol Information and Software Solutions — Virgosol is a next-gen QA & Software Testing Services provider co-headquartered in Istanbul and offshore test labs around Turkey in 5 different cities. Virgosol testing services covers Test Consultancy and Management, Functional and Non-Functional testing, Test Automation, DevOps, Agile, Web, Mobility and WebService/API to name a few.Virgosol is pioneering the next-gen Continuous Testing practices with a team of young, passionate testers focused on test automation, CI/ CD and shift left methodologies. With its in-house testing solutions, global pool of skilled testers, specialist testing approach and global delivery model, Virgosol is helping its clients transform their QA function to reduce production defects, reduce QA cycle times and lower overall QA costs. Virgosol has proven record of implementing projects in stipulated time frames & budget with a team of experienced test professionals having rich experience in technology as well as vertical domains.
Techmine Gsyo is a venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across a wide range of industries.
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- Industry: Retail, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
Onur Gargılı
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 176
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$41M; Series B $16M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- SILQ — SILQ is a platform dedicated to bridging economies and empowering businesses to trade, grow, and navigate new frontiers. By enabling seamless commerce, logistics, and finance, SILQ unlocks opportunities in emerging economies, fueling ambitions and redefining global trade.The name SILQ is a modern tribute to the legendary Silk Road—reimagined forthe digital age. The distinctive “Q” comes from Souq, the Arabic word for marketplace, symbolizing our commitment to fast, accessible, authentic, and reliable commerce.SILQ aspires to transform local products and manufacturers into global brands by connecting them with entrepreneurs in emerging markets across the Gulf, South Asia, and beyond.
- Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
- Augustus — Augustus builds an AI-native, stablecoin-based clearing and banking platform for financial institutions. The company focuses on enabling digital asset and stablecoin-based clearing to support payments and banking workflows. Its platform is designed for banks, fintechs, and other regulated financial institutions that require infrastructure fordigital asset transactions. Augustus integrates artificial intelligence into its systems to support automated processes and decisioning around payments and clearing. The company positions its offerings as core banking and payments infrastructure centered on digital assets rather than traditional legacy systems.
TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $400k–$605k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.4M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Spiky.AI — Spiky.ai delivers real-time coaching, CRM sync, and multilingual AI insights to boost sales performance and streamline meetings.
- Carbon Centrum — Our innovative platform autonomously tracks individual CO2 footprints, creating first-ever Carbon IDs representing data-backed offsets. Companies competitively purchase these offsets via our platform, seamlessly connecting individuals, brands, and carbon markets.Users adopt eco-friendly habits, reduce emissions, and receive compensation.Companies purchase actual offsets towards net zero & create a new bridge toward insight & prediction into employee and customer demands.
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- Industry: Procurement, Waste Management, Retail
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $64k–$992k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets. The company helps create and develop strongCanadian businesses through financing, consulting services and securitization, with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Advanced Technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 401
- Round size: Seed $603k–$5M; Series A $3.1M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Arteria AI — Arteria unlocks the power of your contracts by helping you to generate, negotiate and turn your executed contracts into data that allow you to diagnose problems, identify opportunities and drive value for your organization.
- Augmenta Inc. — Design sustainable, code compliant and fully constructible buildings in hours.
- CarbonCure Technologies — CarbonCure Technologies creates, develops, and licenses solutions that consume waste CO2 to make better concrete. It spurs the market shift towards affordable green concrete, by enabling concrete manufacturers to convert waste CO2 into solid minerals, locked away as a solid within concrete during manufacturing. It is a green building technologycompany currently serving concrete product manufacturers in the US and Canada. It offers concrete producers the ability to manufacture green concrete products without compromising on either quality or price.CarbonCure is a retrofit innovation that repurposes CO2 gas from large final emitters as a feedstock in concrete plants. The gas is permanently converted into embedded solid mineral carbonates that yield material, environmental, and production advantages. By enabling concrete manufacturers to consume CO2 into concrete products during manufacturing, the technology differentiates an otherwise traditional commodity concrete product, while achieving superior material performance characteristics. In addition to technology, CarbonCure provides demand-pull marketing and environmental reporting/certification services to reinforce its customers’ exclusive competitive positioning. The technology is licensed at a very low-CAPEX to concrete producers, generating a recurring revenue stream.CarbonCure Technologies was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note, Seed
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Pre-Seed $50k–$1.5M; Convertible Note $50k–$50k
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kfobix Inc. — Revolutionizing Grid Maintenance with AI and Robotics
- M-Based — M-Based develops next-generation biomaterials using mushroom, redefining sustainability in design and materials.
- Kybele's Garden — Kybele's Garden focus on algae-based bioponics and algae fermentation methods. Their differentiation strategy boosts harvest yield, source efficiency, and functional content, while improving sensory attributes and shelf life. These technologies can be used in agrifood and skin care, and integrated into existing producers' systems.
Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $18k–$702k
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
İnventram, venture investment arm of Koç Holding, invests in grounbreaking innovative and disruptive high tech startups&scaleups worlwide. 5 out of the 9 high tech startups in Inventram's portfolio currently operate in the USA, and 1 in Germany.
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- Industry: Retail, Robotics, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $616k–$3.5M; Series A $2.2M–$5.2M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Augmency — Pioneering the future of wearable augmented reality technology with innovative AR solutions.
- Tarabios — Tarabios is developing a mobile device to monitor blood clot times (PT / INR) for Warfarin Therapy patients
- AdCreative.ai — AdCreative.ai empowers your advertising with AI. Generate conversion-focused ad creatives, utilize AI for product photoshoots, and access detailed competitor insights. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for creating impactful ad texts and visuals, ensuring your campaigns stand out in a competitive market. Ideal for marketers seeking an all-in-one solution for innovative, data-driven advertising strategies.
Keiretsu Capital LLC is an affiliate of the World's Leading Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum, and manages funds which enable limited partners to co-invest in the proprietary deal flow of the angel investors.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $700k–$2.5M; Series A $1.2M–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $3.7M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Clensta — Clensta is a biotechnology start-up to improve the National Hygiene condition whilst addressing the aspect of water conservation. Clensta is an Indian startup and in association with IIT Delhi, works to create innovative healthcare solutions to make hygiene accessible for anyone, anytime, and anywhere. Driven by their aim to create products thatpromote complete cleaning solutions without water.
- Healionics — Healionics aims to provide safer, more reliable means of bloodstream access for dialysis in patients with kidney failure.
- Another Tomorrow — Discover consciously crafted wardrobe icons : sustainable, and ethically made. Enjoy flat rate international shipping, free shipping in the US, and easy returns. Explore our new arrivals and join our list for exclusive access to future collections.
Koç Group is one of Turkey's largest industrial and services groups in terms of revenues, exports, research and development investments, patent portfolio, employees, taxes paid and market capitalization on the Borsa Istanbul. With consolidated revenues of $25.5 billion, it ranks among the world's Fortune 500 list. Koç Holding has leadingpositions with strong competitive advantages in various sectors, such as energy, automotive, consumer durables and finance. It has more than 97,000 employees and 10,000 dealers, agencies and after-sales service providers. Koç Group is celebrating its 90th anniversary.
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- Industry: Analytics, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1M; Series A $2.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
- Segmentify — Bring Growth to Life: Explore how you can create unique experiences for each customer in real-time and optimise customer lifetime value!
- AdCreative.ai — AdCreative.ai empowers your advertising with AI. Generate conversion-focused ad creatives, utilize AI for product photoshoots, and access detailed competitor insights. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for creating impactful ad texts and visuals, ensuring your campaigns stand out in a competitive market. Ideal for marketers seeking an all-in-one solution for innovative, data-driven advertising strategies.
Pytch is owned and managed by a core team of experts with decades of combined experience in payment processing, banking technology, fund raising and Mergers & Acquisitions. Our team members have worked with many FinTech market leaders over the years, large incumbent corporations as well as lean and disruptive organisations. We understand all aspects of this sector intimately and aim to share our expertise with our partners with full transparency and simplicity.
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- Industry: Retail, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $50k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- NarPOS — we serve many sales points such as Cafes, Markets, Restaurants, Hotels, Patisseries, Schools, Colleges, Hospitals, Canteens, Restaurants and Bars with our dynamic staff consisting of expert engineers, technicians, technicians and production staff.--- Table Tracking Module One of the system features of Narposun, the Ercesa Yazılım RestaurantAutomation System Brand, is the Table Tracking Module. Our aim; Developing Technology, taking into account the ever-increasing demands and difficult-to-measure competitive conditions,...--- Package Service Tracking Module Package Service Tracking Module Get one step ahead of your customers with the Qualified Takeaway Service Tracking Module, which recognizes your customers when the phone rings for restaurants, restaurants and cafes. With the Package Service Tracking Module, measure, report and track your package orders and...---- Trendyol Integration Module Trendyol Integration Module Trendyol is the software that brings the most up-to-date b2c solution of recent times. With the campaigns it carries out with its own motorcycle and the small commission it receives from the restaurant, it is taking firm steps towards putting its name in golden letters in the sector. As NarPOS...----- Yemeksepeti Integration Module Yemeksepeti Integration Module What is Food Basket? Food Basket; It is a package service provided by an intermediary institution that is used by at least two out of every three companies today. Since it is a world-famous application, it is a preferred, popular and highly profitable sales method. ...---- GETIR INTEGRATION GETIR INTEGRATION Getir, which appears as a phone application, was founded by Nazım Salur, the founder of BiTaksi. Getir, which started its adventure with the market and continues with Yemek, is a takeaway service program that uses its own couriers even if you do not have a courier. ...---- Order Tracking System with Mobile Application Order Tracking System with Mobile Application Ercesa Yazılım Restaurant Automation Program is now in your pocket. With the Narpos Terminal application, order tracking is easier than ever. Moreover, your customer can determine his favorite products and access his favorite product list when he visits again and again. It's complicated...---- Website Online Order Module Website Online Order Module Technology Giant Ercesa Software offers the best modules to you, the users, with its Narpos Automation System. One of these is the Website Online Ordering System. You provide Restaurant Service, but do you pay commission to intermediary companies?---- Tablet Menu Integration with Finedine Menu Ercesa Yazılım, with its Restaurant Automation System Brand Narpos, invites you to technology by integrating with all applications that will make your job easier. It is the most important greeting method of businesses and allows your customer to decide about you in the first minute.---- Courier Assignment Mobile Application Courier Assignment Mobile Application With the courier assignment that we developed in cooperation with KirazSoft, all incoming calls, fetch, trendyol, Yemeksepeti and website orders are delivered to the courier's mobile phone. This way, the courier can get directions, customers...---- Mobile Order Integration Module Mobile Order Integration Module Are you ready to join the world of technology with Ercesa Software's Mobile Order Integration module? With our iOS and Android compatible application, you will exceed the performance you get from the handheld terminal. Access your menus and submenu groups...---- Courier Tracking System Courier Tracking System Considering the ever-increasing market conditions and competition, one of the technologies produced to enable businesses to provide faster, higher quality and more preferred services is the Courier Tracking Program. Courier Tracking Program, Both Customer...---- E-Invoice E-Archive Module E-Invoice E-Archive Module E-Invoice; It is an invoicing process between the buyer and the seller that is arranged entirely digitally through the Revenue Administration. E-invoice has all the information that should be on a normal invoice and is issued completely electronically. Paper...
- Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
- Extra Loyalty Solutions — Extra Loyalty Solutions help clients to stimulate their sales and engage better with their customers on EXTRA Loyalty Infrastructure and Analytics Platform.
Candan Karabagli - Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı, CHAIRMAN @ GS Yuasa
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- Industry: Retail, Analytics, Biopharma
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Biolive — Biolive
- Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
- PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
Artificial Intelligence Factory is a goal-oriented program focusing on cooperation and investment with Turkish AI initiatives, offering various support mechanisms for growth and international success.
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- Industry: Banking, Finance, Financial Services
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
- ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
- Workintech AI — Workintech is an AI-based learning platform teaches coding and other tech skills
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Latvia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $30k–$762k; Pre-Seed $20k–$550k; Convertible Note $25k–$30k
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides Post-Authentication Data Security (PADS) to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce TPRM. It blocks bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
- HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
- Visionteractive — Visionteractive develops social media based, fun and interactive physical and digital products, bridging the gap between online and actual world. The company aims to bring a brand together with the target audience by developing various creative products, while enhancing the memorability owing to the interactive experience with the users.Visionteractive was founded on 2013 and is based in Turkey.
Rho Canada Ventures is a division of Rho Capital Partners focusing on early-stage investing in Canada’s most innovative technology companies.The Rho Canada Ventures team comprises a unique combination of entrepreneurial, operational, and venture investment experience in the United States and Canada. With a combined 80 years of experience, RhoCanada Ventures offers entrepreneurs the expertise to turn Canadian innovators into global leaders. Rho Canada Ventures' portfolio companies are a diverse group of investments that span new media, mobile applications, wireless infrastructure, semiconductors and materials, and software.
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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Canada, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2M; Series A $750k–$8M; Series B $4.3M–$37M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sportlogiq — Sportlogiq is a venture-backed startup that develops sports statistics solutions. Using feeds from current broadcast cameras, the company uses player tracking and activity recognition to analyze player movement and provide context to game analysis. Sportlogiq was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
- Auvik Networks — Auvik’s cloud-based network management software keeps IT networks around the world running optimally. By automating and simplifying network management, Auvik helps rocket an IT team’s efficiency and capacity, while protecting the business from network risk. Auvik is one of the fastest growing North American technology companies, and is winner ofthe Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Deloitte Fast 500, and recognized as the #1 ranked Canadian company in the FT Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2020. Visit www.auvik.com or follow @AuvikNetworks on Twitter. Auvik is a registered trademark of Auvik Networks Inc.
- Resson — Curate a collection of unforgettable quotes from celebrities that inspire, amuse, or provoke thought. This section showcases their wisdom and wit, resonating with audiences.
Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany, Russian Federation, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
- Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
- June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Machine Learning, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- BRANDEFENSE — Brandefense platform is a proactive digital risk protection solution for organizations. Our AI-driven technology constantly scans the dark, deep, and surface web.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
Yıldız Ventures has three main fields of activity. These areas stand out as startup acceleration program, incubation, and financial investment. Entrepreneurs who receive support from Yıldız Ventures have the opportunity to test their products on a pilot scale and receive important feedback on product-market compatibility by collaborating withcorporate companies from the early stages.
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- Industry: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Clickme Live — Clickme Live is a video-oriented shopping platform that sells products to consumer with live broadcasts, short videos, and commercials.
Backed by our entrepreneurial and venture capital knowhow,we are creating value with the innovative and scalable tech companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MYTH AI — Design at the Speed of trends with Your AI design partner! From ideas to patterns, turn your vision into production-ready designs in seconds. Fashion Designers Export Houses & Textile Manufacturers Fashion & Retail Design Teams Footwear & Bag Designers Ceramic &...
- Startups.Watch — Investment analytics for Turkish and MENA region startups.
- Portfoy Financial Tech Inc. — Portfoy Financial Tech is a financial technology company that provides a platform for tracking and managing investments. The app allows users to monitor stocks, cryptocurrencies, public offerings, and funds in real time. It offers instant balance tracking, showing the current value of investments and profit or loss. The platform includes tools foranalyzing performance and risk to support decision-making. It works with financial institutions and well-known companies as a trusted partners.
Cem Topcuoglu
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- Industry: Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Sercan Isik - CEO & Co-Founder @ Scorp
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- Industry: Retail, Procurement, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Baby
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Italy, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Juphy — Juphy offers communication platform.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Replenit — Boost retention with smart replenishment & AI-driven repurchases. Automate repeat purchases and grow your store with Replenit.
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- Industry: Retail, FinTech, Leasing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Fintegre — Affordibility Solutions Platform for Retailers. Fintegre operates in many verticals from Consumer financing solutions to Trade-in programs
- Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
- WorqCompany — WorqCompany provides services to businesses and entrepreneurs with technology and sharing economy support in these components. WorqCompany is positioned as a new generation.
Venture Capital Investment firm founded in Frankfurt am Main in Germany
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- Industry: Retail Technology, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Forwardie — Forwardie, as a Digital Freight Forwarder, ensures that you and your operations experts are always in control of your goods through its technology approach.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Uygar Mesudiyeli is the Founder and Managing Partner of PragmaTech. He previously worked at Beylerbeyi UK Ltd. as a Co-Founder. Uygar Mesudiyeli attended the University of London.
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- Industry: Wedding, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
- Weddingbouquet.com — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
- KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Ebru Dorman
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- Industry: Health Care, Apps, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $100k–$480k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
- Genz Biotech — Genz is a biotech research & development company, developing novel diagnostic solutions for complex diseases, like cancer, coronavirus pandemic. Genz provides solutions for medical centers and/or end-users in cooperation with genetic disease and diagnostic centers. To date, Genz received 4 R&D grants and approval by Turkish Ministryof Health for 3 genetic tests.
- Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Alpay Berk Caglayan is the founder of Inviox Studios, an advisor at Joseph Shining, and a Stakeholder & Executive Partner at Zwiket. He previously worked at Zwiket as an Advisor. Alpay currently manages $8.2 million in assets. Alpay Berk Caglayan attended Yale University.
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- Industry: Digital Marketing, Advertising, Art
- Stage:Private Equity, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Zwiket — Zwiket is a multi-faceted brand start-up, blending marketing, design, and technology. Partnering with over 20 innovative brands globally, with bases in Växjö, Köln, Istanbul, and London.
- Wepress Media — Wepress is a full-service millennial-run marketing agency - offering inventive, results-driven solutions that harness the highest immediate return in digital + social media. With core services anchored around Social Media Management, Web Design & Development, Ad Management, Branding & Design and Email Marketing, we cut the fluff and bringprojects from plan to production with hands-off execution + results you can see. Specialties include creative production, go-to-market strategy and user acquisition.
- Joseph Shining — Joseph Shining is a Turkish-American multinational retailer of personal care and beauty products with nearly 10 brands, along with its own private label, Joseph's Collection, and includes beauty products such as cosmetics, skincare, fragrance, nail color, beauty tools, body lotions, and haircare.
Aras Bulut İynemli is a Turkish actor.
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- Industry: Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
İzzet Zakuto
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- Industry: Apps, Music, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $350k–$788k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Turkey Development Fund aims to develop the enterprise ecosystem by investing in new generation startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- Eatron Technologies — Intelligent Software Platform for Battery Management System & Intelligent Motion Control - Eatron Technologies
Onder Oztarhan
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- Industry: Retail, Recycling, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kito — Kito provides natural, fresh and healthy food for dogs.
- Nivogo — Nivo ana sayfa
EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $64k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
- Phoca — Phoca is a software company that specializes in the designing and development of hyper casual games for enthusiastic individuals.
- Skymod Technology — Skymod is a technology company providing a platform that addresses the challenges businesses face in adopting AI by simplifying prompt engineering, ensuring data security, and offering integrated solutions within a unified platform, eliminating the need for extensive coding knowledge and streamlining workflows.
Retail Investor funding in Turkey at a glance
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