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Top 45 Social Media Startup Investors in Turkey (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sina Afra
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet $15k–$11M
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
3 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Hande Enes
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Social Media $29k–$4.1M
Q Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media $176k–$3.1M
Wesley Clover
VC Fund
1 Canada, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $327k–$8M
Ufuk Sarı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Kokteyl
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed PaaS, Music, Mobile $142k–$350k
seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $603k–$20M
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Recipes, eSports, Delivery
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Sercan Alici
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Pet, Hospitality, Photography
İlker Diker
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Art
Kaya Diker
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Teknasyon
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Apps, Mobile, Fitness $112k–$1.5M
Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
TRANGELS
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $24k–$1.4M
StartersHub
VC Fund
1 United States, Turkey, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$762k
H2O Investment
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Analytics, Information Technology, B2B
Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$2.5M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Gaming, Information Technology $82k–$1.5M
Erdem Yurdanur
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Mobile, iOS, Advertising $142k–$1M
Alper Akcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, mHealth $400k–$2.5M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $18k–$702k
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$2.5M
Inventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail $1.9M–$4.3M
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A SaaS, Software, Social Media $11k–$1.9M
Volkan Bicer
Angel
1 Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates Seed, Pre-Seed Online Games, Mobile, Software $99k–$2M
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $678k–$6.9M
Ihsan Elgin
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $180k–$8M
Keiretsu Forum Northwest
VC Fund
1 United States, Spain, Canada Series A, Seed Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $507k–$8M
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Education, Communities
212
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $250k–$27M
Alphan Manas
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Music, AgTech $350k–$788k
Horia Manda
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Internet, Software, E-Commerce $84k–$3.7M
Gamze Cizreli
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
1 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $27k–$2.3M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
1 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, E-Commerce $123k–$38M
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Ireland, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Apps, Internet, Social Media
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

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.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 3 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
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Q Angels
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Podcast, Blockchain, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $176k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
  • eTasin — https://etasin.com
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Wesley Clover
VC Fund · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Wesley Clover is a private, global investment management firm and holding company, enabling entrepreneurs, innovation and technology worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Canada, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$1.5M; Series A $458k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Validient — Validient is a digital client onboarding system for law firms, real estate agents, and other regulated businesses.
  • VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
  • Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
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Ufuk Sarı
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Ufuk Sarı is the Angel Investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

N. Kemal Yılmaz is an Angel Investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Kokteyl
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

KOKTEYL offers its knowledge in information technologies to users in mobile and internet environments. It develops and operates functional systems with multiple users in the mobile and internet environment.KOKTEYL was established in 2002, primarily with the objective of developing B2C projects technology environments.KOKTEYL has divided itsin-house organization into two units: operations and business development. The operations unit provides content to operated and supported sites and applications, performs moderation, and provides technical support. The business development unit adds new functions to the existing projects and develops new projects.With its staff consisting of 30 people, KOKTEYL continues to create quality, creative and leading projects as a company that has developed and operated leading projects in the internet sector.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PaaS, Music, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$350k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Pepapp — Woman Health Mobile Applications
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seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Empowering visionary founders with pre-seed and seed funding for B2B software innovation. Partner with us to turn your aspirations into thriving businesses. Our expert support ensures your journey to success.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 77
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $603k–$3.9M; Series A $2.7M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Covalo — Covalo™ is disrupting how formulation-driven products are developed in the 3 trillion euro consumer goods industry so brands can reduce time to market by scouting ingredients and packaging, collaborating on projects, and purchasing -- all from one place. . Today it's one of the largest beauty ingredient search platforms that connects beautybrands with suppliers of ingredients, packaging, and services such as contract manufacturing, formulation, regulatory, compliance and testing. It also arms suppliers with the tools and real-time industry insights needed to effectively market products. Covalo launched in 2021 and is based in Switzerland.
  • Cashlink — The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe's leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution. Compared to a traditional security,tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today. Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech. As a founding member of the European forum "International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications" (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow's capital market today.
  • OPTIMUSE — Optimuse provides an AI-based solution that supports the pre-design phase of building renovation. The platform converts building data into a digital twin to create accurate models for planning. It integrates data such as room types, thermal properties, and HVAC systems. The system runs energy simulations to calculate heating, cooling, lighting, andequipment needs. It helps design technical systems by defining the quantity, sizing, and configuration of components. The platform develops renovation plans by modeling financial, energy, and emissions outcomes. It also offers tools for cost calculation, performance monitoring, and collaboration across project teams.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Kaan Kalıpçı

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Recipes, eSports, Delivery
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
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Kaan Kural
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Sercan Alici
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Sercan Alici

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Hospitality, Photography
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% 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.
  • Albumera — Albumera provides photography services. They offer business, maternity, social media, and online photography services. An online inquiry form is available on the company's website.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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İlker Diker
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

İlker Diker - Co-Founder - CPO @ Papara

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
  • Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Kaya Diker
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Kaya Diker is the Co-Founder and CTO of Faladdin and Vision Technology. He previously worked at Michigan State University as a Research Assistant. Kaya attended Michigan State University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Music, Dating, Podcast
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and ​172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Mobile, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 22
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Yalcin Ayaydin

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $52k–$1.4M; Angel $24k–$500k; Pre-Seed $29k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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.
  • Salty Enerji — Salty Enerji is a manufacturing company that designs energy storage infrastructure to enhance renewable power efficiency and distribution.
  • 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.
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StartersHub
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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H2O Investment
VC Fund · Kocaeli, Kocaeli, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Early Stage Venture Investments

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Information Technology, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • OlyHi — OlyHi is a mobile application designed to create a secure and educational space that fosters children's creativity.
  • Beekod — Beekod is an innovative SaaS platform designed to streamline and simplify the operational processes of e-commerce businesses. It combines key features such as inventory management, order tracking, marketplace integrations, B2B and retail sales, e-invoicing, accounting, and advanced analytics into a single, user-friendly platform. By offeringseamless integrations with popular marketplaces, Beekod enables businesses to effortlessly expand their digital presence. Focused on small and medium-sized enterprises, Beekod's mission is to provide powerful and accessible tools to help companies succeed in the digital economy. Our goal is to become a globally recognized e-commerce solution, empowering businesses worldwide to grow and achieve success.
  • Grower — Intelligent system that provides SEO, social media, advertising management recommendations integrated with marketing data, helping marketing experts and entrepreneurs
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Gaming, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $82k–$1.5M; Pre-Seed $250k–$600k
  • Lead/follow: 55% lead, 45% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7.3M in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
  • Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
  • Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
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Erdem Yurdanur
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, iOS, Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$1M; Pre-Seed $393k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
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Alper Akcan
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Alper Akcan

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $400k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
  • Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
  • Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Inventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$1.9M; Angel $15k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Volkan Bicer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Online Games, Mobile, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United Arab Emirates

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $99k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
  • Paxie Games — Paxie Games is a software firm that develops mobile games.
  • Novart Space Technologies
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Zoran Arsovski
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Zoran and his team focus on Digital Marketing Consulting for B2B growth-stage companies supported by the leading technology VC funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $870k–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $678k–$911k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
  • Visibilio — We build AI agents for content creation - helping companies connect with customers and powering the intelligence hubs strategic sectors need to make better decisions and move faster.
  • Native Teams — Hire anyone, anywhere with Native Teams. Use EOR and PEO services to employ global talent or get compliant employment as a freelancer.
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
  • Makromusic — Meet people with similar music taste with you, see your music taste in common with your friends, and share about your favorite artists and music. Create your music profile!
  • Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
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Keiretsu Forum Northwest
VC Fund · Seattle, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Keiretsu Forum is a community of private equity investors, business leaders and entrepreneurs with a network of over 50 global chapters and more than 2,500 investor members.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United States, Spain, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 111
  • Round size: Seed $507k–$3M; Series A $600k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • iQure Pharma — iQure Pharma preclinical and clinical drug development
  • Levered Learning — Levered Learning is a classroom-tested and teacher-designed instructional system providing 3rd-5th grade mathematical learning. The company was founded in 2017 by Mitch Slater and is headquartered in Soquel, California, United States.
  • Vartega — Vartega is a technology development company specializing in the carbon fiber-reinforced plastic recycling process. We have developed alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass market applications.
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Education, Communities
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
  • Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; 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

  • Qrambo — Qrambo manages companies' operational processes end-to-end through AI-powered workflow automation and automates repetitive and error-prone processes while offering modular solutions for various sectors such as fintech, e-commerce, educational technology (edtech), logistics, and supply chain management.
  • Promake
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
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Alphan Manas
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye · Kıbrıs

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

İzzet Zakuto

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Horia Manda
Angel · Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Horia Manda has over 17 years of experience in private equity investment management in South-Eastern Europe. He has built a very successful track record in the management, as Chairman or Director of the Board, of numerous portfolio companies, with a special focus on the financial sector. Throughout his career as an investment manager, Horia Mandaadministered equity investments in excess of EUR 200m in a variety of sectors, with successful ventures in areas as diverse as financial services, IT, retail, energy and manufacturing. Horia Manda holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Paris VII, France (1993), an MBA degree (summa cum laude) from the Romanian-Canadian MBA Program (McGill University, University of Quebec-Montreal, ASE Bucharest, 1996) and an M.Sc.in Theoretical Physics from the University of Bucharest (1984).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Gamze Cizreli
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Gamze Cizreli is the Founder & CEO at BigChefs.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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Eleven Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

We empower local heroes to build global success. Eleven is an early-stage VC investing in technology companies in Southeast Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 144
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $219k–$800k; Convertible Note $27k–$121k
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $68M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Flataway.ai — Flataway - the home of subscription living. Live & work from anywhere in a trusted proffessionally managed accomodation.
  • nFuse.ai — nFuse.ai is an AI‑powered B2B sales platform focused on fast‑moving consumer goods (FMCG), positioning itself as an “ordering and communication layer” between brands and their distribution networks.
  • Blue Longevity — Blue Longevity is a supplier of longevity medicine that offers evidence-based, individualized, and integrated approaches to improve longevity and encourage good aging. It uses digital coaching in conjunction with state-of-the-art diagnostics, lifestyle medicine, and regenerative therapies to develop customized workout, stress-reduction, and dietplans.
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Round size: Seed $123k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
  • Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
  • Vimesoft — Vimesoft is a platform that offers video conferencing, enterprise video and remote learning.
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Barış Before
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Barış Before

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
  • Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Social Media Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 28 deals from 54 investors.

54
investors
in Turkey Social Media startups
28
deals
in Turkey Social Media startups
$183k
median round
in Turkey Social Media startups
11%
lead investors
lead at least one round
61%
Seed
most common funding stage
44/56
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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