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Top 50 Social Media Startup Investors in Turkey (August 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
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
3 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $17k–$4.6M
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $18k–$697k
Hande Enes
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$4.1M
Q Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed Podcast, Software, Blockchain $100k–$3.1M
Entertech Birinci Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Fonu
VC Fund
2 Turkey Seed PC Games, Software, Video Games $250k–$400k
Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$2.5M
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Software, Video Games $50k–$2M
Erdem Yurdanur
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Brazil Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Information Technology, Mobile, Marketplace $30k–$1M
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$15M
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 States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Online Games, Mobile $130k–$2.7M
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $204k–$6.9M
Ihsan Elgin
Angel
1 Turkey, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $244k–$4M
Keiretsu Forum Northwest
VC Fund
1 United States, Spain, Canada Series A, Seed Health Care, Software, Biotechnology $507k–$8M
Wesley Clover
VC Fund
1 Canada, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $327k–$8M
seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund
1 Germany, Austria, Switzerland Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $625k–$20M
İlker Diker
Angel
1 Turkey, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Art, Music, Dating
TRANGELS
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $29k–$1.4M
Inventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services $100k–$7M
212
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $250k–$27M
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Music, AgTech $350k–$1.5M
RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
1 Turkey, Canada, Germany Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown FinTech, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps $244k–$38M
Alper Akcan
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, mHealth $400k–$2.5M
Alphan Manas
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Education, Communities
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, France Seed, Angel Software, Internet, E-Commerce $100k–$3M
N. Kemal Yılmaz
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Kokteyl
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed PaaS, Music, Mobile $142k–$350k
Kaya Diker
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Music, Dating, Podcast
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Gamze Cizreli
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Q&A, Internet, Social Media
Serkan Borancılı
Angel
1 Turkey Series A, Angel, Series B Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes $350k–$2M
Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS $25k–$5M
Erkin Fındık
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Content, FinTech, Medical
Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Recipes, eSports, Delivery
Sercan Alici
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Pet, Music, Dating $4k–$50k
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
1 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $27k–$2.7M
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Teknasyon
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Fitness, Software $112k–$15M
ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $50k–$400k
Servet Akcaalan
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Banking, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
AI Startup Factory
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $30k–$2.5M
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Techstart Ventures
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, Ireland, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care $100k–$3.9M
StartersHub
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Latvia Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $20k–$821k
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.

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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: 46
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Odeal — Oedeal is a developer of an app designed for companies to take payments via mobile. With the help of the company's platform, shops can do away with cash registers and accept payments from customers using tablets, smartphones, or point-of-sale devices, allowing them to finish their purchases right away. Making it simpler for all entrepreneursto access financial services is central to their mission of boosting the competitiveness of both enterprises and the nation.
  • MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
  • Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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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 $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Blaze Labs — Blaze is real-time video infrastructure with wallet-native subscriptions and tips with instant payouts, delivering low-latency live streaming at global scale.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 122
  • Round size: Seed $17k–$645k; Pre-Seed $26k–$150k; Convertible Note $30k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
  • Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
  • ConverJinn — AI-powered product categorization and conversion optimization for online stores. Boost conversions and make every product page count.
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 2 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: Social Media, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Letz — Letz is a mobile app that lets you find available people for all activities to hang out with.
  • Missafir — Missafir creates value both for homeowners and short/mid term house rental guests. Missafir’s comprehensive services including profile management on more than 15 platforms, dynamic pricing and tech-enabled operational support services enable homeowners to rent their homes through a fast, reliable, high-profit and stress-free model. On theother side, 24/7 service support, concierge and cleaning services, provide 5-star hotel quality experience to the guests.
  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 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, Estonia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $18k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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 the creator of a platform for marketing analysis that aids e-commerce managers in finding chances for revenue growth and in making better choices. It provides clients with digital reporting, online meetings, online communication, an online project management system, and an online playbook that helps them discover problems, findpossibilities for revenue growth, and cut expenses.
  • 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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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • 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–$430k
  • 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, Software, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$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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Entertech Birinci Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Fonu
VC Fund · 2 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Entertech Birinci Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Fonu is an investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PC Games, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Game Actor — Join Game Actor to showcase achievements, find teammates, and stay updated with gaming events. A hub for gamers and game communities.
  • Pax Animi Games — Hyper Casual Games
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 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, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
  • 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.
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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: Gaming, Software, Video Games
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $134k–$2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$600k; Series A $228k–$431k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% 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: Information Technology, Mobile, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $142k–$1M; Pre-Seed $30k–$510k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
  • Yemece — Yemece offers its customers the opportunity to design their own menus.
  • Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
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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, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
  • 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.
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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: Software, Online Games, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $130k–$2.7M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Paydas — Paydas is a prop-fintech startup enabling individuals to invest digitally in income and appreciation of selected global real estate.
  • Sentez — An AI portfolio studio building, testing and scaling consumer apps and B2B AI tools.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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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; Angel $204k–$430k; Pre-Seed $660k–$901k
  • 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 — At Visibilio, we are at the forefront of a seismic shift in how companies connect with their clients. Our mission is simple: to empower companies, organizations, and individuals to seamlessly create, repurpose, and distribute meaningful content—turning their audiences into loyal clients. We believe that building your own audience shouldn’t be hardor expensive, and is much more efficient compared to buying it from platforms like Google/Facebook.Who We AreVisibilio was founded by a team of experienced professionals: Alexei Lazarov, former editor-in-chief of Bulgaria’s leading business media Capital; Zoran Arsovski, a marketing professional, entrepreneur, and investor; and Stoyan Kondev, a skilled software developer and BPM consultant. Together, they bring a unique blend of editorial expertise, business acumen, and technological innovation to drive transformative change.What We Do (And Why)Visibilio builds an AI-powered agentic workforce that transforms the way content is created and distributed. With our swarms and constelations of AI agents, telling interesting stories and building loyal audiences is no longer time-consuming or costly. We believe that the way people consume information and how businesses connect with clients is undergoing a profound transformation. In the coming years, it will be essential for companies to think like publishers—creating consistent, meaningful content, building their own audiences, and converting them into loyal customers.At Visibilio, we are developing the tools to make this shift seamless, helping businesses save time, effort, and resources while staying ahead in an evolving digital landscape.
  • 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 $244k–$4M
  • 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. Vartega develops alternative technology, processes, and equipment to provide low-cost carbon fiber for use in mass-market applications.Vartega's patented carbon fiber recycling process scales rapidly to fill a gap in thecomposites supply chain. The company’s carbon fiber is available in semi-continuous, chopped, and milled forms. It is ideally suited for use in thermoplastics, non-wovens, and molding compounds.
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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: 71
  • Round size: Seed $327k–$1.5M; Series A $458k–$8M
  • Lead/follow: 51% lead, 49% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • VizioSense — VizioSense optimizes operations of Cities and Companies through Edge AI computer vision sensors respecting people's privacy.
  • Renewity RMA — Renewity RM offers a web application to track and manage after-sales service and returns and repairs, and has processed over 1,000,000 RMAs to date for name brand customers like Panasonic Industrial Devices, Bridgewave , Honeywell, Brooks, Illinois Tools Works and Instantel. Customers have achieved up to a 66% decrease in turnaround times, themost important metric in the RMA world, as well as 90 % reduced phone calls and emails to service staff, a reduction in product returns of up to 25 %., new after-sales service revenues and profits, and a vastly improved customer experience for service.
  • Martello Technologies — Prioritize and resolve performance problems and optimize the Microsoft 365 and Teams user experience with Martello Vantage DX.
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seed + speed Ventures
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 83
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$5.8M; Pre-Seed $625k–$3.9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% 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.
  • SOUS — One easy-to-use tool to grow traffic, make online sales, seamlessly handle orders and drive retention. Built for food entrepreneurs, built with taste.
  • Promptwatch — PromptWatch is a platform designed for SEO professionals and digital marketers who want to stay ahead in the age of AI-driven search. As Generative AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity increasingly influence how users discover information, PromptWatch helps businesses ensure their brand is visible and relevant within these AI-generatedanswers. Our tool enables users to monitor mentions of their brand across leading AI engines, uncover where and how their business is referenced, and identify optimization opportunities to improve visibility. By tapping into Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), PromptWatch empowers marketers to adapt their strategies beyond traditional search engines—ensuring their content gets surfaced in the conversations and answers that matter most. PromptWatch is your essential toolkit for thriving in the next wave of search.
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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, Music, Dating
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia

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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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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $29k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zippsi — Zippsi connects individual and corporate clients with vehicle leasing companies in a quick, efficient and smart way.
  • Trawell Data — Trawell Data is a mobile data services company that provides travelers to use mobile data on their mobile phones without changing phones or sim cards. It enables the phone to digitally connect and use the local operator. Trawell Data was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Syosset, New York.
  • 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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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, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cenoa — Cenoa - The smartest way to get paid globally!
  • ELTA360 — ELTA360 transforms the way we experience properties in the digital realm. Creating 3D tours can appear complex, hence ELTA360 designed an uncomplicated learning journey that simplifies the process for anyone to start crafting digital twins of properties. It serves as the optimal instrument for real estate agents, architects, hospitality serviceproviders, and anyone else aspiring to showcase their spaces innovatively and incorporate them into their marketing channels
  • Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.
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212
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups, 8 in the past 12 months

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $280k–$4M; Series A $1.7M–$22M; Series B $250k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $51M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Promake — Talk to AI, get your business online. Manage your website and domain, accept payments.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees provides a digital platform that helps organizations support employee wellbeing and engagement through personalized experiences and wellbeing programs. The platform offers access to one-on-one sessions with specialists such as psychologists, dietitians, physical trainers, and therapists, as well as educational content, webinars, and guidedactivities. Employees can participate in clubs, events, and challenges, track their progress, and receive AI-based recommendations tailored to their individual needs. For employers, Wellbees includes analytics tools, employee surveys, and dashboards that provide aggregated insights into wellbeing, engagement, and platform usage. The platform integrates with workplace applications such as Microsoft Teams and Slack and is available through web and mobile applications.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 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–$1.5M
  • 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 — Getmobil operates a smart device platform for buying and selling secondhand cellphones, laptops, and tablets. The company's platform repairs defective devices as quickly as possible offers a wide selection of device accessories, buys used electronic devices in good condition from consumers, determines the problems by passing them throughextensive tests, repairs them with an expert technical team, and resells them, allowing consumers to get a new or refurbished product at an affordable, reliable, and competitive price.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
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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, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M; Venture - Series Unknown $500k–$20M
  • 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 — Manage secure team communication and AI-powered learning with Vimesoft on one platform, while keeping your data under your control on your own infrastructure.
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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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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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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 — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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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: Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 57
  • Round size: Seed $233k–$2.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
  • Komunite — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
  • ya da multicosmetics — ya da multicosmetics is a cosmetics brand and aims to accelerate its R&D efforts, support its growth.
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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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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 — Git Kargo; Yeni Nesil Kargo #gitkargo
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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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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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Serkan Borancılı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Shoes
  • Stage:Series A, Angel, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $350k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
  • denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
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Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $29k–$5M; Pre-Seed $25k–$150k; Equity Crowdfunding $171k–$205k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • 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.
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Erkin Fındık
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Erkin Fındık

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, FinTech, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidolog — Kidolog offers developmental processes for children from pregnancy to the age of 18 and provides support in different categories to children and parents. They provide counseling services via video, voice, or messaging. Their purpose is that the child development process is carried out by their skilled personnel in collaboration with parents.
  • Postuby — Postuby is a social media content platform that provides an easy way for individuals and businesses to improve their social media presence. Postuby, which focuses on social media content, provides a variety of ready-made designs that are specifically tailored for use on various social media platforms. Users can choose from thousands of designs forspecial occasions such as holidays, religious days, and public holidays, which can all be personalized with their own brand logo. Postuby streamlines the content creation process, allowing users to quickly and easily create high-quality social media posts that are tailored to their specific requirements.
  • TeklifimGelsin — TeklifimGelsin is a personalized Digital Banking Marketplace Platform that connects users and banks with banking requests. You can access TeklifimGelsin platform portal, via the web application to get personalized loan, deposit and credit card offerings from the commercial banks.TeklifimGelsin, helps platform members to make loan, deposit andcredit card applications in less than 40 seconds with its fast, reliable and easy use. In addition to customized banking offerings, TeklifimGelsin has a profile page where people can view their credit scores.
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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: 50% lead, 50% 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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Sercan Alici
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Sercan Alici

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Pet, Music, Dating
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Angel $4k–$50k
  • 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.
  • Keymate.AI
  • 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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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 — Wudya is a social gaming company developing social and mobile games. Wudya developed 8 social games on Facebook like Magnificent Millennium and The Message, playable globally in Turkish, English and Arabic. In total 1.2 million users played these games.Our next product, a unique game, specially designed for smartphones and tablets offers a wholenew way of gaming experience combined with the old school methods. Whole story, design documents and a playable prototype is ready for the game.
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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: 149
  • Round size: Seed $27k–$2.7M; Pre-Seed $219k–$1.1M; Convertible Note $27k–$121k
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% 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 scales your B2B sales with AI. Up to 30% revenue uplift, $1 per order processing cost, live in 30 days. No new apps, no behavior change.
  • 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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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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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

More than a single company. An operating system designed to create, grow, and scale new ventures.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 28
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M; Series A $250k–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% 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 — Komünite is Turkey's methodology-driven digital entrepreneurship platform, founded in 2021 to transform how independent creators and micro-entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses. Rather than relying on innate talent or chance, Komünite champions a systematic approach to venture building—what it calls "Metot Girişimcilik"(Methodical Entrepreneurship)—where learnable frameworks replace guesswork and data-driven iteration replaces intuition.The platform operates across three integrated verticals:• Komünite (Core Platform): An online community of digital entrepreneurs, content creators, designers, and freelancers supported by 36 specialized forum channels, structured mentorship programs, and regular events including Tool Night, AMA sessions, Speed Networking, and Founder's Talk. Members gain access to educational resources, collaborative project opportunities, and the Katma Değer Fonu—an in-house investment fund providing $2,000–$7,000 in seed capital to promising digital ventures in exchange for 30% equity stakes.• Komünite Space: A 160m² physical innovation hub located in Vadistanbul, Istanbul, featuring event capacity for 80 seated or 160 standing attendees, a professional video production studio, and flexible workspace configurations. The venue hosts workshops, corporate training programs, and sector-specific networking events that bridge online community engagement with real-world collaboration.• Lokomotif AI: The corporate training arm delivering generative AI programs to enterprises. Offerings include AI Leadership seminars for executives, AI Literacy workshops for teams, AI Strategy development programs, and monthly AI Trends briefings. Lokomotif AI also provides automation consulting and custom AI-powered digital product development services.Komünite addresses a structural gap in Turkey's entrepreneurship ecosystem: the isolation, resource scarcity, and methodological uncertainty that constrain independent digital creators. Through its rolling fund model, physical infrastructure, and enterprise training revenue streams, the platform has built a self-reinforcing ecosystem where corporate clients fund community growth, successful ventures generate reinvestable returns, and members progress from learners to mentors to founders.The platform's venture studio arm, Komünite Stüdyo, develops digital products for external clients while serving as a proving ground for member talent, matching projects with specialists from its internal database based on demonstrated competencies and track records.
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ŞirketOrtağım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

The company's mission is to build angel investors with a platform that will bring together early stage initiatives. These platforms via venture capital from angel investors and is intended to ensure the transfer of knowledge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$400k; Angel $60k–$142k; Pre-Seed $71k–$236k
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Itz Nutz — Itz Nutz is dedicated to making healthy eating both accessible and enjoyable for everyone by offering a delicious range of cashew-based, plant-based flavors that are nutritious, satisfying, and crafted to support a balanced lifestyle.
  • ThingsHappen — ThingsHappen is an innovative Insurtech designed to transform consumer interactions with their insurance policies. By serving as a comprehensive digital insurance wallet, ThingsHappen enables users to consolidate, manage, and understand all their insurance coverage in one seamless interface. Leveraging advanced AI, natural language processing, anda semantic knowledge base, our platform turns complex policy language into clear, actionable information. Users benefit from personalized recommendations, proactive protection alerts, and asynchronous quote comparisons that facilitate informed, stress-free decision-making.Our mission is to simplify the opaque and fragmented insurance landscape, empowering consumers to make the most of their coverage while providing transparency and ease of use. ThingsHappen also supports insurance providers by enhancing customer engagement, streamlining operations, and offering valuable data insights for improved underwriting and product development. As a platform-agnostic solution, ThingsHappen redefines insurance from a passive product to an interactive, proactive service that aligns with modern consumer needs.
  • 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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Servet Akcaalan
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, Social Media, Media and Entertainment
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ClouFan — ClouPlay offers a platform to manage, distribute, and broadcast live and VOD content. The solution works across web browsers, operating systems, and devices. It integrates tools for content management, cloud synchronization, and multi-platform distribution. Users can deliver content to broadcast, OTT, IPTV, mobile, and social media platformsefficiently.Clou Paymewnt Gateway ClouFan accelerates the expression for our users that will connect their wallet to all International banking and Crypto networks.Clou Payment gateway is now open to use ClouFan. create the release Define your approval processes . Let's start your wallet creation. Confirm your activations in all Banking and Crypto networks when you create ClouPAY.You will be able to receive many services from your banking systems to your stock market transactions. Your visa procedures, your holiday and tourism definitions will be organized very soon.You can sell your products with personal sessions. You can define the Company you own and access job applications. You can create financing donation campaigns, you can generate income for your structures. You can collect your product promotions and offers from your company page.You can create your secure video, audio and text messages with ClouFan.Create your own Network, take your place in our International BusinessFi network.#cloufan #clou #cloupay
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AI Startup Factory
VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 48
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$495k; Venture - Series Unknown $30k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Novus Technologies — Novus is a communication technologies company whose products focus on productivity and creativity in content creation using the state-of-the-art approaches in Artificial Intelligence.
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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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Techstart Ventures
VC Fund · Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Turkey Social Media startups

Techstart Ventures is a first-cheque investor for extraordinary founders pursuing uncapped global opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 162
  • Round size: Seed $249k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Gigged.AI — Fill skill gaps using our on-demand talent network. Get AI-powered, real-time visibility over your employee and agent capabilities to power internal mobility.
  • Product Guru — Although there has been a significant change of pace in the technology used within the retail sector, the process of finding the products that drive the market has really remained at a stand-still. With more and more small, specialist suppliers driving innovation in the sector, it has been harder than ever for buyers to be able to consider alloptions.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
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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: Turkey, United States, Latvia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $50k–$821k; 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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Social Media Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 40 deals from 71 investors.

71
investors
in Turkey Social Media startups
40
deals
in Turkey Social Media startups
$150k
median round
in Turkey Social Media startups
17%
lead investors
lead at least one round
55%
Seed
most common funding stage
48/52
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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