Top 15 Social Network Angel Investors in Turkey (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Engin Utkan
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Art, AgTech, Farming | $15k–$1.3M |
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Travel, Leisure, Internet | $18k–$1.3M |
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Social Media | $103k–$1.9M |
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Germany, Ireland | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Social Media, Apps, Mobile | |
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Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | AgTech, Battery, Farming | |
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Yusuf Azoz
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Internet, Freelance, Social Network | |
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Emrullah Saku
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Social Network | |
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Erbil Karaman
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Web3, Medical, Freelance | |
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Zoran Arsovski
Angel
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1 | Bulgaria, Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, FinTech, Internet | $204k–$6.9M |
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Ayhan Ağırgöl
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | Social Network | |
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Horia Manda
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media | |
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Tunay Gur
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel | IaaS, SaaS, Software | |
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Ozlem Petek Hun
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Film, Software, Biotechnology | $52k–$100k |
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Aksel Kastoryano
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Hungary, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Big Data, Software, Training | |
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Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | AgTech, Gaming, Retail | $31k–$700k |
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Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of "Startup Investor's Handbook", a technology company investor with 18 investments in 5 countries, management consultant, and private equity professional.He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & ValuationAnalyst) degrees and a Capital Markets Activities License Level 3. After many years of corporate business experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in the companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office and Private Equity & Venture Capital (PE & VC) Director & Partner at Financial Axis A.Ş. | GGI. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
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- Industry: Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $18k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fonbulucu — fonbulucu is a crowding funding platform that provide innovative financing and investment system benefit to entrepreneurs and investors.
- Teleporter — California and Istanbul based VR gaming company dedicated to pushing the boundaries of VR medium and creating high-quality experiences that redefine social interaction and gaming.
- UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $103k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
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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- 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.
Huseyin Karayagiz
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- Industry: AgTech, Battery, Farming
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best-automated bus configurations for the needsof public transportation operators.
- Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
- Batron Energy — Batron is an Energy Electronics Company that offers services in the field of smart Energy Management and Li-Ion Storage Systems.
After getting his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Yusuf Azoz completed his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. Starting his business life in the USA, he worked for four years as senior consultant at Telcordia Technologies, formerly Bell Labs. After returning to Turkey in 2001,he held various positions at Turkcell Value Added Services, finally serving as the Division Head of Consumer Services, responsible of product marketing of Turkcell's consumer value added services, including messaging, mobile internet, music and entertainment services. During this period he witnessed the evolution of internet and mobile technologies, undertaking innovative projects in both fields. Since 2007, Yusuf Azoz is the CEO of Kariyer.net , Turkey’s biggest online recruitment platform with a database of nearly 18 million resumes and 49 thousand member companies, serving with 10 regional offices around the country.
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- Industry: Internet, Freelance, Social Network
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
- HIZLIÇEVİRİ — HIZLIÇEVİRİ is a professional translation platform that enables its users to get contracts, academic papers, technical specifications, and many other documents translated from professional and certified translators. The platform offers translation services for over 36 languages.HIZLIÇEVİRİ was launched in 2014 and is operated from Istanbul,Turkey.
Emrullah Saku
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- Industry: Social Network
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
Erbil Karaman is the Co-Founder and CEO of Huma. He previously worked at Earnin as a Chief Product Officer. Erbil Karaman attended Middle East Technical University,
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- Industry: Web3, Medical, Freelance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
- inshAllah — Superstake your Solana | https://t.co/wBBBzeX5VN
- HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
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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- 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.
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Ayhan Ağırgöl
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- Industry: Social Network
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- 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.
Tunay Gur - Engineering Manager @ Meta
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- Industry: IaaS, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
- Virtkick — Virtkick lets independent hosting companies increase conversion rates, simplify server management and take on the biggest players. Virtkick is a SaaS cloud management panel that offers simplicity and great user experience for our customers - hosting companies - and their end customers - software developers, software houses, designers etc.
Ozlem Petek Hun
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- Industry: Film, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $52k–$100k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best-automated bus configurations for the needsof public transportation operators.
- Materix — Materix is a nanotechnology company collaborating with industry and academia to develop commercializable materials. The company uses thin films for surface properties, providing hydrophobic, photocatalytic, protection, and antibacterial functions.
- Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
Aksel Kastoryano is the Co-Founder at Cameralyze.
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- Industry: Big Data, Software, Training
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Hungary, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Datapare — Expert data engineering consultancy. Build robust pipelines, modern platforms, and AI-ready infrastructure.
- Avatao — Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams.With 600+ challenges and tutorials in 10+ languages, the platform covers a wide range of security topics across the entire security stackfrom OWASP Top 10 to DevSecOps and Cryptography. The platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers will actually learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. This way Avatao equips software engineering teams with a security mindset that increases their capability to reduce risks and react to known vulnerabilities faster. This in turn increases the security capability of a company to ship high-quality products.
- Plugger.ai — Cameralyze is a no-code AI platform to design and build AI applications and workflows without writing code. It includes hundreds of ready-to-use integrations and applications.
Ibrahim Ulukaya
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- Industry: AgTech, Gaming, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $31k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
- artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
- Octo — Octo Networks build app for connecting the communities.
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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.
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Tarfin
— Using its cloud-based platform and smart algorithms, Tarfin provides underbanked farmers with high-quality farm inputs and competitive point-of-sale financing. Tarfin is the winner of EFSE's 2016 Financial Inclusion Challenge.
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Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc.
— Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
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