Top 20 Social Network Startup Investors in Turkey in May 2026
Top 20 Social Network Startup Investors in Turkey in May 2026
| Investor | Social Network Turkey investments |
|---|---|
| TRANGELS | 4 |
| Joachim Behrendt | 2 |
| Mehmet Onarcan | 2 |
| ENA Venture Capital | 2 |
| 3TS Capital Partners | 1 |
| Boğaziçi Ventures | 1 |
| Ibrahim Ulukaya | 1 |
| Engin Utkan | 1 |
| Zoran Arsovski | 1 |
| Kivilcim Cayli | 1 |
| Ozlem Petek Hun | 1 |
| Eleven Ventures | 1 |
| Huseyin Karayagiz | 1 |
| Lima Ventures | 1 |
| Emrullah Saku | 1 |
| Ayhan Ağırgöl | 1 |
| Blizzard Fund | 1 |
| Erbil Karaman | 1 |
| Horia Manda | 1 |
| VCDE Venture Partners | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.
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- SaaS, Software, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
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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- Apps, Internet, Social Media
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, Ireland, United States
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- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
- Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
- Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
We partner with entrepreneurs with the mission to make the world a better place, help the society progress,.
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- Software, Web Development
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Orbina — Transform customer experience with Orbina AI. Shorten response times, boost satisfaction and increase conversions with smart AI chat.
- Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.
- Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.
One of the leading European technology-focused growth capital investors, backing high-growth SMEs across Technology & Internet, Media & Communications.
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- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Funding Round, Series A, Seed
- United States, Romania, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Boksi — Influencer marketing campaigns. Custom brand photos and videos with full usage rights. Over 10,000 amazing creators. All on one easy-to-use platform.
- JENTIS — Mit JENTIS erheben Sie Ihre First Party Daten und leiten sie serverseitig DSGVO-konform an Ihre Marketing-Tools weiter. Jetzt Demo buchen.
- Spectrm — charles is the Conversational Marketing AI and CRM platform for brands to attract, convert, and retain customers via AI agents and marketing automations.
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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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
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- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- 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.
- 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.
Ibrahim Ulukaya
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- AgTech, Gaming, Farming
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- 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.
- Octo — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
- Wide Game Studio — Wide Game Studio aims to provide people with innovative virtual reality gaming and application experiences that are unmatched. With great enthusiasm and excitement. Wide Game Studio strives to be an innovator in the virtual reality industry by pushing the frontiers of imagination.
A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect
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- Art, AgTech, Farming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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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.
- 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.
- Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
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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- Software, FinTech, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, Turkey, United States
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- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
- Visibilio — We build AI agents for content creation - helping companies connect with customers and powering the intelligence hubs strategic sectors need to make better decisions and move faster.
- Native Teams — Hire anyone, anywhere with Native Teams. Use EOR and PEO services to employ global talent or get compliant employment as a freelancer.
Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.
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- Travel, Leisure, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden
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- Yourkeys — 'Yourkeys is a real-time transactional and data platform for house builders and estate agents selling properties. The platform significantly accelerates the property sales process whilst giving all stakeholders visibility of the transaction in real-time.'
- Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
- 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.
Ozlem Petek Hun
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- Film, Software, Biotechnology
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
- 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 — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom
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- LAM'ON — LAM'ON OOD was created with the intention of creating a product that would be recyclable or compostable, improve environmental and human health safety, and readily replace the existing petroleum-based plastic solutions.
- Bitloops — Bitloops is an AI-powered application development platform that enables organizations to develop, maintain, and operate complex web applications with ease. It helps you easily modify system designs, deploy applications to production, and manage changes, new features, and products. The platform enables teams to innovate quickly and grow the productor business without compromising the product's usability, extendability, or maintainability. Bitloops makes it simpler than ever to create high-quality software utilizing best practices and techniques like DDD, BDD, TDD, hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, ports and adapters, CQRS, and event sourcing suitable for extending legacy systems as well as new initiatives.
- Outfindo — Making bikes & e-bikes buying easy
Huseyin Karayagiz
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- Software, AgTech, Battery
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- ADASTEC — ADASTEC delivers the most advanced Level-4 automation platform for full-size buses and coaches currently available. The ADASTEC Open Automated Bus Platform called “flowride.ai” is designed for large-scale public transport along pre-defined routes on public roads. “Flowride.ai” allows OEMs to build the best automated bus configurations for the needsof the public transportation operators.
- 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.
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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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
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- Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
- heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
- Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
Emrullah Saku
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- Social Network
- Angel
- Turkey
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- Octo — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
Ayhan Ağırgöl
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- Social Network
- Angel
- Turkey
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- Octo — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
Blizzard Fund is a venture capital fund managed by AVA Labs and targets cryptocurrency industries.
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- Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Japan
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- dKloud — dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products.
- Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.
- Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.
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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- Web3, Medical, Freelance
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
- inshAllah — inshAllah is a cryptocurrency staking platform that works on cutting edge applications of Islamic finance built on crypto rails.
- HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
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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- Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Magfi — A search engine that analyzes communities into WhatsApp, Telegram, and Discord with AI, ML, and NLP and places ads with micro-targeting.
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- Software, SEO, Automotive
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Turkey, India
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- itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
- 123Fahrschule — 123fahrschule.de - consolidating and digitizing the German driving school market
- StalkBuyLove — Styched is India's largest online youth fashion brand. Shop everything from tshirts, polos, hoodies to tops, dresses and a large range of fashion products online on Styched. Free delivery for all prepaid orders.
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Enlighty AI
— Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.
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Salty Enerji
— Salty Enerji is a manufacturing company that designs energy storage infrastructure to enhance renewable power efficiency and distribution.
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Weddingbouquet.com
— DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
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