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Top 30 Social Network Startup Investors in Turkey (October 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Social Network startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Social Network startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
TRANGELS
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $55k–$1.4M
Lima Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech $20k–$697k
Mehmet Onarcan
Angel
2 Turkey, Germany, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Social Media, Apps, Mobile
Kivilcim Cayli
Angel
2 Turkey, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Travel, Leisure, Internet $18k–$1.3M
Engin Utkan
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Art, AgTech, Farming $15k–$1.3M
ENA Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing $41k–$400k
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed SaaS, Software, Social Media $103k–$1.9M
BIC Angels
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Apps, Education $13k–$1.9M
Seedthrift Ventures
VC Fund
1 Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $1.1M–$6M
hiBoost
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed, Convertible Note Apps, Dating, Content $40k–$730k
Emrullah Saku
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
Tunay Gur
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel IaaS, SaaS, Software
Mehmet Gürleyen
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Freelance, Social Network, Professional Services
Aksel Kastoryano
Angel
1 Turkey, Hungary, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Big Data, Software, Training
Eleven Ventures
VC Fund
1 Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce $28k–$2.3M
Erbil Karaman
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Web3, Medical, Freelance
VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund
1 Germany, Turkey, India Seed, Series A Software, SEO, Apps $2M–$6.1M
Horia Manda
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Marketing, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed AgTech, Battery, Farming
Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Software, Video Games $50k–$2M
Blizzard Fund
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency $250k–$27M
3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 United States, Poland, Romania Series A, Venture - Series Unknown Software, SaaS, Information Technology $768k–$12M
hiVC
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $175k–$1.2M
Zoran Arsovski
Angel
1 Bulgaria, Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Internet $204k–$6.9M
Yusuf Azoz
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Internet, Freelance, Social Network
Sinan Güler
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Fitness, Software, Wellness $135k–$2.5M
Ozlem Petek Hun
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Film, Software, Biotechnology $52k–$100k
Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Analytics, E-Commerce $29k–$1.9M
Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed AgTech, Gaming, Retail $31k–$700k
Ayhan Ağırgöl
Angel
1 Turkey Angel Social Network
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Social Network 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: 60
  • Round size: Seed $67k–$1.4M; Angel $100k–$500k; Pre-Seed $55k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Datasance — Securely deploy, manage, and scale containerized workloads across thousands of heterogeneous far-edge and IoT environments.
  • 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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Lima Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network 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: 39
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$697k; Pre-Seed $50k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% 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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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network 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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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Engin Utkan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

A. Engin Utkan is Senior Salesforce Consultant | Flow Automation Expert | Application Architect

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Art, AgTech, Farming
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $15k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
  • 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.
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ENA Venture Capital
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

We partner with entrepreneurs with the mission to make the world a better place, help the society progress,.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Marketing
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $41k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbina — Transform customer experience with Orbina AI. Shorten response times, boost satisfaction and increase conversions with smart AI chat.
  • Aidea — Create high-quality training content in minutes. Aidea helps you generate structured, materials effortlessly with AI.
  • Skymod Technology — AI Transformation for Businesses
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network 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, 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.
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BIC Angels
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company's early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Apps, Education
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $13k–$1.9M; Angel $100k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • CEOtudent — Founded in May 2015, CEOtudent.com is a content-based website that focuses on providing a rich vision and lifestyle to university and young professionals with content focused on success.On our internet site, we offer numerous contents from personal development to marketing, from career to events, from entrepreneurship to current news.AtCEOtudent.com, we share every piece of information we think that we can provide benefits and inspiration, and we are constantly trying to learn something new.
  • Fithletic — Fithletic is an application designed to enhance the way individuals engage with sports and fitness. The platform offers a streamlined and user-friendly experience, allowing users to explore, evaluate, and select gyms or physical activities that best align with their preferences and schedules.
  • Evde Mimar — Evde Mimar is focused home painting. The company has biggest web site traffic in this industy in Turkey. Evde Mimar provide home service for become beautiful home.
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Seedthrift Ventures
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Seedthrift Ventures incubate early phases of blockchain with capital, support, and promotion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aark — Trade crypto perpetuals with up to 1000x leverage, zero gas fees, and an industry-low 0.01% trading fee. Earn payback on losses with VIP rewards. RWA & altcoin perps on Arbitrum. Backed by OKX Ventures.
  • Sekuya — Sekuya is an anime gaming metaverse platform that transform the gaming landscape through a community-driven approach in an entirely new anime epic fantasy universe.
  • Sidus Heroes — gaming company
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hiBoost
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

hiBoost is a venture studio that works with technology-focused startups and helps them develop successful business models.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Dating, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $40k–$500k; Convertible Note $40k–$730k
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tamly — Tamly is a consulting firm that offers curated services for companies to enhance B2B lead generation, networking, and overall sales.
  • Yancep — Yancep is a web-based application. The company offers portfolios that can be modeled according to the investment goals and risk preferences of users. Investors can become anyone with this platform.
  • Karma — Karma is a social media application which mainly focuses on astrology. People can read the deeper analysis of their natal chart and meet new people according to their astrological placements. We aim to emphasis on emotions and build empathy among couples instead of physical appearance focused approach.
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Emrullah Saku
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Emrullah Saku

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Investment focus

  • 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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Tunay Gur
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Tunay Gur - Engineering Manager @ Meta

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Mehmet Gürleyen
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Mehmet Gürleyen is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Freelance, Social Network, Professional Services
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bionluk — A community-driven platform where creative class meets like-minded people, and get hired.
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Aksel Kastoryano
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Aksel Kastoryano is the Co-Founder at Cameralyze.

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Eleven Ventures
VC Fund · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network 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, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Bulgaria, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 195
  • Round size: Seed $28k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $55k–$1.1M; Convertible Note $28k–$120k
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% 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 — Expert care for a healthier, longer life. Opening soon Athens | Istanbul | Sofia
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Erbil Karaman
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

We love to invest in awesome technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SEO, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Turkey, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Series A $2M–$6.1M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2008

Portfolio highlights

  • 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 specializes in the consolidation and digital expansion of the driver's license training in the 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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Horia Manda
Angel · Bucharest, Bucuresti, Romania · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Huseyin Karayagiz

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network 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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Blizzard Fund
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Blizzard Fund is a venture capital fund managed by AVA Labs and targets cryptocurrency industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 145
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$6.9M; Pre-Seed $250k–$3.4M; Series A $3M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Disgo — Disgo is Operator of a customer loyalty and engagement platform
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  • LIFE AI — The clinical-development coordination layer for AI-generated drugs | Discord: https://t.co/gOvHPKVGYB | Telegram: https://t.co/DVjbfueQrk
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3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

One of the leading European technology-focused growth capital investors, backing high-growth SMEs across Technology & Internet, Media & Communications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Poland, Romania

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 79
  • Round size: Series A $768k–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $1M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $120M in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • GoTo (formerly LogMeIn) — GoTo, formerly known as LogMeIn, offers flexible-work software solutions such as GoTo Connect, GoTo Resolve, Rescue, and Central. Designed primarily for small and midsize business IT departments yet robust enough for enterprise use, GoTo's platform supports unified communications and collaboration (UCC) as well as IT management and support.With nearly 800,000 customers, GoTo facilitates over 1 billion participants in meetings, classes, and webinars through its UCC products and enables half a billion connections via its remote access and support tools.
  • Wealthon — Wealthon is a lending firm that offers installment loans, bridging loans, and POSCASH to individuals and businesses.
  • BOOKR Kids — BOOKR Kids helps children develop better first and second language skills using engaging technology and fun reading activities and games.
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hiVC
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

hiVC is an early-stage venture capital that connects early-stage startups with winning business models to achieve global success.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $175k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $200k–$660k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Kidokit — Kidokit is a child development and parent support application that promotes the growth of infants and kids from one to six years old.
  • Varsapp — Varsapp is a data-driven rental and resale platform helping brands gain consumer insights, increase conversions, and reduce waste. Through its B2B2C model, brands can offer products for short-term rentals, allowing users to try before they buy.With over 200,000 users and partnerships. Varsapp enables brands to test demand, build loyalty, andmonetize refurbished or excess inventory via its newly launched Varsapp Market.Consumers rent high-quality items—especially in home appliances, electronics, and lifestyle categories—and decide whether to return or purchase.Currently active in Turkey and expanding into Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Varsapp supports circular consumption while generating measurable impact for both brands and users.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
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Zoran Arsovski
Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network 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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Yusuf Azoz
Angel · Istambul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sinan Güler
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Software, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Angel $135k–$248k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Uniqgene — Uniqgene combines the innate genetic data of individuals with physical parameters and transforms them into meaningful data, thus aiming to always be by your side by offering personalized reports to athletes, sports clubs and people who love to engage in sports activities.
  • DeepSport — DeepSport is a new-gen mobile fitness app powered by AI to coach you in real time. It sees the user through the mobile phone camera and pinpoints the joints. This way, it calculates the angles of the body and defines the body position, giving real-time voice feedback, counting reps and calculating the accuracy.
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Ozlem Petek Hun
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Ozlem Petek Hun

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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Omer Hayrı Erkmen
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network 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: 28
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $44k–$250k; Pre-Seed $29k–$100k
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • Onlayer — Our powerful solutions suite streamlines onboarding, compliance, monitoring and insights to mitigate risk and secure growth at every stage of the digital business lifecycle.
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Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel · Manhattan, New York, United States · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Ibrahim Ulukaya

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Investment focus

  • 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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Ayhan Ağırgöl
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Social Network startups

Ayhan Ağırgöl

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Investment focus

  • 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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Social Network Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 20 deals from 35 investors.

35
investors
in Turkey Social Network startups
20
deals
in Turkey Social Network startups
$101k
median round
in Turkey Social Network startups
20%
lead investors
lead at least one round
45%
Seed
most common funding stage
49/51
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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