# Top 40 Sports Angel Investors in Turkey in June 2026 ## Nevzat Aydın - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce 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. ## Sertaç Özinal - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming Sertaç Özinal ## Kaan Karapınar - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Kaan Karapınar ## Ertuğrul Konukoğlu - Type: Angel - Location: Inegol, Bursa, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care Ertuğrul Konukoğlu is a Board of member at ISKO. ## Erhan Şatana - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating Erhan Şatana is the former CEO of Garanti BBVA Mortgage. ## Mustafa Emre Gündüz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Mustafa Emre Gündüz ## Cem Büyükkaya - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Cem Büyükkaya ## Barbaros Özbugutu - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Soccer, Sports Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en) ## Semiramis Kulak - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Semiramis Kulak ## Gizem Nilay Tuna - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Gizem Nilay Tuna ## Umur Gencoglu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care Umur Gencoglu is a Board Member at Gencoglu Grup. ## Mustafa Vardalı - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Software Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon. ## Mustafa Sevinç - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon. ## Ercan Ergül - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida. ## Firat Isbecer - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris. ## Mehmet Celikol - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating Mehmet Celikol ## Sercan Akkaş - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Fruit Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti. ## Hande Enes - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media Hande Enes ## Çağrı Emre Korkmaz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health Çağrı Emre Korkmaz ## Sina Afra - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster. ## Cem Ortabaş - Type: Angel - Location: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C - Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Fitness Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017. ## Hakan Bas - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games ## Demirhan Sener - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Rental, Travel Demirhan Sener is the Limited Partner at StartupFon. Additionally, Demirhan Sener has had 1 past job as the CEO at Multinet UP. ## Orkun Saitoğlu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports Born in Istanbul in 1982, Orkun Saitoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then studied Computer Engineering at Montpellier University and completed his master's degree at Paris Pierre-Marie Curie University in Paris. In the second year of his graduate study, he became part of the team of B2B, B2C sites in the TUI group and startedhis career as a Software Engineer. During the first years of his career, he supported the design and integration of PayPal solution in France and the Benelux and later on became a part of business development and sales team during Scandinavian, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Russian market expansion. Orkun, later on became a part of a global team managing PayPal’s relationship with startups against Stripe and Braintree competition. In 2014, after living abroad for 14 years he decided to move back to Turkey to establish his own startup company. It is during this period that Orkun met with iyzico’s co-founders Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın to become the COO of iyzico knowing that the company would emerge as the payment champion of the region. Orkun is currently in charge of all of iyzico’s sales, marketing and operations teams. ## Emre Gerçek - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Emre Gerçek ## Ali Ilci - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Hotel, Advice, Gaming Exeter I Oxford I Former Investment Banker I Tech Executive I Online Lecturer I Author I Angel Investor ## Kaan Kayabalı - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc. ## Fethi Ahmet Özbulut - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports Fethi Ahmet Özbulut ## Demirhan Büyüközcü - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio ## Erdem Gezer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Erdem Gezer ## Rıfat Elhadef - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Rıfat Elhadef ## Murat Bekiroğlu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating Murat Bekiroğlu ## İrfan Ündevli - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports İrfan Ündevli ## Kaan Kalıpçı - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Recipes, eSports, Delivery Kaan Kalıpçı ## Barış Before - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Barış Before ## İzzet Zakuto - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Music, AgTech İzzet Zakuto ## Selin Kiper - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports Selin Kiper ## Ozan Çağlar İnaç - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care Ozan Çağlar İnaç ## Kaan Kural - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media Kaan Kural ## Turgut Konukoglu - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B - Focus: SaaS, Travel, Tourism Turgut Konukoglu - CEO @ Sankonline