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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Turkey

A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Sports startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Turkey

Investor Sports Turkey investments
twozero Ventures 4
ACT Venture Partners 4
ERT Clinical 2
Teknasyon 2
Alesta Yatırım 2
Tamer Capital 2
Fark Labs 2
Nevzat Aydın 2
TechOne VC 2
Sertaç Özinal 2
F+ Ventures 2
Teknoloji Yatirim 2
Kaan Kayabalı 1
Ozan Çağlar İnaç 1
Mustafa Emre Gündüz 1
Karel Electronics 1
İzzet Zakuto 1
Sina Afra 1
Angel Effect 1
Hakan Bas 1
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz 1
500 Istanbul 1
Firat Isbecer 1
Cem Ortabaş 1
Orkun Saitoğlu 1
Cem Büyükkaya 1
Demirhan Büyüközcü 1
Inventures 1
Gate Inside Ventures 1
Diffusion Capital Partners 1
Hande Enes 1
Mustafa Sevinç 1
Mustafa Vardalı 1
Sankonline 1
Demirhan Sener 1
Barbaros Özbugutu 1
Selin Kiper 1
Logo Ventures 1
StartupFon 1
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut 1
Kaan Kalıpçı 1
İrfan Ündevli 1
Erdem Gezer 1
Emre Gerçek 1
Kaan Kural 1
Socios 1
Semiramis Kulak 1
Barış Before 1
Rıfat Elhadef 1
Kaan Karapınar 1
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twozero Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
  • Cineshort — Cineshort is a mobile application where you can watch great films in your short moments during the day. We call it "Netflix for short film" Our main mission is to stream great films to millions of people with the "experience is king" perspective. So, If you have a 10-minute commuting time, we can show you great 8-minute snacks!While Cineshort provides viewers/audience a wonderful watching experience in their short time, it also offers film directors the opportunity to bring their films together with a wide audience and supports their professional sustainability by revenue sharing model.
  • Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
ACT Venture Partners VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Early stage deep tech investor
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
  • 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
  • Rototip — Rototip is a manufacturing Marketplace.
ERT Clinical VC Fund · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Clario generates the richest clinical evidence by fusing our deep scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Internet, Wellness
  • Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
Teknasyon VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and ​172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Health Care, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
  • Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
Alesta Yatırım VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OneNewOne — 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.
  • Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
  • Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
Tamer Capital VC Fund
Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
  • Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
  • Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
Fark Labs VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovationstrategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. We use this approach for our 4 focus verticals: mobility, life sciences, sustainable lifestyle, and emerging technologies, which we call our curiosity cabinet.We back change-makers who transform industries and create new ones. Our sweet spot is investing early, and we continue to provide support and investment up to Series A. We envision a better future by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform legacy businesses and build future-proof startups.We also drive innovation and transformation through collaborative intelligence. We build a unique ecosystem that connects difference-makers, leading corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across our 4 verticals.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
  • MOBIQU — Smart Box Subscription for Last-Mile Delivery
  • Ion membranes — Ion membranes is a company that designs and manufactures ion exchange membranes and separators for the green energy industry. Our products are used in batteries, electrolyzers, fuel cells, chlor-alkali facilities, electrodialysis water treatment processes, and other applications that require ionic range separation.
Nevzat Aydın Angel · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
  • Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
TechOne VC VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 5 investments in the past 12 months
TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Carbon Centrum — Lower your emission where it is made!
Sertaç Özinal Angel
Sertaç Özinal
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Gaming, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
  • Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
F+ Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
  • Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
Teknoloji Yatirim VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Baby
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Hipporello — Turn your Trello board into a business hub with Hipporello's suite of Trello Power-Ups. Get a web portal, forms, integrations and ready workflows in minutes.
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
Kaan Kayabalı Angel
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
Ozan Çağlar İnaç Angel
Ozan Çağlar İnaç
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
Mustafa Emre Gündüz Angel
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Karel Electronics VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Karel has created the electronic telephone exchange market in Turkey in 1986 with its original designs, provided PBX products to this market and pioneered Turkey's transition from electromechanical systems to electronic systems in communications. Established with hundred percent domestic capital, Karel has the most advanced R&D departmentin Turkey in communication electronics field today and facilities are compliant with international standards.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Internet, Wellness
  • Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
İzzet Zakuto Angel
İzzet Zakuto
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile Apps, Personal Health
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Sina Afra Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • Mowico — Mowico, an online no-code eCommerce app maker, enables eCommerce businesses to create Android and IOS mobile apps with unlimited customization.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
Angel Effect VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey
We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • & New Me — Discover your new aesthetic companion in Turkiye with This is New Me. Explore top treatments, real reviews, and active doctors, all with accredited clinics for a safe and seamless experience.
  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
Hakan Bas Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz Angel
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • CRwizard
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
500 Istanbul VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
  • Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
  • Freeflow — Enabling better hiring one community at a time!
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Cem Ortabaş Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
  • PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
Orkun Saitoğlu Angel
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.
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Investment focus
  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
Cem Büyükkaya Angel
Cem Büyükkaya
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Demirhan Büyüközcü Angel
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
Inventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
Gate Inside Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Founded by successful entrepreneurs to help new comers. Gate Inside developed a new model of startup funding. Twice a year they invest a small amount of money. The startups move to their incubation center for 3 months. Founders get required help from mentors and other entrepreneurs like themselves in a unique working environment.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Sports, Charity
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Fitmap — A unique marketplace where people meet trainers and coaches from various branches of sport and health all around the world.
  • Jib Games — We are a venture-backed game studio based in Istanbul, developing & publishing MMORPGs since 2009. Our games have been played by 25 million players in 8 countries.We believe that a good education brings self-awareness which drives happiness. Our mission is to dream, design, create and develop better and happy ways to get educated.Currentlyworking on Polity, a gaming platform where players can choose to excel in various professions as a citizen in an open virtual world. These professions derive from popular casual games. We target worldwide (esp. Tier 1) 16+ years old lifelong gamers.
  • Zonetix Market Research — Zonetix is a zero-party data market research company operating in emerging markets.
Diffusion Capital Partners VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Medical
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Doktar Technologies — We lead digitization and digital transformation in agriculture with digital services, sensors, satellites and other agricultural technologies.
  • Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
  • AdCreative.ai — AdCreative.ai empowers your advertising with AI. Generate conversion-focused ad creatives, utilize AI for product photoshoots, and access detailed competitor insights. Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools for creating impactful ad texts and visuals, ensuring your campaigns stand out in a competitive market. Ideal for marketers seeking an all-in-one solution for innovative, data-driven advertising strategies.
Hande Enes Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Hande Enes
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
  • Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
Mustafa Sevinç Angel
Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
Mustafa Vardalı Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
Sankonline VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Sankonline is a corporate venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies building game-changing technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Tea
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Hirize — Resume parser and matching AI-powered with GPT Technology, supercharge your hiring with our wide range of recruitment solutions
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
Demirhan Sener Angel
Demirhan Sener is the Limited Partner at StartupFon. Additionally, Demirhan Sener has had 1 past job as the CEO at Multinet UP.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Rental, Travel
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Capoom — Capoom develops AI tools to automate the creation of photorealistic, lightweight, intelligent and accurate 3D models for all the residential areas of the world, to be used in games, simulations, interactive media, digital twinning and metaverse.
  • kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
  • viravira.co — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
Barbaros Özbugutu Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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)
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Crait.it — Empowering your e-commerce and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
Selin Kiper Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Selin Kiper
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Investment focus
  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
Logo Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Retail
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Carbon Centrum — Lower your emission where it is made!
StartupFon VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Made with Framer
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Jori — Multimodal AI platform to power apparel resale and recycling.
  • Hedge — Hedge offers $0 commission individual & group investing, an inclusive network of communities, and interactive learning resources to help you build your financial future.
  • Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut Angel
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Kaan Kalıpçı Angel
Kaan Kalıpçı
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Investment focus
  • Recipes, eSports, Delivery
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
İrfan Ündevli Angel
İrfan Ündevli
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Erdem Gezer Angel
Erdem Gezer
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
Emre Gerçek Angel
Emre Gerçek
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Kaan Kural Angel
Kaan Kural
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Socios VC Fund
Creators of Fan Tokens
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Investment focus
  • Sports, Analytics, Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Comparisonator — Compare football performance data in seconds-find & recruit suitable players
Semiramis Kulak Angel
Semiramis Kulak
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Barış Before Angel
Barış Before
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Rıfat Elhadef Angel
Rıfat Elhadef
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Investment focus
  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Kaan Karapınar Angel
Kaan Karapınar
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
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