Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Turkey (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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twozero Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Series A | Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment | $111k–$2M |
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
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5 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $9k–$1M |
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ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund
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4 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology | $345k–$9.5M |
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RePie Asset Management
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, Canada, Germany | Seed, Series A | FinTech, Software, E-Commerce | $171k–$38M |
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TechOne VC
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $30k–$2.8M |
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Angel Effect
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile | $20k–$996k |
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ERT Clinical
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Series A | Fitness, Internet, Wellness | |
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Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $550k–$2.8M |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$3.7M |
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F+ Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Automotive, Manufacturing | $810k–$2.7M |
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Tamer Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, Estonia | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sports | $29k–$6M |
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Sankonline
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Apps, SaaS, Software | $300k–$1M |
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Fark Labs
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Gaming, Education | $65k–$2.2M |
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Internet, Gaming | $55k–$2.5M |
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Teknasyon
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Apps, Mobile, Fitness | $112k–$1.5M |
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Kıvanç Ünal
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health | $100k–$755k |
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DOMiNO Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $250k–$9.5M |
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Turgut Konukoglu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Series B | SaaS, Travel, Tourism | |
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Erdem Gezer
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Sina Afra
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, Germany | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet | $15k–$11M |
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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StartupFon
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $50k–$5.2M |
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Gate Inside Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Sports, Charity | $50k–$250k |
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Cem Ortabaş
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Gaming, Mobile, Fitness | $440k–$950k |
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Socios
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Sports, Analytics, Education | |
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Ozan Çağlar İnaç
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Apps, Fitness, Health Care | |
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel | Apps, Fitness, Health Care | $112k–$2.5M |
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Hande Enes
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Social Media | $29k–$4.1M |
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Logo Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway | Seed, Series A | Software, Retail, SaaS | $600k–$22M |
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, Music, AgTech | $350k–$788k |
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500 Istanbul
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $250k–$15M |
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Recipes, eSports, Delivery | |
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
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1 | Turkey, Germany | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Fitness, Software | $112k–$2.5M |
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Ercan Ergül
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Internet, Software | $20k–$3.8M |
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Inventures
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, Spain | Seed, Series A, Angel | E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services | $100k–$7M |
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Selin Kiper
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Soccer, Sports, eSports | |
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Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Analytics | $439k–$2.7M |
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Karel Electronics
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Series A | Fitness, Internet, Wellness | |
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Retail, Soccer, Sports | $80k–$1.1M |
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Barış Before
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | eSports, Video Games, Social Media | |
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Geometry Venture Development
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS | |
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Mehmet Celikol
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Rental, Travel, Boating | |
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Semiramis Kulak
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Murat Bekiroğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Rental, Travel, Boating | |
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Emre Gerçek
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Erhan Şatana
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Rental, Travel, Boating | |
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Cem Büyükkaya
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports | |
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twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M; Series A $111k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Pubinno — Ensuring more sustainable draft beer operations and brewery management via the reduction of water waste, Enjoying draft beer, beer equipment
- FineDine — Finedine is a growing tech company that provides data-driven digital menus for a smarter and more profitable dining experience. Finedine Menu app tracks customer behavior and collects insights on what to keep and what to improve. The order management feature helps streamline the ordering process and improve table turnover. Restauranteurs can alsocollect instant feedback and contact information from guests to take action towards enhancing the dining experience. Finedine is used in 45 countries.
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 104
- Round size: Seed $9k–$1M; Pre-Seed $10k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012
Portfolio highlights
- GlaucoT — GlaucoT develops contact-free intraocular pressure monitoring and neuroprotective treatment technology for glaucoma disease.
- Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
- Kozmonot — Kozmonot is a mobile competition application with real money prizes focused on knowledge, research and intelligence.
Early stage deep tech investor
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $345k–$3.2M; Series A $2.4M–$9.5M; Convertible Note $987k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $29M in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Aibuild — Ai Build is a London based company developing Artificial Intelligence and Robotic technologies for large scale additive manufacturing. We believe additive manufacturing is the core technology for achieving a sustainable environment and a highly efficient on-demand economy.We are a team of creative and enthusiastic people with strong background inthe areas of 3D printing, robotics, computer vision, machine learning, computational design and physics. We are partnering with some of the world’s most innovative companies and investors to bring our disruptive Autonomous Large Scale 3D Printing technology into a wide range of industrial applications. Our purpose is to empower factories of the future to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
- Qubitrium — We offer advanced quantum technology solutions in cryptography, communication, and sensing. We develop and produce cutting-edge quantum products and provide services to integrate these technologies into industrial organizations.
- Cellbricks Therapeutics — Cellbricks offers plastic surgery and transplant medicine that rely on artificial materials devoid of physiological functions or immunosuppressive transplants from human and animal sources. It offers the bio-fabrication of human tissue and organs, a widespread medical procedure that enables people to live longer and in better condition.
RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $171k–$3.7M; Series A $1M–$38M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
- Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
- Vimesoft — Vimesoft is a platform that offers video conferencing, enterprise video and remote learning.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $300k–$2.8M; Pre-Seed $30k–$605k
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $4.4M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Co-one — Co-one empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of Generative AI. We provide data-driven solutions for LLM development, including evaluation and dataset generation.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Atlas Space —
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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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $175k–$755k; Pre-Seed $20k–$996k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
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 — Explore the best aesthetic treatments in Turkey with New Me. Book a consultation, read reviews, and find the right doctor for your beauty journey.
- 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
Clario, a part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, combines science-informed endpoint technology, global scale, and expert services to generate reliable clinical evidence for every trial phase.
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- Industry: Fitness, Internet, Wellness
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
Teknoloji Yatırım is the first actor investing in early-stage technology companies in Turkey. Aiming at preparing the venture capital ecosystem for new players, Teknoloji Yatırım designs, develops and manages innovative tools to meet the financing needs of technology companies in the early and growth stages. What We Do: - Direct Investments: Wemake equity investments to technology companies having internationalization potential. - Co-Investments and Follow-on Investments: We make co-investments and follow-on investments to technology companies at scaling and growth stages, together with other Venture Capital Funds. - Consultancy Services: We offer consultancy solutions in the design, implementation and management of innovative investment tools and models.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.8M; Series A $773k–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
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- BRANDEFENSE — Brandefense platform is a proactive digital risk protection solution for organizations. Our AI-driven technology constantly scans the dark, deep, and surface web.
- Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
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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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 51
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.7M; Angel $100k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- each::labs — AI marketplace for developers.
- Enquire AI — Enquire is on a mission to make organizations knowledge-efficient. We provide the world’s leading enterprises an AI-powered platform to leverage global subject-matter expertise in real time.Our uniqueness is defined by our software, which starts with Network Pulse. Through Network Pulse, all that clients need to do is submit a question. Fromthere, our AI-driven multifactor algorithm identifies the experts best placed to provide tailored, actionable analysis in 250 words, which smartly arrives in the client’s dashboard within minutes. There on, clients can assess answers according to the experts’ professional background and platform ratings and go deeper with any expert of their choice on a Pulse Call or collaborate longer-term on a Pulse Project. We have made this knowledge journey uniquely empowering and seamless for the client by fitting it to their established workflows for data gathering and research.
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
F+ Ventures is Fark Labs’ venture capital arm, which invests in late seed and Series A startups within the smart mobility ecosystem that provide disruptive solutions through superior technologies and/or unique business models.
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1M–$2.7M; Series A $810k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buyutech — 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.
- Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
- Saykal — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $29k–$6M; Pre-Seed $72k–$750k
- Lead/follow: 69% lead, 31% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
- Eaty AI — Eaty AI offers an AI-powered ordering platform that automates voice and digital food orders for restaurants. It enables phone and drive-thru ordering through conversational AI, handling customer interactions, order customization, and integration with existing POS systems. The platform provides analytics on customer preferences and order trends,enabling operators to optimize menus and streamline operations. It enhances efficiency by reducing manual entry and minimizing errors during order processing. Sales teams targeting restaurant technology buyers can leverage these insights to demonstrate how Eaty AI supports digital transformation in the hospitality industry.
- Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
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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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $300k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- BiSU — BiSU is a mobile platform that enables its users to order drinkable water in Turkey. Through the platform, its users have the ability to order water from any brand available nationally.BiSU is completely free of commission or fees and aims to democratize access to bottled water in Turkey by increasing transparency in prices and quality of water.The platform allows its customers to compare prices and pay with their credit cards for delivered bottled water.BiSU was launched in 2015 by Ergin Uner & Ozan Alptekin. It is based in Istanbul.
- 3pmetrics — 3pmetrics simplifies carbon and water footprint accounting, along with ESG analysis, through its user-friendly SaaS platform and API services. The 3pmetrics Sustainability Gateway empowers companies to autonomously manage ESG metrics for the entire value chain in just one day.
- Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
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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- Industry: Software, Gaming, Education
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $65k–$2.2M; Pre-Seed $250k–$676k; Series A $1.5M–$2.2M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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 the public transportation operators.
- MaestroHub — MaestroHub is a Single Source of Truth industrial data governance platform to overcome data architecture and integration challenges faced in digital transformation. MaestroHub points data sources to a smart data layer with drag & drop features and automatically creates contextualized data packages in real-time with Unified Namespacearchitecture. MaestroHub is the first self-diagnostic Unified Namespace solution with DataOps capabilities.
- Twin Science & Robotics — AI literacy, combined with the safest tools, empowers your school to build real-world AI skills with confidence.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Round size: Seed $55k–$2.5M; Pre-Seed $63k–$123k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Brix — Brix Money is a blockchain platform tokenizing sovereign yield from emerging markets into programmable on-chain assets like the iTRY stablecoin, backed by Turkish money market funds for DeFi applications.
- Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.
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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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- Industry: Apps, Mobile, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $112k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- PulpoAR — PulpoAR Virtual Try-On Solution is realistic and easy to integrate and customize e-commerce platforms. We have specialized in the beauty industry. Increase your sales by giving your users the chance to try-on your products from the comfort of their homes. PulpoAR Virtual Try-On can be integrated into your e-commerce website, mobile app, smartmirror, and smart mirrors and QR codes as in-store solutions.
- Komunite — Community is an educational channel and community founded to help people who sell their time become people who sell their products.
Kıvanç Ünal is the Co-Founder and CPO of Orphex. He previously worked at iyi yaşa as a Board Member. Kıvanç Ünal attended Boğaziçi University.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $100k–$755k; Pre-Seed $120k–$300k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Beynex Technologies — Beynex provides AI-driven cognitive health solutions for early detection, smart monitoring, and individualized care.
- Popile — Popile is a platform that allows celebrities and their fans to interact.
- Astopia — Astopia is an astrology application that helps people with personal development and self-discovery by creating an astrological chart of birth dates and guiding people on personal journeys through the wonders of the stars.
DOMiNO Ventures is a venture capital fund focusing on high-tech, pure-digital and first-day global startups in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $250k–$9.5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Helio AI — Automated AI-powered recruiting platform with ATS and gamified personality test. Reduce daily workload by 60% and hire top talents in a few clicks.
- Validfor — Validfor is an AI-Native agentic digital validation platform designed specifically to address compliance issues in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries.
- Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
Turgut Konukoglu - CEO @ Sankonline
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- Industry: SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
- Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
Erdem Gezer
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Git Kargo —
Sina Afra is a serial entrepreneur and early-stage investor with over two decades of experience building, scaling, and exiting technology-driven companies.He is best known as the founder of Markafoni, one of Turkey’s first large-scale digital commerce companies and a defining success of the country’s early internet economy. In 2011, Naspers Groupacquired a majority stake in Markafoni in one of the landmark transactions of the Turkish internet sector.Over the course of his career, Sina has founded more than 20 companies, completed 12 exits, and angel-invested in over 60 early-stage startups across Europe, Africa, and the United States.He is a Founding Partner at Founder One, an impact venture capital fund, and the Founder and Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Foundation (Girişimcilik Vakfı), which focuses on developing entrepreneurial talent and strengthening the long-term infrastructure of the startup ecosystem in Turkey.Earlier in his career, Sina worked at KPMG and held leadership roles at eBay, where he gained first-hand experience in operating and scaling global internet platforms.His work has been recognized with more than 20 international awards and honors, including being named Internet Entrepreneur of the Year, Business Angel of the Year, and Forbes’ Brightest Minds Alive in Turkey, with features in Wired and Forbes.Sina holds a degree from the University of Münster and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages and is actively engaged in the European and Turkish technology and venture ecosystems.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $100k–$4.2M; Angel $15k–$1.5M; Series A $2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Odeal — Oedeal is a online payment service company, dedicated in providing wide range of financial solutions to entrepreneurs.
- MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.
- Temizlikyolda — Get professional Home Cleaning Service from our referenced professionals for your home cleaning needs.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $500k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $50k–$4.7M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Creosafe — A white label end to end subscription platform revolutionizing fundraising for alternative investments
- PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.
- Atlas Space —
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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- Industry: Gaming, Sports, Charity
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $50k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
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.
Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.
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- Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $440k–$950k
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- xStudios —
- 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.
- Veloxia — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
Creators of Fan Tokens
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- Industry: Sports, Analytics, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Comparisonator — Comparisonator is the next-generation football recruitment platform. Compare, search, virtually transfer and recruit with unmatched precision across 271 leagues.
Ozan Çağlar İnaç
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Hande Enes
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $29k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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 AI — Empowering your eComm 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.
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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- Industry: Software, Retail, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $600k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
- Vispera — Drive your retail execution to perfection with Vispera image recognition technologies and intelligent retail solutions.
- Replenit — Transform your repeat purchase revenue with Replenit's AI Decision Engine. Predict exactly when customers need to reorder based on individual consumption pat...
İzzet Zakuto
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- Industry: Apps, Music, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $350k–$788k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $720k–$2.6M; Series A $2.7M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2021
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 enterprise internal tools and B2B apps 10x faster with Refine agents. Experience the future of vibe coding and AI-led development.
- Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.
Kaan Kalıpçı
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- Industry: Recipes, eSports, Delivery
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Industry: Apps, Fitness, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. 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.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Round size: Seed $727k–$3.8M; Angel $20k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com
- Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $100k–$7M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cenoa — Cenoa - The smartest way to get paid globally!
- ELTA360 — ELTA360 transforms the way we experience properties in the digital realm. Creating 3D tours can appear complex, hence ELTA360 designed an uncomplicated learning journey that simplifies the process for anyone to start crafting digital twins of properties. It serves as the optimal instrument for real estate agents, architects, hospitality serviceproviders, and anyone else aspiring to showcase their spaces innovatively and incorporate them into their marketing channels
- Copyright Capital — Copyright Capital funds YouTubers and influencers worldwide. Apply for global creator funding to grow your channel, scale your influence, and earn more.
Selin Kiper
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- Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $439k–$2.7M; Series A $985k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $32M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- V-Count — V-Count works with 550+ brands, 25.000+ locations in 105+ countries.
- Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
- Mikro Biyosistemler Inc. — Mikro Biyosistemler is a biomedical microsystems company focuses on development of microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip systems for biomedical applications.
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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- Industry: Fitness, Internet, Wellness
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
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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- Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $80k–$430k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
- Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
- Swipeline Media — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 31
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
- FenixPyre — FenixPyre provides file-centric security to prevent ransomware, mitigate insider threats, and enforce third-party risk management. It blocks internal bad actors from stealing sensitive files, enhancing perimeter security while remaining seamless to users.
Mehmet Celikol
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- Industry: Rental, Travel, Boating
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Viravira — 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.
- YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
- Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Can Hicbezmez
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Semiramis Kulak
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Murat Bekiroğlu
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- Industry: Rental, Travel, Boating
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Viravira — 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.
Emre Gerçek
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Erhan Şatana is the former CEO of Garanti BBVA Mortgage.
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- Industry: Rental, Travel, Boating
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Viravira — 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.
Cem Büyükkaya
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
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- Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — VALORANT Esports Matches, events, stats, and analytics
Sports Investor funding in Turkey at a glance
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