# Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Turkey in June 2026

## twozero Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Media and Entertainment

twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.

## ACT Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Biotechnology

Early stage deep tech investor

## Alesta Yatırım
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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.

## RePie Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, E-Commerce

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.

## Angel Effect
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

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.

## TechOne VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Tamer Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance

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.

## ERT Clinical
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Internet, Wellness

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.

## Teknoloji Yatirim
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Machine Learning

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.

## Sankonline
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Tea

Sankonline is a corporate venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies building game-changing technologies.

## Fark Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Energy

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.

## Sertaç Özinal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Gaming

Sertaç Özinal

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

## F+ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Manufacturing

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.

## Teknasyon
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Fitness

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.

## Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health

Çağrı Emre Korkmaz

## Ercan Ergül
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports

Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.

## Hakan Bas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

## Kaan Karapınar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Kaan Karapınar

## Mustafa Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

## Socios
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sports, Analytics, Education

Creators of Fan Tokens

## Hande Enes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Social Media

Hande Enes

## Logo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Retail, SaaS

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.

## Firat Isbecer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, SaaS, Software

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

## Inventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

## Selin Kiper
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Soccer, Sports, eSports

Selin Kiper

## Diffusion Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

## MİLRES Venture Capital Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Toys, Sports, Children

MİLRES Venture Capital Investment Fund invests in renewable energy sectors, including electricity production, wind turbine technology, solar energy, biogas, geothermal energy, energy storage, power plant investments, freshwater extraction, agriculture, drone systems, artificial intelligence, and other technologies.

## Demirhan Büyüközcü
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

## Sercan Akkaş
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Fruit

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

## Gizem Nilay Tuna
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Gizem Nilay Tuna

## Ertuğrul Konukoğlu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Inegol, Bursa, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Ertuğrul Konukoğlu is a Board of member at ISKO.

## Ozan Çağlar İnaç
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Ozan Çağlar İnaç

## Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

## Turgut Konukoglu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Tourism

Turgut Konukoglu - CEO @ Sankonline

## Erdem Gezer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media

Erdem Gezer

## Karel Electronics
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Fitness, Internet, Wellness

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.

## İzzet Zakuto
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Music, AgTech

İzzet Zakuto

## Barbaros Özbugutu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Soccer, Sports

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

## Kaan Kalıpçı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Recipes, eSports, Delivery

Kaan Kalıpçı

## Barış Before
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: eSports, Video Games, Social Media

Barış Before

## Geometry Venture Development
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

## Mehmet Celikol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating

Mehmet Celikol

## Can Hicbezmez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Can Hicbezmez

## Semiramis Kulak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Semiramis Kulak

## Murat Bekiroğlu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating

Murat Bekiroğlu

## Emre Gerçek
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Emre Gerçek

## Erhan Şatana
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Travel, Boating

Erhan Şatana is the former CEO of Garanti BBVA Mortgage.

## Cem Büyükkaya
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Cem Büyükkaya

## Mustafa Emre Gündüz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Mustafa Emre Gündüz