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Top 20 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Turkey in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 20 VC (Venture Capital) 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 20 Sports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Turkey in January 2025

Investor	Sports Turkey investments
ACT Venture Partners	4
twozero Ventures	4
ERT Clinical	2
Teknoloji Yatirim	2
F+ Ventures	2
Teknasyon	2
TechOne VC	2
Tamer Capital	2
Alesta Yatırım	2
Fark Labs	2
Socios	1
StartupFon	1
Diffusion Capital Partners	1
Gate Inside Ventures	1
Sankonline	1
Angel Effect	1
Karel Electronics	1
500 Istanbul	1
Logo Ventures	1
Inventures	1

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Early stage deep tech investor

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Nextmol — Nextmol is your partner to accelerate chemicals discovery. Reduce time-to-market and get key insights about the behavior of your chemical molecules!
Qubitrium — Explore innovative quantum solutions at Qubitrium. Elevate your journey with cutting-edge products, services, and trainings. Your quantum future...
Meddenovo Drug Design — Meddenovo is at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery, pioneering a specialized technology platform designed specifically for cyclic peptides. Our innovative approach leverages a unique blend of AI technologies and molecular modeling to significantly enhance the efficiency and success rates of drug development processes. Cyclic peptidesrepresent a groundbreaking class of compounds in pharmaceutical research. These molecules combine the best attributes of small molecules and large biologics, offering exceptional binding affinities, stability, and specificity. At Meddenovo, we are leaders in harnessing the potential of cyclic peptides, developing tailored solutions that push the boundaries of traditional drug discovery. Beyond small organic molecules, our expertise extends to peptide-based medicines and metal chelators, giving us a competitive edge in novel drug research and development. We excel in creating unique chemical spaces tailored to your needs and provide custom computational solutions for predicting drug resistance, elucidating biochemical reaction mechanisms, and conducting metal affinity analysis. At Meddenovo, we are dedicated to precision and reliability in drug discovery. Our approach reduces failure rates and improves outcomes, accelerating the journey from research to market. Our mission is to empower scientists worldwide with advanced, user-friendly AI tools, democratizing access to cutting-edge drug discovery technologies.

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

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.

Clario generates the richest clinical evidence by fusing our deep scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform.

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.

Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.

Investment focus

Health Care, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A
Turkey, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Hipporello — Turn your task management platform, Trello or Notion, into a powerful service desk. Manage customer support and ticketing easily. Try now for free!
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 | Virtual Experiments

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Deplike — Guitar Amps and Effects Processor on Android and iOS
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

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
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 — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
M-Based — M-based is an initiative aiming to develop eco-friendly alternative material technologies using mycelium, a component of the mushroom. Its R&D efforts focus on developing mycelium-based vegan leather to address environmental concerns and animal ethics violations in the textile industry.
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.

Creators of Fan Tokens

Investment focus

Sports, Analytics, Education
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Comparisonator — Comparisonator is the next-generation football recruitment platform. Compare, search, virtually transfer and recruit with unmatched precision across 271 leagues.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, E-Commerce, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Lumian — Lumian Energy of Things Platform is an IoT-based hardware agnostic platform that collects and visualizes data in real time, analyses energy data with machine learning models and offers energy saving and decarbonization solutions. The Platform is designed to effortlessly integrate with third party systems, connect up to millions of devices, whilesimultaneously orchestrating them through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
Jori — Multimodal AI platform to power apparel resale and recycling.
MARS — MARS provides digital financial services with unique card options and rewards programs.

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

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
Gowit Technology — GoWit is a leading AdTech company, specializing in a multi-channel Retail Media Ads platform for online retailers. Our main objective is to empower businesses with comprehensive advertising solutions and maximize ad monetization. To reach a broader audience, we offer a variation of on-site & off-site advertising options such as SponsoredProducts, Sponsored Brands, Display, Video and In-Store Ads. With a clear focus on transparency, we are committed to helping our partners establish a powerful presence in the ever-growing world of retail.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 — 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

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.

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.

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.

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 — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Retail, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Carbon Centrum — Measure, Act & Get Rewarded!

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

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.

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