Top 50 Sustainability Angel Investors in Middle East (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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5 | Turkey, United States, France | Seed, Angel | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $100k–$3.7M |
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Ahu Serter
Angel
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4 | Turkey, Greece, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Transportation | $100k–$4M |
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Faik Ulutaş
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace | $29k–$2M |
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Olcayto Yigit
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed | Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy | $403k–$1.1M |
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Yossi Ackerman
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States | Seed, Angel, Series A | Apps, Local, Mobile | |
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Huseyin Karayagiz
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, AgTech, Battery | |
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Erman Kumcu
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Automotive, E-Commerce, Car Sharing | $29k–$2M |
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Figen Korun
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Software, AgTech | $29k–$2M |
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Yılmaz Yıldız
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed | Procurement, Waste Management, Retail | $64k–$992k |
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Yetik Kadri Mert
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed | Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy | $403k–$1.1M |
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Daniel Recanati
Angel
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3 | Israel, United States, Brazil | Seed, Series B, Series A | Internet, Analytics, Advertising | $543k–$12M |
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Kamil Sözen
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech | $200k–$4.5M |
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Uğur Şeker
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Angel, Convertible Note | Internet, Marketing, Information Technology | $64k–$4.5M |
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Meltem Kirişçi
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Internet, Software | $20k–$3.8M |
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Tarık Bayar
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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Kerim Kotan
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Canada, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $450k–$4.5M |
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Nuri Cem Erbak
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$850k |
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Ibrahim Ulukaya
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, AgTech, Gaming | $31k–$700k |
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Elvan Sevi Bozoğlu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps | $15k–$29k |
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Alper Şener
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps | |
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Ömer Aras
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Retail, Biopharma, Marketing | $280k–$4M |
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Özgür Ülkü
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | AgTech, Farming, Software | $200k–$4.5M |
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Haluk Can Hür
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile, Retail, Shopping | $64k–$520k |
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Ercan Solmaz
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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Erol Iren
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Belgium, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Battery, Clean Energy, Biotechnology | $2M–$4.5M |
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Ahmed Faruk Karslı
Angel
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2 | Turkey, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | E-Commerce, Art, Retail | $461k–$4M |
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Doğukan Doru Alkan
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy | |
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Mine Şenuysal Özgür
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Mobile Apps, Cosmetics, E-Commerce | $29k–$145k |
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Faruk Eczacıbaşı
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note, Angel | Software, SaaS, Big Data | $400k–$1.8M |
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Hasan Aslanoba
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $175k–$30M |
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Özgür Trakya
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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Emre Kurttepeli
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, Singapore | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $135k–$3M |
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Hüseyin Nalbantoğlu
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy | |
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Ömer Faruk Akarca
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services | $64k–$64k |
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TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Sustainability, Food Processing, Food and Beverage | |
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Hesham Zreik
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Nigeria | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Demir Karaaslan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, Sustainability, Natural Resources | |
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Hale Umul
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Biotechnology, Local, AgTech | |
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Kaan Akın
Angel
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Bill Gates
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Series C, Series A, Series B | Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing | |
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Onder Oztarhan
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods | |
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Owen Rahadiyan
Angel
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1 | United Arab Emirates | Seed | SaaS, CleanTech, Sustainability | |
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Paul Antaki
Angel
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1 | Egypt | Seed | Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability | |
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Enis Fakioglu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Angel | SaaS, Solar, Energy | |
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Ahmet Bilgen
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Education | |
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Sake Bosch
Angel
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1 | The Netherlands, France, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology | |
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Umur Cubukcu
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Convertible Note | Software, SaaS, Mobile | |
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Faisal Alabdelsalam
Angel
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1 | Saudi Arabia | Seed | Consulting, Information Technology | |
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Jonathan Karten
Angel
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1 | Israel | Seed | Software, Marketing, Automotive | |
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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.
Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Transportation
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, Greece, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 34
- Round size: Seed $110k–$3.6M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.5M; Series A $3.2M–$4M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jobtogo — Jobtogo is a freelancer platform that offers solutions to the problems experienced by companies in the supply of talent.
- Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.
- Tripy Mobility — Are you ready to pedal the city? Download the Tripy app to view available shared bikes for rent and start your journey now.
Faik Ulutaş is a General Manager at Mensa Sinai Ticaret Ve Mali Yatirimlar AS (MEMSA).
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $29k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
- Shippn — International package forwarding service. Shop from Amazon, Shein, Macy's worldwide. Fast shipping with DHL & FedEx. Trusted by 50,000+ customers.
- MYTH AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
Olcayto Yigit is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $403k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Increase your renewable portfolio IRR by 0.5-3% through better performance analysis and predictive maintenance and availability management.
Joseph Ackerman, also known as Yossi, served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Security Systems Ltd. and Harpia Sistemas S.A. from 1996 to March 31, 2013. From 1994 to 1996, Joseph Ackerman served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Elbit Ltd.'s Defense Systems Division(EDS.). He joined Elbit Ltd. in 1982 and held various management positions, including General Manager of EFW, Senior Vice President of Operations Group, Vice President of Operations and Vice President of Advanced Battlefield Systems. He serves as the Chairman of MediGuide Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. and Elbit Systems Ltd. He served as the Chairman of Tadiran Communications Ltd. since August 2005. He served as the Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. He served as the Vice Chairman of Elbit Systems Ltd. from April 1, 2013 to November 19, 2013. He serves as a Director of Imagesat International N.v. He served as a Director of Elbit Systems Ltd., the holding company of Elbit Systems EW and SIGINT - Elisra Ltd. from 1996 to 2004. Joseph Ackerman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology (the Technion).
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- Industry: Apps, Local, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Phytolon — Phytolon revolutionizes the way food colors are produce, by Leveraging a novel and sustainable technology for production of healthy food colors in high quality at low costs. Phytolon's mission is to exploit scientific advancement promote human health and environmental sustainability
- Musketeer — Help anywhere, anytime. Musketeer enables personal safety, alerting people close by and emergency services that someone needs help. In addition, it builds real life communities and promotes proactive safety by allowing people to ask for assistance, such as having someone walk them to their car because it's night and they don't want to bealone. All for free.Musketeer is the first social network dedicated to personal safety. By leveraging 21st century technology (crowdsourcing, cloud, and mobile) Musketeer enables users to seek assistance from people around them in case of distress. The system also provides safety related information in real-time and in aggregate for smarter Region/City management.
Huseyin Karayagiz
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- Industry: Software, AgTech, Battery
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% 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.
- Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
- Batron Energy — Batron is an Energy Electronics Company that offers services in the field of smart Energy Management and Li-Ion Storage Systems.
Erman Kumcu is an Angel Investor
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- Industry: Automotive, E-Commerce, Car Sharing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $29k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
- Rentiva — Rentiva is a person to person car rental platform.
Figen Korun
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $29k–$2M; Pre-Seed $125k–$178k; Series A $111k–$180k
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ni-CAT Battery Materials and AI Company — Ni-CAT is working on AI-assisted research and development of next-generation battery materials, which is the key to the transition to battery electric vehicles. Ni-CAT believes that the speed of EV transition is still not enough to prevent global warming and replace carbon-based fuels in near future, and it is not related to money or resources. Webelieve that speeding up EV transition is possible with our novel methodology, which combines three approximation to the solution: our unique AI-assisted materials research, digitalized reactor farm and our novel surfactant-assisted synthesis.As the electrification of the automotive industry expands, we deliver state-of-the-art technologies to meet the industry’s high-quality standards. To help our customers to step up the EV transition, we will be working on our research and development of lower-cost/higher performance, ultra-high energy density battery materials to serve innovative solutions for a brighter future. With our expertise in the application of machine learning in material science, we are developing low cobalt/high nickel lithium cathode materials. Cathode determines the type of a lithium battery and is the limiting factor for nickel-based batteries. Further improvement in battery performance is possible through AI-assisted custom high nickel cathode materials with increased charge rate, charge to discharge ratio, tap density, or any other specifications. By our unique computer-controlled digital reactor farm, we numerize synthesis parameters and output specifications for the machine learning algorithm we have been developing.
- Digime — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.
- Hummingdrone — Hummingdrone provides cutting-edge autonomous drones and software solutions designed specifically for the solar energy industry.
Yılmaz Yıldız
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- Industry: Procurement, Waste Management, Retail
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $64k–$992k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- 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.
Yetik Kadri Mert is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Software, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $403k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kavaken — Increase your renewable portfolio IRR by 0.5-3% through better performance analysis and predictive maintenance and availability management.
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Browse database — It's Free!Daniel Recanati is the founder & CEO of Rhodium, investing in pre-seed and seed-stage startups across deep tech, space, AI for good, digital and consumer innovation. He is also a General Partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures, a deep-tech fund dedicated to scaling science-based innovations into global markets. Beyond venture, Daniel is engagedin philanthropy and social impact initiatives, with a focus on education, technology access, and social mobility.
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- Industry: Internet, Analytics, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: Israel, United States, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $700k–$6M; Series A $543k–$4.1M; Series B $4.3M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yotpo — Yotpo is an eCommerce marketing platform that helps thousands of forward-thinking brands like Rebecca Minkoff, MVMT, Bob’s Discount Furniture, and Steve Madden accelerate direct-to-consumer growth. Yotpo's single-platform approach integrates data-driven solutions for reviews, loyalty, SMS marketing, and more, empowering brands to createsmarter, higher-converting experiences that spark and sustain customer relationships. Yotpo integrates with the tools online businesses use every day, including Google, Instagram, top eCommerce platforms, and the rest of the marketing technology stack. Yotpo is a Forbes Cloud 100 company with offices worldwide including New York, London, and Tel Aviv.Yotpo's mission is to empower brands to grow their direct-to-consumer business through captivating experiences that spark and sustain lasting customer loyalty.
- Verisart — An award-winning NFT minting and certification platform helping creators do business since 2015.
- IMGN Media — IMGN is a tech-media company specialized in producing and programming social content for Gen Z audiences. IMGN owns & operates a portfolio of 14 distinct media brands with an overall reach of +40 million followers. Featured brands: Daquan, TryHard, So Satisfying & more.IMGN is the creator of Viral Lab, a proprietary in-house technologythat enables the company's editorial team to scale content creation, channel management and audience growth.IMGN is headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv (R&D) and backed by VCs and angel investors.
Kamil Sözen
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- Buluttan — Buluttan, optimizes forecast algorithms and data flow to improve accuracy and precision.
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Uğur Şeker
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- Industry: Internet, Marketing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $64k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
- Atlantic — Atlantic provides a hierarchical, multi-agent AI system designed to integrate with an enterprise's existing software stack and map directly to its organizational structure. The platform connects to workplace tools to automate, coordinate, and execute cross-departmental business tasks while maintaining structured reporting lines andhuman-in-the-loop oversight.
Meltem Kirişçi
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
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.
Tarık Bayar
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Kerim Kotan
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Canada, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $450k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1M–$1M
- Lead/follow: 57% lead, 43% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Buluttan — Buluttan, optimizes forecast algorithms and data flow to improve accuracy and precision.
- Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
- Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
Nuri Cem Erbak
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $64k–$850k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Ibrahim Ulukaya
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- Industry: Software, AgTech, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $31k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
- artlabs — Fast and Scalable 3D Generation with AI | 3D Asset Interoperability | Hyper-Realistic Augmented Reality and Virtual Try-On Experiences
- Octo — Build your no-code branded community app with Octo.
Elvan Sevi Bozoğlu is an Angel Investor.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $15k–$29k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Diici — Diici is a digital entrepreneurship ecosystem guide.
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
- Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Ömer Aras
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- Industry: Retail, Biopharma, Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $280k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LIVAD Technologies — LIVAD develops cutting edge Livestream Advertising products connecting brands with streamers. Our technology enables brands to serve smart, elegant, and non-intrusive ads while allowing streamers of all sizes to monetize their content consistently.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech pioneers the integration of DNA & RNA sequencing data with AI for rare disease diagnostics. We offer the first RNA-based diagnostic support tool.
Özgür Ülkü
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- Industry: AgTech, Farming, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $200k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Vahaa — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
Haluk Can Hür
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- Industry: Mobile, Retail, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $64k–$520k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
- Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing
Ercan Solmaz
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Erol Iren
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- Industry: Battery, Clean Energy, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Belgium, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2M–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Astracite — Astracite designs next-generation, climate-positive graphite-silicon composite anode materials explicitly engineered for lithium-ion batteries. The business model addresses global supply chain and environmental vulnerabilities by transforming captured carbon dioxide emissions into high-performing battery components via an eco-friendly processpowered by green electricity. By structurally embedding silicon into a specialized carbon matrix, the company delivers a fivefold capacity boost over traditional synthetic graphite while maintaining an ultra-low manufacturing footprint.
- Plastic Move — Plastic Move engages in the production of bio-based and bio-degradable bioplastics made of waste bread.
- Innovasion Labs PINC — Next Generation of Energy Storage
Ahmed Karslı is the chairman of the board at Papara.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Art, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $461k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Artcomun — Artcomun aims to enable everyone to create, collect and trade art in one platform by the power of algorithms.
- Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
- Glocalzone — Glocalzone is a platform that connects shoppers who want to buy products from abroad and travelers who want to make a profit.
Doğukan Doru Alkan is an Angel Investor.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
Mine Şenuysal Özgür is an Angel Investor
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, Cosmetics, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $29k–$145k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
- Meloknows — Meloknows is a mobile application that provides a marketplace for beauticians and hairdressers to provide beauty services.
- HoustonBionics — HoustonBionics is proud to introduce ExoRehab X, a revolutionary at home stroke rehabilitation device to help support recovery.
Faruk Eczacıbaşı - Deputy Vice President of Eczacıbaşı @ KWORKS Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Big Data
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Reengen — Dedicated software to help you manage your carbon, ESG and energy data
- 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.
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $175k–$2.3M; Series A $350k–$3M; Series B $825k–$30M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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.
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
Özgür Trakya
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder&CEO of Vuvy, a global mobile gaming company. Previously he has founded Mynet, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet and technology companies, mostlyleaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Honorary President of Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member Global Relations Forum.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $700k–$3M; Angel $135k–$450k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Base64 — Base64 Document Intelligence Platform automates document processing with Agentic AI and over 2,800 prebuilt models.
- RemoteTeam (acquired by Gusto) — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- Insider One — Insider One is the #1 Customer Engagement AI Platform for marketing teams. Unify CDP, personalization & journey orchestration to engage customers everywhere.
Hüseyin Nalbantoğlu
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bartme — Bartme is a c2c Barter Platform. Our mission is to put barter back in our daily life to maximise lifespan of any book today and any product tomorrow. Globally. Innovatively.We see a very strong tech-driven hype in 2nd hand (i.e. pre-owned) market. However, there is immense untapped potential in traditional barter. We have examined prominentproblems in barter concept and developed a unique, brand new mobile app to make barter a favorable option in 2nd hand trade.Happy Barter,Bartme Team
Ömer Faruk Akarca
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- Industry: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $64k–$64k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ
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- Industry: Sustainability, Food Processing, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Malty — Malty engages in the sustainable food industry.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Nigeria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 301
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- EcoBites — EcoBites is a subscription service that delivers sustainably sourced and eco-friendly packaged snacks and meals to consumers doorsteps.
- Lawyeree — A platform offering AI legal advice to clients and allowing clients to be connected with the best lawyers.
- TeaLeaf — TeaLeaf is a firm that wants to assist in the distribution of tea.
Demir Karaaslan is a private investor.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Sustainability, Natural Resources
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
Hale Umul
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Local, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
- Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
- Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
Tech investor, startup mentor and founder of Hackquarters Startup Accelerator. He is involved with corporate accelerator programs.
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bak-Tek — Bak-Tek is a technology company that produces bioguy, biosea, bioguy enzyme plus, bioguy tabs, and refresher. They stand for sustainable, unique environmental solutions using the trademarked biological technologies to decrease the stress factors caused by increasing population and industrialization. The company creates bioengineered goods andsolutions for the sustainable use of natural resources.
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- Industry: Energy, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series C, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 96
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Mainspring Energy — Flexible onsite generation for data centers, utility, industrial & enterprise applications. Fuel-flexible, fast to deploy, high-efficiency, low NOx power.
- Echodyne — Echodyne develops and manufactures meta-materials-based radar technologies. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne's patented technology and powerful software create a high-performance radar platform thatproduces security and machine autonomy solutions for government, defense, and industry.Echodyne was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.
- TerraPower — Leading innovations in nuclear applications for reactor and storage technology, while advancing methods to transform the fight against cancer.
Onder Oztarhan
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- Industry: Retail, Recycling, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Nivogo — Nivogo renews goods that couldn't pass to the consumption stage by putting them through a 6-step process and bring them to consumers.
Owen Rahadiyan is an indonesian individual investor.
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- Industry: SaaS, CleanTech, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Zeroe — Finally, a platform built for real sustainability teams.
Paul Antaki
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- Industry: Fashion, E-Commerce, Sustainability
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Egypt
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids
Enis Fakioglu is a Managing Director at ENISOLAR Enerji A.S.
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- Industry: SaaS, Solar, Energy
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- solarVis — solarVis is a B2B white-label SaaS company digitalizing solar energy pre-feasibility analysis, purchasing and loan processes. It makes ordering a solar power plant project as easy as buying a refrigerator. It decreases customer acquisition costs and increases sales force of solar companies.
Ahmet Bilgen Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur and angele investor. He lives in Famagusta-North Cyprus. He finished primary school and high School in Famagusta. He has been a very active person all throughout his life, he received a Black Belt II. Dan in TaeKwon-do, played in the local soccer team while studying at Canbulat high school. Ahmet was alsohelping his family with their farming business by selling the produce to shops, making some money in the meanwhile which he used to buy his first bicycle, first ball or his first pair of sneakers. Ahmet graduated with Bsc in Applied Marth and Computer Science from Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) in 1993. Between 1993 and 1995 he got his Masters degree in Computer Science. Right after he started his PhD degree in Computer Science but decided to quit academia after his first semester. During his masters and PhD degrees, he took part in developing intelligent user interfaces and inmemory data concepts for mobile devices. After leaving academic life, Ahmet worked in various IT companies for about 2 years and then joined SAP where he had his first professional work experience. Ahmet joined SAP Turkey as the Technology Consultant, and therefore took part in the implementation of more than 100 SAP projects with companies like Yaşar, Koç, Sabancı, Havelsan, Arena etc. as these were the first implementers of SAP ERP in Turkey. During his tenure at SAP, he worked in various roles such as technical consultant, business analyst, project and team manager and architect. Ahmet, after working at SAP for 2 years and getting enough project experience and honing on his technical skils, he decided to set up FIT “Future Information Technology” Solutions together with 3 of his friends in 1999. By the end of 1999 FIT had already made its first million USD revenue. FIT has integrated Turkey’s most important e-commerce platform named “Arena Computer Supplier Portal” with SAP. This was featuted as an international success story by SAP Inside magazine in 2001. FIT Solutions(lately became Foriba) has a lot of experience from completing many software integration projects. Working with the top 250 companies also gives the company the advantage to have a more extensible, scalable, sustainable and supportable product. These experiences and know-how attained over the years put the company in an advantageous position to achieve end-to-end e-invoicing solutions. in 2019 Ahmet Bilgen exited from Foriba. Foriba did: - Series A With Revo Capital - Series B With Revo, IFC, Endeavor Catalyst - Exit
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Education
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- FlexyWatt — FlexyWatt's smart energy management technology allows consumers to optimize energy use and cut electricity expenditures.
- Topi — Topi is an B2B e-commerce platform for wholesale market.
- admarket.co — Admarket is a trailblazing AdTech startup that's reshaping the advertising landscape. By offering a streamlined and secure platform for reserving, purchasing, and selling ad spaces, it connects advertisers and media owners like never before. With just one click, advertisers can book various types of ad spaces - including TV, radio, digitalscreen, outdoor, in-store, and in-flight - from anywhere in the world.Admarket simplifies the process of securing ad spaces from preferred media owners and agencies, while its payment service provider, Stripe, ensures top-notch security for customer credit card information. Media owners benefit by gaining access to a global customer base and boosting their revenue.Designed for ease of use, Admarket allows advertisers to view ad spaces on a map, similar to hotel booking sites. Its innovative AdsChange feature enables media owners to swap ad spaces with one another, like exchanging billboard space for radio ads. Plus, advertisers can swiftly broadcast urgent announcements via TV or radio.Looking ahead, Admarket aims to leverage AI technology for identifying sector-specific advertising needs, planning, and design. It will also incorporate automatic bid strategies for outdoor media, TV, and radio ad spaces. Advertisers will be able to view cost-effective advertising options on various timeframes through chart data, akin to flight ticket pricing. Moreover, the AdBroker feature will enable media owners to earn additional income through Admarket's profit-sharing program.In a nutshell, Admarket is a groundbreaking AdTech startup that's revolutionizing the advertising industry by streamlining ad space booking for advertisers and expanding the customer base for media owners. With plans to introduce even more cutting-edge features, Admarket will continue to drive innovation for both advertisers and media owners.
Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: The Netherlands, France, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 27
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
- FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
- Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.
Umur Cubukcu is a Founder & CEO at Citus Data
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
- Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
- DryMerge — AI agents that constantly monitor your email, calendar, and calls to keep your CRM updated with every detail.
Faisal Alabdelsalam is the Founder and CEO of Zetta Technologies. He previously worked at STC as a Database Manager. Faisal Alabdelsalam attended King Saud University.
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- Industry: Consulting, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Saudi Arabia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Bekia — With Bekia, Exchange your waste for products in Egypt
- Fine Diner — Fine Diner delivers mouth-watering meals straight to your door. From sizzling steaks to crispy fish and chips, our menu offers a variety of delicious options for every craving. Order now and experience the taste of quality food delivered with convenience
- ARKTECH — Ark is a real estate platform that creates a variety of investment channels and streamlines real estate operations while achieving sustainability. Ark Structured investment contracts in prestigious real estate that have fixed returns and produce income on a regular basis for a chosen time frame.
Global Early Stage Venture Investor and Financial Consultant for Middle East StartUps | Commercial Real Estate Investing | Former Israeli Air Force | Columbia University Graduate
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- Industry: Software, Marketing, Automotive
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- MyQuest — myQuest enables you to engage customers and employees anywhere, anytime. Easily train and interact with learners using AI, micro-learning, and gamification.
- Immagnify Ltd. — Immagnify provides business teams with accurate B2B contact information based on advanced technographic segmentation and customer analysis.
- Spinframe Technologies — Spinframe developing cloud-base technologies for the automotive industry and provides an interactive visual user experience that increases the engagement & conversion.
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What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
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Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
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Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
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