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Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Turkey

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

Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Turkey

Investor Transportation Turkey investments
Aslanoba Capital 10
Keiretsu Forum 6
500 Istanbul 5
Vinci Venture Capital 5
Idacapital 5
Nexus Ventures 5
Nevzat Aydın 4
F+ Ventures 4
TRANGELS 4
212 4
Collective Spark 4
Istanbul Startup Angels 4
Emre Acikel 4
Yılmaz Yıldız 4
Wamda Capital 4
Melih Odemis 3
Florian Gschwandtner 3
Hedef Filo 3
Stefan Kalteis 3
Eksim Ventures 3
Firat Isbecer 3
Alesta Yatırım 3
Enis Hulli 3
Belkıs Kuşçulu Özer 3
StartupFon 3
Earlybird Venture Capital 3
Marcus Mosen 3
APY Ventures 3
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) 3
Ahu Serter 3
Namik Kural 2
Tolunay Yıldız 2
Adam Goldstein 2
Emre Kurttepeli 2
Murat Balcı 2
Ali Cebi 2
GirişimTürk 2
Metin Bencuya 2
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 2
StartersHub 2
Haluk Can Hür 2
Serhan Kohen 2
Güler Holding 2
TÜBİTAK 2
Arz Portfolio 2
Mehmet Celikol 2
Bedii Can Yucaoglu 2
Speedinvest 2
Mustafa Bağcı 2
Agah Uğur 2
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Aslanoba Capital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
Keiretsu Forum VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mistikist — Mistikist's AI Assisted Brainwave Entrainment for focus, relaxation & sleep. Well-being in just minutes with neuroscience backed methodology.
  • Unibloom World — Unify targets with operational projects, make scenario simulations with cost impact in real time, compare new ideas, optimise actions and turn it into actionable projects with clear financial, regulations and business impact. Release burden from Sustainability Teams!
  • AutoNxt Automation — Discover the future of sustainable farming with Autonxt Automations electric tractors and self-driving technology. Explore our innovative solutions today.
500 Istanbul VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
  • Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
  • Freeflow — Enabling better hiring one community at a time!
Vinci Venture Capital VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Vinci is a venture capital investment firm strategically funded by Inci Holding, a family-owned, industrial holding company active in the manufacturing of wheels, car and industrial batteries, hotel equipment, and logistics services. We are a financial investor but beyond funding, we aim to add value by providing corporate resources, experience,and the long-term view of a true strategic partner for small businesses. Our lead investor, Inci Holding, allows us to provide hands-on support and actively contribute to the growth and prosperity of our investees. Vinci is run by a team made up of Inci Board members and experienced venture capital professionals, who bring relevant know-how to support start-ups on their path to commercial success.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Octovan — Octovan is an online leading platform that combines reliable movers with users who need moving.
  • Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
  • SunGreenH2 — SunGreenH2 creates the world's highest performance advanced materials for electrolysis i.e. green hydrogen production. Achieve high efficiency, low cost green H2 production on site for your application in the Power-to-X, Hydrogen refuelling, Energy Storage and Buildings sectors. Revolutionising zero emissions and improving profitability.
Idacapital VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
idacapital Innovation Fund is the first Impact Fund in Turkey investing across technology-enabled business verticals in Health Tech, Financial Inclusion, Edu Tech, Clean Tech, Agro Tech in and around Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • MentalUp — Educational games for kids of all ages. Choose from over 150+ fun and engaging award-winning games. Easy-To-Use. 100% Free + No Ads. Play Now!
  • QDelivery — Boost delivery efficiency, scale operations, and provide top-notch customer experience with the most advanced delivery software.
  • DIGINAK.COM — DIGINAK.COM is a state of art "Digital Transportation Platform". The platform generates spot transportation service for SMEs via online platform. The platform creates 30 days late payment option, Credit Cart Payment alternative, all risk insurance and 7/24 CRM.
Nexus Ventures VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Rapido — Rapido bike taxi provides the best intra-city commuting services and is currently operating in 100+ cities. It is considered as the most affordable choice.
  • Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
  • Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.
Nevzat Aydın Angel · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
  • Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
F+ Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
  • Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
TRANGELS VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • & 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.
  • Winfluencer — Winfluencer is a platform for automated digital influencer marketing. Their solutions are machine learning, augmented reality, image processing, data analytics, social media analytics, and fraud detection. Winfluencer connects thousands of e-commerce sites through a single platform and an automated system. Because of the new generation affiliatemarketing approach, this system enables users to generate long-term income. Its transparent structure allows both users and the e-commerce site to track sales generated by their interactions.
  • Nanomik Biotechnology — Biochemistry leading change in life sciences. With our proprietary technologies, we develop solutions for Crop Health, Animal Health and Food preservation.
212 VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Collective Spark VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Greece
Portfolio highlights
  • Cenoa — Convert your local currency to dollars in minutes and send it back to any bank account in your country and 30+ others.
  • Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
  • Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
Istanbul Startup Angels VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
  • Angel, Seed
  • Turkey, United States
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.
  • MobilMed — Since 2015, we have been providing services in the field of mobile biomedical device design and application solutions. Our goal is to provide you with great customer experience and exceptional value services.
  • Parkkolay — Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems.
Emre Acikel Angel · Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Emre Acikel
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
  • Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Yılmaz Yıldız Angel
Yılmaz Yıldız
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Investment focus
  • Waste Management, Procurement, Retail
  • Seed
  • Turkey
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.
Wamda Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 5 investments in the past 12 months
We are a leading venture capital firm in Dubai, UAE, focused on supporting entrepreneurs in the MENA region at the seed- and early-stage building great companies.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
  • qeen.ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
  • Penny Software — Simple. Spending. Software.As above. But, more specifically, penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. penny helps you digitize and manage your full procurement cycle from request to approval. Manage RFQs to vendors, compare quotations, send POs and even payment. penny was designed to make things easy and consolidate all of yourorganization’s spending needs into one intelligent system
  • Salus — Salus provides online counseling services for mental health conditions. Their services include mental health programs, therapies, science-backed self-help resources, and consultations for mental health.
Melih Odemis Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
  • HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
Florian Gschwandtner Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Florian Gschwandtner is the Founder of Leaders21.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Software, Dating
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • karla — karla gives you the absolute superpower over the delivery of your online orders, It develop the delivery options for your online orders that you have never dared to dream of!
  • Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
  • puck — puck offers communication tool for property managers.
Hedef Filo VC Fund · Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey
Hedef Filo is the leading fleet leasing company.
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Investment focus
  • Automotive, Transportation, Public Transportation
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • TikTak — TikTak is an online app that provides rental car services throughout Istanbul
  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
Stefan Kalteis Angel
Stefan Kalteis
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Investment focus
  • Software, Travel, Tourism
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Austria, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
  • Fraud0 — Detect and mitigate bots in real time. Optimize your ad campaigns and make smarter data-driven decisions with holistic insights and alerts.
  • CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.
Eksim Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Eksim Ventures supports potential business models and ideas by strengthening the power of technology. The firm was founded by Eksim Holding in 2021 and has 35 years of experience in smart capital.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Bottobo — Bottobo Robotics is a robotic company aiming to revolutionize and democratize the autonomous mobile robot landscape. We build collaborative AMRs that work in harmony with human workforces helping organizations in boosting warehouse picking productivity AMR, autonomous mobile robots, 3D Lidar
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Alesta Yatırım VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
  • Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
  • Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
Enis Hulli Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Enis is a General Partner of 500 Startups and the Host of cc: Podcast. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant at McGill University. He graduated from McGill University and Istanbul Technical University.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Gaming, Software
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Poland
Portfolio highlights
  • DiffuseDrive — Save time and money for robotics companies with DiffuseDrive. Access high-fidelity synthetic data instantly to improve computer vision development and eliminate idle waiting.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Sentify — Sentify's objective is to assist organizations in harnessing the power of Generative AI by providing greater insights into their users' experiences and conversations with LLM products.
Belkıs Kuşçulu Özer Angel
Belkıs Kuşçulu Özer is an Angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Shopping, E-Commerce, 3D Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Digime3D — 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.
  • Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
StartupFon VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Jori — Multimodal AI platform to power apparel resale and recycling.
  • Hedge — Hedge offers $0 commission individual & group investing, an inclusive network of communities, and interactive learning resources to help you build your financial future.
  • Fortune Mine Games — Fortune Mine is a mobile social gaming company with target operating markets in North America & Oceania. Freshly founded in 2021, we are headquartered in Istanbul; one of the major mobile gaming hubs.
Earlybird Venture Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 31 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Proofs — The go-to-market for software. AI Agents building proof-of-concept apps and integrations on top of APIs
  • M^0 Labs — M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
  • Zeta Labs — Revolutionize daily tasks with our AI assistant. Not just a chatbot - it chats, understands, and performs. Free yourself to focus on meaningful things.
Marcus Mosen Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Marcus Mosen
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Supply Chain Management
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Turkey, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
  • 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.
  • Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.
APY Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 16 investments in the past 12 months
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rototip — Rototip is a manufacturing Marketplace.
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 7 investments in the past 12 months
MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Clinicy — Clinicy provides medical institutions and patients with simple and automated solutions to manage daily operations and appointments through its cloud-based HCRM platform. They solve complex challenges for healthcare providers.
  • Keyper — Keyper is a digital real estate investment management solution platform that offers automation of daily tasks, monitoring of real estate portfolios, and access to data-driven insights for investors and property owners.
  • Stake — Thousands of investors worldwide use Stake to access income-generating real estate deals in high-growth markets, starting from just AED 500.
Ahu Serter Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Baby, Information Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Greece, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Harcy — Harcy is an R&D organization that uses waste to create new types of building materials to strengthen the circular economy. First, it developed Harcy Polyester Wool, a building thermal insulation material made from textile waste. With its high performance and ease of application, Harcy Polyester Wool is a contender to replace the previousinsulation materials while recycling two kilograms of textile waste per square meter into the economy.
  • Ampherr — Ampherr Battery Technologies Inc. | Redefinition of Current!
  • Memotive — Memotive is upgrading the mechanism for shift planning and service organization to digital. They developed tools that fall under the category of communication and feedback since they understand how essential it is for employees to interact with their businesses while working for them.
Namik Kural Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Namik Kural is a Board Member at Visionteractive.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Local, Security
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
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.
  • 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.
  • eTasin.com — https://etasin.com
Tolunay Yıldız Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Tolunay Yıldız
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, AgTech, Coffee
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Digime3D — 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.
  • ForFarming — Smart Agriculture for a Healthy Future
  • Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
Adam Goldstein Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Adam Goldstein is a Visiting Scientist at Levin Lab. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2006 to 2010.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
  • United States, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Arist — Inspired by Stanford research, Arist helps leading companies deliver microlearning, training, and nudges in the flow of work via Slack, Microsoft Teams, and text messages.
  • Scotty — Scotty Rideshare is the first and only two-wheel rideshare Company in Turkey
  • Scotty — Leading e-commerce logistics player in Turkey
Emre Kurttepeli Angel
Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders 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 Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • RemoteTeam.com — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
  • Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
  • Tarentum — Tarentum AI develops solutions to critical business needs using machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies.
Murat Balcı Angel
Murat Balci is an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Seed
  • Germany, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
  • Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Ali Cebi Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ali Çebi
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Volt — Volt is an on-demand inner-city peer-to-peer ridesharing app that connects car owners with passengers going in the same direction. Unlike traditional car hailing apps which dispatch cars to the passenger’s location, Volt connects passengers with cars already driving in traffic and heading to the same destination. Carowners earn back theirdrivingexpenses (~200€/mo - without making profit), while passengers enjoy rides that are 70% cheaper than taxi.
  • Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
  • Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
GirişimTürk VC Fund
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Wedding, Transportation
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Reneva — Reneva is a beverage company providing healthy and delicious drinks.
  • PackUpp Fast Delivery — PackUpp is a new generation on-demand “Fast Delivery” technology company and we provide E-Commerce delivery solutions. We serve “Next-Day”, "Same-Day" and "3 Hours Express" deliveries to e-commerce companies. In addition to it, we form “Private Dedicated Field Delivery Teams” to companies as a special delivery team of brand. Wedigitalize all the delivery process by our unique software and technology.Focus on the job which you are best at! Rest, all your packages will be delivered by PackUpp, Fast Delivery Expert.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
Metin Bencuya Angel
Metin Bencuya is an Angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Shopping, E-Commerce, Delivery Service
  • Funding Round, Private Equity
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 24 investments in the past 12 months
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Post-IPO Debt, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Egypt
Portfolio highlights
  • PL-SUN — PL-SUN is a holding company of UAB Atsinaujinančios Energetikos Investicijos (AEI).
  • Rohlik — Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík was founded in 2014 by Marek Sacha and Tomas Cupr and is headquartered in Karlín, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
  • Ipoteka Bank — Ipoteka 94% state-owned bank, is fully involved in policy reforms and state development programs in Uzbekistan.
StartersHub VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
An early-stage VC that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to disrupt the system for good.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
  • United States, Turkey, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
  • Cubtale — Cubtale is a care guidance and coordination platform for your baby. You can track breastfeeding, vitamins, medicine, sleep, diaper changes, formula or pumped milk. You can analyze your baby's growth and compare it with health guidelines and share with doctors. You can schedule time with lactation and sleep experts.
  • IDENFIT — Cloud based human resources software and workforce management. Idenfit online human resources and workforce management software brings a holistic approach to human resources functions and it helps you to review and manage hr processes all in one place. Idenfit is cloud based HR software for SMEs as well as international companies that have outgrownspreadsheets. We automate many of the most tedious HR functions and create time for you to do meaningful work. Whether you’re an employee trying to request time-off or an HR manager looking forward to grow and develop your company’s workforce, Idenfit is your all-in-one HR management solution.
  • PulpoAR — PulpoAR provides omnichannel AR commerce virtual try-on solutions for beauty brands and e-commerce platforms.
Haluk Can Hür Angel
Haluk Can Hür
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Retail, Shopping
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
  • Shopi — All-in-One Store Platform for Omnichannel Retailing
Serhan Kohen Angel
Serhan Kohen is an Angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Shopping, E-Commerce, Delivery Service
  • Funding Round, Private Equity
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
Güler Holding VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Güler Holding is an investment firm based in Istanbul.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Procurement
  • Seed, Corporate Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
TÜBİTAK VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
  • Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellsway — Cellsway is a liquid biopsy company that was created to provide quick cancer CTC detection methods. The business's technology, which is minimally invasive and uses a straightforward blood sample for cancer monitoring, enables healthcare professionals to heal their patients and enhance their quality of life. focuses on the development ofmicrofluidics and lab-on-a-chip technologies for biomedical purposes.
  • Mistikist — Mistikist's AI Assisted Brainwave Entrainment for focus, relaxation & sleep. Well-being in just minutes with neuroscience backed methodology.
  • Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.
Arz Portfolio VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 12 investments in the past 12 months
Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Manufacturing, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Harcy — Harcy is an R&D organization that uses waste to create new types of building materials to strengthen the circular economy. First, it developed Harcy Polyester Wool, a building thermal insulation material made from textile waste. With its high performance and ease of application, Harcy Polyester Wool is a contender to replace the previousinsulation materials while recycling two kilograms of textile waste per square meter into the economy.
  • onedocs — Onedocs' solutions simplify contract management operations, allowing users to simply generate, monitor, approve, and track contracts.
  • WiserSense — Wisersense is an end-to-end smart machine health monitoring solution to control increased maintenance and energy costs. In line with Industry 4.0 and the trend towards digitalization, it offers monitoring, tracking, remote measurement and detection of possible faults much earlier for smart factory and smart city projects. The health of allsystems, large and small, in every stage of production, especially motors, compressors, fans, pumps, etc. rotary systems can be monitored. In this way, early detection of problems, improvement in operations and personnel safety, increase in production, decrease in downtime, increase in end product quality, etc. many benefits are provided. Let Your Machines Talk To You!
Mehmet Celikol Angel
Mehmet Celikol
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Hospitality, Marketplace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • kodris — Kodris platform is a platform established primarily to teach coding to children between the ages of 8-16. Children's 21st-century skills with coding and algorithm; They gain the ability to look at problems from different aspects and produce solutions, to think systematically and creatively, and to offer the shortest solution suggestions.Because; When students grasp the logic of the algorithm, they understand that everything happens in a certain order and that the necessary actions do not take place when it is not in a certain order. Coding is not only limited to computer science but is also very important in terms of interdisciplinary interaction. The Kodris platform basically provides e-learning opportunities that are needed in primary and secondary education levels and that provide the basis for advanced computer skills by increasing students' algorithmic/computational thinking skills. In terms of its subject, kodris is an online e-commerce platform that has R&D in private and public schools (learning levels for different age groups, etc.), has a curriculum, is game-based, has student-teacher interaction, teaches how to set up algorithms, and teaches a real coding language. It is a learning platform.
  • YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
  • Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.
Bedii Can Yucaoglu Angel
Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
  • Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
  • Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.
Speedinvest VC Fund · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 45 investments in the past 12 months
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • planqc — planqc quantum computers store information in individual atoms – nature's best qubits. Quantum information is processed by arranging these qubits in highly scalable arrays and manipulating them with precisely controlled laser pulses. planqc unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, aprerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.
  • Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
  • forward earth — Next-Gen carbon management for a sustainable future. AI-driven, automated, compliant, fast, and secure. Be prepared for requirements of CSRD, SFRD, EU-Taxonomy, and kick-start your carbon reduction and abatement program. White-label options for partners.
Mustafa Bağcı Angel
Mustafa Bağcı is an Angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Shopping, E-Commerce, 3D Technology
  • Series A, Funding Round, Private Equity
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Digime3D — 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.
  • Yollando.com — Yollando.com is a Turkish-based shopping and package forwarding service that facilitates shopping. They offer a variety of services such as Discounted packet forwarding, Buy for me, Package consolidation, Repackaging, Package tracking, Order returns/cancels, and Free storage for orders. They provide lower shipping rates to abroad with discountrates up to 80 percent.Yollando.com was established to contribute to the export of Turkish brands. Apart from shopping consultancy, they are already producing alternative solutions for logistics and product supply to individual persons and companies in Turkey and abroad.
Agah Uğur Angel
Agah Uğur
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, CRM
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Mukellef | a Workhy Company — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
  • Robomotion — What is Robotic Process Automation - RPA? Robomotion offers you the opportunity to automate your repetitive tasks such as Browser Automation, Content Marketing, SAP or Excel!
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