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Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in Turkey in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) 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 in September 2025

Investor	Transportation Turkey investments
Aslanoba Capital	10
Idacapital	7
Vinci Venture Capital	7
Arz Portfolio	6
Keiretsu Forum	6
F+ Ventures	5
Nexus Ventures	5
Ahu Serter	5
APY Ventures	5
500 Istanbul	5
Collective Spark	4
RePie Asset Management	4
TRANGELS	4
212	4
Founder One	4
Finberg	4
Maxis	4
Wamda Capital	4
Emre Acikel	4
Esor Investments	4
Nevzat Aydın	4
Yılmaz Yıldız	4
Istanbul Startup Angels	4
Marcus Mosen	3
Enis Hulli	3
Firat Isbecer	3
Mehmet Emin Çiftçi	3
Alesta Yatırım	3
Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP)	3
Eksim Ventures	3
Belkıs Kuşçulu Özer	3
Hedef Filo	3
Florian Gschwandtner	3
Stefan Kalteis	3
Earlybird Venture Capital	3
StartupFon	3
Melih Odemis	3
Tarvenn Ventures	2
Güler Holding	2
Keiretsu Forum Turkey	2
Mehmet Celikol	2
Murat Balcı	2
GirişimTürk	2
Haluk Can Hür	2
Bedii Can Yucaoglu	2
Ryan Rzepecki	2
Metin Bencuya	2
Agah Uğur	2
TÜBİTAK	2
Ali Cebi	2

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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.

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

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.

Investment focus

Logistics, FinTech, E-Commerce
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!
Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
PayWall — PayWall is a payment orchestration platform that empowers businesses to streamline their payment processes and maximize efficiency. With advanced subscription management, PayRoute, PayJump, PayBalancer, PayWatch, centralized card storage, marketplace and alternative payment methods, PayWall offers end-to-end control over payment methods. Byreducing operational burdens and directly increasing profitability, PayWall enables businesses to manage payments at a micro scale.

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.

Investment focus

Logistics, Software, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Intelijus — At Intelijus, we have embarked on a quest not just to innovate, but to transform the world through legal technology. Our mission is to empower legal professionals across the globe with LIVIA, our trailblazing Legal Virtual Assistant. LIVIA isn’t just another piece of AI technology. It’s a manifestation of our drive to revolutionize the legal field,making operational tasks more efficient so that the focus can return to the human side of law – to justice itself.Our vision stretches beyond the realms of the present into a future where justice is accessible to everyone. Through the power of LIVIA’s generative artificial intelligence, grounded in sophisticated natural language processing, we foresee a world where legal processes are not just optimized but completely redefined. A world where our technology becomes the cornerstone of decision-making in legal matters globally, ushering in an era of unprecedented accuracy and efficiency.
Thingtrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rnv.ai — RNV Analytics provides AI and ML driven solutions for inventory allocation problem of retail companies. With algorithmics recommendation, their customers decide which product should be located in which sales points both online and offline.
Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
Branchsight — Branchsight enables you to manage the digital marketing activities of your multi-location brand from a single center. Branchsight's dealer-friendly, easy-to-use platform is an excellent tool designed to increase your global leverage by strengthening the awareness of your locations in the local market.

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, India, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

ALM Ortho — ALM Ortho, Osseointegration for Patient Matched Orthopedic Implant Solutions
ActuatedMedical — Actuated Medical designs innovative medical devices that improve patient care and outcomes by solving unmet clinical needs with engineered motion.
Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak — Eat our pure, naturally grown, & direct farmse products, grown without use of harmful chemicals brought to directly from Kisaan Se Kitchen Tak; they'll fill your body with energy, nutrients, & antioxidants.

F+ Ventures is Fark Labs’ venture capital arm, which invests in late seed and Series A startups within the smart mobility ecosystem that provide disruptive solutions through superior technologies and/or unique business models.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Automotive, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Buyutech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.
Saykal — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Smartstaff — Manage your workforce's attendance & payroll while using our powerful automation tools to optimize & improve their productivity
Iambic — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
Moneyview — Money View is an application that is able to track and organize expenses, bills, and account balances. It is able to derive finance information from SMSs.Money View enables its users to set and follow budgets, view their bank account balance, obtain reminders about bills, and spit bills with the other users. It also facilitates Savings+ andTaxSaver+ that allows its users to save money.Money View was founded in April 2014 by Sanjay Aggarwal and Puneet Agarwal. It is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, Greece, Germany

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 — Tripy Mobility strives to promote the adoption of electric vehicles while reducing carbon emissions in transportation by increasing the charging station network.

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.
Treasy — Treasy is dedicated to transforming and modernizing treasury operations within the financial sector by leveraging advanced technology, data-driven insights, and automation.
Circle Games — Circle Games is a mobile gaming company dedicated to create high-quality experiences with user-centered design.

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, Greece

Portfolio highlights

Heltia — 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.
Invent Analytics — Invent.ai is empowering retailers with better planning and operational decisions that deliver immediate business value. Learn about our retail AI now.
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.

RE-PIE is Turkey's first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in classinvestment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hayhay — Hayhay operates a mobile application that manages financial transactions. It provides an online tool that sends, receives, and processes different kinds of payments. Hayhay was founded in 2020 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
VenueX — VenueX enables retailers to showcase their products, POI and indoor maps to shoppers searching online!
Goldtag — Digital Asset Development

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Estonia

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.
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.
Enlighty AI — Enlighty AI is Marketing intelligence by combining the power of social science and AI.

We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flow48 — Flow48 is a platform that allows companies to access capital by providing revenue-based finance services.
Keyrails — Keyrails provides financial services through its registration with FINTRAC, offering foreign exchange dealing and money transfer services. The company integrates with Auth0 to ensure secure access and authentication across its APIs. Keyrails offers USD virtual accounts and API-powered modern financial services, primarily targeting Sub-SaharanAfrican fintechs. The platform supports on-shore, ACH-enabled, named USD accounts, facilitating seamless financial operations for emerging market fintechs.
PhilosopherKing — PhilosopherKing is a AI-powered games platform.

Founder One makes investment at the idea and seed stage in initiatives with measurable impact goals.

Investment focus

EdTech, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

MilkApp — MilkApp is a developer of raw milk analysis, tracking, and identification systems. They also develop a mobile milk analyzer system. They also provide research and development services for agricultural fields.
Werover — Wind Turbine Blade Health Monitoring System | Werover
Good Sanitation Company — Good Sanitation Company provides a specific sanitation and hygiene solution for those in temporary accommodation environments.

Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Goldtag — Digital Asset Development
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Our Next Energy — ONE is a Michigan-born energy storage company focused on battery technologies that will accelerate the adoption of EVs and expand energy storage solutions.

Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Dengage — Dengage is a Customer Experience Data Platform (CXDP) with built-in CDP powered by full marketing automation capabilities.
OctoXLabs — OctoXLabs is dedicated to tackling the most pressing challenges in the fields of Information Technology and Cybersecurity, delivering innovative solutions that enhance system resilience, data protection, and operational efficiency for organizations navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Tark Games — Tark Games is a publisher focused on independent PC and console game developers. It provide development funding, hands-on production support, marketing resources, and long-term collaboration - without taking equity or creative control.

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.

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.
BloomPath — Bloompath gives engineering team leads clear visibility into project progress, team contributions, and what's gaining traction, without digging through tools. Stay aligned, spot blockers early, and keep your team moving forward.
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

Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).

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.

Venture Capital Investment firm founded in Frankfurt am Main in Germany

Investment focus

Retail Technology, Software, Analytics
Series A, Seed, Convertible Note
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Forwardie — Forwardie, as a Digital Freight Forwarder, ensures that you and your operations experts are always in control of your goods through its technology approach.
Fazla Gıda — Fazla Gıda is a technology solutions company that prevents food waste.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Eachlabs — AI marketplace for developers.
Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
A.M.A Selections — Exclusive luxury holiday villa rentals in Europe, Africa & The Caribbean with A.M.A Selections. Some of the best & most luxurious villas to rent in Europe & across The World.

Yılmaz Yıldız

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.

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.

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.

Marcus Mosen

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

FERASET — FERASET builds next-gen apps by combining deep AI expertise with cutting-edge technology.
TrueMeter — EcoTrove is your energy concierge for cheaper, greener and more predictable power bills.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait AI — 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.

Mehmet Emin Çiftçi is an industrialist based on Istanbul, Turkey. He is currently serving as a Board Member at Akkök Holding

Investment focus

Shipping, Logistics, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Navlungo — e-commerce shipping platform
Delivers.AI — Delivery droid operator
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Sorbil — Sorbil is a subscription based e-learning organization platform. Sorbil is a ed-tech company. It has 100+ courses in 4 main categories. The categories are foreign language, coding, career development and self development. Subscribers purchase either a monthly or yearly subscription to fully access all courses in the platform.
Ono — 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.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, United States

Portfolio highlights

Ziina — Pay and get paid fast. Ziina is the easiest way to send and receive money in the UAE. Accept cashless payments anywhere with Apple Pay, Google Pay, or card.
invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
xfolio — XFOLIO AI is an innovative software platform for treasury and portfolio management.

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Transportation, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bottobo Robotics — 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 — Enhanced, Qualified and Rational KYC (Know Your Customers) and KYB solutions at Enqura. Discover our banking and finance security solutions.

Belkıs Kuşçulu Özer is an Angel investor.

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.

Hedef Filo is the leading fleet leasing company.

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.

Florian Gschwandtner is the Founder of Leaders21.

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.

Stefan Kalteis

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TopK — TopK features native support for both vector search and keyword search in a single, unified system. With its powerful query expression language, TopK enables you to build reliable search applications (semantic search, RAG, multi-modal, you name it) without juggling multiple databases or services. Our unified retrieval engine will evolve tosupport document transformation, query understanding (parse metadata filters from user query), and adaptive ranking (provide more relevant results by sending “relevance feedback” back to TopK) under one roof.
Arago — Arago is an AI and computer hardware company developing an energy-efficient AI chip powered by light, and its associated software.
Portal Biotech — Portal has created next generation solutions that address the significant opportunities in protein sequencing and metabolomics

StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
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!

Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions. We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances. Our business is to build yours…

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
Madcraft Studios — Enhance your Trials of Osiris performance with our Destiny 2 Trials Carry guides. Learn strategies to secure wins and climb the ranks!

Güler Holding is an investment firm based in Istanbul.

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.

Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Abonesepeti — Abonesepeti is one and only subscription management platform in Turkey. While subscribers can make smart subscription decisions and easily manage their subscriptions, Service providers can easily gain incremental subscribers by using Abonesepeti’s online and offline sales platforms. Abonesepeti raised seeds round in 2017 via www.sirketortagim.comAngel Investor Ban. Up to Date; Abonesepeti generate 16x growth based on revenue and serves more than 1M subscribers.
Hummingdrone — Hummingdrone provides cutting-edge autonomous drones and software solutions designed specifically for the solar energy industry.
Interactive Loan — Interactive Loan provide financial assistance by providing trainings about credit, bond trading, or leasing methods.

Mehmet Celikol

Investment focus

Rental, Travel, Boating
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Viravira — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

Murat Balci is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed
Germany, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
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 — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.

Investment Company

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.

Haluk Can Hür

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

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

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.

Ryan Rzepecki was the founder and CEO of NYC-based JUMP Bikes (acquired by Uber in 2018), focused on developing innovative solutions for urban transportation. Early in his career, Rzepecki worked as a planner in the bikes division of New York City’s Department of Transportation. During that time, he worked extensively to bring bike facilities tomore New Yorkers. It was this experience that led him to design a high-tech bike share model that he entered in the Copenhagen Design Competition. By 2010, he founded the company under its original name Social Bicycles, and set out to realize his vision of using bicycles as a smarter, cleaner, and more fun mode of urban transportation. His company pioneered "smart bike" technology, allowing bike share to go dockless and become more accessible and convenient for riders.In 2013, Rzepecki was named one of the 100 Coolest People in Tech by Business Insider and one of the Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide by UBM’s Future Cities. He received his master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his bachelor’s degree in marketing and international business from Pennsylvania State University.

Investment focus

B2C, E-Commerce, Augmented Reality
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Turkey, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Bümo — BumoCare offers on-demand weekday and weekend child care for busy parents. We provide educare -- care powered by our globally recognized curriculum.
Soar — Soar is a real-time streaming platform for volumetric video
Subject — Subject provides high school learners access to premium, on-demand courses for credit or study support

Metin Bencuya is an Angel investor.

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.

Agah Uğur

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.
Workhy — More than 20,000 entrepreneurs chose us for company formation, financial process management, tax return preparation, and bookkeeping services.
Robomotion — Robomotion handles dull everyday tasks with robotic process automation technology. Delegate tasks to software robots and they can work 24/7.

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.

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 — Meet Mistikist, the best mindfulness app that helps you sleep, relax, focus and break the habit of being yourself in 2-8 minutes.
Plankton Marine Technologies — R&D company operating in the vertical of marine technologies, established with the support of TÜBİTAK 1512 Teknogirişim.

Ali Çebi

Investment focus

Transportation, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
Tamamliyo — Tamamliyo is a business software developer who works with insurance firms and digital enterprises to integrate their systems. Their platform contacts many insurance companies and finds insurance products suitable for the digital platform, enabling businesses to configure.
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.

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