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Top 15 Travel Angel Investors in Turkey in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 15 Travel Angel Investors in Turkey in September 2025

Investor	Travel Turkey investments
Orkun Samioglu	3
Burak Gözalan	3
Genco Alp	3
Nihan Colak Erol	2
Orkun Tekin	2
Hande Enes	2
Caglar Erol	2
Murat Bekiroğlu	1
Burak Şen	1
Mehmet Onarcan	1
Nevzat Aydın	1
Erhan Şatana	1
Serkan Borancılı	1
Mehmet Celikol	1
Mustafa Mert Işık	1

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Orkun Samioglu - Managing Partner @ Ipera Group

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.

Burak Gözalan - Owner @ Pure New Media

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Computer Vision
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
Chooch — Chooch Autonomous AI provides hospitals and healthcare systems touchless, automated inventory management. No manual tracking. No stockouts.

Genco Alp - Founder & CEO @ InGame Group

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism, Computer Vision
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
Chooch — Chooch Autonomous AI provides hospitals and healthcare systems touchless, automated inventory management. No manual tracking. No stockouts.

Nihan Colak Erol - Founder & COO @ Wingie Enuygun Group

Investment focus

Travel, FinTech
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.

Orkun Tekin is the Co-Founder and CRO at Otelz.com.

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism
Angel, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.

Hande Enes

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Social Media
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WORDEGO — Transform your ecommerce business with Wordego. Leverage unique AI technology to segment visitors by value in real-time, personalizing campaigns for maximum efficiency. Boost your revenue by over 25% and reduce advertising costs by up to 30% with Wordego's precision analytics.
Crait AI — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.

Caglar Erol is the co-founder of cember.net, a Turkish online business networking platform acquired by XING AG in January 2008.Erol is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur in Turkey. His first investment after cember.net was doktorsitesi.com, a health site in Turkey. He also invested in Tasit.com, Gelirortaklari affiliate network, andCivicSolar.Erol currently serves as the co-founder and CEO of Enuygun.com, a service comparison site on bank loans, insurance, flight tickets, ADSL, and mobile phone tariffs.

Investment focus

Retail, Travel, Fashion
Seed, Angel
Jordan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

MarkaVIP — Markavıp is an exclusive, invitation-only online shopping community focused on the Middle Eastern market. The website specializes in offering flash sales to its customers.Markavıp was founded by Ahmed Alkhatib, who previously spent 12 years in Silicon Valley working in the e-commerce industry. The website enjoys memberships from over 3 millionexclusive members across eight Arabic speaking countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Oman.
Wingie Enuygun Group — Wingie Enuygun Group is a technology company helping modern consumers save time and money, mostly in travel, but in insurance and financial products too. Located in Istanbul and Berlin, WEG currently serves customers in 6 languages, 10 countries.

Murat Bekiroğlu

Investment focus

Rental, Travel, Boating
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.

Burak Şen

Investment focus

SaaS, Beauty, Mobile
Angel, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Yeniben.com — Yeniben brings transparency to the elective medical & aesthetic treatment market which represents a wide range of services—from a simple skin treatment to cosmetic surgery. At the heart of Yeniben is a community of people sharing personal experiences, unbiased stories, and candid advice. Hundreds of medical experts also participate onYeniben. Doctors and clinicians have posted over one thousand answers to questions and routinely upload educational videos, special offers, and patient before & after photos. The company is an Istanbul based startup and has achieved profitability.
Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

Investment focus

Apps, Internet, Social Network
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Ireland, United States

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.
Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.

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

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.

Erhan Şatana is the former CEO of Garanti BBVA Mortgage.

Investment focus

Rental, Travel, Boating
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.

Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Shoes
Series A, Angel, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
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
denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com

Mehmet Celikol

Investment focus

Dental, Procurement, Property Management
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.
Dentalpiyasa — Dentalpiyasa connects dentists and dental warehouses, enabling direct procurement from manufacturers and importers.
Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

Mustafa Mert Işık

Investment focus

Travel, Tourism
Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.

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