Top 5 Startup Investors in Turkey in September 2025

Last updated: Sep 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Venture capital startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Startup Investors in Turkey in September 2025

Investor	Venture Capital Turkey investments
Atakan Atalar	2
Aslanoba Capital	1
Hedef Girisim	1
Melih Odemis	1
Ateş Buldur	1

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Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Roombadi — Roombadi is a rental apartment platform that enables users can find a roommate or a house whenever they want by posting free ads.
TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
StartupFon — 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.

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

Hedef Girisim offers direct or indirect investments in many sectors. They are involved in different sectors such as the real sector, fintech, software, gaming, real estate, education, logistics, medical health products, plastic and plastic-like products, logistics, blockchain, crypto, and SaaS.

Investment focus

Venture Capital, Financial Services
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
WePlay Ventures — We are a Gaming VC that invests in early-stage game studios in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We invest in early-stage Mobile, PC, Console and Web game

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.