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Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in Turkey

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Video games startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Video games companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in Turkey

Investor	Video Games Turkey investments
WePlay Ventures	8
Ludus	5
Hummingbird Ventures	4
Boğaziçi Ventures	4
Tarvenn Ventures	4
Griffin Gaming Partners	4
Akin Babayigit	3
Balderton Capital	2
Alesta Yatırım	2
Collective Spark	2
Tunç Yalgın	2
Fatih Isbecer	2
Makers Fund	2
Kaan Karamanci	2
Diffusion Capital Partners	2
Firat Isbecer	2
Kaan Kural	1
Barış Before	1
Netmarble	1
Alexandre Carel	1
Timo Schlaefer	1
APY Ventures	1
Orkun Olgar	1
Kaan Kalıpçı	1
B4YO Capital	1
HubX	1
500 Emerging Europe	1
Rıfat Elhadef	1
Istcapital	1
Jose Marin	1
Ali Kutay	1
Geometry Venture Development \| Angel Investment Fund	1
vgames	1
Libertus Capital	1
Demirhan Büyüközcü	1
Tera Portfoy	1
Erinç Özada	1
Hande Enes	1
Lima Ventures	1
Vestel Ventures	1
Turgut Konukoglu	1
Volkan Bicer	1
Burak Saglik	1
Games United	1
Ozhun Olgar	1
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	1
Mustafa Sevinç	1
Metromedya	1
Fabrice Grinda	1
AREA group	1

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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

Investment focus

Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future
Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
One Percent — One Percent is a multiplayer Third-Person Shooter action game incorporating E-sports aspects such as strategy and tactics that focus on individual and team performance. people collaborate with friends or other people to fulfill objectives in game modes and defeat other teams. The One Percent design team created every level, character, clothes,emote, costume, and many other components in order to deliver a unique experience. The first edition of the game was created in a distinct Cyberpunk universe, and it is hoped that the team's design and technological skills will allow them to add other maps, concepts, and universes to the game.

Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, Singapore, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Mage — Mage enables game studios to accelerate their production times and create top-tier games.
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.
Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Biotechnology
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Etched.ai — Transformers etched into silicon. By burning the transformer architecture into our chips, we're creating the world's most powerful servers for transformer inference.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
Waypoint Bio — Waypoint's proprietary spatial multi-omics platform enables us to solve critical issues around understanding how cell therapies navigate the three-dimensional tumor microenvironment and allow the measurement of cell-to-cell interactions.

Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Retter — Develop fast, powerful web apps
Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Enhencer — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.

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 — Madcraft Studios develops games for computer and mobile platforms.

Griffin Gaming Partners is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing across the broad gaming ecosystem.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ForthStar — ForthStar operates as a gaming company with a mission to make free-to-play hits.
Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.
Second Dinner Studios — Second Dinner is a small, sleek, and absurdly vigorous new game studio. We may be small, but we've got BIG DREAMS!

Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King,Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile Apps, PC Games
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Layer AI, Inc — The Collaborative MLOps platform
Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
Harmony Games — Harmony Games is a developer of next-generation hybrid-casual games.

In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Series B, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Healx — At Healx we use AI drug discovery to develop new treatments for rare diseases. We bring treatments from prediction to patient.
Tinybird — Tinybird helps data teams build real-time Data Products at scale through SQL-based API endpoints. It ingests millions of rows per second and serves low latency, high concurrency analytical queries over any amount of data.
ZOE — ZOE analyzes your unique gut, blood fat and blood sugar responses. So you can take back control of your health & weight

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

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.

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

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.

Tunç Yalgın was Entrepreneur and investor, passionate about everything high-tech, disruptive and, even better, both!

Investment focus

Video Games, Mobile, Sports
Seed, Series A
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
Hero Concept — Hero Concept is a computer games company that develops visionary reimaginations of the timeless classics of arcade gaming. The company studies the histories of the ever-present classics in order to carry them into the 21st century--with panache. Hero Concept was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.

Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mindway VR — Mindway is a fully immersive meditation app that proves mindfulness doesn't have to be boring.
Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.

Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Pika — The idea-to-video platform that sets your creativity in motion.
Dusk — Rune is an automated friend or squad finder and voice chat for players on mobile games. Users can hang out and share amazing experiences together. The company builds the future of LFG for mobile gamers.
Sekai Studio — We are creating next-level entertainment for Anime fans between episodes.

Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.

Investment focus

Mobile, Marketing, Automotive
Seed, Angel, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.
Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Doktar Technologies — We lead digitization and digital transformation in agriculture with digital services, sensors, satellites and other agricultural technologies.
Enhencer — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.
Mixer Games — Pioneers who shape the entertainment of the future

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, 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.

Kaan Kural

Investment focus

eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.

Barış Before

Investment focus

eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.

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Investment focus

Gaming, Music, Media and Entertainment
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
South Korea, Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

ALUX — ALUX is a content creation company that specializes in video and coding education content.
HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
Epic League — Epic League is a company specializing in Online RPG and blockchain ecosystem.

Alexandre Carel

Investment focus

Credit, Mobile, FinTech
Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.

Timo Schlaefer

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, Blockchain
Seed
Turkey, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
Dynasty Studios — Our Game Developers at Dynasty Studios follows a gamer first ethos and is shaping a new realm that supports both gaming and blockchain communities.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rototip — On demand CNC manufacturing Rototip Milling Turning Bespoke Manufacturing
Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
Lokum Games — Lokum Games is a mobile game development company.

Orkun Olgar

Investment focus

Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Cube Games — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Champy Games —

Kaan Kalıpçı

Investment focus

Recipes, eSports, Delivery
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.

B4YO Capital is established to assist entrepreneurs to develop their business.

Investment focus

Video Games, Casual Games, Online Games
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Tarifist — Tarifist offers easy to access and share food recipes.
Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

HubX is a technology hub, building next-gen mobile applications using world-class expertise and cutting-edge tech. Our apps and games have reached over 100 million users across 160 countries.

Investment focus

Gaming, Mobile, Internet
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

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.

500 Emerging Europe help the companies from Emerging Europe scale globally.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

YonedaLabs — Yoneda Labs suggests Reaction Conditions that work with no wet lab experimentation, and then we can help you optimise too, if necessary.
Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
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.

Rıfat Elhadef

Investment focus

eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.

ISTcapital is a venture firm where innovation meets investment. Discover our unique approach to venture capital.

Investment focus

Biopharma, Video Games, Casual Games
Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

TeaTechs — Web & mobile based 'Smart Solutions' specific to each sector.
Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
PhiTech Bioinformatics — PhiTech Bioinformatics translates genome-wide molecular data (Genomics, Transcriptomics, Epigenomics, Microbiomics, etc.) into biotechnology solutions primarily for use in precision medicine.

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Brazil, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Farfetch — Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.

Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HiveMQ — HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. They make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable and scalable manner. Over 100 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on their product in production for mission critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoTproducts.
REscan — Transforming spaces into data
Strikedeck — Medallia's software platform provides keen insights to improve customer experience, contact center experience, employee experience and digital experience.

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, 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.
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.
Pangea VR — VR and Console Game Studio

vgames is the venture fund for game entrepreneurs. Having both worked with some of the youngest and most mature developers, we have a deep understanding of what it takes to build a great game. We are passionate about games, and about supporting companies as they grow to become global leaders.

Investment focus

Gaming, Video Games, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Israel, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Frantic Games — Frantic Games is a mobile game company that specialises in hybrid casual games.
Mountaintop Studios — Mountaintop Studios is a game studio creating multiplayer games for players who crave a challenge.
Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

decentralized applications, distributed applications, blockchain, early-stage investments, venture capital

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
Merkle Science — They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

Investment focus

eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
Wudya —

Tera portfoy is a financial institution that offers products and investments.

Investment focus

Online Games, Mobile, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fimple — Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle.
Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
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.

Erinç Özada is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Apps, Baby, Gaming
Seed
Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.

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.it — 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.

Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Digital Marketing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
Mars Studios — Mars Studios is an experienced team of growth hackers & marketers that can help you to increase your revenue. Rocket Your App to Success: Mars Studios
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.

Vestel Ventures is the corporate investment company of Vestel Group of Companies.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Social Impact
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United States, Turkey, United Kingdom

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Kavaken — Kavaken offers artificial intelligence-powered solutions to renewable energy asset owners.
Rierino — Rierino is the ultimate combination of composable commerce, embedded intelligence, and low-code/no-code (LCNC) capabilities to improve the flexibility, speed, and cost-effectiveness of enterprise-grade software development. Its high-impact modules provide the much-needed rapid customization capability for medium-to-large enterprises that isnot available through standard packaged solutions.
Mega Fortuna — Mega Fortuna is a leading creator and producer of apps and games. To accomplish this, we mix client needs and lifestyle trends with industry-leading technology.

Turgut Konukoglu - CEO @ Sankonline

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, Tourism
Seed, Angel, Series B
Turkey

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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.
Cube Games — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Temizlikyolda — Temizlikyolda is a Saas Technology for House Cleaning companies. Monitoring your Business with improved Cloud Dashboard.

Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.

Investment focus

Online Games, iOS, Mobile
Seed
Turkey, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
Rollic Games — Rollic is a game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play hyper-casual games for iOS and Android. Games released by Rollic include Go Knots 3D, Flipper Dunk, Onnect – Pair Matching Puzzle, Pixel Shot 3D, Picker 3D, Repair Master 3D, Tangle Master 3D, Water Shooty, and Wheel Smash.
Ontrail Store — Ontrail Store offers a wide range of clothes and accessories.

Burak Saglik - Co-Founder @ Teknasyon

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United States

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Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
Otsimo — Otsimo offers special education and speech therapy apps for autism, down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Click to see our autism apps!
Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.

Games United helps game startups get off the field by giving an initial staff, strategic guidance, and aid to help them produce their games.

Investment focus

Video Games, Casual Games
Funding Round
Turkey

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BigPogo Games — Welcome To Heaven Of The Pogo!

Ozhun Olgar

Investment focus

Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
Seed, Angel
Turkey

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FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
Cube Games — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Champy Games —

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

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EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Angel
Turkey, Germany

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Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.

METROMEDAY craft meaningful brands through identity, print and digital experiences for businesses all over the world. Metromedya was founded on the idea of getting back to basics—working with a handful of talented people and keeping things honest, focused and thoughtful. Metromedya is a digital advertising agency that working with love with greatteam. Metromedya brings its magical touch to creating on Digital World. It focused on the culture of our digital world where we live and we believe that we are constantly focusing on innovating. Metromedya is a digital advertising agency.

Investment focus

iOS, macOS, Mobile
Pre-Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, France, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.

AREA group is an architectural design company.

Investment focus

Video Games
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.

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