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Top 35 Wellness Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024

A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Wellness startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wellness companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Wellness Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2024

Investor Wellness Turkey investments
Teknoloji Yatirim 2
F+ Ventures 2
ERT Clinical 2
212 2
Fark Labs 2
ACT Venture Partners 2
Global Founders Capital 1
Sabancı Ventures 1
Enocta 1
Karel Electronics 1
Mindshift Capital 1
Firat Isbecer 1
Cem Ortabaş 1
Assist Ventures 1
Maxis 1
Ayberk Kalkavan 1
PCP 1
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz 1
Bülent Aksu 1
Arya Ventures 1
Ahmet Ramiz 1
Doha Tech Angels 1
Nevzat Aydın 1
Teknasyon 1
Hakan Bas 1
Alesta Yatırım 1
Eczacıbasi Momentum 1
Selçuk Esenyel 1
Tamer Capital 1
Al Mada 1
Istcapital 1
APY Ventures 1
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund 1
Sarus Select Capital 1
500 Istanbul 1
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Teknoloji Yatirim VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Hipporello — Turn your task management platform, Trello or Notion, into a powerful service desk. Manage customer support and ticketing easily. Try now for free!
  • Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy | Virtual Experiments
F+ Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Estonia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
  • Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
ERT Clinical VC Fund · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Clario generates the richest clinical evidence by fusing our deep scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Internet, Wellness
  • Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
212 VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
We back bold entrepreneurs building legendary companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
  • RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
Fark Labs VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Fark Labs is a global innovation and transformation hub that aims to build a better future for all. We help entrepreneurs, startups, corporations, and investors transform into more connected, innovative, and future-ready versions of themselves so they have a positive impact on the world. We apply an investment portfolio approach to our innovationstrategy, touching all stages of the startup lifecycle from incubator to investor in Turkey, which is strengthened by our strong global network of regional accelerators and VC partners in our key global geographies. We use this approach for our 4 focus verticals: mobility, life sciences, sustainable lifestyle, and emerging technologies, which we call our curiosity cabinet.We back change-makers who transform industries and create new ones. Our sweet spot is investing early, and we continue to provide support and investment up to Series A. We envision a better future by championing entrepreneurship, innovation, and frontier technologies that transform legacy businesses and build future-proof startups.We also drive innovation and transformation through collaborative intelligence. We build a unique ecosystem that connects difference-makers, leading corporations, venture capital firms, universities, and government agencies across our 4 verticals.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Manufacturing, Last Mile Transportation
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
  • M-Based — M-based is an initiative aiming to develop eco-friendly alternative material technologies using mycelium, a component of the mushroom. Its R&D efforts focus on developing mycelium-based vegan leather to address environmental concerns and animal ethics violations in the textile industry.
  • Ion membranes — Ion membranes is a company that designs and manufactures ion exchange membranes and separators for the green energy industry. Our products are used in batteries, electrolyzers, fuel cells, chlor-alkali facilities, electrodialysis water treatment processes, and other applications that require ionic range separation.
ACT Venture Partners VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Early stage deep tech investor
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Rototip — On demand CNC manufacturing Rototip Milling Turning Bespoke Manufacturing
  • Qubitrium — Explore innovative quantum solutions at Qubitrium. Elevate your journey with cutting-edge products, services, and trainings. Your quantum future...
  • Meddenovo Drug Design — Meddenovo is at the forefront of AI-driven drug discovery, pioneering a specialized technology platform designed specifically for cyclic peptides. Our innovative approach leverages a unique blend of AI technologies and molecular modeling to significantly enhance the efficiency and success rates of drug development processes. Cyclic peptidesrepresent a groundbreaking class of compounds in pharmaceutical research. These molecules combine the best attributes of small molecules and large biologics, offering exceptional binding affinities, stability, and specificity. At Meddenovo, we are leaders in harnessing the potential of cyclic peptides, developing tailored solutions that push the boundaries of traditional drug discovery. Beyond small organic molecules, our expertise extends to peptide-based medicines and metal chelators, giving us a competitive edge in novel drug research and development. We excel in creating unique chemical spaces tailored to your needs and provide custom computational solutions for predicting drug resistance, elucidating biochemical reaction mechanisms, and conducting metal affinity analysis. At Meddenovo, we are dedicated to precision and reliability in drug discovery. Our approach reduces failure rates and improves outcomes, accelerating the journey from research to market. Our mission is to empower scientists worldwide with advanced, user-friendly AI tools, democratizing access to cutting-edge drug discovery technologies.
Global Founders Capital VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 15 investments in the past 12 months
Over the past two decades, GFC have backed over five hundred entrepreneurs worldwide, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, and Away Travel.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Papaya — Papaya is the quickest way to order and pay in restaurants and bars and enjoy a seamless ordering and payment experience with personalized offerings. Restaurants and bars turn tables faster, experience increased basket sizes, and better understand their customer base.
  • Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
  • Amica Finance — Jupiter's consumer-focused neo-banking startup Amica Finance operates as an NBFC non-banking finance company.
Sabancı Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Fernhay Solutions — Discover Fernhay's revolutionary eQuad (eCargo Bike) - the ultimate zero-emission solution that's making cities cleaner and greener.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
  • ecoLocked — ecoLocked is your partner to create a climate-positive built environment. We develop CO2-optimized recipes for concrete based on carbon-negative biochar admixes. Our admixes allow to store captured CO2 in buildings, reduce direct emissions from concrete production, and provide multiple functional benefits, such as improved thermal insulation.
Enocta VC Fund · Beykoz, Istanbul, Turkey
Enocta is a Turkish e-learning company founded in 1999. It provides hundreds of companies, government agencies, and universities with e-learning services, training programs and development services.The services offered by Enocta include e-learning content products and solutions; education management infrastructure products and services; andother related packaged solutions.Encota has been recognized as one of the best of e-learning platforms in Turkey. It was awarded as the champion in the e-communication category in 2011 by DenizBank; first place in the e-learning platform contest organized by the Turkish Ministry of Justice; and second place by Koç Allianz in the e-learning platform category.Enocta's business partners include ABC Consulting, ADS Consulting Group, Allianz, Baltas, DBA Institute of Behavioral Science, Guse Safe Driving Training Centre, Rica Solutions, Academy of MED, PDA, The Polat, TIM, and TSEV.
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Investment focus
Portfolio highlights
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
Karel Electronics VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Karel has created the electronic telephone exchange market in Turkey in 1986 with its original designs, provided PBX products to this market and pioneered Turkey's transition from electromechanical systems to electronic systems in communications. Established with hundred percent domestic capital, Karel has the most advanced R&D departmentin Turkey in communication electronics field today and facilities are compliant with international standards.
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Internet, Wellness
  • Series A
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
Mindshift Capital VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Investing in global, female entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Education, Wellness
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, Jordan
Portfolio highlights
  • FORTË — FORTË enables fitness brands globally to create a high-quality, premium digital fitness platform cost-effectively. FORTË installs its proprietary streaming hardware and software at one or more of its clients’ locations, deploys a customized website and accompanying mobile apps, and assists the client to launch and promote its new virtual offering.End-users can stream live and on-demand fitness classes from their favorite gym while interacting with their community on two-way video, tracking their performance in real-time on leaderboards and through wearable integrations, participate in challenges, and get social with their friends. FORTË powers UFC, Goodlife Fitness, YMCA's, NFL Player's Association, The Edge, Heartcore, GYMVMT, and many other well-known gym chains and boutique studios.
  • Vivoo — At home testing made simple! Get personalized insights and expert advice tailored just for you. Begin your journey to wellness now!
  • Making Space — Discover Making Space, a talent acquisition and learning platform that creates new pathways to employment and career advancement for Disabled people.
Firat Isbecer Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
  • Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
  • Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Cem Ortabaş Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
  • PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
Assist Ventures VC Fund
Assist Ventures is an Investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Wellness, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
Maxis VC Fund · Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Private Equity Investment arm of Isbank
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • F4e — Boost employee performance and business results with continuous feedback, transparency, and commitment to business goals.
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Ayberk Kalkavan Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ayberk Kalkavan
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Wellness, Psychology
  • Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Terappin — Terappin offers psychological counseling online.
PCP VC Fund · Turkey, North Carolina, United States
CP is a leading independent private equity firm focusing on investments in Turkey. We invest across growth equity and growth buyout strategies to support visionary entrepreneurs and management teams in fast-growing, export-oriented and tech-enabled companies.
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Investment focus
  • Outsourcing
  • Private Equity
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
  • Unite Bilgi Teknolojileri — Unite is a Nationwide Technology Services Company specializing on IT outsourcing, IT Infrastructure Management, Back Office Capability Management, Business Process Outsourcing. Our expertise lies in understanding the importance of technology to business, the requirement for return on technology investments and the need for an accountablebusiness partner whose core focus is IT management and ensuring all service levels and quality of those services are met. Currently operation in sectors from telecommunication to pharmaceuticals, from Government to Private we would with a large range of outsourcing requirements.
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz Angel
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
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Investment focus
  • Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • CRwizard
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
Bülent Aksu Angel
Bülent Aksu
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Wellness, Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Arya Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Founded in partnership by Arya Women Investment Platform and İşbank, Arya Ventures aims to make early- stage and series A investments in gender-balanced startups in Turkey's ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Marketing, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
  • 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.
Ahmet Ramiz Angel
Ahmet Ramiz
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Investment focus
  • Beauty, Wellness, Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Doha Tech Angels VC Fund · Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
Doha Tech Angels provides seed funding for early stage disruptive technology startups in Qatar, the Middle East, and internationally.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, FinTech
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Kuwait, Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Sihaty — Sihaty is an integrated virtual-first primary healthcare system that focuses on prevention and the management of chronic and stigmatized conditions. Sihaty brings together the best technology with the best human resources for health under its unique digital umbrella.
  • Play2Pay™ — Play2Pay enables consumers to pay their monthly recurring bills by discovering and playing mobile apps and games on their devices.
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
Nevzat Aydın Angel · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
  • Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.
Teknasyon VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and ​172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Health Care, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
  • Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
Hakan Bas Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.
Alesta Yatırım VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
  • Tiamo Games — Tiamo Games combines the simulation and hyper-casual gaming genres.
  • Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
Eczacıbasi Momentum VC Fund
Eczacıbaşı Momentum invested in three venture companies and a venture capital fund; Their goal is to invest US$30 million over the next five years as they continue to partner with funds and startups that shape the new normal of modern life, focusing on well-being, consumption, and home-living.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Information Technology, Neuroscience
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Newlab — Systems for scale
  • Ecomercek — Ninico is a modern and flexible Minimal eCommerce Laravel script. This script is suited for electronic, organic and grocery store, furniture store, clothing store, hitech store and accessories store...
  • RS Research — RS Research is a next generation therapeutics company developing novel nanomedicines. We have developed a pioneering class of nanocarriers with which we currently have proprietary programs in various stages of preclinical development for treatment of cancer.Our nanocarrier platform is highly tunable with a plug & play approach, allowingspeedy development of targeted nanomedicines with superior performance.Along with moving our very own candidates toward clinic, we provide preclinical services to industrial and academic partners. We have specific expertise in biosimilar characterization as well as in vivo experiment design.
Selçuk Esenyel Angel
Selçuk Esenyel is an Angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Hop Health — Hop Health provides personalized health services using digital solutions, connecting doctors and patients, offering health tourism services, and coordinating patient treatment processes.
Tamer Capital VC Fund
Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
  • Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
  • Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
Al Mada VC Fund · Casablanca, Grand Casablanca, Morocco
Investissez pour un impact positif avec Al Mada. Ensemble, construisons un avenir durable et responsable.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Wellness, Health Care
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Hop Health — Hop Health provides personalized health services using digital solutions, connecting doctors and patients, offering health tourism services, and coordinating patient treatment processes.
Istcapital VC Fund · Capelle Aan Den Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in the past 12 months
ISTcapital is a venture firm where innovation meets investment. Discover our unique approach to venture capital.
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Investment focus
  • Biopharma, Video Games, Casual Games
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
  • 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.
  • Spline — Spline is a free 3D design software with real-time collaboration to create web interactive experiences in the browser. Easy 3d modeling, animation, textures, and more.
APY Ventures VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 9 investments in the past 12 months
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Nuvolog — Revolutionize logistics operations with Nuvolog. Features like spot procurement, carbon tracking, and time slot management enhance efficiency and streamline operations.
  • Samplico — We deliver products of world-known brands to you for free!
  • Cellestetix — Cellestetix is a biotech company that specializes in developing and commercializing plant-based exosome formulas for regenerating skin, hair, and wellness.
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.
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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
Sarus Select Capital VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom
Sarus Select Capital manages investments and provides investment advisory services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Wellness, Human Resources
  • Seed
  • Turkey
Portfolio highlights
  • Wellbees — Wellbees is a corporate wellbeing platform working to change the way we work. Wellbees' main value proposition for HR is offering a "one -stop-shop experience for all things employee wellbeing" saving HR time and money. Wellbees has powerful social functions such as challenges, clubs, events that help employees get the inspirationnecessary for sustainable behavior change on top of its functions such as online expert calls and wellbeing content.
500 Istanbul VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
  • Refine — Build React-based internal tools, admin panels, dashboards & B2B apps with unmatched flexibility.
  • Freeflow — The blockchain developer marketplace for web3 projects.
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