# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2023

## Diffusion Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology

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

## Boğaziçi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games

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.

## StartersHub
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

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## Lima Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

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.

## ACT Venture Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing

Early stage deep tech investor

## Alesta Yatırım
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## TechOne VC
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.

## APY Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

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

## TÜBİTAK
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Grant, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is the leading agency for management, funding and conduct of research in Turkey. It was established in 1963 with a mission to advance science and technology, conduct research and support Turkish researchers. The Council is an autonomous institution and is governed by a ScientificBoard whose members are selected from prominent scholars from universities, industry and research institutions. TÜBİTAK is responsible for promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in line with national targets and priorities. TÜBİTAK acts as an advisory agency to the Turkish Government on science and research issues, and is the secretariat of the Supreme Council for Science and Technology (SCST), the highest S&T policy making body in Turkey.

## Türk Telekom
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Turk Telekom group provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN, GSM to wide band internet. Türk Telekom group companies have 17.3 millions of PSTN customers, 6 millions of ADSL customers and 12.6 million GSM customers as of Mach 31, 2009. With its modern network substructure, covering the whole country, the group companies offer a widerange of services to its personal and corporate customers. Turk Telekom, who is the owner of the 99,9% of shares of the companies TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.S. and AssisTT, is also the owner of 81% of the shares of Avea, which is one of the three GSM operators in Turkey. Turk Telekom also supports Albtelecom in Albania. The 55% of the shares of Türk Telekom belongs to Oger Telekomunikasyon A.S. and the 30% of the shares belongs to Undersecretariat of Treasure of Turkey. The remaining 15% of shares has been offered to public.

## Logo Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Retail

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

## Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Blockchain

Rolling Fund + Syndicate Model with Modest Capital for Early Stage Startup Investors. Invests $20K - $50K in problem-solution stage technology startups.

## Keiretsu Forum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

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

## Ali Aksakarya
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of management in information technology.
Highly skilled in software architecture and product development. Developed 4 full-stack software applications including native mobile clients single-handedly and directed more than 30. A serial entrepreneur, neuropsychology enthusiast, and an earlystage heavyweight boxer after years of powerlifting.

## Hulusi Berik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Health Care

Hulusi Berik is the Chairman at Keiretsu Forum.

## Fark Labs
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Fitness, Delivery

Fark Labs is an Innovation center with a focus on mobility.

## Tamer Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance

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.

## Eksim Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Transportation, Facebook

Eksim Ventures supports potential business models and ideas by strengthening the power of technology. The firm was founded by Eksim Holding in 2021 and has 35 years of experience in smart capital.

## Sertaç Özinal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Payments

Sertaç Özinal

## Koc Holding
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, Machine Learning

Koç Group is one of Turkey's largest industrial and services groups in terms of revenues, exports, research and development investments, patent portfolio, employees, taxes paid and market capitalization on the Borsa Istanbul. With consolidated revenues of $25.5 billion, it ranks among the world's Fortune 500 list. Koç Holding has leadingpositions with strong competitive advantages in various sectors, such as energy, automotive, consumer durables and finance. It has more than 97,000 employees and 10,000 dealers, agencies and after-sales service providers. Koç Group is celebrating its 90th anniversary.

## Firat Isbecer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, SaaS

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.

## Sabancı Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, FinTech

Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

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.

## Alima Ventures BV
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Fashion

Alima Ventures BV is an investment firm of Turkey

## Ak Portfoy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Medical Device

Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management.

## Sente Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Information Technology

Sente is a Chicago-based startup investment and innovation platform. Sente searches the world for the most high-potential startups and helps them scale through unprecedented guidance, support, and connections.

## Cem Tüfekçi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Machine Learning, Analytics, SaaS

Cem Tüfekçi

## hi VC
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

hi VC

## F+ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Transportation, Automotive

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.

## Bilişim Vadisi
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Bilişim Vadisi is a technology development zone in Turkey that ensures the production of high-value-added products and new technologies.

## Neo Portfolio
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Real Time

Neo Portfolio engages in the management of money market, real estate, venture capital, and private equity funds.

## ARI Çekirdek
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Internet, Automotive

ARI Çekirdek You dream of starting your own business, you want to be your own boss.

## EGIAD Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Konak, Izmir, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

EGIAD Angels Investment Network is an entrepreneur support system established by Aegean Young Business People Association. Business and venture ideas that meet the specified criteria are presented to potential investors in the system, provided that they are transformed into business plans.

## Atanova Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Content

Atanova is an early stage investment company that discovers enterprises which will make high impact with their bright ideas while in their incubation phases.

## Sercan Akkaş
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fruit, Gaming

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

## Ark pres
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Köseköy, Kocaeli, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Electronics, Manufacturing

Ark Pres manufactures car safety components.

## Erdem Gülen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Local, Mobile, Medical

I am who I am.

## Qatar Development Bank
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, B2B

Qatar Development Bank they improve the economic development cycle by providing entrepreneurs and SMEs with a wide range of financial and advisory products under one roof.

## Birkan Kül
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence

Birkan Kül

## ITUARI Teknokent
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: Biotechnology, AgTech, Software

ITU ARI Teknokent initiative is a University-industry collaboration that enabled many technology based entrepreneurial companies to benefit form the academic infrastructure provided by ITU.

## Halit Buyukkusoglu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence

Halit Büyükkuşoğlu serves as board member at Farplas.

## Arzu Umur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Machine Learning

Arzu Umur ia an Angel Investor.

## Keiretsu Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Keiretsu Capital LLC is an affiliate of the World's Leading Angel Network, Keiretsu Forum, and manages funds which enable limited partners to co-invest in the proprietary deal flow of the angel investors.

## Ebru Dorman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Fitness

Ebru Dorman

## Dilek Dayinlarli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Cloud Computing

Dilek was actively investing as an angel and being an active chairwomen since 2017. She has been an angel investor in companies like Picus Security, DataRow (acquired by AWS), Genomize, and Genialis, having a board seat on multiple of them.Previously she was an investor at 212, an early-stage technology venture capital in İstanbul. She investedin companies like IyziCo, the biggest Fintech company in the region and Insider, global marketing automation software, funded by Sequoia Capital and so on.Prior to 212, Dilek worked at Groupon as Director of Strategy and Analysis, Management Consultant at Accenture and Business Developer at Koc Group. She started her career in the USA, where she held different project management positions and also started her own startup.Dilek received a BA honors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University and MBA from Johnson & Wales University, both with honor degrees. Dilek is also one of the first Kauffman Fellows, chosen from Turkey and distinguished by scholarship. She is also a founding member and leader of Arya Women Investment Platform. She is a guest lecturer at Stanford University and a judge at European Commission. Dilek was awarded as One of the Most Successful Women Leaders in Turkey, thanks to her contributions and impact on tech industry.Outside the office, Dilek loves to experience authenticity in new destinations. She is a competitive basketball player, a serious artwork collector, and an avid reader of books. She puts deliberate effort to spend quality time with her loving family and friends; informative pastry cooking sessions with her daughter, sophisticated board games while drinking coffee with relatives and friends, or book clubs to foster intellectual curiosity between friends and colleagues. She also jumps every morning to find the leaders of future who will be able to create big impact and help them at their journey. It is fascinating to witness how her life outside the office enriches her work as an investor.

## Farplas
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kocaeli, Kocaeli, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1

Farplas is an international leading company in the global automotive supply industry, providing interior ceiling systems

## Teknoloji Yatirim
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Baby, Fitness

Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.

## Heaventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Information Technology

Heaventures strives to join in exceptional early-stage startups as a team member and contribute with its time, expertise, network and money.

## Semiramis Kulak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed

Semiramis Kulak

## Can Hicbezmez
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports

Can Hicbezmez

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