# Top 40 Automotive Startup Investors in Turkey in May 2026 ## Aslanoba Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million.Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based inIstanbul, Turkey. ## F+ Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - 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. ## Hedef Filo - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kagithane, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Public Transportation Hedef Filo is the leading fleet leasing company. ## Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS MEVP is a Middle East-focused venture capital firm that invests in the early and growth stages of innovative tech companies run by talented entrepreneurs in the Middle East with a focus on the GCC and Levant countries. With a team of 20 VC professionals across offices in Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh, MEVP manages 5 regional funds with more than USD 260 million in Assets Under Management. MEVP is the largest and most established VC firm in the region, with clear cross border investment appetite. ## Istanbul Startup Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs. ## 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. ## Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu ## Finberg - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Corporate Round - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established. ## Emre Acikel - Type: Angel - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile Emre Acikel ## Nexus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey. ## Wamda Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services Wamda Capital is the MENA region's leading venture capital firm investing in exceptional entrepreneurs building the region's most promising high growth technology businesses. We invest both at the growth and seed stages with the aim of taking portfolio companies through successive rounds of financing through to exit. ## Kosgeb - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Medical Kosgeb ## RI Digital Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Online Portals Raffay is an investment group with early stage venture capital and real estate as its primary focus. ## Ethos Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Consumer, Internet Ethos Capital is an investment company that helps companies drive growth and transformation by employing new technologies. It is committed to setting ethics and social responsibility for registry operations and supporting a globally connected and resilient Internet. ## Enabling Future - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care Enabling Future (EF) is a sector agnostic, family office backed Venture Capital firm head quartered in Dubai. EF provides seed and early stage funding to entrepreneurs who challenge conventional wisdom and look to create true disruption. Our goal is to enable entrepreneurs to build companies of the future. We provide our portfolio companies withcapital, experience, strategy and network. ## Alesta Yatırım - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Liil Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Ciudad De León, Guanajuato, Mexico - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series D - Focus: Transportation, Software, Ride Sharing Quality of life in motion ## Deniz Devrim Cengiz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Apps Deniz Devrim Cengiz ## Maqasid Asset Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Automotive, Electric Vehicle Maqasid Asset Management is an independent Real Estate, Private Equity, and portfolio management company. ## Kaan Karamanci - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Marketing, Automotive Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games. ## Migros - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Medical Migros operates in the retail, industry, and financial service sectors in Switzerland and internationally. It operates through six segments: Cooperative Retailing, Commerce, Industry and Wholesaling, Financial Services, Travel, and Others. The Cooperative Retailing segment is involved in the operation of supermarkets and hypermarkets; andwholesale, catering, specialist markets, leisure, and club schools businesses. This segment also provides health services; and logistics services, such as transportation of goods and central warehousing services. The Commerce segment sells men’s and ladies’ wear, home accessories, entertainment media, office equipment, electro mobility products, and heating and fuel oils; and operates furniture, Internet retail, and convenience stores. The Industry and Wholesaling segment engages in the manufacture and sale of food and near food products, and non-food products under its own brands and labels. The Financial Services segment provides banking products and services. The Travel segment offers tour operator, travel agent, and other related tourist services. The Others segment provides property management services. The company is involved in operating fitness studios and a shopping center; and the production and sale of dried meat, and cold sauces and spices. The Federation of Migro Cooperatives that began operation on August 15, 1925 became Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund in January 1941, with its headquarters in Zurich in Switzerland. ## 212 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology 212 invests in growth-stage tech companies across Turkey, CEE, and MENA. Currently, our fund manages €75 million of committed capital, and 25 investments. Our strategy is to invest in B2B tech solutions that have demonstrated traction, a clear product-market fit, and are ready to scale internationally. ‘Test local, go global’ is 212’s guidingprinciple. In addition to investing in startups, we put significant effort into mentoring, supporting, and advising our portfolio companies.212 was founded by a seasoned group of veterans with the common vision of cultivating an eco-system in Turkey and its region. Each of our team members brings to the table a proven track record of success in multi-cultural disciplines in both global corporations and start-ups and an unwavering focus on strategy, operation, and execution. ## Firat Isbecer - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## StartupFon - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019. ## Hakan Bas - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games ## Hummingbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services 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. ## Emrullah Eruslu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Automotive, E-Commerce Emrullah Eruslu, CEO - Eryap Grup. ## Serkan Borancılı - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Angel, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Shoes Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion. ## Vitol - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Automotive, Transportation, Sales Vitol is an energy and commodities company. We trade and distribute energy safely and responsibly around the world using our logistical expertise and infrastructure network. ## Otokoc Otomotiv - Type: VC Fund - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Corporate Round - Focus: Big Data, Internet, Automotive Otokoc Otomotiv is an automotive retailer, car rental, and car sharing company that provides all automotive-related solutions. ## Melih Odemis - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally. ## Nevzat Aydın - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Melih Murat Yucaoglu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Big Data, Automotive Melih Murat Yucaoglu ## Wassim Matar - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance Wassim Matar is a Managing Partner at Verve Ventures VC. ## Erdem Yurdanur - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost ## Ahu Serter - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Baby, Information Services Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University. ## Omer Erkmen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara. ## March Holding - Type: VC Fund - Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Public Transportation, Transportation, Information Technology March Holding makes Investment in Commercial Enterprises & Management. ## Can Yucaoglu - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Big Data, Automotive Can Yucaoglu ## VCDE Venture Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SEO, Automotive VCDE Venture Partners was started in 2008 in Frankfurt/Germany and is a growth equity investment firm with a clear focus on technology companies in the field of software, the internet, mobile telecommunications and IT business services.Their main purpose is to build and develop successful growth companies. 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