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Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2023

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Community startups based in Turkey. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Turkey. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Community Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2023

Investor Community Turkey investments
Aslanoba Capital 8
Earlybird Venture Capital 5
Omer Erkmen 5
Münteha Adalı 4
Ahu Serter 4
Joachim Behrendt 4
KAYA 3
Varol Civil 3
Umur Özal 3
Safa Rashtchy 2
STC Ventures 2
Deniz Güvenen 2
Protos Venture Capital 2
Mehmet Onarcan 2
TRANGELS 2
Kaan Boyner 2
Carman Chan 2
Deniz Alexandra Duygu 2
APY Ventures 2
Nevzat Aydın 2
Doruk Pala 2
MITON 2
Sina Afra 2
Kivilcim Cayli 2
Ata Uzunhasan 2
Eric Chen 2
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development 2
Erinç Özada 2
Eric Chen 2
Wamda Capital 2
Anibera 1
Yalcin Ayaydin 1
Kamil Sözen 1
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu 1
Hakan Bas 1
Teknoloji Yatirim 1
Alphan Manas 1
Techmine 1
Technology & Innovation Fund 1
Cerebrum Tech 1
Özgür Ülkü 1
Nenad Marovac 1
Alper Akcan 1
Keiretsu Forum 1
Angel Effect 1
Jose Marin 1
Aegean Ventures 1
VCDE Venture Partners 1
3TS Capital Partners 1
WePlay Ventures 1

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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

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.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

  • Colendi — Credibility and microcredit platform
  • CARD.com — Fully featured bank account with optional overdraft protection and round up savings account. Get your paycheck up to 2 days earlier.
  • Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 23 investments in the past 12 months

Founded in 1997, Earlybird invests in all development and growth phases of technology companies. Among the most experienced venture investors in Europe, Earlybird offers its portfolio companies not only financial resources but also strategic support plus access to an international network and capital markets. With EUR 2 billion under management,eight IPOs and 30 trade sales, Earlybird is one of the most established and active venture capital firms in Europe.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Binalyze — Binalyze enhances all your digital forensics and incident response processes at max speed.
  • ColibrITD — Quantum Computing Software Algorithm
  • Re-Fresh Global — Re-Fresh Global brings sustainability innovation into the manufacturing industry. Our patented biotechnology transforms textile waste into recycled raw materials: nanocellulose, ethanol, and sanitized textile pulp.
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Omer Erkmen
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Mindsite — Mindsite enables eCommerce professionals to boost their online sales by tracking and analyzing eCommerce fundamentals such as product availability, price&promo strategy, product content and brand visibility.
  • PCI Checklist (ONLAYER Company) — Detect, monitor and remediate data breach and compliance risks of your company and your merchants.
  • Makswin Real Estate Technologies, Inc. — Cutting-edge technological solutions aimed at data inconsistency and inefficiencies in the real estate industry.
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Münteha Adalı
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • AgTech, Baby, Farming
  • Seed, Grant
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
  • TutumluAnne — Tutumluanne.com is the first and the biggest C2C online marketplace in Turkey for second hand kids' goods.
  • Nanomik Biotechnology — Nanomik Biotechnology produces next generation biofungicides that increase the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables. Antimicrobial raw materials produced by microorganisms isolated from nature and active molecules obtained from plants are placed in micro-sized biopolymer capsules and applied to fruits. These completely natural microcapsulesadhere to the fruit and open within 24-48 hours and provide protection on the surface. While the biopolymer material forms an edible layer on the fruit, the ingredients in it prevent the growth of molds present in the medium. Unlike chemical fungicides, our products do not cause any harm to human and environment.
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Ahu Serter
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 6 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Baby, Information Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Greece, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
  • Memotive — Memotive is upgrading the mechanism for shift planning and service organization to digital. They developed tools that fall under the category of communication and feedback since they understand how essential it is for employees to interact with their businesses while working for them.
  • TrabTech — TrabTech develops innovative medical products using innovative materials, new generation manufacturing technologies and biomimetic designs.
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Scorp — "User generated viral video machine " is the definition for Scorp Ads. We convert the power of word of mouth into short selfie-videos. Scorp seeds the message and motivates users to join the conversation on brands' topic with positive association or hype about the brand.Viewers like to consume content that they are interestedin. In Scorp there are wide range of videos that is not just only about comedy or music but also about news, politics, sports, movies&TV shows, celebrities, books-art, food, fashion-beauty and relationships that are created as selfie 15 second videos. Scorp shows users 100s of videos, opinions or approaches on a single topic. The format enables users to discover different point of views.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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KAYA
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 7 investments in the past 12 months

We are committed to supporting founders at every stage of their journey, from studio projects and pre-seed through to Series A and follow-ons.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Czech Republic, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • GRAET — Elevating athletes with micro-donations and a professional sports network for transparency and endless opportunities.
  • Woltair — Digitisation of the heating installation process - from lead generation, through sales and installation, to after-sales support.
  • E2B — Sandboxed cloud environments for AI agents & AI apps with a single line of code
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Varol Civil
Angel

Varol Civil - General Manager @ Türk Ekonomi Bankası

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Investment focus

  • Baby, Marketplace, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Dusyeri — Dusyeri is an edutainment platform that focuses on children.
  • KolayBi — KolayBi' is a new generation cloud based bookkeeping and financial application platform with online bank account aggregation for SMEs. People can manage accounting processes, register data, and generate reports by recording its financial records . People can also add bank accounts to the system and convert their payments into a one-clickinvoice. KolayBi' was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Istanbul.
  • TutumluAnne — Tutumluanne.com is the first and the biggest C2C online marketplace in Turkey for second hand kids' goods.
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Umur Özal
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Umur Özal is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Baby, Rental, Retail
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
  • Mutlubiev — A leading online cleaning services platform. It thrives on providing high-quality cleaning solutions and satisfying clients' personal needs.
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Safa Rashtchy
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Safa Rashtchy is the founding Managing Partner of Think + Ventures and a a Silicon Valley investor, advisor, and trendspotter. Safa and sits on the boards of several start-ups and global organizations. Safa has been an Investor/Advisor in AppliedBoard, Angellist, Bina Technologies (acq. by Roche) , Uber, OpenGov, Payjoy, Nimble VR (acq. byFacebook), Signifyd, CleverSense (acq. by Google) and many other investments. Overall, Safa has invested in 30 start-ups, with six exists all to public companies. Safa has pioneered the concept of "Consumer Value Proposition" and the Four-Stage Investment Research Model.From 1997 to 2007, Safa was a Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst focused on Internet media and marketing, and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Company. He led the firm’s expansion efforts in the Internet industry and its expansion to China, as well as active involvements with leading Web 2.0 companies. Safa’s current investment portfolio consists of companies focused on Digital Health, consumer, media, and technology innovations, with deep attention to the the value proposition for the users.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, India, Turkey

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.
  • Snapwire — Snapwire is a platform where talented creators shoot custom visual content for brands and businesses around the world. Simply post a creative brief and top performing creators respond by submitting their best shots. Buyers get unique content that matches their vision, and the creators get paid fairly. Our mission is to enable people with apassion for creativity to thrive doing what they love.
  • Tubi — Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand service with over 12,000 movies and television shows from nearly every major Hollywood studio. The service gives fans of films and television programs an easy way to discover new content which is available completely free. Currently available in the US and Canada, Tubi can be accessed througha large number of devices and apps including Samsung televisions, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Comcast’s X1, iOS, and Android.
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STC Ventures
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 1 investment in the past 12 months

STC Ventures is an independently managed venture capital fund whose anchor investor is the Saudi Telecom Company. Our goal is to empower entrepreneurs to create market leading technology businesses. We are focused on equity investments that will help to build leading companies in the information technology, telecommunications, and digitalmedia/entertainment sectors. One of the key objectives of our fund is to support the development of innovative technology companies in the GCC, wider MENA region and Turkey, in addition to funding globally minded international companies seeking capital and access to the MENA region.

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Investment focus

  • Fashion, Developer APIs, Professional Services
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United Arab Emirates, Japan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Modanisa — Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
  • Nile — Reliability and predictability in enterprise network performance and TCO - backed by SLA guarantees. The Nile solution just works.
  • yallacompare — Compare the best car insurance, credit card and personal loan providers in Dubai & the UAE with yallacompare
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Deniz Güvenen
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

Deniz Güvenen

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Investment focus

  • Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • DüğünBuketi — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
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Protos Venture Capital
VC Fund · Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland

Protos Venture Capital is a funding company that is focused on internet businesses in Poland. It also includes mobile projects based on Software-as-a-Service, marketplace, lead-generator, and e-commerce sectors. Protos Venture Capital is based in Warszawa, Poland.

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Investment focus

  • Mobile Apps, Fashion, Marketplace
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Poland, France, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Droplabs — Droplabs is Poland's leading online sales software for the experiences industry. Hundreds of Attraction, Tour and Activity providers use our software to sale tickets and activities through various channels including own website, hotel desks, travel agencies, aggregators, network of affiliates or on-site. Our software also helps with real-timeoffer, capacity & pricing management; entry management and day-to-day operations optimisation.We keep the product self-serviced and simple to use on any device. We are end buyers advocate: Buying, storing and using tickets must be seamless!We are SaaS with no exceptions.
  • MultiWash | CarWash App — Multiwash cooperates with 600+ car washes in Poland to bring high quality eco friendly subscription plans for companies via convenient mobile app. More than 15k subsription users, over 100 enterprise clients, like Pepsico, Microsoft, Tchibo, ING Bank, Pfizer, Sanofi, Roche, Red Bull, TDK, DPD, Rossmann & others.
  • EkoFachowcy.pl — Kolejna witryna oparta na WordPressie
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Mehmet Onarcan
Angel

Mehmet Onarcan is the Founder of Mentors Network Turkey. He previously worked at Project House as an Advisory Board Member - Digital Transformation. Mehmet Onarcan attended Yildiz Technical University.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Internet, Social Network
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
  • Doktorderki — Doktorderki is an online system that allows people to directly talk to doctors about their questions and problems regarding health. It aims to establish a scalable B2C growth model along with the investment it is taking and to do B2B work with pharmacists and mainly dermocosmetics companies.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered inIstanbul, Turkey.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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TRANGELS
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Early Stage Investment Fund and Network

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Investment focus

  • Biotechnology, Energy, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

  • & New Me — Andnewme is a health platform that serves with the motto "only aesthetics". You can get information about aesthetic treatments and find the doctor you are looking for!
  • Biftek — The future of meat starts here. We produce growth medium to make cultured meat affordable.
  • Nanomik Biotechnology — Nanomik Biotechnology produces next generation biofungicides that increase the shelf life of fresh fruits and vegetables. Antimicrobial raw materials produced by microorganisms isolated from nature and active molecules obtained from plants are placed in micro-sized biopolymer capsules and applied to fruits. These completely natural microcapsulesadhere to the fruit and open within 24-48 hours and provide protection on the surface. While the biopolymer material forms an edible layer on the fruit, the ingredients in it prevent the growth of molds present in the medium. Unlike chemical fungicides, our products do not cause any harm to human and environment.
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Kaan Boyner
Angel

Kaan Boyner is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Minoto
  • TutumluAnne — Tutumluanne.com is the first and the biggest C2C online marketplace in Turkey for second hand kids' goods.
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Carman Chan
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Carman Chan is one of the top 5 Women to watch in Asia Tech (Nikkei Asian Review). She is a veteran in the technology industry with decades of experience as an entrepreneur with multiple exits, a tech columnist and a globally recognized venture capitalist.Carman is the founder of Click Ventures, a global early stage venture capital firm. ClickVentures has grown into a leading investment manager, and two of its funds are featured as Top 5 Seed Fund (Vintage 2003-2015) in the world and Top 4 Funds to Watch by Preqin respectively. Click Ventures' investments include Spotify (ipo), Docusign(ipo), Palantir, Memebox and Youappi.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • United States, Hong Kong, China

Portfolio highlights

  • Oddup — Oddup provides startup, investor, sector, and ecosystem data, insights, and analyses in 34 major cities across the globe. Oddup also provides cryptocurrency listings and price targets, ICO analysis, and the Oddup Indexes, which track real-time trends across the startup landscape.Oddup is an indispensable resource for investors, investment banks,venture capitalists, accelerators, corporate innovators and management consultancies seeking detailed information and greater clarity in the fragmented and foggy startup sector, the ICO landscape, or the cryptocurrency investment market.Oddup provides comprehensive data and analyses, and exhaustive deep dives of varied ecosystems, sectors, and regions of the world.They also delve into the profiles of thousands of startups to give investors a curated view on their health and potential success in a single score. Additionally, they also provide curated, in-depth analysis of all past, ongoing, and upcoming ICOs, and analysis of active cryptocurrencies.They track and explore hundreds of ICOs and cryptocurrencies to give investors a curated list that simplifies this increasingly preferred fundraising method.
  • EventX — The EventX Virtual Event Platform is a comprehensive platform for hosting virtual events, meetings, conferences, and webinars that help you attract leads and audiences.
  • PARKLU — PARKLU is a platform connecting leading brands with more than 500 million consumers in China through influencer marketing. PARKLU's data-based technology gives brands the tools to:- Discover influencers most relevant to them across a wide range of categories- Nurture relationships and brand ambassadors by direct chat- Manage socialmedia campaigns- Measure progress and effectiveness, including ROI and engagement across China’s top social media platforms including WeChat, Weibo, Youku, Meipai, Yizhibo, Inke, and Instagram
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Deniz Alexandra Duygu
Angel

Deniz Alexandra Duygu

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Investment focus

  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • TutumluAnne — Tutumluanne.com is the first and the biggest C2C online marketplace in Turkey for second hand kids' goods.
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APY Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 26 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

  • Juphy — Unify social conversations, deliver excellent customer service, and sell via personalized messaging. #1 tool for social selling & support.
  • Poliark — AI for Built Environment
  • Syntonym — Syntonym state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies provide customers with seamless anonymization by protecting visual data values within the high standards. Syntonym applications use a cloud-native approach to provide customers with seamless integration at the EDGE, Cloud and on-premises servers.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 1 investment 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, E-Commerce, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Normod — Normod is a digital brand that provides modular and customizable furniture services.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
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Doruk Pala
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

Doruk Pala

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Investment focus

  • Wedding, Events, Big Data
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • DüğünBuketi — DüğünBuketi is a web and special event organization portal that brings wedding firms together to get price quotes. It was founded in 2017 and is based in Izmir, Turkey.
  • KABİ Partners — KABİ Partners develops data-driven products for the solution of all needs before, during and after the wedding.
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MITON
VC Fund · Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Company builders operating from Czech Republic and focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. We prefer building consumer facing businesses.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • GRAET — Elevating athletes with micro-donations and a professional sports network for transparency and endless opportunities.
  • VOS.health (AI Mental Health App) — Boost mental health and wellbeing with VOS.health. Conquer stress, anxiety, and depression while enhancing productivity through personalized plans and mood tracking. Join VOS, a community that understands and supports your journey.
  • Sense Arena — Virtual Reality Training for Hockey Players and Goalies. Grow your athletic performance by employing brain training of Read and React based on our cutting edge technology into your training program.
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Turkey, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • Mowico — Mowico, an online no-code eCommerce app maker, enables eCommerce businesses to create Android and IOS mobile apps with unlimited customization.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
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Kivilcim Cayli
Angel

Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Property Management, Leisure
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • Yourkeys — With Zoopla for Housebuilders, listings your plots is just the start. Our software & marketing tools help at every stage of your developments
  • Adalethanim — Adalethanim is a legal platform working with AI that analyzes, understands, interprets, and produces results to help with legal research, allowing the person working on the case to save time and access more information about a case. The company's vision is to make justice fast, cheap and accessible to everyone.Adalethanim was founded in 2018and is headquartered in Beşiktaş, İstanbul, Turkey.
  • UnderTheDoormat — UnderTheDoormat Group is a prop-tech company that empowers property owners, portfolio owners and property companies to generate higher income through the short-term rental industry. Our mission is to help every property fulfil its potential every day, by to connecting them with quality guests through our 3 products.Firstly, we operate short termrentals for those who don’t have the capabilities - UnderTheDoormat London has 300 units across the city, including the flagship aparthotel 3 Sloane Gardens operated on behalf of Cadogan Estate. Secondly, we distribute for providers who can provide quality hospitality, but not distribution. The tech landscape in short term rentals is hugely fragmented, and our B2B SaaS platform Hospiria integrates the stack so property companies and managers have a ready-made platform so they can focus on what they’re good at - hosting guests. And finally, our TrustedStays platform is the world’s first platform which connects professional home rentals with Government and Corporate procurement. Until now, short-term rentals haven’t been able to enter this world, and we’re connecting it.All three arms enable owners to earn higher return from short term accommodation.
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Ata Uzunhasan
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Ata Uzunhasan - Managing Director @ Galata Business Angels

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Investment focus

  • Baby, Children, E-Commerce
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • TutumluAnne — Tutumluanne.com is the first and the biggest C2C online marketplace in Turkey for second hand kids' goods.
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Eric Chen
Angel · Los Altos, California, United States

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Turkey, Germany

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.
  • BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
  • Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 6 investments in the past 12 months

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests in changing lives. Through our financial investments, business services and work on policy reform, we're doing more than ever before to build open, market economies across 3 continents.

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Investment focus

  • Financial Services, Banking, Finance
  • Debt Financing, Series A, Series B
  • Turkey, United States, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Voltalia — The Investor Relations website contains information about Voltalia's business for stockholders, potential investors, and financial analysts.
  • Masdar Capital — Masdar Capital is developing & deploying commercial-scale renewable energy projects.
  • TBC Bank Uzbekistan — The first next-generation greenfield digital bank in Uzbekistan, established by TBC Group - FTSE 250 constituent financial services group
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Erinç Özada
Angel

Erinç Özada is an angel investor.

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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.
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Eric Chen
Angel · Palo Alto, California, United States

Eric Chen is a Co-Founder and Partner at OVO Fund. Eric previously worked at Uj Ventures as a Founder. He attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Stanford University.Eric Chen is an experienced technology investor focusing on early stage Internet and enterprise IT opportunities in the US and China. Eric started Uj Ventures,an angel fund based in Palo Alto formed to incubate and fund seed stage opportunities. Uj Ventures has made 25 investments in technology startups including Palantir, RoboteX, Kiwi Crate, Context Logic and other promising startups. As a partner with venture capital firm WI Harper for five years, Eric led investments in technology companies that spanned both China and the US including ooma, Laszlo, PMC, and EditGrid. He is currently a Venture Partner with WI Harper and an advisor to Matrix Partners China.Eric has a wide-ranging background and is an entrepreneur in his own right. He co-founded an Internet startup, worked as an executive at a high growth technology company, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Mobile, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Turkey, Germany

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.
  • BrightCrowd — BrightCrowd digital books help schools, companies, and organizations keep their people connected
  • Cloudastructure — Cloudastructure is the first cloud-based video surveillance platform with AI and computer vision analytics. Learn more about Cloudastructure today!
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • BitOasis — BitOasis is MENA's leading platform that allows you to securely buy, sell and trade crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ether, XRP and Bitcoin Cash at the best rates. Currently available in UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
  • Believe — Believe Pte Ltd. is a global, Singapore-based FMCG conglomerate that provides market-ready solutions for customers by listening to their needs and designing products that suit their culture and life choices. From breakthrough personal care essentials to beauty products surpassing global standards, our worldwide team of experts use cutting-edgetechnology, scientifically proven methodologies and ancient knowledge to gift our customers
  • Wafeq وافق — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
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Anibera
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey

Anibera operates as a full-service animation studio with specialties in high-quality animation production from concept to completion.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Children, Mobile Apps
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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Yalcin Ayaydin
Angel

Yalcin Ayaydin

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Investment focus

  • Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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Kamil Sözen
Angel · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Kamil Sözen

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Investment focus

  • AgTech, Farming, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
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Berkay Mollamustafaoglu
Angel · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Berkay Mollamustafaoglu is the Co-Founder & CEO at OpsGenie. Prior to OpsGenie, Berkay was the CEO of iFountain, and held roles at several technology and consulting companies including Netuitive, Smarts, Ernst & Young, and Predictive Systems. Berkay holds a degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from METU.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Baby
  • Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Thundra — Thundra is a developer platform company that empowers application teams to develop, debug, test, and deliver modern microservices on the cloud. Build the perfect software.
  • Vanemar — Vanemar offers an easy and intuitive way to monitor your boat with extensible and easy to install wireless sensors. Anytime, anywhere.
  • KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.
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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.
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Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 2 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Baby, Fitness
  • Seed, Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.
  • Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.
  • VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
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Alphan Manas
Angel

Alphan Manas - Country Manager - Türkiye Başkanı @ ERA Real Estate Türkiye Kıbrıs

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Investment focus

  • Q&A, Internet, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • inploid.com — inploid is a place to find answers to your questions, share your experiences and get online reputation to everything that you have knowledge about. We are bringing the right question to right people to get the right answer. Strongly focused on a technology to understand what any text based content is about and who is going to be concerned with it.Users of inploid are able to edit and restructure content of inploid.com in order to provide the audience with more reliable and accurate answers.Founded in January 2011 and inploid is considered as “the brain of the brains” in Turkey.
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Techmine
VC Fund · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Techmine is an Investment firm.

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Investment focus

  • Baby, Medical, Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.
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Technology & Innovation Fund
VC Fund · Jersey, Arkansas, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Technology & Innovation Fund was added in 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Baby, SaaS, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.
  • Webee — Discover WeBee's high-tech hospitality solutions, ensure a contactless guest experience, improve TripAdvisor scores and maximize revenue.
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Cerebrum Tech
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

An initiative that rises from turkey with the aim of being one of the leading tech companies at global scale

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Investment focus

  • Artificial Intelligence, Apps, Hotel
  • Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
  • Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • gigl — It's quick and easy to apply with a 60 second video. No need for a CV. Find your next job today. Download on the app store Get it on Google play.
  • Predica.ai — Predica.ai turns data into AI-powered business value
  • GFDS Inc. — Since in 2013, we develop high-quality visual solutions supported with augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), internet of things and artificial intelligence (AI), as well as providing exclusive software and hardware products for our national and international customers. We define our company as a “content factory”, ableto develop various visual contents to almost all technological platforms. We pride on having a strong high-performance computing farm, announced as a success story in the USA Silicon Channel in 2014. Being familiar to all new technological concepts and research, we offer our customers our high level of know-how to add value into their business. We offer various services related with our production pipeline, composed of competent CGI, advanced technology development and visual design specialsits, artists and developers. We offer innovative solutions for the following titles: *Education and Training *Industry and Defense *AI *Marketing *Entertainment *Software *HardwareWe undertake numerous projects for the needs of the sectors below: *Industry *Defense Industry *Entertainment *Sales and Marketing *Education/ Occupational Training *MediaWe are proud to be the partners, solution providers and distributor of the leading technology companies of the world: Microsoft, NVIDIA, Samsung, Epson, One Stop Systems, Magic Leap, VuforiaTHE FUTURE IS OURS, LET'S DESIGN IT TOGETHER!
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Özgür Ülkü
Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Özgür Ülkü

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Investment focus

  • AgTech, Farming, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
  • FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
  • Vahaa Vertical Farming Solutions — Vahaa is a smart agriculture startup that combines vertical hydroponic agriculture techniques with IoT technology that provides you to grow fresh and clean fruits and vegetables in the middle of the city all year round. It doesn't matter whether you are at home, at your office, or somewhere else. With the Vahaa Hanging Garden, you can growproducts such as lettuce, arugula, mint, basil, and thyme on your wall and you can easily control every step of your production with the Vahaa App.
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Nenad Marovac
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Nenad Marovac has more than 25 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the technology and media sectors.Nenad is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital. Prior to DN Capital, Nenad was a Partner at Advent International in London, where he focused on TMT investments.Nenad focuses on investments inmarketplaces, software as a service (SAAS), fintech, consumer mobile applications and digital health companies. Amongst his select investments are Shazam Entertainment (sold to Apple), Auto1 (largest online marketplace for used cars), Apsmart (acquired by Thomson Reuters), Datanomic (acquired by Oracle), Endeca, (acquired by Oracle), Eve Sleep (IPO London), Happn, Hometogo, Hostmaker, Joblift, Mister Spex, Performance Horizon Group, Purplebricks (IPO London), Tbricks (acquired by Orc) and Quandoo (acquired by Recruit Holding). Nenad is also the Chair of Invest Europe and an active member of YPO in London and Berlin.Nenad received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Shopping
  • Series A, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • GoStudent — GoStudent is a platform for online teaching and is the future of tutoring. The EdTech company was founded in Vienna in 2016 by Felix Ohswald (CEO) and Gregor Müller (COO). Currently, GoStudent is operational in 15 markets. Via its platform, GoStudent provides paid, one-to-one, video-based tuition to primary, secondary, and college-aged students in20+ subjects, using a membership model. Lessons are booked via the GoStudent platform and accessed using a computer or a mobile device. During each tutoring session, students and tutors interact live in a virtual classroom. Integrated features, such as a whiteboard and the option to share a screen and edit documents together, are included. The cornerstone of this concept was laid in 2015 by Felix Ohswald and Gregor Müller when they established a WhatsApp-based homework chat service for students. GoStudent employs more than 600 people and has opened 12 international offices. Over 400,000 tutoring units are booked each month. Currently, GoStudent has around 15,000 customers and works with 5,500 international tutors. To date, GoStudent has raised more than €291m. Investors include Left Lane Capital, DN Capital, Coatue, and DST Global.
  • Annelutfen.com — Annelutfen is a full price online shop for baby products (0-12) in Turkey. Annelutfen offers the widest selection (18.000 SKUs), fast delivery (1-3 days), and best in class user experience.
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Alper Akcan
Angel

Alper Akcan

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Fitness, mHealth
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
  • Lisa AI — Lisa is a mobile app that predicts engagement of Instagram photos before they are posted. We use state of the art deep learning methods to analyze the visual content and help users to choose which photo to publish to maximize the engagement of their audience.
  • Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
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Keiretsu Forum
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Software, Biotechnology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • United States, India, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • BharatNXT — BharatNXT is a B2B fintech platform. BharatNXT's objective is to become the go-to partner for SMEs on their path to becoming major companies for their business payments, credit, compliance, and sourcing needs.
  • Qube Health — QubeHealth simplifies Employee Healthcare Benefits management for the Biggest Companies in India
  • Sugar Watchers — A healthy twist to our daily staples like Rice, Atta and Poha. Sugar Watchers is a range of Low GI staples that are 100% Natural, non-gmo and clinically tested. They are good for diabetics, help in sugar and weight management and good for the full family.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investment in the past 12 months

We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • & New Me — Andnewme is a health platform that serves with the motto "only aesthetics". You can get information about aesthetic treatments and find the doctor you are looking for!
  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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Jose Marin
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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.

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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.
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Aegean Ventures
VC Fund · Mýkonos, Kikladhes, Greece · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Aegean Ventures organizes day cruises on shared & private basis in Mykonos island! Rent a private boat or join a shared cruise of Mykonos, Delos & Rhenia!

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, Children, Analytics
  • Seed
  • Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
  • Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
  • heybooster — Heybooster is a provider of analytical tools to ecommerce companies to take better digital marketing decisions.
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VCDE Venture Partners
VC Fund · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

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. By partnering with outstandingentrepreneurs and management teams venturecapital.de delivers true value beyond financing and pro-actively works with portfolio companies to accelerate growth.They look for companies, that have a proven business model and through a strong value proposition address large markets and deliver real value to their customers be it consumers or enterprises. Out entrepreneurs‘ fund „venturecapital.de“ is funded by 150 European tech entrepreneurs, founders and industry veterans. It constitutes one of the strongest and most value adding business networks in Europe with an excellent platform for an exchange of expertise and know-how between investors, the fund and its portfolio companies.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SEO, Automotive
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Turkey, India

Portfolio highlights

  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • 123Fahrschule — 123fahrschule.de - consolidating and digitizing the German driving school market
  • StalkBuyLove — A one-click "en Vogue" destination. Get your daily dose with the trendiest styles and best fashion inspiration updated on our fashion portal every day. We provide unprecedented access to the hottest and handpicked looks of the current season; looks that are inspired from celebrities, European catwalks and high-end luxury labels.As soonas we design new styles, we make them accessible online within 10 days from conceptualization. Styles might be quickly sold out because we do not keep a lot of stock - so you have to purchase quickly to avoid out of stocks. Our designs are super unique, so you will likely not find anybody else wearing the styles that we have.Every day we work hard to ensure that our designs are absolutely unique, beautiful and trendy. We make the latest fashion accessible; provide the prettiest pieces in town and hand-pick the fabrics, colors, prints and designs. We triple check each product before we put it online and send it to you. We personally look at things like fitting, color, comfort, design and quality to ensure that everything is perfect.Keep Stalking, Buying and Loving :)
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3TS Capital Partners
VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 1 investment in the past 12 months

3TS Capital Partners is a European technology focused private equity and venture capital firms. 3TS provides expansion capital and buyout funding for small and medium-sized businesses in growth sectors including technology & internet, media & communications and technology-enabled services. Investors in the current and past 3TS fundstotaling over €300 million include EIF, EBRD, Cisco, OTP, Sitra, 3i and KfW among others.Its team of highly qualified experts become active business partners of the portfolio companies and deliver substantial value added beyond financing. When analyzing new investment opportunities and supporting portfolio companies, the company often augment its core team by its sector partners, various co-investors and other industry experts. 3TS is also an active member of several international industry associations and other organizations like EVCA – European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association, the International Venture Club and the Draper Venture Network.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Series A, Seed
  • United States, Romania, Poland

Portfolio highlights

  • Autenti — Autenti is a platform for document authorization and contracting via the Internet. It facilitates the signing of many papers and accelerates the working mode in companies.
  • Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
  • ShiftMed — ShiftMed offers a uniquely efficient and user-friendly approach to on-demand staffing for the healthcare industry with 90%+ show rates.
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WePlay Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Funverse Games — Funverse Games is a game development studio that develops blockchain games on many platforms.
  • 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.
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