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Top 30 ESports Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023

A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Esports startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Esports companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 ESports Angel Investors in Middle East in October 2023

Investor eSports Middle East investments
Kushal Shah 3
Sertaç Özinal 2
Cem Büyükkaya 1
Emre Gerçek 1
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut 1
Gizem Nilay Tuna 1
İrfan Ündevli 1
Kaan Karapınar 1
Orkun Saitoğlu 1
Mustafa Emre Gündüz 1
Sercan Akkaş 1
Ercan Ergül 1
Dylan Collins 1
Selin Kiper 1
Barbaros Özbugutu 1
Khalid AlTawil 1
Barış Before 1
Brad Kotansky 1
Kaan Kalıpçı 1
Nevzat Aydın 1
Andrey Belozerov 1
Rıfat Elhadef 1
Erdem Gezer 1
Kaan Kayabalı 1
Sina Afra 1
Kaan Kural 1
Marc Merrill 1
Hande Enes 1
Demirhan Büyüközcü 1
Can Hicbezmez 1

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Kushal Shah
Angel

Kushal Shah is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger's Dubai office and a Managing Partner for the Middle East. Prior to joining Roland Berger, he spent 12 years with a leading consultancy in London and Dubai. He studied Economics at Cambridge in the UK and he is a certified Chartered Accountant.

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video, Gaming
  • Seed, Series B
  • Egypt, United States, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

  • VUZ — 360VUZ is the pioneer Immersive Social Mobile App Teleporting people in time. It captures and delivers live and on-demand 360 video and immersive experiences. The 360VUZ Mobile app Ranked #1 in the Entertainment category on App Store ahead of top players.360VUZ teleports people in live, virtual reality and video content – supporting in buildingthe ecosystem for live and on-demand Video and VR to become a mainstream experience for sporting events, exclusive happenings, Influencer Appearances, concerts, and more. Out in the market in 2017, 360VUZ has more than 2 patents and reached over 500 Million Screen Views per Year.
  • GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
  • YaLLa esports — YaLLa Esports was born out of a passion for gaming shared by friends, which ignited a mission to build a community of gamers with an organized structure in the MENA region, championing the gaming culture and building the perfect environment for professional gamers to flourish. We aim to position ourselves as a supportive hub for gamers of alllevels with a future vision of constructing and managing the very best teams in the region, competing on a global scale and showcasing the Middle Eastern & African talent in the international gaming stratosphere.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

  • Internet, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
  • Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
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Cem Büyükkaya
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Cem Büyükkaya

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Emre Gerçek
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Emre Gerçek

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Gizem Nilay Tuna

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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İrfan Ündevli
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

İrfan Ündevli

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Kaan Karapınar
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Kaan Karapınar

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel

Born in Istanbul in 1982, Orkun Saitoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then studied Computer Engineering at Montpellier University and completed his master's degree at Paris Pierre-Marie Curie University in Paris. In the second year of his graduate study, he became part of the team of B2B, B2C sites in the TUI group and startedhis career as a Software Engineer. During the first years of his career, he supported the design and integration of PayPal solution in France and the Benelux and later on became a part of business development and sales team during Scandinavian, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Russian market expansion. Orkun, later on became a part of a global team managing PayPal’s relationship with startups against Stripe and Braintree competition. In 2014, after living abroad for 14 years he decided to move back to Turkey to establish his own startup company. It is during this period that Orkun met with iyzico’s co-founders Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın to become the COO of iyzico knowing that the company would emerge as the payment champion of the region. Orkun is currently in charge of all of iyzico’s sales, marketing and operations teams.

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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Mustafa Emre Gündüz

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 3 investments in the past 12 months

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Fruit, Gaming
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Lugath
  • Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Ercan Ergül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.

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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Dylan Collins
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

Dylan Collins is one of Europe’s most experienced digital media entrepreneurs, focusing on games, kids entertainment and the technology which underpins them.He is CEO of SuperAwesome, the #1 kid-safe brand engagement platform. SuperAwesome works with the biggest kids entertainment brands in the world including Disney, Hasbro, Warner Bros andActivision ensuring they connect safely with over a quarter of a billion kids each month.An active investor and advisor across both kids media and technology companies, he is Venture Partner with Hoxton Ventures and sits on the board of the UK’s top-rated marketing technology agency, Potato and Brown Bag Films, Europe’s leading kids animation studio. Previously Collins founded Jolt Online Gaming which became one of the pioneering social games publishers in Europe. Jolt was acquired by GameStop (NYSE: GME), the largest video games retailer in the world in 2009 to spearhead their digital media strategy.As founder and CEO of DemonWare in 2003, he led the company to become the leading online games technology firm in the global console games market. In 2007, DemonWare was acquired by Activision Blizzard (NYSE: ATVI), the world’s biggest video games publisher and is now the multiplayer backbone of the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise.

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Advertising, Video Games
  • Series A
  • Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
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Selin Kiper
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Selin Kiper

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Investment focus

  • Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

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Investment focus

  • Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
  • Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Khalid AlTawil
Angel · Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia

Khalid AlTawil is a Board Member at Saudi Chemcial Company.

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Rental
  • Seed
  • Egypt, India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

  • Rooter — Rooter is an Indian game streaming platform that organizes multiple esports tournaments and owns many gaming IPs. It focuses on the massive mobile gaming market of more than 350 mn gamers. Conceptualized in 2016, Rooter was initially set up by Piyush and Dipesh Agarwal to build a strong community of sports fans around the world. But soon afterthe outbreak of COVID-19, Rooter forayed into game streaming to build one of the country’s biggest communities of gamers as well. Rooter has reached out to more than 23 mn users with an average user watching Live game streams daily for 26 mins. Rooter also runs the biggest community program to build the next million game streamers in India. Today Rooter is the biggest streaming platform in India available across Android, iOS, and Desktop.
  • GBarena — GBarena is an online esports platform that serves the ecosystem stakeholders by the combination of a strong network of different esports communities, and a highly analytical tool to provide authentic value for all stakeholders (Publishers, Gamers, Tournament Organizers, Sponsors, Teams, and Media Partners).
  • RentSher Middle East — RentSher was established in 2016 and is an online platform for renting event furniture and services, electronics, medical and travel essentials. It manages order bookings, payments, deliveries and value added services.
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Barış Before
Angel

Barış Before

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Brad Kotansky
Angel · Paradise Valley, Arizona, United States

Brad Kotansky has always been a serial investor: while pursuing his undergraduate BComm degree at McGill University, Brad was a member of the finance club and interned at ScotiaMcLeod for a wealth advisor; upon graduation, his passion for investing led him to Wall Street where he spent over a decade working as an investment banker, and later as ananalyst and portfolio manager for various hedge funds; in 2012, he founded Prickly Pear Ventures, a real estate development firm in Phoenix, Arizona, to capture opportunities from fallout of the Real Estate crisis of 2009 (the portfolio of single-family homes he amassed was ultimately sold to ARPI, a publicly traded REIT in 2013). To this day, Brad continues to be very active in the angel and seed investing world having invested in companies such as Coupang, Synchtank, Playsight, New Hive and Jingle Punks. But one thing Brad had always wanted to do was start and operate a business of his own. Ari’s business plan was tweaked, and together the pair embarked on a search for a technical founder.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, News
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, Israel, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

  • Coupang — Coupang offers an e-commerce platform that is powered by innovative technology and operations. It offers its customers possible prices and product selection within a convenient and personalized shopping environment.Powered by technology and operations, Coupang has set out to transform the end-to-end customer experience from revolutionizinglast-mile delivery to rethinking how Customers search and discover on a truly mobile-first platform. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi.
  • NewHive — New Hive is the blank canvas of the web. It's mission is to encourage creative expression online.
  • PlaySight Interactive — Connecting the next generation of athletes with a cutting-edge video and analysis tools for any sport at any level. Discover the PlaySight SmartCourt and platform
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel

Kaan Kalıpçı

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
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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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Andrey Belozerov
Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation

Andrey Belozerov (born 17 November 1980) is a Russian manager, entrepreneur and investor with a portfolio including SpaceX, Momentus, Pitchme and others. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, EdTech, FinTech
  • Seed
  • Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

  • Digital Disrupt — Using our experience, networking and expertise, we help projects grow so that they change life around the world to the best.
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Erdem Gezer
Angel

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel

Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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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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Kaan Kural
Angel

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Marc Merrill
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States

Marc Merrill Co-founded of Riot Games, Inc. in 2006 and serves as its President. Marc Merrill served as Chief Marketing Officer of Riot Games, Inc. He was corporate marketing executive in the exciting world of Business-to-Business media at Advanstar Communications. He has marketing, leadership, and elite gaming skills including Schedule Mastery +9.He held roles in finance with Merrill Lynch and US Bancorp.

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Investment focus

  • Media and Entertainment, Gaming, Video Games
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • United States, Israel, Norway

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzu.io — Anzu is an in-game advertising platform that introduces native, creative, and dynamically-updated ads to video games and esports.
  • OpenBCI — OpenBCI is a low-cost, programmable, open-source EEG platform that gives anybody with computer access to their brain waves. Their vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development. Behind the many lines of code and circuit diagrams,OpenBCI has a growing community of scientists, engineers, designers, makers, and a whole bunch of other people who are interested in furthering our understanding of the brain. We feel that the biggest challenges in understanding what makes us who we are cannot be solved by a company, an institution, or even an entire field of science. Rather, we believe these discoveries will be made through an open forum of shared knowledge and concerted effort by people from many different disciplines. Today, the leading brain-computer interface (BCI) companies distribute fixed devices with limited or closed access to the algorithms that translate raw EEG signals to meaningful data. These devices are powerful and effective for application development but not ideal for R&D requiring adjustable hardware setups and direct control over the signal processing techniques. OpenBCI is fully accessible and powered by an open-source community of hardware and software builders, making it easy for creators of any skill level and ideal for researchers who haven’t yet settled on the perfect system design. The OpenBCI platform is intended to serve as a malleable starting point in the rapidly growing field of brain-computer interfacing.
  • Fast Break Labs — Fast Break Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup that's building the future of sports gaming and entertainment.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
  • Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers. Wordego provides advertisers to target consumers surfing on the publisher websites, and show them personalized digital ads and coupons. Wordego provides advertisers to acquire, convert, and re-engage customers on the internet, and enables publishers to manage andmonetize their websites’ advertising inventory.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
  • Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Seed, Angel
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Can Hicbezmez

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Investment focus

  • Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • Turkey

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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