Top 25 ESports Angel Investors in Turkey in October 2023
Top 25 ESports Angel Investors in Turkey in October 2023
| Investor | eSports Turkey investments |
|---|---|
| Sertaç Özinal | 2 |
| Sercan Akkaş | 1 |
| Demirhan Büyüközcü | 1 |
| Erdem Gezer | 1 |
| Barış Before | 1 |
| Can Hicbezmez | 1 |
| Cem Büyükkaya | 1 |
| Emre Gerçek | 1 |
| Fethi Ahmet Özbulut | 1 |
| Gizem Nilay Tuna | 1 |
| İrfan Ündevli | 1 |
| Kaan Karapınar | 1 |
| Mustafa Emre Gündüz | 1 |
| Kaan Kalıpçı | 1 |
| Semiramis Kulak | 1 |
| Kaan Kural | 1 |
| Nevzat Aydın | 1 |
| Selin Kiper | 1 |
| Ercan Ergül | 1 |
| Kaan Kayabalı | 1 |
| Sina Afra | 1 |
| Barbaros Özbugutu | 1 |
| Orkun Saitoğlu | 1 |
| Hande Enes | 1 |
| Rıfat Elhadef | 1 |
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Sertaç Özinal
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- 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.
Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.
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- 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.
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya —
Erdem Gezer
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Git Kargo —
Barış Before
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Can Hicbezmez
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Cem Büyükkaya
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Emre Gerçek
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Gizem Nilay Tuna
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
İrfan Ündevli
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Kaan Karapınar
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
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- Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
Kaan Kalıpçı
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- 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.
Semiramis Kulak
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- Aposto — All-in-one media service currently based in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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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- 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.
Selin Kiper
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- 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.
Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.
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- Soccer, Sports, eSports
- Series A
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. 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.
Kaan Kayabali, a Turkish entrepreneur, is the founder and CEO of Onedio Media and Internet Services Inc.
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya —
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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- 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.
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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- 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)
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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- 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.
Hande Enes
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- 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.
Rıfat Elhadef
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
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