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Top 30 eSports Startup Investors in Turkey (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey eSports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey eSports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing $321k–$2.7M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel Internet, FinTech, Payments $25k–$2.5M
Semiramis Kulak
Angel
1 Turkey Seed
Can Hicbezmez
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Cem Büyükkaya
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Emre Gerçek
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
İrfan Ündevli
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Kaan Karapınar
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Ercan Ergül
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Sercan Akkaş
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Fruit, Gaming
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Internet $100k–$11M
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $11k–$600k
Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Selin Kiper
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
twozero Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software $112k–$2M
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Soccer, Sports $250k–$1.1M
Hande Enes
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media $35k–$4.1M
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Software $250k–$3.7M
StartupFon
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS $30k–$2.6M
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Blockchain $14k–$700k
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ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 2 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Early stage deep tech investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 31
  • Round size: Seed $321k–$2.7M; Convertible Note $964k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 77% lead, 23% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
  • 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
  • Productive Machines — We create digital twins of the milling process to identify vibrations and then automatically personalize the tool path parameters to eliminate chatter. Our customers get to the best part, faster, the first time.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, FinTech, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $25k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Semiramis Kulak
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Semiramis Kulak

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
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Can Hicbezmez
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Can Hicbezmez

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Cem Büyükkaya
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Cem Büyükkaya

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Emre Gerçek
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Emre Gerçek

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Gizem Nilay Tuna

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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İrfan Ündevli
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

İrfan Ündevli

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Kaan Karapınar
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Kaan Karapınar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Mustafa Emre Gündüz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Ercan Ergül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Kaan Kural
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fruit, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$4.3M; Series A $4M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

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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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Ales Venture Capital Investment Trust Inc. 100% Escort Technology Investment Co., Ltd. was established in late 2012 as a subsidiary of an investment company subject to the Capital Markets Board legislation.Their target audience was primarily started to produce products or services are targeted at companies with existing customers and growth.However, the product or service to switch to the sales and marketing process, although in need of ready finance companies also take interest in Their initiative.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $11k–$600k; Pre-Seed $35k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2012

Portfolio highlights

  • OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
  • Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
  • Pusula Publishing — Compass, one of Turkey's top publishers of books on computer science, software, programming, and design, is the company behind the popular "Who's Afraid of Computers?" series. Compass also publishes periodicals, encyclopedias, and educational materials in the field of informatics.
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Selin Kiper
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Selin Kiper

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Soccer, Sports, eSports
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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twozero Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

twozero Ventures provides venture investing to technology-driven and disruptive startups in sports, media, and entertainment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$1M; Series A $133k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

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!
  • Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
  • Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

  • Industry: Retail, Soccer, Sports
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4.1M; Angel $50k–$280k; Pre-Seed $35k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3.7M; Angel $250k–$3M; Pre-Seed $320k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow

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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StartupFon
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups eitherthrough its venture capital AngelFund or co-invest with it independently. As a tool under Startupfon, AngelFund is a micro VC of around USD10 mn. Investors can make investments either on a deal by deal basis or they can allocate some of their budgets to AngelFund to let Startupfon invest on behalf of themselves. Startupfon has been founded by Istanbul Startup Angels (“ISA”) as its online investment platform in 2016. ISA is a leading angel investor platform accredited in 2014 discovering ambitious startups in their early-stage while mentoring them in the process. ISA also organizes angel investor academies for high net worth individuals and accelerator programs for corporates. ISA performs with 4.3x TVPI on a total of TL 10 mn investments in 27 ventures as of March 2019.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $30k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $10M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Neol — Neol is a decentralized and tokenized cohort-based learning and on-demand talent platform, powered by a curated global creative community.
  • Hirize — Resume parser and matching AI-powered with GPT-3 Technology, supercharge your hiring with our wide range of recruitment solutions
  • Artifica.io — Artifica.io creates products for the requirements of industries by utilizing artificial intelligence technologies.
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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Kaan Kalıpçı

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Barış Before
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Barış Before

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: eSports, Video Games, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund
VC Fund · Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey eSports startups

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

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $14k–$700k; Pre-Seed $25k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Postuby — Postuby is a practical social media management tool.
  • Pink Games — Pink Games is a Local hyper-casual game studio.
  • For Physician — For Physician offers 24/7 online specialist physician support.
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eSports Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 7 deals from 31 investors.

31
investors
in Turkey eSports startups
7
deals
in Turkey eSports startups
$1.1M
median round
in Turkey eSports startups
6%
lead investors
lead at least one round
43%
Seed
most common funding stage
19/81
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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