Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Turkey (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Revo Capital
VC Fund
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8 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, Financial Services, Information Technology | $250k–$19M |
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Finberg
VC Fund
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7 | Turkey, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Corporate Round | FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology | $200k–$8M |
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Collective Spark
VC Fund
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7 | Turkey, United States, Greece | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $150k–$5M |
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APY Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $88k–$2.4M |
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StartersHub
VC Fund
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5 | United States, Turkey, Latvia | Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $20k–$605k |
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Earlybird Venture Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Germany, United States, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $1.2M–$40M |
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Wamda Capital
VC Fund
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4 | United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services | $500k–$47M |
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Idacapital
VC Fund
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4 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Logistics, E-Commerce, Apps | $150k–$700k |
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Aslanoba Capital
VC Fund
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4 | Turkey, United States, Ireland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Software | $150k–$6.6M |
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Istanbul Startup Angels
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States | Angel, Seed | SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment | $45k–$250k |
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Elevator Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Austria, Poland, Turkey | Series A, Seed | FinTech, SaaS, Software | $536k–$23M |
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Tunç Mehmet Berkman
Angel
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3 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Payments, Shopping | |
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Ali Kolaghassi
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Series A, Seed | Mobile, Payments, Shopping | |
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Lima Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, Estonia, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech | $21k–$400k |
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Boğaziçi Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games | $98k–$1.4M |
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Tamer Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey | Pre-Seed, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance | $35k–$6M |
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Emre Tok
Angel
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3 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Mobile, Payments, Shopping | $830k–$2M |
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Quona Capital
VC Fund
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3 | India, Brazil, Indonesia | Series A, Series B, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Finance | $1.1M–$45M |
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Keiretsu Forum Turkey
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $175k–$7.5M |
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
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3 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $11k–$600k |
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Q Angels
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, Sweden, Singapore | Pre-Seed, Seed | Information Technology, Podcast, Social Media | |
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Deniz Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | Trading Platform, Financial Services | |
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Atakan Atalar
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Angel, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Venture Capital, SaaS | |
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Firat Isbecer
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, SaaS | $24k–$9M |
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Teknogirişim GSYF
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Computer Vision, Supply Chain Management | |
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Internet, E-Commerce, Software | $250k–$3.7M |
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Mindvest Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Software | |
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KT Portföy
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | |
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QNBEYOND Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Information Technology, SaaS, FinTech | $200k–$3.5M |
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DAAL
VC Fund
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2 | United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Mexico | Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, Software, SaaS | $100k–$3.3M |
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Internet, FinTech, Payments | $25k–$2.5M |
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TechOne VC
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, Estonia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $115k–$2.4M |
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Gate Inside Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Gaming, Sports, Charity | $50k–$250k |
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Nexus Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States, India | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Internet, SaaS | $2k–$4.7M |
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Sabancı Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey, United States | Seed, Series A | Information Technology, Software, FinTech | $550k–$1.5M |
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Gedik Investment
VC Fund
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2 | Turkey | Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | |
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Neo Portfolio
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | FinTech, Finance, Real Time | $702k–$2.8M |
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Bilişim Vadisi
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $100k–$400k |
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Nezih Sipahioğlu
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Seed, Angel | Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding | |
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Mediterra Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United States | Series A, Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity | Mobile, Software, Information Technology | |
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ScaleX Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Turkey, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Cyber Security | $750k–$34M |
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Arz Portfolio
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed | FinTech, Internet, GreenTech | $220k–$2.4M |
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Ihsan Elgin
Angel
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1 | Turkey, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Gaming, Content | $250k–$8M |
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iwallet
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology | |
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Türk Telekom
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey, Spain | Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning | $25k–$11M |
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IFC Venture Capital Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Series B, Series C | E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet | $8M–$156M |
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Yildiz Technical University
VC Fund
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Metin Tarakçı
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Ali Altug KOCA
Angel
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1 | Turkey | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Finance, Financial Services | |
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Yıldız Tekno GSYO
VC Fund
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1 | Turkey | Seed | Apps, FinTech, Software | |
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Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $425k–$2.8M; Series A $250k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $96M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- DefensX — DefensX protects users from sophisticated cybersecurity attacks by isolating threats from reaching end-point devices, such as desktops, laptops, smart phones and tablets.
- FileOrbis — FileOrbis is a file management platform that provides file-sharing and management services.
- Getir Turkey — Getir is a technology company that provides on-demand delivery services.
Finberg is a corporate venture capital firm and a Fibabanka subsidiary. On March 1, 2018, the company was established.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Corporate Round
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 20
- Round size: Seed $600k–$8M; Corporate Round $200k–$4M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- wamo — Get a better business account with wamo. Physical & virtual cards, team accounts. Do it all from one app. Ready in 10 minutes!
- Taksit Market — Taksit Market is an e-commerce platform to sell electronic products.
Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Greece
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $150k–$5M; Pre-Seed $450k–$2.6M; Series A $1.4M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Cenoa — Cenoa is an easy-to-use, fast and global superwallet
- Invent analytics — Invent is a provide of advanced analytics solutions for retailers and FMCG companies. Invent's products and services enable companies to achieve maximum profitability with data-driven inventory and pricing decisions. Retailers using Invent’s proprietary solutions have seen 2-6% increase in profitability and an unmatched ROI, proven for eachcase with live large-scale A/B testing. Their SaaS solutions offer agility and scalability, requiring zero capital investment due to the pay-as-you-go subscription model.
- Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $88k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $100k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2021
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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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Latvia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $30k–$605k; Pre-Seed $20k–$285k; Convertible Note $25k–$30k
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Nerf IT — Nerf IT! is a super app enriched with crypto and NFT, where you can participate in tournaments, education, and events within esports.
- Quin AI — Quin AI is a real-time digital customer analytics tool that helps e-commerce websites predict visitors’ behavior after only 3-clicks, and engage them in real-time. The tool is very simple to install (just a JavaScript plugin), and only uses in-session clickstream data (cookie-free & GDPR compliant) to make highly accurate predictions to supportconversion for traffic that otherwise drops.Quin significantly increases engagement and incremental revenue on websites through native engagement tools and easy API integration to available tech-stacks which makes the product an ideal solution for e-commerce websites and ideal partner for companies providing services to retail and e-commerce businesses.
- Kassa — Kassa is an app that allows the user to easily share the expenses with their friends. The app reviews the user's balance of income and expenses, together with their savings to make financial decisions accordingly. Kassa keeps every mutual expense made to share it evenly.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 247
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$14M; Series A $2M–$26M; Series B $4.8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
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.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 100
- Round size: Seed $500k–$3M; Series A $2M–$6.5M; Series B $3.5M–$47M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
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.
idacapital Innovation Fund is the first Impact Fund in Turkey investing across technology-enabled business verticals in Health Tech, Financial Inclusion, Edu Tech, Clean Tech, Agro Tech in and around Turkey.
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- Industry: Logistics, E-Commerce, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $150k–$700k
- Lead/follow: 92% lead, 8% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- QDelivery — Qdelivery offers delivery solutions for companies operating in industries including food and beverage, retail, e-commerce, and furniture.
- DIGINAK.COM — DIGINAK.COM is a state of art "Digital Transportation Platform". The platform generates spot transportation service for SMEs via online platform. The platform creates 30 days late payment option, Credit Cart Payment alternative, all risk insurance and 7/24 CRM.
- Agrio Finans — Agrio offers Value Chain Finance Solutions to Agricultural Production Actors including Farmers, Contractors, Vendors and Financial Institutions.
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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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Ireland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 98
- Round size: Seed $150k–$2.5M; Series A $350k–$2.5M; Series B $825k–$6.6M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $80M in 2015
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
Istanbul Startup Angels is Turkey’s most active angel investment network with a focus on innovative and fast growing technology startups. Currently in the process of building a micro VC and starting Turkey’s first crowdfunding platform, ISA also partners with corporations to find the most promising and suitable startups for them, by running sectorfocused accelerator programs.
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $50k–$175k; Angel $45k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LOKI — LOKI is a cloud-based secure network platform that can be managed without any technical knowledge.The company enables companies to manage and secure their networks by changing how they interact with cybersecurity products. LOKI platform offers a cloud-based secure software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that automatically scansand protects all network traffic from threats.
- MobilMed — Since 2015, we have been providing services in the field of mobile biomedical device design and application solutions. Our goal is to provide you with great customer experience and exceptional value services.
- Parkkolay — Parkolay mobile app enables users to make parking reservations and paying parking fee via mobile phone. It is a platform that helps drivers to find a parking spot in under 1 minute. The company aims to make every step of parking more simple and easier with other parking solutions. The mobile app is available for IOS and Android operating sytems.
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- Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Austria, Poland, Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $536k–$1.5M; Series A $1.8M–$23M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bob W — Book the smartest alternative to hotels and random rentals. Climate-neutral and locally designed apartments in handpicked districts. Stay days, weeks or months.
- vestr — Vestr facilitates the creation and life-cycle management of actively managed investment products and offers a software-as-a-service to its clients. The software engine handles everything from portfolio rebalancing to investor reporting and audit trails, so issuers and portfolio managers can focus on their core competencies. vestr is a pure playtechnology company and does not issue their own structured products.
- 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.
Tunç Mehmet Berkman
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- Industry: Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HadsUp — HadsUp is a revolutionary Ad-Tech platform which combines AI and Hologram Technology
- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
Ali Kolaghassi
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- Industry: Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Lidio — Mobilexpress, the largest payment platform of Turkey, will carry on its activities as a “Lidio” group company. In our journey with “liberalizing payments” philosophy, we will deliver our new generation services to businesses and end users through Lidio brand. As soon as our Central Bank of Turkey license application process is approved, you will beable to access all our Lidio services.Meanwhile, we will keep providing services through Mobilexpress, the payment solutions partner of Turkey's largest companies and brands with more than 110 million annual transaction number and hosting more than 15 million securely stored cards. You may contact me or the team at any time to share your feedbacks and suggestions on this journey with the new Lidio brand
- Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Estonia, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $21k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- 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.
- Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $98k–$1.4M; Pre-Seed $350k–$600k
- Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Artiwise — Artiwise gathers all client feedback on a single platform by monitoring all customer communication channels. It makes decisions by using artificial intelligence to analyse client communication channels like call centre conversations, chatbot interviews, and surveys.
- Waves Platform — Waves technologies drive innovations of tomorrow and bring them closer to the people of today
- Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
Tamer Capital is a venture development platform established within the Tamer Group. It aims to bring the digital-based business ideas of entrepreneurs in our country to the global. While Tamer Capital takes the responsibility of finance, business development, branding and marketing required for a start-up to reach its global dreams; It provides theentrepreneur with the opportunity to focus only on the operational part of his business.Tamer Capital aims to take the Smart Money model, which is frequently encountered in the Start-up ecosystem, to the next level and at the same time become a part of the initiative. It sets out to implement the business ideas of young, talented and innovative entrepreneurs by planning from A to Z and bring them to the level of worldwide projects.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $35k–$6M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Defimec — Defimec is an ecosystem of applications that includes deX, tokenization platforms, and DAO protocol.
- Sertifier — Sertifier is an all-in-one education data collection tool that makes smart certificates and open badges easy to issue, enjoyable to earn, and simple to analyze.
- Fitty — Fitty allows users to go to the gym of their choice and pay for the minutes they use.
Emre, the former VP of Growth and Digital Marketing at Careem, Emre has 21 years of experience in Product Marketing, Development & Management, Digital, Customer Analytics, Growth and Internet Business Development. He has embarked on many successful projects in multinational companies in UAE, the UK and Turkey. Growth & Product MarketingConsultant. He is the CEO in One Tech Capital LLC, a start-up studio owning www.cofeapp.com the first coffee marketplace in GCC Region.- Industrial Engineer with an MBA - Former VP of Growth – Free-Now - Former VP of Growth & Digital – Careem (Acquired by Uber for 3.2B $) - Former Microsoft Senior Product Marketing Manager – UK - Former Microsoft Online & Compete Lead – Turkey - Former Turkcell, Leading TELCO In Turkey, Head of Value Added Internet Services
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- Industry: Mobile, Payments, Shopping
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $830k–$2M; Series A $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- Delivers AI — Delivery droid operator
- Mobilexpress — Mobilexpress is a PCI DSS Level 1 compliant platform of card payments enabling solutions. Mobilexpress offers extensive and highly flexible - configurable set of payment solutions for B2C and B2B clients in many sectors. The product set is shaped around payment gateway (integrated to all banks & PSPs), hosted payment pages (fully customizable,iframe/redirect use), card-on-file (cross-merchant interoperable mode or private mode), recurring payment functions and integrationless rapid use of ready-to-use custom merchant payment pages (fully customizable & configurable) and manuel use through Merchant Panel (also montoring, reporting, settings, post payment functions). Each solution is easily configurable/adaptable for any sector or company specific payment needs. Mobilexpress solutions are delivered through Mobilexpress Payment API, Mobilexpress Hosted Pages, Mobilexpress Merchant Panel and Mobilexpress Merchant Payment Pages, to be able to meet payment needs of clients with any technical sophistication level.
Quona Capital invests in fintech innovators that are advancing inclusion in emerging markets. Through our investments, Quona aims to deliver outstanding financial returns while making a lasting and positive impact on the world.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: India, Brazil, Indonesia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 132
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M; Series A $2.3M–$14M; Series B $6.2M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
- Bureau — Bureau is trust network that facilitates end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention for new-age businesses.
Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $175k–$7.5M; Angel $175k–$2M; Pre-Seed $250k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Saybeni — Saybeni focuses on people's personal awareness and offers a personalized road map of life.
- Reeplayer — Soccer is best when shared. Reeplayer automagically records games and gives everyone access to the footage. $99/month, camera included. Record without limits.
- RePG Energy — RePG Energy is a renewable energy system that offers innovative solutions and patents which converts the flow power occurred by using non-saturated air into electric power directly without utilizing generator by means of osmosis and diffusion principles as distinct from renewable energy systems known. RePG Energy was founded in 2916 and is basedin Istanbul.
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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- 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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Browse database — It's Free!Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Podcast, Social Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Sweden, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Catio — Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution.
- Finceptor — Get early access to deeply vetted, insurance backed & allocation guaranteed token sales starting from $1 while earning auto-compound staking yields.
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Deniz Ventures is the corporate venture capital fund of DenizBank Financial Services Group.
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- Industry: Trading Platform, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Midas — Midas is the first neobroker of Turkey, providing zero commission Turkish and American stocks.
- Erguvan — Voluntary carbon markets are opaque as they are dominated by OTC deals resulting in hefty brokerage fees and hidden margins. Matchmaking, integrity and settlement issues as well as counter-party risks are prevalent. On the other hand, access to carbon accounting solutions that offer integrated carbon offsetting features is low globally.Ourflagship product, Erguvan Marketplace is a secure and transparent carbon credits trading platform that directly connects end buyers and project developers, offering all participants a frictionless, efficient and low-cost transaction environment. We also provide a suite of activity-based carbon accounting APIs with seamless carbon offsetting features.
Atakan Atalar is the Founder of Atanova Ventures. He previously worked at RemoteTeam.com (acquired by Gusto) as an Investor. Atakan Atalar attended Istanbul Kultur University.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Venture Capital, SaaS
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TRANGELS — Early Stage Investment Fund and Network
- RemoteTeam.com — Global Payroll, PEO and EOR Services, tax compliances, IC contracts, and HR apps. All designed for Remote First teams.
- StartupFon — 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.
Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $727k–$9M; Angel $24k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $70k–$320k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nomad Data — NoMad Data develops a data management platform that provides differentiated data to help businesses make better decisions. It connects businesses to a world of data for better decision making, marketing, storytelling, customer visibility, and more. The company was founded in 2020 and based in New York.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
- Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.
Venture capital arm of KT Portföy
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- Industry: Software, Computer Vision, Supply Chain Management
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- İletmen — İletmen is a food delivery app which takes packages, products or orders from your business and deliver them to your customers.
- Akaunting — Akaunting is a free, open-source, and online accounting software for small businesses and freelancers. Send invoices and track expenses.
- BulutKlinik — BulutKlinik is an online hospital information management system that offers patient, financial & medical tracking information in one system.
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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- 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.
Mindvest primarily invests in early stage fintech startups.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kalfa — Kalfa is a human-assisted digital business platform for financial advisors. It also offers transferring receipts and invoices to the system, mobile applications, e- auto bank transactions, preparing accrual records, and insurance policies, enabling operational work to be more controllable and faster from a single center.
- Octopus — Octopus
- F-Ray Financial Technologies — F-Ray Financial Technologies offers fundamental analysis tool that uses an algorithm to make sense of complex financial market data.
KT Portföy is an asset management company that offers innovative and halal investment opportunities with participation finance principles.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
- Fimple — Simple and composable financial platform with the “Financial Function as a Service” principle.
- Poliark — AI for Built Environment
Like every other aspect of our lives financial services are changing. The next 10 years will be nothing like before.We know visionary founders will play a key role to pioneer this change. That is why we are driven to partner with audacious teams who also have strong resilience.As a strategic investor we are aiming to explore any chance tocollaborate as earliest as possible, where we can contribute with our insights and explore the potential opportunities within QNB Group.Our presence as QNB Group in more than 30 countries serving 24 million customers with a full spectrum of financial products, makes us confident we can bring an extensive global network and our business expertise thus when we partner, we deliver critical support besides capital to accelerate growth.So if you think you are that team, contact us and let’s define what’s beyond of banking together!
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- Industry: Information Technology, SaaS, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $200k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $375k–$720k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- ikas — Start selling online with the new generation e-commerce platform ikas. Increase your sales and experience international commerce.
- FirstBatch — User embeddings, compatible with all vector databases, enable instantly personalized experiences while ensuring personal and privacy-preserving memory.
- Kiralarsın — Kiralarsın is a rental service to rent electronic devices.
The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ogram — Ogram provides temporary and part-time staffing solutions for business that are looking to grow and improve their workflow. Hire Waiters, Runners, Kitchen Staff, Retail Staff, Warehouse Staff, E-Pickers and more.
- Ordera — Ordera is a mobile application focusing on enhancing the pick-up (takeaway) experience in the F&B industry, using Ordera people will be able to place and pay for their orders before their arrival to the venue and pick them up on the go in less than 30 seconds whether from the store or even from their cars like a virtual drive-thru. And with ourbuilt-in loyalty program, the more people use the application the more free-stuff they collect from their favorite venues. On the other hand, Ordera helps venue owners to increase their sales, know their customers, and maintain their loyal ones!
- Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
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- 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.
TechOne VC is a venture capital firm. It invests in innovative tech startups founded by visionary entrepreneurs solving global problems, to deliver superior returns for our investors.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 39
- Round size: Seed $115k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $400k–$605k
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $7M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- GINOA — GINOA provides NFT, metaverse, and artificial intelligence for collecting, trading, and investing strategy. They also provide Al-enabled pricing and hassle-free barter place services.
- WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
- 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.
Founded by successful entrepreneurs to help new comers. Gate Inside developed a new model of startup funding. Twice a year they invest a small amount of money. The startups move to their incubation center for 3 months. Founders get required help from mentors and other entrepreneurs like themselves in a unique working environment.
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- Industry: Gaming, Sports, Charity
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $50k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fitmap — A unique marketplace where people meet trainers and coaches from various branches of sport and health all around the world.
- Jib Games — We are a venture-backed game studio based in Istanbul, developing & publishing MMORPGs since 2009. Our games have been played by 25 million players in 8 countries.We believe that a good education brings self-awareness which drives happiness. Our mission is to dream, design, create and develop better and happy ways to get educated.Currentlyworking on Polity, a gaming platform where players can choose to excel in various professions as a citizen in an open virtual world. These professions derive from popular casual games. We target worldwide (esp. Tier 1) 16+ years old lifelong gamers.
- Zonetix Market Research — Zonetix is a zero-party data market research company operating in emerging markets.
Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2k–$4.7M; Angel $45k–$250k
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rapido — Rapido bike taxi provides the best intra-city commuting services and is currently operating in 100+ cities. It is considered as the most affordable choice.
- Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.
- Liminal — Create Multisig wallets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple using hardware wallets. We make it extremely easy and secure for individuals and businesses to manage their digital assets without giving up control and ownership.
Sabancı Ventures is an investment arm that invests in technology and innovation-based companies in different sectors.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $550k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Segmentify — Bring Growth to Life: Explore how you can create unique experiences for each customer in real-time and optimise customer lifetime value!
- Supply Chain Wizard — SPEED, SIMPLICITY, SCALABILITY IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Consulting Services DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRACK & TRACE PROCESS EXCELLENCE & RPA DIGITAL FACTORY CONSULTING Software as a Service DIGITAL FACTORY IoT & AI
Gedik Investment is an investment banking advisory and brokerage firm in Turkey providing research and brokerage services to domestic and foreign clients. The company is a member of Borsa Istanbul (BIST) and is authorized by the Capital Markets Board (CMB). Today, it has the largest customer base of any non-bank local brokerage house, with around34,000 clients and counting. Gedik Investment boasts a widespread distribution network, with 28 main branches spread across Turkey’s primary cities.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yancep — Yancep is a micro saving, and micro investment application.
- Finfree — Finfree is an application that enables financial trading, stock market learning, and acts as a virtual stock exchange.
Neo Portfolio engages in the management of money market, real estate, venture capital, and private equity funds.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Real Time
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $702k–$2.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
- Bimcrone — BIMCRONE is a cloud platform that creates a digital twin of the project, making all phases of the building lifecycle traceable, from planning to demolition. BIMCRONE increases profit (%3-%9), and efficiency (-) by digitalizing, monitoring, and reporting project data from planning, construction, and facility management to demolition.
Bilişim Vadisi is a technology development zone in Turkey that ensures the production of high-value-added products and new technologies.
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- Industry: Electronics, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $100k–$400k
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Büyütech — Buyutech is an R&D company specializes in developing products and solutions in the fields of camera design, production & image processing.
- Alternatif SuperApp — Alternatif SuperApp provides digital wallet services and offers a secure mobile payment gateway. People can utilize the campaigns, use the digital wallets of numerous brands in a single application, and make secure QR code payments with the Alternatif SuperApp. Users of Alternatif SuperApp can shop quickly and without standing in line, share awallet for the amount and duration they choose, and take advantage of the campaigns.
- MotionWorks — Motionworks make the forefront of a new era in television, harnessing the power of innovative video and ad technologies to transform the way TV programming is consumed and monetized. We are not simply upgrading the old system; we are completely redesigning it. We are integrating the fragmented views of TV on different screens into a unified,tailored experience for each viewer with our end-to-end video services and integrated advertising solutions. Our patented technology bridges the gap between linear and digital impressions, providing marketers with a single picture and unprecedented control. As a result, the viewer experience is smoother and more engaging, and advertising is more effective and efficient. We're not just improving the viewer experience by reinventing how we consume and monetize TV content; we're also saving money.
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- Industry: Marketing, E-Learning, Crowdfunding
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Basefunder — Basefunder is a crowdfunding platform that provides funding, business planning, and investment solutions.
- Edurey Eğitim, Danışmanlık, Bilişim ve Yazılım Hizmetleri A.Ş — A Learning Experience Platform where you can include users' experience and participation in processes while offering a social learning environment with different features. You can include the learner experience in all your training processes with EDUREY LXP. Or You can choose Edurey LMS which is The training management system, where you canmake your training management processes in the corporate or academic field, offers a unique experience to the users.
Mediterra Capital is an independent private equity fund management company that provides investments in Turkey.
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- Industry: Mobile, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Turkey, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Logo Yazilim — LOGO Yazılım is Turkey’s largest independent software company that provides business application development, integration, HR, and other related solutions to various sectors, including distribution, marine, retail, telecom, IT, tourism, textile, and more.
- Supply Chain Wizard — SPEED, SIMPLICITY, SCALABILITY IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Consulting Services DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN TRACK & TRACE PROCESS EXCELLENCE & RPA DIGITAL FACTORY CONSULTING Software as a Service DIGITAL FACTORY IoT & AI
- Arzum Elektrikli Ev Aletleri — Arzum is the market leader in electrical small domestic appliances in Turkey. Arzum is one of the leading Turkish brands with over 90% brand awareness. Arzum has a wide range of product portfolio with over 250 SKUs in electrical kitchen appliances, house cleaning, iron and personal care categories. The Company serves more than 700 customers inTurkey and exports to more than 20 countries.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Turkey, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $750k–$34M; Series A $4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Coqui — Coqui, Freeing Speech.
- Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
- Bluedot — TaskFlow is a premium SaaS Webflow template to help you convert visitors into customers. Attract visitors, share your story and grow your revenue with this professional but friendly template. Customize the template easily and launch your new SaaS website within days, with TaskFlow.
Arz Portfolio, an investor operating under a license from the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, is positioned to become one of the leading asset management companies in Turkey. Primary areas of investment focus of Arz Portfolio comprise Private Equity / Venture Capital and Commercial Real Estate investments. Arz Portfolio's generalpartners’ combined experience encompasses (i) global private equity investment experience managing USD 500m+ in private equity funds, (ii) senior executive leadership positions in global technology companies such as Microsoft and Turk Telekom, (iii) ground up successful entrepreneurial experience in Turkish market and (iv) management USD 150m real estate portfolio.
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- Industry: FinTech, Internet, GreenTech
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $220k–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- KFOBIX — KFOBIX offers nano-composite materials to prevent freezing and contamination of solar panels, wind turbines, and automobile glass.
- Rackle — Why Rackle? The easiest way to offer powerful financial features Rackle is the banking-as-a-service platform that lets you embed powerful financial features into your product. Build-in minutes, launch in weeks. Rackle is the banking-as-a-service platform that lets you embed powerful financial features into your product. Build in minutes,
- GT carbon monitoring and energy — GT CARBON MONITORING AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY develops axial fan blades utilised at industrial sites.
Ihsan Elgin is the Co-Founder of Startups.Watch. He was a Co-Founder and Executive VP, EMEA at ClimateMinder. He attended Koç University.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Content
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $250k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
- Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
- Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
iWallet is a mobile application for cardless payments. They provide services in the field of financial technology, including payment systems, e-commerce applications, and dealer automation systems. They enable businesses to reward loyalty points and transfer money to employees.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Point Harca — Spend Points is a wallet application developer. They offer a platform that is used to follow the points and balances on their bank or contracted brand, buy digital products and gifts, and participate in the campaigns of the brands. It helps companies bring in new customers, increase brand awareness, and create fast campaigns, thereby enablingconsumers and companies to save time and money.
Turk Telekom group provides integrated telecommunication services from PSTN, GSM to wide band internet. Türk Telekom group companies have 17.3 millions of PSTN customers, 6 millions of ADSL customers and 12.6 million GSM customers as of Mach 31, 2009. With its modern network substructure, covering the whole country, the group companies offer a widerange of services to its personal and corporate customers. Turk Telekom, who is the owner of the 99,9% of shares of the companies TTNET, Argela, Innova, Sebit A.S. and AssisTT, is also the owner of 81% of the shares of Avea, which is one of the three GSM operators in Turkey. Turk Telekom also supports Albtelecom in Albania. The 55% of the shares of Türk Telekom belongs to Oger Telekomunikasyon A.S. and the 30% of the shares belongs to Undersecretariat of Treasure of Turkey. The remaining 15% of shares has been offered to public.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Grant, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $25k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Myth AI — Myth AI provides artificial intelligence-based "state of the art" pattern design tools that brings together designers and businesses.
- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology. Over 70 digital products, one ecosystem!
- XENA VISION — Next Generation Emergency Recognition Technology
IFC VC’s direct equity and early stage investments are meant to create a continuum so that the accelerated businesses that make it can also go further and attract additional sources of finance. IFC will initially target startups and seed funds in “medium-sized markets” such as Nigeria, Egypt, Mexico, Argentina, and Ukraine
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Financial Services, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Series B $8M–$156M; Series C $9.1M–$60M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Figopara — Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Scanntech — Scanntech provides point-of-sale software to retail stores. The company offers tech solutions and connectivity in sales points to enables independent supermarkets to process transactions, run inventory management, and provide financial services to consumers through intelligence point of sale software.Scanntech was founded in 1992 and is based inMontevideo, Uruguay.
- Liquid Telecom — Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies is a pan-African technology group with capabilities across 14 countries, primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Yildiz Technical University has a distinguished history that dates to 1911. YTU was founded as Kondüktör Mekteb-i Âlisi (Conductors School of Higher Education) in order to meet the “science officer” (known previously as conductors, and today as technicians) needs of the Municipality Public Works Section. The school was modeled on the syllabus ofthe “Ecole de Conducteur” and was affiliated with the Ministry of Public Works. The school’s name was changed to Nafia Fen Mektebi (School of Public Works) in 1922. The duration of education was increased to two and a half years in 1926 and three years in 1931.
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- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology. Over 70 digital products, one ecosystem!
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Ali Altuğ Koca is the co-editor of Webrazzi, a tech blog featuring issues on internet and digital markets, startups, investments, technological developments, and events. Koca was previously a product manager at Crenvo and finished his higher education at Doğuş Üniversitesi.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Turan — Aiming to be the only financial application that primarily provides services to people of Turkish descent in their own language, Turan wants to convey this journey that it started in Turkey to the Turkic States such as Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan in a short time.
Yıldız Tekno GSYO is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Apps, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Turkey
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Metatime — Metatime is building the world's most comprehensive digital ecosystem by maximizing the efficiency of blockchain technology. Over 70 digital products, one ecosystem!
- Robeff Technology — Fully electric and modular vehicle platform ready for autonomous driving. Closed and Confined Areas Autonomous eco-friendly transportation and market-cargo delivery operations in closed and confined areas Hub-to-Hub Autonomous eco-friendly transportation and market-cargo delivery operations in closed and confined areas Manufacturing plants and campuses All types of production and industrial facilites and campuses. learn more Warehouses
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