# Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Turkey in May 2026

## Hasan Aslanoba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

business in the water industry. By 2005, the company succeeded in the Turkish bottled water industry under his guidance.In 2006, Erikli Water partnered its Turkish operations with Nestle Waters, the global leader of the bottled water industry. 

## Enis Hulli
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Gaming, Mobile Apps

Enis is a General Partner of 500 Startups and the Host of cc: Podcast. Prior to that, he was a Research Assistant at McGill University. He graduated from McGill University and Istanbul Technical University.

## Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: TV, CRM, Apps

I am a business professional since 2008 and a financial investor since 2015, having strategic positions in several scale-up tech companies/startups and real-estate assets. I continue to invest in the tech domain with a focus on SaaS solutions for B2B and B2C markets, and real estate options in developing markets with ROI targets.Grow inEMEA, the company I started in 2015, focuses on East Europe, Turkey, and the Middle East markets mostly for tech and real estate options and portfolio management. Also, my team provides market access services to Baltics, Turkey, and UAE / Saudi and gives investment advisory services.Prior to the investment focus, I worked in Linkedin EMEA Headquarter where I hold Director of Turkish Speaking Territory in Dublin, Ireland. Before, I have been with SAP AG and IBM in Turkey. I also give speeches at local and global investment events. I gave keynotes on ARAB NET in Lebanon, IT Arena in Ukraine, Rise Up Summit in Egypt, and NEXT in Germany. I also spoke at several closed corporate events of Roche, VESTEL, SAP AG, DenizBank, Turkish Economy Ministry, Turkish Exporters Assembly, Bakioğlu Holding, and AGT.Now, I am living in Tallinn, Estonia.Email: alib@growinemea.com
Web: https://alibabaoglan.com
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## Emre Kurttepeli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Mobile Apps

Emre Kurttepeli is a Serial Entrepreneur & Investor and is the Founder & Chairperson of Mynet Group, Turkey’s leading internet company with over 32 million users and Founder & CEO of Mynet Games, a global mobile gaming company.Columbia University/NY graduate, he has been the founder or the investor of over 50 internet andtechnology companies, mostly leaders in their own categories that ranges from e-commerce companies to vertical social network sites, mobile and gaming companies, including Trendyol, Insider, Iyzico, RemoteTeam and vc fund that invests in the internet and technology space. Additionally he is an investor in C24 Gallery, a prominent contemporary art gallery in Chelsea/New York.He is the President of Endeavor Turkey and Galata Business Angels (GBA), that are non-profit organizations helping to grow the entrepreneurship ecosystem. He serves on the Board of Endeavor Global, TOBB Turkish Venture Capital Industry Council and TOBB Turkish Entrepreneurs Council. Besides being on the advisory board member of Columbia University Global Center in Istanbul, he also is a member of YPO and is an Ashoka fellow.

## Agah Uğur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, CRM

Agah Uğur

## Ramazan Evren
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Ramazan Evren

## Meltem Kirişçi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services

Meltem Kirişçi

## Uğur Şeker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Gaming, Big Data

Uğur Şeker

## Tarık Bayar
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services

Tarık Bayar

## Ömer Faruk Akarca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services

Ömer Faruk Akarca

## Nuri Cem Erbak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services

Nuri Cem Erbak

## Yılmaz Yıldız
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Waste Management, Procurement, Retail

Yılmaz Yıldız

## Ayşe Araz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Ayşe Araz

## Ömer Duran
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Coffee, E-Commerce, Food and Beverage

Ömer Duran

## Haluk Can Hür
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Retail, Shopping

Haluk Can Hür

## Özgür Trakya
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services

Özgür Trakya

## Ercan Solmaz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Waste Management, Professional Services

Ercan Solmaz

## Damla Sener Akkaynak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

CFO

## Hande Enes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media

Hande Enes

## Ece Akın Armutak
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Farming, CleanTech, Agriculture

Ece Akın Armutak

## TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sustainability, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

TUĞRUL AĞIRBAŞ

## Hakan Erdoğan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Farming, CleanTech, Agriculture

Hakan Erdoğan

## Evrim Şen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Delivery Service, Food and Beverage

Evrim Sen is Vice President, Sales at PepsiCo, Turkey since August 2020. He is a senior international executive with a proven track record of equity, share and profit growth across multiple sectors in developing and developed markets. Passionate about building iconic brands and commercial leadership for market-leading growth.

## Danyal Arslan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Farming, CleanTech, Agriculture

Danyal Arslan

## Michael Moritz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Michael Moritz is Chairman & Partner of Sequoia Capital where he has worked since 1986. He has always had an eclectic set of investment interests and today represents Sequoia's interests in Klarna, Green Do, and Stripe, LinkedIn the world's professional nework, Instacart, PopSugar, the entertainment and fashion site for women24-7-customer an outsourcing customer service company and The Melt a grilled cheese restaurant chain.

## Mehmet Celikol
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Marketplace

Mehmet Celikol

## Sinan Güler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Wellness, Fitness

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

## Münteha Adalı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Grant
- Focus: AgTech, Baby, Farming

Münteha Adalı is an angel investor.

## Ahu Serter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Baby, Information Services

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

## Ibrahim Ulukaya
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Software

Ibrahim Ulukaya

## Ozkan Hacıoğlu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants

Özkan Hacıoğlu is a Co-Founder & CEO at Neredekal.com.

## Serkan Omerbeyoglu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Manufacturing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning

M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu is the CEO at DgPays. M. Serkan Omerbeyoglu attended Alliant International University.

## Şerif Aras Doğruel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Organic Food, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Sheriff Aras Dogruel serves as Founding Partner at MAYALEGAL Law Firm.

## Emre Acikel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile

Emre Acikel

## Ahmet Özokur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

General Partner

## Nevzat Aydın
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

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.

## Ali Cicioğlu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Delivery, Cloud Data Services

Ali Cicioğlu

## Tuba Yazıcı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cooking, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Tuba Yazıcı

## Alp Horoz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Alp Horoz

## Soner Casur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Debt Financing
- Focus: Apps, Restaurants, Retail Technology

Soner Çaşur is Co-Founder at TaksidePOS. He attended Columbia Business School.

## Namik Kural
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Local, Security

Namik Kural is a Board Member at Visionteractive.

## Tolunay Yıldız
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, AgTech, Coffee

Tolunay Yıldız

## Bora Koçyiğit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Video Games

Bora Koçyiğit

## Robert Baler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Robert Baler

## Cenk Üstündağ
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Cenk Üstündağ

## Doruk Akpek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Doruk Akpek is a Co-Founder of BEIJE.

## Efe Kantel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Efe Kantel

## Emir Gönensin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Emir Gönensin

## Hasan Ekin Sezer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Hasan Ekin Sezer

## Selim Şahinbaş
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Selim Şahinbaş

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