# Top 50 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in Turkey in May 2026

## Hummingbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Supporting Exceptional entrepreneurs. We value emotional intelligence as much as data, growing internal culture as much as growing revenue, and forming strong, personal bonds with founders. We recognize patterns where other don't.

## Akin Babayigit
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Gaming, PC Games

Akin Babayigit is currently a co-founder of Tripledot Studios, a mobile games studio based in London. Before starting Tripledot, Akin was an active investor & advisor to various companies in the gaming space as well as serving as the Head of Business Operations & Special Projects at King Digital Entertainment. Before his experience at King,Akin was the head of Facebook Audience Network in EMEA.

## Mine Şenuysal Özgür
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Cosmetics, E-Commerce

Mine Şenuysal Özgür is an Angel Investor

## Faik Ulutaş
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile Apps, Mobile

Faik Ulutaş is an angel investor.

## Istanbul Startup Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Digital Entertainment

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.

## Griffin Gaming Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain

Griffin Gaming Partners is a leading venture capital firm singularly focused on investing in the global gaming market.

## Revo Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Information Technology

Operational venture capital firm that invests across Turkey, Eastern Europe & Baltics in seed to Series B rounds.

## Keiretsu Forum
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Keiretsu Forum is a global angel investor network with more than 2,500 accredited investor members throughout 47 chapters on 3 continents.

## Kaan Karamanci
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Marketing, Automotive

Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.

## Geometry Venture Development | Angel Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Blockchain

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

## Mustafa Vardalı
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

## Angel Effect
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile

We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together.
Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.

## Collective Spark
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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.

## Nexus Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

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.

## APY Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.

## Hüseyin Nalbantoğlu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy

Hüseyin Nalbantoğlu

## Elvan Sevi Bozoğlu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Elvan Sevi Bozoğlu is an Angel Investor.

## Alper Şener
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Mobile Apps

Alper Şener

## Omer Erkmen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Analytics

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

## Boğaziçi Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games

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.

## 500 Emerging Europe
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: California, Kentucky, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: PaaS, SaaS, Gaming

500 Emerging Europe help the companies from Emerging Europe scale globally.

## Doğukan Doru Alkan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy

Doğukan Doru Alkan is an Angel Investor.

## Figen Korun
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Coffee, Sharing Economy

Figen Korun

## Mustafa Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

## Erman Kumcu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile Apps, Sharing Economy

Erman Kumcu is an Angel Investor

## Ludus
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Video Games

Ludus finds, invests in, and nurtures the best-in-class gaming startups. We aim to pioneer the venture studio model in Turkey by providing in-house expertise, strategic guidance, and funding for entrepreneurs and start-ups.

## Alesta Yatırım
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

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.

## Keiretsu Forum Turkey
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Keiretsu Forum is a private equity investment network of angel investors, venture capitalists, and corporate/institutional investors.

## Aslanoba Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software

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.

## WePlay Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video Games, Gaming, PC Games

We are a Gaming VC that invests in early-stage game studios in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We invest in early-stage Mobile, PC, Console and Web game

## Burak Saglik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Mobile Apps

Burak Saglik - Co-Founder @ Teknasyon

## EIT Urban Mobility
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Software, Mobile Apps

EIT Urban Mobility is dedicated to accelerating solutions that improve collective use of urban spaces while ensuring accessible, convenient, safe, efficient, sustainable and affordable multimodal mobility.EIT Urban Mobility’s objective is to rethink urban spaces, overcoming fragmentation by integrating all urban mobility players – includingcities and citizens – and increasing social inclusion and equality.By accelerating the products, services, and processes for cities, EIT Urban Mobility will reimagine collective and individual mobility, shaping it according to local needs, supporting communities and stimulating the economy.

## Oğuzhan Öztürk
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hotel, Mobile Apps, Restaurants

Oğuzhan Öztürk

## Anibera
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Children, Mobile Apps

Anibera operates as a full-service animation studio with specialties in high-quality animation production from concept to completion.

## Vestel Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Apps, Cyber Security, Consumer Applications

Vestel Ventures is the corporate investment company of Vestel Group of Companies.

## Q Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Podcast, Social Media

Q Angels is an angel investment firm that contributes to the growth of startups.

## Madilet Eda Akyumuk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Food Delivery

Madilet Eda Akyumuk

## Ali Rıza Babaoğlan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, 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
Photos: https://gie.investments/my-photos

## Ugur Ethem AYDIN
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Software, macOS

I am the Art and Code Director at Metromedya Digital Ad Agency. In addition to my role as director, I am also a skilled programmer, designer, and musician. I have expertise in iOS and MacOS development and enjoy snowboarding in my free time. As a self-proclaimed geek, I am always seeking to learn and grow in my field. I am passionate about creatinginnovative and visually appealing designs and using my coding skills to bring them to life.

## DOMiNO Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Gaming

Domino Ventures Management B.V. (the “Fund Manager”) is a private company with limited liability (besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid), incorporated and existing under Dutch law, having its statutory seat (statutaire zetel) in Amsterdam.

## Ak Portfoy
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Besiktas, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Medical Device

Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management.

## Atanova Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Izmir, Izmir, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Content

Atanova is an early stage investment company that discovers enterprises which will make high impact with their bright ideas while in their incubation phases.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Internet

Hesham has been ranked #39 out of top 50 investors (Forbes 2018) based on investment and successful exits. Hesham has invested in +100 startups. He has co-founded more than 40 startups. He has a passion for building innovative start-ups around the principle of developing simple solutions to challenging problems. He is multilingual and can speak,read and write Arabic, English, French. He has also some good knowledge in German and Spanish.
Hesham is a founder and CEO of FasterCapital. FasterCapital is an online incubator who has border-less reach. Hesham has already co-founded (as a technical cofounder) and invested as an angel investor in more than 40 startups and has helped expand FasterCapital to have more than 1000 regional partners, a network of 1000 mentors, +500 offices worldwide and more than 400 startups. Hesham has invested and helped improve and refine the product in each of the 40 incubated startups.
During his work at FasterCapital, Hesham has co-founded:
- co-founded Edunoor.com: online learning platform with social components.
- invested in Dooet.com: a discovery and search engine for mobile applications and other content.
- invested in Letuscloud.com: Bridging the gap between enterprises and virualization
- invested in abcmob.com: Mobile business application. 18 sectors already covered.
- invested in Mobayle.com: an instant AppStore creator and customizer
- invested in Meody.com: Cross platform messenger with focus on enterprises and operators.
- invested in TVlize.com: a platform for social and engaging TV
- He also cofounded and invested in Nakkeb.com, BeamGift.com, PickTaxi.com, MobAdv.com, Bazarmaker.com, puttag.com, fulhost.com, Entablet.com, PinProfile.com, mp3ready.com, BookThatbook.com Newsanalyse.com, B2Butterfly.com and many more. He is also a mentor for more than 50 companies. Hesham started his first company ZGroup Mobile in 2002 with less than $20/month and grow it to reach a valuation of $2.5-$3.25 million in 2005 by Public company Incagold plc (it would have been the first company in MENA region to be acquired by a public company). ZGroup Mobile is a developer and publisher of mobile content (mobile games, mobile apps, mobile music, mobile videos) and services. He has been ranked 7th in Baccalaureate tests among 200,000th participants. He has completed his engineering degree at HIAST then he has done an MBA at Edinburgh business school and a Master in computer information science at AABFS.

## Gate Inside Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Sports, Charity

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.

## Jose Marin
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Retail

Jose Marin started his professional career as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group.In 1999 he co-founded DeRemate.com (eBay model for Latin America). The company raised 75 M USD, did a partial cash-out sale to Terra and later merged with Mercado Libre that went Public in Nasdaq .Currently Jose is co-Founder and co-CEO of IGExpansion. IG takes successful internet business models into emerging markets (main focus Brazil). IG builds one project per year and will not build more than 6 (investing the first 3 to 5 M USD per project). 5 of the 6 are already operating being Viajanet (Expedia for Latam) its biggest success.Jose is also founder of Serendipity Investments, company that has invested in >70 start-ups. Before this, Jose invested in projects such as Bazee (auctions sold to eBay in 2005) and eDreams (European Travel site sold to TA Associates in 2006) obtaining top tier returns.Jose is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and holds an MBA and an MA in International development Economics from Stanford.

## Kültepe Investment
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

Kültepe Investment was established by 20 investors within the Erban Angel Investor Network to improve the investment climate of Central Anatolia and to make Kayseri a unique and unique center of attraction for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs.

## 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.

## HubX
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1

## Hakkı Alkan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Innovation Management

Hakkı Alkan is the Founder and CEO at ShiftDelete.

## Kerim Kotan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Medical Device

Kerim Kotan

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