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Top 50 Sports Startup Investors in Turkey (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in Turkey Sports startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Turkey Sports startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Convertible Note, Series A Artificial Intelligence, Software, Manufacturing $321k–$2.7M
twozero Ventures
VC Fund
4 Turkey, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Internet, Media and Entertainment, Software $112k–$2M
Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology $11k–$600k
Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund
2 Turkey Seed, Series A Health Care, Baby, Fitness $1.5M–$11M
F+ Ventures
VC Fund
2 Turkey, Estonia, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Transportation, Automotive $810k–$2.7M
ERT Clinical
VC Fund
2 Turkey Series A Fitness, Internet, Wellness
Nevzat Aydın
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Software $250k–$3.7M
Fark Labs
VC Fund
2 Turkey Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, Fitness, Delivery $1.5M–$2.2M
TechOne VC
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $115k–$2.4M
Tamer Capital
VC Fund
2 Turkey Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Finance $35k–$6M
Sertaç Özinal
Angel
2 Turkey Seed, Angel Internet, FinTech, Payments $25k–$2.5M
Teknasyon
VC Fund
2 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Apps, Health Care, Fitness $70k–$1.5M
Rıfat Elhadef
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kural
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Socios
VC Fund
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Sports, Analytics, Education
Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Retail, Soccer, Sports $250k–$1.1M
Sina Afra
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Internet $100k–$11M
Ercan Ergül
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Inventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Spain Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail $1.9M–$4.3M
Ozan Çağlar İnaç
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Apps, Fitness, Health Care
Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Demirhan Sener
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Angel, Pre-Seed Gaming, Rental, Travel $21k–$1M
Angel Effect
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, E-Commerce, Mobile $25k–$1.1M
Cem Ortabaş
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C Gaming, Mobile, Fitness $440k–$755k
Mustafa Vardalı
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel, Series A Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$2.5M
İzzet Zakuto
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Apps, Retail, Fitness
Erdem Gezer
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Hakan Bas
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps $300k–$1.2M
Hande Enes
Angel
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media $35k–$4.1M
Selin Kiper
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
Gate Inside Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Gaming, Sports, Charity $50k–$250k
Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel
1 Turkey Series A Soccer, Sports, eSports
500 Istanbul
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning $250k–$2.6M
Mustafa Sevinç
Angel
1 Turkey, Germany Seed, Angel Apps, Fitness, Health Care $112k–$2.5M
Karel Electronics
VC Fund
1 Turkey Series A Fitness, Internet, Wellness
StartupFon
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, Switzerland Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, SaaS $30k–$2.6M
Diffusion Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology $375k–$3.4M
Firat Isbecer
Angel
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Internet, Software, SaaS $24k–$9M
Sankonline
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B Apps, SaaS, Tea $300k–$1M
Barış Before
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
Angel
1 Turkey Seed Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
Kaan Kayabalı
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Kaan Kalıpçı
Angel
1 Turkey Angel eSports, Video Games, Social Media
Logo Ventures
VC Fund
1 Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Retail $500k–$11M
Sercan Akkaş
Angel
1 Turkey Seed, Pre-Seed Apps, Fruit, Gaming
Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Kaan Karapınar
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
İrfan Ündevli
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel
1 Turkey Pre-Seed Gaming, eSports, Fantasy Sports
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ACT Venture Partners
VC Fund · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands · 4 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Early stage deep tech investor

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
  • 3E Nano — 3E Nano has developed and is commercializing a low cost, thermally and optically smart, Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating. This nano thin film applied to glass and other transparent media is targeted toward windows, windshields, greenhouses, and solar module manufacturers.
  • Productive Machines — We create digital twins of the milling process to identify vibrations and then automatically personalize the tool path parameters to eliminate chatter. Our customers get to the best part, faster, the first time.
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twozero Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 4 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ollang — Ollang provides cutting-edge AI dubbing, accurate subtitle translations, and closed captions services to enhance your multimedia content. Experience superior quality dubbing that brings your videos to life. Explore our services today!
  • Cineshort — #1 Short Movie App. Cineshort is created to bring award-winning unique films to you for your short moments.
  • Avane Cloud Kitchens — Avane Cloud Kitchens operates restaurants that are only available online. A Turkish FoodTech scale-up developing a unique portfolio of F&B brands delivered through multi-brand cloud kitchens. Avane Cloud Kitchens is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Alesta Yatırım
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups, 11 in the past 12 months

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • OneNewOne — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.
  • Handler — Handler is an artificial intelligence (AI) optimization of game creation processes, including idea, programming, and marketing.
  • Pusula Publishing — Compass, one of Turkey's top publishers of books on computer science, software, programming, and design, is the company behind the popular "Who's Afraid of Computers?" series. Compass also publishes periodicals, encyclopedias, and educational materials in the field of informatics.
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Teknoloji Yatirim
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Teknoloji Yatirim is a early-stage technology venture capital & private equity firm.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Baby, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KuartisMED — KuartisMED is a biomedical company developing innovative products for healthcare and the well-being of newborns and preterms.
  • Albert Health — 50% of people with chronic diseases do not take medications as prescribed. Improper medication use, especially for elderly patients, leads to hospitalizations and costs insurers billions of dollars. Current apps in the market are too complicated and difficult to use for the elderly who suffer the most from chronic diseases. Albert is a voice-basedhealth assistant which is accessible through mobile app, Amazon Alexa and Google assistant. Our machine learning algorithms create a unique conversational medication management experience. Elderly patients don’t have to text anymore. They will talk with Albert to manage their medications in an easy and effortless way. Patients can easily track health measurements, keep medical diary and set pill reminder by voice command. Furthermore, “Caregiver Mode” allows family members to manage and monitor their relatives’ treatment remotely. Albert helps elderly patients to take the right dose at the right time and help insurers to have less medical expenses, more satisfied customers.
  • 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.
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F+ Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

F+ Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Fark Holding dedicated to evaluating and investing in technologies and business model innovations that are transforming our transportation systems. We support “A teams” by helping with customer acquisition and smart capital. F+ invests in innovative solutions, early stage disruptive technologies, startupswith technological value proposition and business model innovation. We seek to make late seed and series A investments in ambitious tech savvy teams building businesses.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Transportation, Automotive
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, Estonia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$2.7M; Series A $810k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Optiyol — Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech.
  • Büyütech — Democratizing the autonomy by changing the way of perception. We work for a world where your loved ones are safe on the roads we offer affordable and scalable products that will become the eyes of the millions.
  • Saykal Electronics — Saykal develops and manufactures advanced technology in sensing, detection, and imaging systems for global-scale strategic and scalable industries, especially automotive.
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ERT Clinical
VC Fund · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Clario generates the richest clinical evidence by fusing our deep scientific expertise and global scale into the broadest endpoint technology platform.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Internet, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
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Nevzat Aydın
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Normod — Normod is a digital brand that provides modular and customizable furniture services.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
  • Rafinera Cloud Kitchen — The Rafinera Cloud Kitchen operates various brand, last-mile satellite restaurants where these are finished once ordered, delivered very quickly, and provided at a very high service level. Our consumers adore the great flavors of the comfort food brands that we own and operate.
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Fark Labs
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Fark Labs is an Innovation center with a focus on mobility.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Fitness, Delivery
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series A $1.5M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Evreka — Evreka is a leading SaaS company providing the most comprehensive intelligent solutions designed for the entire category of waste management across the globe.
  • MOBIQU — Smart Box Subscription for Last-Mile Delivery
  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
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TechOne VC
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Tamer Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sertaç Özinal
Angel · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Sertaç Özinal

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Artiox — Artiox is an investment company in METU Technopolis Area.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
  • Fon Radar — Fon Radar is an online marketplace platform that brings businesses together with financial institutions.
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Teknasyon
VC Fund · Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Turkey's leading mobile application developer and one of the fastest-growing IT company according to Deloitte Fast 50, Teknasyon, has achieved great success by reaching out to 1.5 billion people in 55 different languages and ​172 countries with dozens of mobile applications since their establishment in 2013.Besides developing hyper-growthmobile apps, Teknasyon is also an infrastructure and content provider. In addition to building successful products, the company provides additional support with B2C and B2B tools on the way to an early-stage startup’s global growth as an investor.Teknasyon is not a regular investor, which also opens the kitchen to all these startups to reach millions of new users worldwide. That means supporting startups with the tools developed on their own technologies such as advanced reporting & insights, commercial positioning/design, full integration with internal marketing tools, and 360-degree marketing production & management.Developing their vision with Facebook, Google, and leading telco operators’ collaboration from day one and creating a value-added ecosystem with the startups let Teknasyon enhance their services. In entertainment, wellness, photo/video, productivity, shopping, sports, and mobile gaming, portfolio companies always pursue global growth.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Health Care, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $70k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Deplike — Everyone can make music!
  • Leo — Leo, formerly known as Surreal, is an augmented reality app that allows people to experience advanced augmented reality through realistic animated and 3D objects. The phone camera becomes a portal and tool that allows anyone to augment their world through Surreal. People can customize any surrounding environment into their wildest dreams:expressing themselves in a new mixed reality space, as well as sharing with family, friends and other social outlets.Surreal has hundreds of realistic animated 3D objects. In addition to that, Surreal has special effects like money falling, balloons flying or a rain of roses. People can customize the real world how they want, and whenever they want.
  • Maslak Digital Services — Maslak Digital Services is a turkish company working in the field of Financial Services
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Rıfat Elhadef
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Rıfat Elhadef

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Kaan Kural
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Kaan Kural

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Socios
VC Fund · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Creators of Fan Tokens

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Sports, Analytics, Education
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Comparisonator — Compare football performance data in seconds-find & recruit suitable players
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Barbaros Özbugutu
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Barbaros Serdar Özbugutu worked for FIRSTDATA, and later moved to KLARNA. In 2013, he officially launched Iyzico with his Co-Founder Tahsin Isin. Iyzico is transforming the payment processing experience for businesses through its bank-integrated, fraud-protected payment platform tailored to the nuances of the Turkish market.(https://www.iyzico.com/en)

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fuudy — Fuudy is a new Food ordering app
  • Clotie — Clotie offers a brand new shopping experience to its users by offering an online personal styling service. It creates a unique customer experience by combining technology with the personal touches of experienced stylists and sends monthly outfits suitable for its users’ style. Clotie primarily focuses on eliminating online and offline shoppingproblems by providing a personalized, plus accessible styling service for those who do not have time for shopping but still want to be stylish.
  • Swipeline — 119K Followers, 207 Following, 1,461 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Swipeline TR (@swipeline_tr)
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Sina Afra
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Vagon — Vagon is your personal high-performance computer on the cloud. Start Vagon instantly and run all challenging software from any device, anywhere.
  • Mowico — Mowico, an online no-code eCommerce app maker, enables eCommerce businesses to create Android and IOS mobile apps with unlimited customization.
  • Firefly — Firefly is the next-gen car advertising solution, featuring taxi and rideshare top advertising, in-car advertising, holograms, car wraps and more.
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Ercan Ergül
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Ercan Ergül is a Managing Director with SEAF, the manager of Southeast Europe Equity Fund II, L.P. (“SEEF”), a US$320 million private equity fund with investments in Turkey, Albania and Kosovo. Ercan is also a board member of Global Investment Holding, a listed investment group based in İstanbul with operations in ports, energy and financialservices. Prior to joining SEAF, he spent his career as a private equity and investment banking professional and began his career in the corporate credit group of Citibank in Turkey. Ercan received his undergraduate degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, and a Masters of Business Administration with concentration in Finance from the University of Florida.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Inventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Inventures | Seed Stage Investor | Securing Startup DNA

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.9M–$4.3M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Monite — Monite lets B2B platforms add Invoicing, Payables, and other finance automation features to their offering | Fully embeddable | Cross-country coverage | High-end functionality
  • Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
  • Oxygen — Oxygen is a digital banking platform. It is the first and only challenger in the US that offers both personal and business banking. The bank of the 21st-century economy, serving consumers, small businesses, and freelancers.Available on iOS and Android, Oxygen users enjoy no monthly fees, no paperwork, early direct deposit, simple transfers,cashback rewards, savings accounts, as well as retail and travel benefits. Businesses can easily control their finances with solutions that are elegant, simple, and secure.
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Ozan Çağlar İnaç
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Ozan Çağlar İnaç

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
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Demirhan Büyüközcü
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Wudya
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Demirhan Sener
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Demirhan Sener is the Limited Partner at StartupFon. Additionally, Demirhan Sener has had 1 past job as the CEO at Multinet UP.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Rental, Travel
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Angel $21k–$1M; Pre-Seed $200k–$530k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Capoom — Capoom develops AI tools to automate the creation of photorealistic, lightweight, intelligent and accurate 3D models for all the residential areas of the world, to be used in games, simulations, interactive media, digital twinning and metaverse.
  • kazayaptim — Kazayaptim is an in-vehicle integrated security solution that, with its continuously developed technological infrastructure, can intervene within seconds not only in the event of an accident, but also in all vehicle-related emergency situations, to provide fast, reliable, and closest support point services to people who have had an accident withtheir vehicle. offers.
  • viravira.co — Choose among 12,000 yacht charter, boat rental & gulet holidays. Yachts, boats & gulets for charter with the lowest prices are at Europe's #1 platfom viravira.
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Angel Effect
VC Fund · Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $211k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $25k–$996k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • & New Me — Andnewme is a health platform that serves with the motto "only aesthetics". You can get information about aesthetic treatments and find the doctor you are looking for!
  • Njoykidz — njoyKidz was founded in 2021 with the simple idea of creating ad-free and safe game platforms for the kids while they learn. We develop game
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Cem Ortabaş
Angel · Izmir, Izmir, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Cem Ortabaş is a Co-Founder at HubX. He attended Koç University during 2012-2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Gaming, Mobile, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $440k–$755k
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Biosplice Therapeutics — Biosplice Therapeutics is in the medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. With their platform's origins in small molecule-based Wnt pathway modulation, they develop therapeutics to address a range of degenerative diseases, regenerative medicine, and oncology.Samumed adopted a fresh operating philosophy from thebeginning — one based on a goal of building a broad technology platform aimed at modulating regenerative pathways to improve patient health.
  • PhotoCup — PhotoCup is an online photography championship.
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
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Mustafa Vardalı
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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İzzet Zakuto
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

İzzet Zakuto

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Retail, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
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Erdem Gezer
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Erdem Gezer

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Git Kargo
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Hakan Bas
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
  • Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.
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Hande Enes
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Hande Enes

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • WORDEGO — Wordego is a Programmatic Ad Exchange Platform for Advertisers and Publishers. Wordego provides advertisers to target consumers surfing on the publisher websites, and show them personalized digital ads and coupons. Wordego provides advertisers to acquire, convert, and re-engage customers on the internet, and enables publishers to manage andmonetize their websites’ advertising inventory.
  • ServisSoft — Servissoft is a software service provider for business especially sales, after-sales with cloud infrastructure.
  • Local Greens — Local Greens is an indoor farming company operating in metropolitan cities to grow healthy, premium quality and delicious vegetables.While our combination of natural sunlight, LED grow lights and hydroponic growing methods ensure that we are using the resources as efficient as possible, our "grow local & sell local" approach allowsus to sell our greens without middleman and logistics costs, and deliver our greens as fresh as possible.
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Selin Kiper
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Selin Kiper

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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Gate Inside Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Orkun Saitoğlu
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Born in Istanbul in 1982, Orkun Saitoğlu graduated from Galatasaray High School and then studied Computer Engineering at Montpellier University and completed his master's degree at Paris Pierre-Marie Curie University in Paris. In the second year of his graduate study, he became part of the team of B2B, B2C sites in the TUI group and startedhis career as a Software Engineer. During the first years of his career, he supported the design and integration of PayPal solution in France and the Benelux and later on became a part of business development and sales team during Scandinavian, Turkish, Middle Eastern and Russian market expansion. Orkun, later on became a part of a global team managing PayPal’s relationship with startups against Stripe and Braintree competition. In 2014, after living abroad for 14 years he decided to move back to Turkey to establish his own startup company. It is during this period that Orkun met with iyzico’s co-founders Barbaros Özbuğutu and Tahsin Isın to become the COO of iyzico knowing that the company would emerge as the payment champion of the region. Orkun is currently in charge of all of iyzico’s sales, marketing and operations teams.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutium — Scoutium is a technology company that provides a unique motivation for all players, clubs and federations around the world. Scoutium has ten thousands of analyses of football players from Germany, Poland and Turkey in its database. With tens of partner clubs, Scoutium is able to access hundreds of cities, towns, and villages in the countries withmore than hundreds video experts and scouts. We aim to democratise football by opening up young players' horizons and giving opportunities to players to be discovered. With Scoutium, licensed football players can improve themselves with exclusively created overview videos, analyses from professional scouts, and special training programs, and can be discovered by clubs with regards to these videos & analyses. Football fans can earn money by recording 90-minute videos or making player analyses and have the chance to pursue a professional scouting career. Thanks to our technology, clubs can access to our database formed by match recordings and scouting analyses.Until today, Scoutium has raised 2.5M$. With projects in Machine Learning and Data Science, Scoutium has become an ITU Teknokent company in 2018.With the mission of enabling all players around the world to be discovered, Scoutium’s goal is to change the game forever. For more, please visit scoutium.com or download our app from Google Play & App Store.
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500 Istanbul
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

500 Startups is a venture capital firm on a mission to discover and back the world’s most talented entrepreneurs, help them create successful companies at scale, and build thriving global ecosystems. Since its inception in 2010, 500 has provided hundreds of millions of investment dollars, acceleration programs, and support services to thousands ofentrepreneurs in over 60 countries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.2M; Pre-Seed $720k–$2.6M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Permify — Permify is an open-source authorization for building RBAC, ABAC, and Access Control in your application. Create your access control model, sync your authorization data, and enforce permission with a single check!
  • Refine — refine offers lots of out-of-the box functionality for rapid development, without compromising extreme customizability. It ships with Ant Design, an enterprise-level UI toolkit.
  • Freeflow — Enabling better hiring one community at a time!
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Mustafa Sevinç
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Fitness, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Turkey, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $112k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
  • Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
  • Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.
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Karel Electronics
VC Fund · Ankara, Ankara, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Karel has created the electronic telephone exchange market in Turkey in 1986 with its original designs, provided PBX products to this market and pioneered Turkey's transition from electromechanical systems to electronic systems in communications. Established with hundred percent domestic capital, Karel has the most advanced R&D departmentin Turkey in communication electronics field today and facilities are compliant with international standards.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Internet, Wellness
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Inofab Health — A digital respiratory health platform for chronic conditions such as asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis.
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StartupFon
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 36
  • Round size: Seed $375k–$3.4M; Series A $985k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Khenda — Khenda is an AI-based video analytics platform that helps manufacturing plants to increase their safety, efficiency, and quality at production lines by analyzing manual activities.
  • TAZI AI — TAZI's Automated Machine Learning is understandable continuous machine learning from data and humans, enables business domain experts to use machine learning to ...
  • Enhencer — Reach AI based transparent audiences or lookaliles for your ecommerce. Achieve higher campaign conversion and ROAS than ever before.
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Firat Isbecer
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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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Investment focus

  • 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.
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Sankonline
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Sankonline is a corporate venture capital firm that focuses on seed and early-stage investments in companies building game-changing technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, Tea
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Turkey, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • ULive — ULive is a digital fitness platform. With ULive, users can develop physically, mentally and spiritually. Indoor Cycling using UBikes, Yoga, Pilates, Stretch, Dance and bUUt (functional body training) classes, which they can attend live every day and whenever they want, using mobile application.
  • Hirize — Resume parser and matching AI-powered with GPT-3 Technology, supercharge your hiring with our wide range of recruitment solutions
  • Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.
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Barış Before
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
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Çağrı Emre Korkmaz
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Çağrı Emre Korkmaz

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Personal Health
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Turkey

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • CRwizard
  • İyi Yaşa — İyi Yaşa offers highest quality trainings and videos, inspire and activate both sports and health enthusiasts and those who want to step into a good life with suitable alternatives for all levels. It offers fitness, yoga, mindfulness classes and healthy recipes, nutrition informations and workshops.
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Kaan Kayabalı
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

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

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kaan Kalıpçı

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
  • Bundle Kitchen — Bundle Kitchen App for Members Exclusive to the Campaign, Take Advantage of Benefits and Place an Order. Please submit.
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Logo Ventures
VC Fund · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Logo Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm, investing in innovative high growth technology startups with a potential to scale globally. We partner with exceptional teams with bold ideas and aim to build the future through technology together with them. We focus on the CEE, Baltic and Turkey region and support companies as they transforminto established players within their industry.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Retail
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Turkey, United Kingdom, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2.4M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $20M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Hazy — Hazy is a UCL AI spin out backed by Microsoft and Nationwide. Our core product is synthetic data - data generated artificially using machine learning techniques, that retains the statistical properties of the real data and can be safely used for analytics and innovation without compromising customers privacy and confidential information. We do itby capturing patterns in the raw data to generate completely synthetic 'hazy' data that maintains the statistical value of the original. This means businesses can unlock their data for innovation freely with safer and faster data provisioning on demand and no compliance, security or privacy risks and procurement delays.
  • Flowla — From outreach to onboarding, create personalized sales stories, impress prospects, and build consensus with multiple stakeholders.
  • WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
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Sercan Akkaş
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Sercan Akkas serves as Product Director at Yemeksepeti.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lugath
  • Kidolog — Kidolog provides support to parents with video or messaging on issues they may need about pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy.
  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Mustafa Emre Gündüz
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Mustafa Emre Gündüz

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Kaan Karapınar

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

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

İrfan Ündevli

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Gizem Nilay Tuna
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Gizem Nilay Tuna

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Fethi Ahmet Özbulut
Angel · 1 investments in Turkey Sports startups

Fethi Ahmet Özbulut

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Scoutli — Scoutli is a data analytics, scouting, and team management platform for esports organizations.
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Sports Investor funding in Turkey at a glance

Stats across 11 deals from 17 investors.

17
investors
in Turkey Sports startups
11
deals
in Turkey Sports startups
$231k
median round
in Turkey Sports startups
29%
lead investors
lead at least one round
64%
Seed
most common funding stage
65/35
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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