Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2023
Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in Turkey in October 2023
| Investor | Video Games Turkey investments |
|---|---|
| WePlay Ventures | 7 |
| Boğaziçi Ventures | 4 |
| Hummingbird Ventures | 4 |
| Tarvenn Ventures | 4 |
| Ludus | 4 |
| Griffin Gaming Partners | 4 |
| Akin Babayigit | 3 |
| Alesta Yatırım | 2 |
| Collective Spark | 2 |
| Firat Isbecer | 2 |
| Tunç Yalgın | 2 |
| Kaan Karamanci | 2 |
| Balderton Capital | 2 |
| Fatih Isbecer | 2 |
| Makers Fund | 2 |
| Netmarble | 1 |
| Demirhan Büyüközcü | 1 |
| Mustafa Vardalı | 1 |
| Ugur Ethem AYDIN | 1 |
| Metromedya | 1 |
| Fabrice Grinda | 1 |
| Hande Enes | 1 |
| Mustafa Sevinç | 1 |
| Erinç Özada | 1 |
| Turgut Konukoglu | 1 |
| Jose Marin | 1 |
| Ali Kutay | 1 |
| Diffusion Capital Partners | 1 |
| Libertus Capital | 1 |
| Fisun Koç Doğan | 1 |
| Erdem Gezer | 1 |
| Güimar Vaca Sittic | 1 |
| Games United | 1 |
| vgames | 1 |
| Ozhun Olgar | 1 |
| Timo Schlaefer | 1 |
| Kaan Kural | 1 |
| Rıfat Elhadef | 1 |
| Orkun Olgar | 1 |
| AREA group | 1 |
| Alexandre Carel | 1 |
| 500 Emerging Europe | 1 |
| Vestel Ventures | 1 |
| APY Ventures | 1 |
| Lima Ventures | 1 |
| Burak Saglik | 1 |
| Volkan Bicer | 1 |
| Emre Gönül | 1 |
| Ak Portfoy | 1 |
| Jose Marin | 1 |
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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
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- Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- Funverse Games — Funverse Games is a game development studio that develops blockchain games on many platforms.
- Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- One Percent — One Percent is a multiplayer Third-Person Shooter action game incorporating E-sports aspects such as strategy and tactics that focus on individual and team performance. people collaborate with friends or other people to fulfill objectives in game modes and defeat other teams. The One Percent design team created every level, character, clothes,emote, costume, and many other components in order to deliver a unique experience. The first edition of the game was created in a distinct Cyberpunk universe, and it is hoped that the team's design and technological skills will allow them to add other maps, concepts, and universes to the game.
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2015 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for future exponential growth.BV Growth fund will only focus on thetechnology startups established in Turkey at the growth stage while having the ambition to get into the global market.BV Crypto fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $50M to invest in cryptocurrency and blockchain projects. People are interested in investing in cryptocurrency, especially new initial coin offerings (ICO), but they don’t know which one is reliable. We have an extremely capable team dedicated to cryptocurrency. Our analysts search hundreds of ICO projects, follow their communication, investigate the commitment of their teams, make interviews and if they have a chance, even visit them at their locations to give a much better decision.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Artiwise — Artiwise gathers all client feedback on a single platform by monitoring all customer communication channels. It makes decisions by using artificial intelligence to analyse client communication channels like call centre conversations, chatbot interviews, and surveys.
- Waves Platform — Waves technologies drive innovations of tomorrow and bring them closer to the people of today
- Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
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.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
- Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
- Bright Money — A new system for financial planning to delete debt and build wealth. Pay Down Debt Faster, Build Savings and Boost your Credit Score.
Tarvenn is an Istanbul-based international investment and advisory firm. Tarvenn has an exceptional knowledge and experience in Turkey, Balkans, Central Asia, North Africa and CIS regions. We build the future with our portfolio, international experience, corporate customers and strategic alliances. Our business is to build yours…
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- E-Commerce, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RADAAR — A stunning social media management platform for brands, agencies, and startups that want to engage followers, publish unique content, and measure performance.
- Pixa Software — Pixa Software is an e-commerce integration and operations management platform to easily manage order processes.
- Madcraft Studios — Madcraft Studios develops games for computer and mobile platforms.
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.
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- Mobile, Software, Video Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, Singapore, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
- Spektra Games — We make top quality mobile games. We reach all over the globe Our games have been played by +40M users. We build new worlds that players can explore, interact and enjoy. We value our community. With over 300K daily active users, we keep bringing new experiences for our players. OUR GAMES About Spektra Spektra Games
- StageZero Technologies — StageZero inserts in-app ‘MicroTasks’ into mobile games; bite-sized activities that users can complete in exchange for rewards and perks, including coins and extra lives.
Griffin Gaming Partners is a leading venture capital firm singularly focused on investing in the global gaming market.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Blockchain
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Israel, Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- EloElo — Look Good, Feel good daily with India’s #1 Short Videos App for Health, Beauty & Lifestyle ! 100% Made in India, Made for India App that lets you watch entertaining & informative 60 second videos and also win 100s of Products free
- HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
- Million Victories — Million Victories is a small independent game studio created in July 2017 and based in Lyon, France. We set out to create challenging, dynamic and most of all fun MMO games on mobile. Our first game is available in few countries in early access:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.millionvictories.games.millionlords
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.
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- Mobile Apps, Gaming, PC Games
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bebopbee — BebopBee crafts exceptional, emotive and enduring casual gaming experiences
- Hadi — Hadi is a mobile games company co-founded by industry veterans focusing on casual games.
- Frantic Games — Frantic Games is a mobile game company that specialises in hybrid casual games.
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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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
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- 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.
Collective Spark is a venture capital fund focusing on early-stage technology ventures. They aims to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses. They consider ourselves partners for the long term, and define Collective Spark as an Operational VC where ventures get access to top specializedtalent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.
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- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, Greece
Portfolio highlights
- Cenoa — Cenoa is an easy-to-use, fast and global superwallet
- Invent analytics — Invent is a provide of advanced analytics solutions for retailers and FMCG companies. Invent's products and services enable companies to achieve maximum profitability with data-driven inventory and pricing decisions. Retailers using Invent’s proprietary solutions have seen 2-6% increase in profitability and an unmatched ROI, proven for eachcase with live large-scale A/B testing. Their SaaS solutions offer agility and scalability, requiring zero capital investment due to the pay-as-you-go subscription model.
- Veloxia Technology — Veloxia Technology was founded on a vision of becoming a unicorn in global consumer technologies. Veloxia’s mission is to design the self-marketing & industry-disrupting products by achieving excellence at product-market fitness and integrating behavioral economics into its products. As revolutionary products require revolutionary people,Veloxia will always aim at gathering the ones with strong capabilities, reliable values and the desire to embody our story.
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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- Internet, Software, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- 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.
Tunç Yalgın was Entrepreneur and investor, passionate about everything high-tech, disruptive and, even better, both!
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- Video Games, Mobile, Sports
- Seed, Series A
- Turkey, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
- Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
- Hero Concept — Hero Concept is a computer games company that develops visionary reimaginations of the timeless classics of arcade gaming. The company studies the histories of the ever-present classics in order to carry them into the 21st century--with panache. Hero Concept was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.
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- Mobile, Marketing, Automotive
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.
- Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.
In the two decades since our founding, we have worked with hundreds of extraordinary European founders, and have raised eight funds totalling more than $3bn.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
- Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
- Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Fatih Isbecer - Founder & CEO @ Dataroid
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- Internet, Software, Medical
- Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Turkey, United States
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- Mindway VR — Mindway is a venture focused on the intersection of VR and Wellbeing.
- Gleam Games — Unique and exciting gaming experiences to enhance gamers' lives. We believe gaming is all about creating a world of unmatched collaboration, immersion, and emotion. At the heart of every gaming experience we create, we aim to bring you the best in-game experiences through design and technology.
- Flora — Flora is the only sustainable brand platform acquiring and growing Amazon FBA brands with a world-class team of professionals.
Makers Fund is a global interactive entertainment venture capital firm focused on early stage investments. The team supports founders through an extensive network and deep experience in the industry.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- HypeLab — HypeLab is a web3 ad network that helps clients acquire new users in a scalable way. It serves both images and video creatives and uploads assets directly on the self-service advertiser portal. HypeLab is located in San Francisco, California.
- Hyper — Hyper is an avatar-based social network. We're building the metaverse.
- Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Online Games
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- South Korea, Turkey, United States
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- ALUX — ALUX is a content creation company that specializes in video and coding education content.
- HAEGIN — HAEGIN is a game development company.
- Epic League — Epic League is a company specializing in Online RPG and blockchain ecosystem.
Demirhan Büyüközcü - Co-Founder @ Onedio
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Wudya —
Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Apps, Fitness, Health Care
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Turkey, Germany
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.
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.
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- iOS, Software, macOS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Turkey
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- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
- Notes.io — A free note-taking app. Online Notes on everywhere.
METROMEDAY craft meaningful brands through identity, print and digital experiences for businesses all over the world. Metromedya was founded on the idea of getting back to basics—working with a handful of talented people and keeping things honest, focused and thoughtful. Metromedya is a digital advertising agency that working with love with greatteam. Metromedya brings its magical touch to creating on Digital World. It focused on the culture of our digital world where we live and we believe that we are constantly focusing on innovating. Metromedya is a digital advertising agency.
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- iOS, macOS, Mobile
- Pre-Seed
- Turkey
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- Toboti — Toboti Game Studio is a game development company that specializes in creating games for various platforms. The company has a particular passion for designing games that draw inspiration from classic arcade machines, with a primary focus on the Apple platform. Toboti is known for its commitment to creating fun and engaging games that are optimizedfor mobile devices.The team at Toboti Game Studio utilizes cutting-edge technology and innovative design techniques to produce high-quality games that are both entertaining and challenging. They are dedicated to providing gamers with a unique and nostalgic experience, while also bringing a fresh perspective to the gaming industry.Toboti Game Studio strives to create games that meet the demands of today's gamers, offering exciting gameplay, immersive graphics, and intuitive controls. With a focus on quality and creativity, Toboti Game Studio is poised to become a leading force in the world of game development.
Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Brazil
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- OTPless — Experience the future of user authentication with OTPLESS. Our one-tap sign-in solution eliminates the need for passwords and OTPs, offering a secure, convenient, and user-friendly alternative.
- PIXmania.com — PIXmania is a pan-European electrical e-tailer operating in 26 countries. PIXmania has been growing its market positions across Europe while leveraging the benefits of being part of the Dixons Retail Group. Pixmania now serves more than 7 million customers over Europe with a wide range of product categories.
- Le Collectionist — Le Collectionist is a luxury travel brand offering the discerning traveller a selection of exquisite holiday rentals around the world with hotel-like services.
Hande Enes
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.
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- Apps, Fitness, Health Care
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey, Germany
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.
Erinç Özada is an angel investor.
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- Apps, Baby, Gaming
- Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom
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- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
- Revel Games — Revel Games engages in the creation of mobile gaming apps.
Turgut Konukoglu - CEO @ Sankonline
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- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed, Angel, Series B
- Turkey
Portfolio highlights
- otelz.com — Otelz.com, part of the Zonline Turizm ve Ticaret Aş, owns and operates Otelz.com™, The Turkish market leader in booking accommodations online. The otelz.com website attract visitors from both the leisure and business sectors worldwide.Established in 2013, Otelz.com, guarantees the best prices for any type of property, from small, family-run bedand breakfasts to executive apartments and five-star luxury suites. As for now offers over 3.000 properties in Turkey. Day by day it is increasing.Over 50 people in Turkey are dedicated to serving otelz.com customers and property-owning partners.Our Mission; " To help leisure and business travelers, whatever their budgets, easily discover, book, and enjoy best places to stay."Our Vision; " Otelz.com is an informative, user-friendly website – that guarantees the best available prices. Our goal is to provide business and leisure travelers with the most accessible and cost-effective way of discovering and booking the broadest selection of accommodations, in every corner of Turkey.
- Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
- Temizlikyolda — Temizlikyolda is a Saas Technology for House Cleaning companies. Monitoring your Business with improved Cloud Dashboard.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
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- Farfetch — Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
Ali Kutay is a successful serial entrepreneur, executive and investor with 35 years of experience. Before founding Striim, Inc., Ali was the Chairman and CEO of GoldenGate Software, the leading infrastructure software company for high availability, that was acquired by Oracle. Previously, Ali was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AltoWeb,Inc., a provider of e-business infrastructure software. He was an angel investor, President and Chief Executive Officer of WebLogic, Inc., the company that pioneered the Application Server technology which became one of the major building blocks of web-enabled applications. WebLogic merged with BEA Systems, Inc. and was acquired by Oracle in 2007. He was the President and CEO of Formtek, one of the first enterprise infrastructure software firms, founded in 1984 as a Carnegie-Mellon University spin-off and was acquired by Lockheed Corporation in 1989. He ran Formtek as its CEO under Lockheed Martin for 7 years. He serves on the boards of public and private companies and advises startups. Ali completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Middle East Technical University and his PhD work at Carnegie Mellon University.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Turkey, Germany
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- HiveMQ — HiveMQ helps companies connect devices to the Internet. They make it possible to move data from device to cloud in a secure, reliable and scalable manner. Over 100 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, rely on their product in production for mission critical use cases like connected cars, logistics, Industry 4.0 and connected IoTproducts.
- REscan — Transforming spaces into data
- Strikedeck — Medallia's software platform provides keen insights to improve customer experience, contact center experience, employee experience and digital experience.
Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) is Turkey's leading Venture Capital fund manager with a focus on deep-tech opportunities.
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- Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
decentralized applications, distributed applications, blockchain, early-stage investments, venture capital
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Vietnam
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- GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- Merkle Science — They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.
Fisun Koç Doğan
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- Video Games
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
Erdem Gezer
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- Playz — Playz is a social media platform for gamers.
- Git Kargo —
Güimar is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor as well as Venture Partner at FJ Labs.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Rintin — rintin is a B2B marketplace that connects small independent retailers with curated emerging brands.
- Lara AI — Helping leaders maximize the employee experience in a personalized manner
- Thingtesting — Explore thousands of new online brands and share your honest reviews so everyone on the internet can shop better. Discover the best brands in personal care, home decor, clothing, food, tech and more.
Games United helps game startups get off the field by giving an initial staff, strategic guidance, and aid to help them produce their games.
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- Video Games, Casual Games
- Funding Round
- Turkey
vgames is the venture fund for game entrepreneurs. Having both worked with some of the youngest and most mature developers, we have a deep understanding of what it takes to build a great game. We are passionate about games, and about supporting companies as they grow to become global leaders.
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- Gaming, Video Games, Computer
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Israel, United States, Finland
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- PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
- Frantic Games — Frantic Games is a mobile game company that specialises in hybrid casual games.
- Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.
Ozhun Olgar
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- Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
- Champy Games —
Timo Schlaefer
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- Gaming, Software, Blockchain
- Seed
- Turkey, Denmark
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- Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
- Dynasty Studios — Our Game Developers at Dynasty Studios follows a gamer first ethos and is shaping a new realm that supports both gaming and blockchain communities.
Rıfat Elhadef
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- eSports, Video Games, Social Media
- Angel
- Turkey
Orkun Olgar
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- Video Games, Online Games, Digital Entertainment
- Seed, Angel
- Turkey
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- FormaStar — FormaStar is a Sports-focused digital ecosystem.
- Cube Games — Cube Games develops mobile, cross-platform games.
- Champy Games —
AREA group is an architectural design company.
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- Video Games
- Seed
- Turkey
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- Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
Alexandre Carel
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- Credit, Mobile, FinTech
- Seed
- Turkey, United States
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- PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
- Fomo Games — We are a fast growing mobile game developer based in Istanbul. Our team comprises experienced gaming designers, marketing, data and technology experts as well as successful business builders.
500 Emerging Europe help the companies from Emerging Europe scale globally.
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- PaaS, SaaS, Gaming
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Turkey, Estonia
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- Axoflow — Turn your on-premises and cloud logs, metrics, and traces into a cloud native observability infrastructure to improve Compliance, Security and Observability
- Frantic Games — Frantic Games is a mobile game company that specialises in hybrid casual games.
- Lonca — The Guild is a marketplace that set out with the goal of digitizing the wholesale fashion trade.
Vestel Ventures is the corporate investment company of Vestel Group of Companies.
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- Apps, Cyber Security, Consumer Applications
- Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
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- WeWALK — WeWALK, making the white cane innovative and smart, allows visually impaired people to walk more independently and safely and thanks to its three revolutionary features, it promotes their participation in social life on an equal foot with everyone.Obstacle detection: : WeWALK detects obstacles at head and chest level with its onboard ultrasonicsensor and warns its users with vibration patterns.Pairs with smart phones: : When connected with the WeWALK application via Bluetooth, GPS navigation is easy with WeWALK without the need to take out the phone.It gets better with new integrations: Every integration made possible with software updates brings new features to WeWALK. With its smart city solutions, WeWALK enables visually impaired people to access beneficial information around them such as nearby cafes and shops, while also providing them the info for closest public transport stops and arrival times. WeWALK has been developed so that it can gain new features such as nde hailing in the future with its ability to be integrated with new applications. WeWALK integrations developed so far include "Google Maps" and Alexa virtual assistant service.
- Rierino — Scale up your ecommerce business equipped with Big Tech skills, startup agility and continuous intelligence.
- Mega Fortuna — Mega Fortuna is a leading creator and producer of apps and games. To accomplish this, we mix client needs and lifestyle trends with industry-leading technology.
APY Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United States, United Kingdom
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- Juphy — Unify social conversations, deliver excellent customer service, and sell via personalized messaging. #1 tool for social selling & support.
- Poliark — AI for Built Environment
- Syntonym — Syntonym state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technologies provide customers with seamless anonymization by protecting visual data values within the high standards. Syntonym applications use a cloud-native approach to provide customers with seamless integration at the EDGE, Cloud and on-premises servers.
Collaboration with outstanding initiators with exceptional insights, from inception through all levels of progress. Lima Ventures supports visionary founders as well as provides certain services to early startups. We seek innovative technology-driven entrepreneurs who generate and lead companies that will inspire millions.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Turkey, Estonia, Germany
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- VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.
- Studio Billion — Studio Billion is a game development company that develops applications, games, and projects for different platforms. Studio Billion is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Enqura Information Technologies — Enqura Information Technologies offers advanced technologies in conjunction with human resources as reasonable solutions. Enqura develops creative solutions in the field of digital transformation. They provide innovative and end-to-end solutions to several industries, primarily finance and insurance.
Burak Saglik - Co-Founder @ Teknasyon
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- Apps, Software, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Turkey, United States
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- Ekmob — Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations.Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead tolack or deficiency in decision-support systems.
- Otsimo — Otsimo offers special education and speech therapy apps for autism, down syndrome and other developmental disabilities. Click to see our autism apps!
- 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.
Volkan Biçer is the co-founder of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.Bicer’e employment history includes his time as product manager of Turkcell’s mobile marketing and advertising department, and community manager at Yahoo, Turkey.Bicer holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems from Boğaziçi University and an MBAfrom Galatasaray University.
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- Online Games, iOS, Mobile
- Seed
- Turkey, Singapore
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- Jambox Games — Power-up your mobile games
- Rollic Games — Rollic is a game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play hyper-casual games for iOS and Android. Games released by Rollic include Go Knots 3D, Flipper Dunk, Onnect – Pair Matching Puzzle, Pixel Shot 3D, Picker 3D, Repair Master 3D, Tangle Master 3D, Water Shooty, and Wheel Smash.
- Ontrail Store — Ontrail Store offers a wide range of clothes and accessories.
Emre Gönül
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- iOS, Android, E-Commerce
- Seed
- Turkey
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- UnoMoi — UnoMoi is an online subscription service for women to rent designer clothes and accessories
- Rollic Games — Rollic is a game developer and publisher focused on free-to-play hyper-casual games for iOS and Android. Games released by Rollic include Go Knots 3D, Flipper Dunk, Onnect – Pair Matching Puzzle, Pixel Shot 3D, Picker 3D, Repair Master 3D, Tangle Master 3D, Water Shooty, and Wheel Smash.
Ak Portfoy is an investment management company that offers services to its customers in mutual funds management, pension funds management.
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- Information Technology, Software, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Turkey, United States
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- ViraSoft — ViraSoft’s ambition is to be the first choice in the field of digital pathology in Turkey and in mid-term enabling to give service to the neighboring countries. Together with the R&D activities, we aim to improve the efficiency and effectivity in the pathology process and reach significant diagnosis results.
- 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.
- Eyedius Technology — Eyedius Technology is a high-tech company that develops image-processing technologies to ensure security in all areas of life. The high-level security technologies we have developed are used in all business areas such as offices, hotels, business centers as well as sites and residential areas and they provide 360 degrees of security for everyaspect of your life.
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.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Farfetch — Farfetch operates an e-commerce website that unites various independent fashion boutiques. It offers bags, coats, dresses, jackets, jewellery, swimwear, trouser, shoes, knitwear, suits, shorts, and accessories. They operate a modular end-to-end technology platform purpose built to connect the luxury fashion ecosystem worldwide. Their vision wasto create a single operating system that could address the complex demands of consumers and luxury sellers alike. Their platform is built on an API-enabled proprietary technology stack, which provides the foundation for the three main components: applications, services and data. Farfetch serves women, men, and kids. Jose Neves founded the company in 2008, with its headquarters in London, United Kingdom.
- Borzo — Borzo is a global delivery service that enables intracity same-day delivery. Our algorithms optimize numerous parallel deliveries taking into account the geographical routes, packages’ contents, couriers and many others to ensure the feasibility of the same-day delivery. The services are available in 10 countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia,Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam and are used by 3 million customers ranging from SMEs to enterprises.
- Menu Next Door — Menu Next Door's chefs are enthusiasts from all walks of life who want to share their talents. So you'll always enjoy freshly-made, delicious meals originating from all over the world.On Menu Next Door, you'll find these quality meals at affordable prices because they're homemade and prepared locally with no delivery charges.It's great food for the many, not the few.What brings people together more than food? Community is the magic ingredient in Menu Next Door.Meeting your chef and getting the chance to talk to them about the dish they've prepared is what makes this something more than just a takeaway.
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