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Rushed for time? Here is the top 5 Seed investors for Financial Services startups. Scroll down for more information on these investors or to view the rest of the investors.
Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
212 | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe | ||
Diffusion Capital Partners | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe | ||
StartupFon | Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe | ||
TRANGELS | Early Stage Venture, Seed | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe | ||
Angel Effect | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture | Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Seed investors in Turkey. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Financial Services Investors & Funds (Turkey)
212
212 invests in growth-stage tech companies across Turkey, CEE, and MENA. Currently, our fund manages €75 million of committed capital, and 25 investments. Our strategy is to invest in B2B tech solutions that have demonstrated traction, a clear product-market fit, and are ready to scale internationally. ‘Test local, go global’ is 212’s guiding principle. In addition to investing in startups, we put significant effort into mentoring, supporting, and advising our portfolio companies. 212 was founded by a seasoned group of veterans with the common vision of cultivating an eco-system in Turkey and its region. Each of our team members brings to the table a proven track record of success in multi-cultural disciplines in both global corporations and start-ups and an unwavering focus on strategy, operation, and execution.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
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Diffusion Capital Partners
DCP is a seed-stage venture capital fund manager. We predominantly invest in deep-tech start-ups. At DCP we aim to invest in entrepreneurial teams that are building the future through progressive science and technology. We focus on cross-industry sectors and interdisciplinary projects to discover innovations occurring at the nexus of technology domains where capital-efficient solutions can unlock significant value.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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StartupFon
StartupFon is the first and leading equity-based online investment platform based in Turkey and has been founded to capitalize technology-based ventures with qualified angel investors and its own venture capital fund, namely the AngelFund. Startupfon gives their members the opportunity to invest in seed / early-stage technology startups either through 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.
Stages: Crowdfunding, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Venture Capital
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Angel Effect
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Secondary Market, Seed, Venture
Location: Kurucesme, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Education, Financial Services, Information Technology, Internet
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Re-Pie Asset Management
RE-PIE is Turkey’s first alternative asset management company that was authorized by Capital Markets Board of Turkey to establish real estate investment funds in 2015. With our top-quality management team that has many years of professional experience in various markets, it is our privilege to serve our investors to generate best in class investment returns in accordance with their risk perceptions and return expectations in line with our well-structured investment process and risk management guidelines. We aim to provide new funding opportunities and resources for Turkish Capital Markets in order to enable new investments and to grow steadily by increasing our fund size with wide range of products in various asset classes.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: B2B, B2C, Delivery, Financial Services, Home Health Care, Venture Capital
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Finberg
In 2018, Finberg was established to support Fibabanka’s ecosystem banking platform and to be closer to the startup ecosystem. Over the years, Finberg has renewed its strategy to adapt to the opportunities and goals that have emerged, and has become a “multi-VC management company”. Finberg now manages four different VC funds.
Finberg, which works closely with entrepreneurs, uses the opportunities provided by Fibabanka and the Fiba Group companies not only for capital and partnership, but also for strategic consulting, marketing and business development support, and offers support for critical needs such as human resources.
So far, Finberg has invested $51m in 43 investments, and its portfolio includes startups such as Getir, Birleşik Ödeme, Colendi, Figopara, and Easycep and funds such as Portage, Manhattan Venture Partners, 500 and Startup Wise Guys.
Stages: Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Arya Women’s Investment Platform
Arya WIP is a platform that creates acceleration and investment opportunities with strategic partnerships for women led entrepreneurship. They believe investing in women is an opportunity. Women are one of the most underutilized assets in society and their economies world wide. Arya is founded to leverage an entrepreneurial network of investors, business people and entrepreneurs who share this belief to accelerate women led entrepreneurship. Arya is currently vetting potential pilot prospects. Arya is not a fund and each investor makes his/her individual investment decision to form a board for each entrepreneur.
Stages: Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Women’s
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QNBEYOND Ventures
Like every other aspect of our lives financial services are changing. The next 10 years will be nothing like before. We know visionary founders will play a key role to pioneer this change. That is why we are driven to partner with audacious teams who also have strong resilience. As a strategic investor we are aiming to explore any chance to collaborate as earliest as possible, where we can contribute with our insights and explore the potential opportunities within QNB Group. Our presence as QNB Group in more than 30 countries serving 24 million customers with a full spectrum of financial products, makes us confident we can bring an extensive global network and our business expertise thus when we partner, we deliver critical support besides capital to accelerate growth. So if you think you are that team, contact us and let’s define what’s beyond of banking together!
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Golden Horn Ventures
Golden Horn Ventures is an Istanbul-based investment fund helping early-stage innovative technology companies. It was established in 2007.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Zincirlikuyu, Konya, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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Turkish Business Angels Association
Established in 2011 by a group of pioneer business angels in Turkey, it represents a sector that is expected to invest an estimated 500 million Euros annually in a few years’ time and has a key role to play in Turkey’s future, notably in the funding of SMEs and the creation of wealth and jobs. Most TBAA business angel network members are accredited by the government, and over 500 angel investors are members of these 10 BANs. The TBAA has 6 committees: The Crowdfunding Committee. The Innovation & Technoparks Committee, The Incubation Centers Committee, The Start-up Committee, The Exit Committee, and The Mentorship Committee. The TBAA has seen its members hold important positions in the international arena, including the Vice Presidency of EBAN and board membership in the World Business Angels Association in the UK.
Stages: Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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