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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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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 | ||
Esas Ventures | Early Stage Venture | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe |
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We’ve ranked the top Financial Services Early Stage Venture 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).
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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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Esas Ventures
Esas Ventures is the venture capital arm of Esas Holding, one of the largest family-owned investment firms in Turkey and is backed by the first and second generation family members of Şevket Sabancı, one of the founding members of Sabancı Holding, a leading Turkish conglomerate. With offices in Istanbul and London, Esas Ventures invests in early stage companies globally.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Financial Services
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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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Lima Ventures
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: EdTech, Financial Services, FinTech, Gaming, Virtual Reality
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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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Teknoloji Yatirim
In 2005, Teknoloji Yatırım started as the first local actor investing in early-stage technology companies in Turkey; with a mission to demonstrate that early stage investments in technology ventures is good economics. Today, Teknoloji Yatırım; provides novel solutions for the early growth-financing ecosystem at different levels.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Education, Financial Services, Health Care, Information Technology, SaaS, 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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iLab Ventures
iLab Ventures was founded in 2000 as a part of Access Turkey Capital Group. Its mandate was to invest venture capital in early-growth stages of companies operating in sectors with high-growth potential. The company focuses on the petrochemical, iron-steel, human resources, software development, and insurance sectors. iLab Ventures is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Finance, Financial Services, Venture Capital
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