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Name | Website | Stages | Location | Socials |
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Aslanoba Capital | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe | ||
212 | Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture | Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe | ||
Alesta Yatırım | Early Stage 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 |
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We’ve ranked the top Venture Capital 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 Venture Capital Investors & Funds (Turkey)
Aslanoba Capital
Aslanoba Capital is an early stage investor in tech startups in Turkey and the US. The company invests in startups pursuing disruptive ideas in areas such as marketplaces, e-commerce, mobile, classifieds, content, and SaaS with a consideration of investment between $0.25 million and $2 million. Aslanoba was founded in 2013 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Banking, Finance, FinTech, Marketplace, Venture Capital
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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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Alesta Yatırım
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.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: 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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Collective Spark
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 specialized talent and hands-on shared resources in distinct areas critical to their success.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Information Technology, Venture Capital
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BIC Angels
BIC Angels is an investment firm that provides venture capital for startups engaged in the internet sector. It is primarily focused on companies engaged in SaaS, location-based services, and mobile applications. The Company’s early-stage investment ranges from $25,000 to $1,000,000. BIC Angels is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Angel Investment, Venture Capital
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Nexus Ventures
Nexus Ventures is an investment firm that invests in transformational businesses and creates meaningful partnerships with entrepreneurs. They support these ventures through its mentorship, business and technical know-how, vast network, and capital. The firm was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Ankara, Turkey.
Stages: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Ankara, Ankara, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Business Intelligence, Finance, Venture Capital
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Boğaziçi Ventures
Boğaziçi Ventures has been established in 2013 with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship to take their global success to a next level. We aim to invest in the technology start-ups which have talented teams by providing business models and looking for funds and mentoring support for the future exponential growth. BV Growth fund does aim to reach a minimum fund size of $30M. BV Growth will only focus on the technology startups established in Turkey at 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 and especially new initial coin offerings (ICO) but they don’t know which one is reliable. We’ve 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. BV MENA fund will be closed with a minimum fund size of $100M. BV MENA aims to invest in the growth stage technology startups in the Middle East and Africa.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Big Data, FinTech, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Venture Capital
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500 Istanbul
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 of entrepreneurs in over 60 countries.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Extra Watts
We strive to contribute a few extra watts to the secure, immutable, and decentralized internet. Adoption. Now.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Incubators, Software, Venture Capital
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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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ScaleX Ventures
ScaleX invests and works with startups to scale and grow them globally together. That’s why the companies we work with have global focused products and global ambitions from day one.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Sisli, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Idacapital
Idacapital is an investment management firm that focuses on impact through technology, innovation, and growth investments. idacapital Innovation Fund is an SME Impact Fund investing across technology-enabled business verticals in Finance, Education, Life Sciences, Cleantech, Agriculture and like in Turkey.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Impact Investing, Venture Capital
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Eczacıbasi Momentum
Established in 2019 as a corporate venture capital fund, Eczacıbaşı Momentum aims to strengthen the start-up ecosystem by investing in high-impact start-ups and technologies. The purpose of the fund is to invest in start-ups that are active in wellbeing, consumption, and home-living, that shape the new normal of modern life, and that have an international perspective. Eczacıbaşı Momentum’s focus, in this context, is new technologies and business models. In addition to gain financial returns, start-ups also benefit from the knowledge and business relations of the Eczacıbaşı Group.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Biotechnology, FinTech, Health Care, Information Technology, Internet of Things, Mining Technology, Venture Capital, Wellness
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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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Driventure
Ford Otosan, Europe’s commercial vehicle manufacturing leader, established the corporate venture capital company ‘Driventure’ to implement new generation technologies that will play a key role in the transformation of the automotive industry, with the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem. Driventure, Ford Otosan’s venture capital firm, will develop new ideas and technologies with initiatives focusing on mobility (smart mobility), connectivity, autonomous technologies and electric vehicles.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Private Equity
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Automotive, Venture Capital
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Vera Capital
Vera Capital is a private family investment office that invests in early-stage tech companies, real estate/assets, venture capital funds, and quoted markets.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Üsküdar, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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Gate Inside Ventures
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.
Stages: Debt, Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Consulting, Finance, Incubators, Venture Capital
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TrilogyGrowth
TrilogyGrowth is a early growth stage investment fund focused on a select group of companies that solve consumer needs by creating distinctive products and services with unique brands. They invest in companies that they believe can become strong market share leaders in their respective categories. The fund is led by Managing Partner Joel Silver. TrilogyGrowth’s portfolio includes Indeed Labs, The Red Pin and iStore.
Stages: Early Stage Venture
Location: Çan, Canakkale, Turkey, Europe
Industries: E-Commerce, Finance, Venture Capital
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projectz
Projectz is an investment company based in Istanbul and has investments in internet and media-related companies. It is also focused on property investments and is very active in angel round investments in Turkey-based startups. Projectz was founded in January 2010.
Stages: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe
Industries: Venture Capital
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