Last week, 8 Turkish startups received investment in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The headquarters of the startups that received investment were distributed as Istanbul, Ankara, Sakarya, Tallinn, CA and Delaware. 4 venture capital investment fund was also established.
The vertical distribution of the startups receiving investment is as follows:
1 Consulting
1 Software
1 Data
1 Game
1 Fashion
1 Education
1 Human Resources
1 Digital Asset Market
News of the Week
Last week, 4 Venture Capital Investment Fund (GSYF) received establishment permission.
In the Turkish Capital Markets Board (CBM) bulletin published on Thursday, January 26; It was announced that 4 portfolio company received establishment permission for 4 venture capital investment fund.
Permitted Funds:
Albaraka Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. Fonangels Venture Capital Investment Fund
Deniz Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. First Venture Capital Investment Fund
Hedef Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. Pioneer Venture Capital Investment Fund
Oyak Portföy Yönetimi A.Ş. Tenth Venture Capital Investment Fund
🎯 Family counseling platform Kidolog raised funding.
Kidolog, the platform that provides online expert support to parents about child development, received an investment of 600 thousand dollars. More than 10 investors participated in the investment round such as Founder One, TT Ventures and Ceyda Düvenci.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: $600.000
Valuation: $7.500.000
Investors: Founder One, TT Ventures, Ceyda Düvenci, other investors
Co-founders: Eray Uğurelli, Burak Candan
🎯 Banking and rewards platform Bluedot raised funding.
Banking and rewards platform Bluedot, which aims to improve the after-sales experience for electric vehicles, completed its pre-seed investment round. TechNexus, Ford (Driventures), Pritchard Companies, Eksim Ventures, Kalyon Ventures, Axel Springer and Porsche, as well as CEOs of some automotive and fintech companies participated in the pre-seed investment round.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: –
Investors: TechNexus, Ford (Driventures), Pritchard Companies, Eksim Ventures, Kalyon Ventures, Axel Springer, automotive and fintech companies
Co-founders: Selinay Filiz Parlak, Furkan Ali Yalçın, Ferhat Babacan
🎯 Data labeling platform Co-one raised funding.
Co-one, which offers artificial intelligence-based data labeling service, received an investment with a valuation of €4.2 million under the leadership of Maxis Yenilikçi Fon. TechOne Venture Capital, Lima Ventures, DOMiNO Ventures, Leap Investment, Emrah Gültekin, CEO of Chooch AI, and Siret Ünsal, Investment Banker also participated in the investment tour.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: €4.200.000
Investors: Maxis Yenilikçi Fon, TechOne Venture Capital, Lima Ventures, DOMiNO Ventures, Leap Investment, Emrah Gültekin, Siret Ünsal
Co-founders: Ataberk Arman Kayhan, Mert Menekşe
🎯 Gaming technology startup Ratic, raised funding.
Ratic, the startup that develops SuperApps for gamers, received an investment with a valuation of $5.27 million in the pre-seed investment tour. led by Arısan İnce. OXO Finans and Alpcan Erdoğan also participated in the investment tour.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: $5.270.000
Investors: Arısan İnce, OXO Finans, Alpcan Erdoğan
Co-founders: Ali Dursun, Zeynep Dursun, Ersel R. Ekmen, Çetin Kaya Koç, Yasir Güney, Harun Dursun
🎯 Clothing subscription platform UnoMoi raised funding.
UnoMoi, a platform that allows monthly rental of luxury clothing, received an investment with a valuation of $2 million. The investment round was held with the participation of Founder One, Özgür Ülkü, Kamil Sözen and Emre Gönül.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: $2.000.000
Investors: Founder One, Özgür Ülkü, Kamil Sözen, Emre Gönül
Co-founders: Gözde Atasoy, Ayşe Kefli
🎯 Talent technology startup UP School raised funding.
UP School, the platform that trains women software developers through training programs in the field of technology, has completed its first investment round under the leadership of Arya Women Investment Platform. Boğaziçi Ventures, Melih Ödemiş and Erdal Durukan also participated in the investment tour.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: –
Investors: Arya Women Investment Platform, Boğaziçi Ventures, Melih Ödemiş, Erdal Durukan
Co-founders: Mina İlköz, Melike Aydın
🎯 Personality analysis platform PlusDISC raised funding.
PlusDISC, a human resources platform that offers professional personality analysis, received an investment with a valuation of 9 million TL under the leadership of Nazım Onur Bayındır.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: 9.000.000 TL
Investors: Nazım Onur Bayındır
Co-founders: –
🎯 Digital asset marketplace Pointship raised funding.
Pointship, the platform that converts unused rewards and advantages such as miles and points, game credits, event tickets, hotel rewards into NFTs and mediates the buying and selling of tokens between members, received an investment from Startup Wise Guys.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: –
Investors: Startup Wise Guys
Co-founders: Egemen Çakmak, Merter Ünsal
Other News of the Week:
📌 The public offering of the digital sports brand Maçkolik, which was carried out with the “Demand Gathering” method through the consortium formed under the leadership of Info Investment, was completed.
📌 Ventures & Beyond, which provides consultancy services in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, has published the report “Exit’ Profile of Venture Capital (VC) Investments in the Turkish Entrepreneurship Ecosystem”, in which it investigates the Exit profile of “venture capital” investments in the Turkish entrepreneurship ecosystem.
📌 The applications for the Let’s Scale Up Acceleration Program, organized by JCI Avrasya and NETBAN; designed for small-scale enterprises that want to grow nationally and internationally, have begun.
📌 The applications for the 8th Term of the Lonca Entrepreneurship Center, which was established by Kuveyt Türk to support technology-oriented and innovative business ideas, have been completed. Startups that selected for the new term incubation program of Lonca Entrepreneurship Center: Agriverts, Harcy, Microhobist, Pooly, Qpien, RateMe, Robeff, Scoutify, Wearintels.
📌 The applications for the 4th season of Exitcom Campus, a training and development program for university students, have started.
📌 THe applications for Başlangıç Noktası Akademi 23′, organized in cooperation with Enocta, Cisco Networking Academy, Siliconmade Academy and Istanbul Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, aiming to create an educational alternative for university students within the framework of 21st century competencies, have started.
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