Last week, 9 Turkish startups received investment in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The headquarters of the startups that received investment were distributed as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
The vertical distribution of the startups receiving investment is as follows:
1 Gaming
1 B2B / Software
1 Software
1 Market Place
1 Image Recognition / Software
1 Aviation
1 Artificial Intelligence
1 Logistics
1 Industrial Automation / Machine Learning
News of the Week
🎯 Mobile gaming startup Veloxia raised funding.
Mobile gaming studio Veloxia, has completed its bridge investment round and received investment from Collective Spark, Boğaziçi Ventures, APY Ventures and INVEST 101, which was established in partnership with Turkey Development Fund and ODTÜ Teknokent.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: –
Investors: CollecBve Spark, Boğaziçi Ventures, APY Ventures, INVEST 101
Co-founders: Tugay Alyıldız, Melih Gündoğdu, Mehveş Altay
🎯 Climate and financial technologies provider Erguvan raised funding.
Erguvan, a digital infrastructure provider for corporate climate action, has completed the Seed investment round and received an investment with a valuation of $7.33 million. The investment round was joined by Emirates NBD and Deniz Ventures.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: $7.330.000
Investors: Emirates NBD, Deniz Ventures
Co-founders: Barış Balat
🎯 Technology startup Code360 raised funding.
Code360, which develops safe driving and accident prevention solutions for mobile platforms, received an investment with a valuation of 23.7 million TL from Alesta Yatırım.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: 23.700.000 TL
Investors: Alesta Yatırım
Co-founders: Tanju Tekgöz
🎯 Renovation center Mobilfon raised funding.
Mobilfon, which renews all devices in the consumer electronics category and brings them back to consumers, received an investment from Re-Pie Portfolio Management Inc.’s Turkcell New Technologies Venture Capital Investment Fund.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: –
Investors: Re-Pie Portfolio Management Inc. Turkcell New Technologies Venture Capital Investment Fund
Co-founders: Ömer Lütfi Soylu, Mustafa Kemal Turnacı, Hakan Gören, Tahir Tuluk
🎯 Analysis solutions developer Vispera raised funding.
Vispera, which develops image recognition and analysis solutions, received an investment of $250.000, with a valuation of $44.8 million in its bridge investment round. The investment round was led by Arya GSYF.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: $250.000
Valuation: $44.800.000
Investors: Arya GSYF
Co-founders: Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil, Dr. Ceyhun Burak Akgül
🎯 Management software developer MaviKanatlar raised funding.
MaviKanatlar, which develops management software for unmanned aerial vehicle operations, received an investment of 2.4 million TL from Albaraka Portfolio Management Inc.’s OSTİM GSYF.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: 2.400.000 TL
Valuation: –
Investors: Albaraka Portfolio Management Inc. – OSTİM GSYF
Co-founders: –
🎯 Cloud-based regulation startup TeamSec raised funding.
TeamSec, which provides end-to-end management of securitization, finance and regulation transactions, has completed its first investment round and received an investment with a valuation of $42 million. The investment round was joined by undisclosed angel investors.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: –
Valuation: $42.000.000
Investors: Angel investors
Co-founders: Esad Erkam Köroğlu
🎯 Digital logistics startup Forwardie raised funding.
Forwardie, which manages and digitizes international transportation processes, has raised €1 million in Seed funding round from Esor Investments.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: €1.000.000
Valuation: –
Investors: Esor Investments
Co-founders: Ali Efe Öğütlü, Savaş Pala
🎯 Industry 4.0 startup Simularge raised funding.
Industrial applications and development platform Simularge, which includes data analytics, machine learning, mechanical simulation and application creation modules, received an investment of 8.26 million TL from Türkiye Development Fund.
Transaction Type: Investment
Investment Amount: 8.264.000 TL
Valuation: –
Investors: Türkiye Development Fund
Co-founders: Büryan Turan, Dr. Erhan Turan
Other News of the Week:
📌 Triber Shop, which transforms the ideas of content producers, influencers, designers or users who want to enter e-commerce with their own brand into products, went on a crowdfunding tour with a target of 2.8 million TL through fonbulucu.
📌 OtoKonfor, a platform that meets all the after-sales needs of vehicle owners, went on a crowdfunding tour with a target of 8 million TL through fonbulucu.
📌 Financial technology startup Colendi has established Colendi Bank A.Ş. with 2 billion TL capital and received BRSA (BDDK) permit.
📌 Hedef Investment Bank, which was established with a capital of 500 million TL, received an operating license from the BRSA (BDDK).
📌 The second term of the Inventor Entrepreneur Program, which supported by Development Agency and organized by the Information Commercialization Center, has been completed.
📌 The 11th term of startups for the Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program PILOT, organized by TT Ventures, the corporate venture capital company of Türk Telekom, has been announced. The selected startups within the program are egaranti, Finceptor, FINSO, F-Ray/JetScoring, Link Robotics, Medialyzer, and Sensemore.
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