One of the world's most beautiful cities, Istanbul has its own startup scene that is worth paying lots of attention to. The city's best and brightest entrepreneurs are coming up with some innovative ventures in almost all areas, including tech and commerce.
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Best Startup companies in Istanbul
1. Dream Games
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Dream Games is a mobile gaming company based in Istanbul. Their objective is to combine technology and creativity to develop high-quality mobile games that will be played for years. It specializes in the fields of casual games, video games, and the gaming industry. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Website: https://dreamgames.com/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: $467.5M
Last Funding Type: Series C
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2. Modanisa
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Modanisa is an online fashion retailer for women's Islamic clothing, dresses and accessories. The site offers clothing and accessories to women of all ages and offers shipping and delivery all over the world. The site also trends latest hijab styles for women along with fashion tips for the Muslim regions. Designer abayas and jilbabs, Kayra,Armine, Aker and Tekbir are also sold online.
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Website: http://www.modanisa.com/
Founded: 2011
Total Funding: $45.5M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
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3. Istegelsin
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Istegelsin is an online supermarket that offers the next generation market shopping experience for consumers. The company solves the market shopping problems by developing technologies to provide mobile solutions that bring the freshest fruits and vegetables kept on cold storages, products from the best brands, out-of-the-oven bakery products tohouse for the same prices as the regular supermarkets.Istegelsin was foundedi n 2018 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Website: http://www.istegelsin.com/
Founded: 2018
Total Funding: $30.1M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
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4. Akinon
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Akinon’s Cloud-based omnichannel commerce platform, a next-generation application suite with scalable features that boost business growth and target brands' most challenging KPIs.
Website: https://www.akinon.com/
Founded: 2016
Total Funding: $25M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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5. Figopara
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Figopara is a solution that discounts companies' e-invoices before their due dates with the offers received by financial institutions. It provides secure information to the financial companies that the customer is associated with and wants to reach by providing them with printed invoice information.Figopara was established in 2017 to developfinancial technology applications and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Website: https://figopara.com/
Founded: 2017
Total Funding: $19.3M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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6. Codeway
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Codeway is launching highly scalable mobile applications. We target non-operational mobile business models. Before the development stage we do marketing tests and make our decision between the ideas. We are not generally the first mover in the markets, however we choose the markets we possibly get market share. Our former products reached over 65million users.
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Website: https://codeway.co/
Founded: 2020
Total Funding: $16M
Last Funding Type: Seed
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7. BinBin
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BinBin is a technology company that produces micromobility technologies to offer environment-friendly and practical transportation solutions. The company develops tools with local software and engineering and offers them into service under the roof of its own trademarks to create alternative solutions for a sustainable world and convenienttransport. BinBin employs more than 500 personnel in its search for intelligent solutions to the transportation problems of ever-growing cities. The company draws its strength from its interest in innovation and commitment to continuous development.As of 2020, it has extended its operations to cities to offer a practical and sustainable transport option for those who are fed up with the traffic.BinBin Scooters has been operating in Istanbul, Konya, Kayseri, Antalya, Alanya, Samsun, Gaziantep, Sakarya, Trabzon, Eskişehir, İzmir, Kocaeli, Bursa, Adana, Diyarbakır ve Uşak cities so far and it continues to extend its urban operations at a great pace. It is also the first micromobility company launches abroad with its Sofia, Bulgaria and Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina operations, continues its global investments.
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Website: https://www.binbin.tech/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: $16M
Last Funding Type: Seed
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8. Tarfin
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By leveraging the power of technology and data science, Tarfin is creating Europe’s first and most advanced fintech lending solution for farmers and retailers.
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Website: https://tarfin.com/
Founded: 2017
Total Funding: $14.3M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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9. Midas
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Midas is a fully digital stock brokerage app, enabling investors to invest in both the Turkish and the US stock markets.Midas offers low transaction fees for investments in US stocks, fractional investing and free live market data. The Borsa Istanbul (Turkish stock market) product is in closed beta and will soon launch to offer commission-freetrading of Turkish stocks.Midas was established on February 27, 2020 by Egem Eraslan and Umut Bozkurt in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Website: https://www.getmidas.com/
Founded: 2020
Total Funding: $12M
Last Funding Type: Seed
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