Istanbul startup directory
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Rodrigo Ferreira
Investment Director at Vinthera, focused on venture investment and technology growth across emerging markets. He is an announced speaker at Eurasia Tech Week 2026 in Istanbul.
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Sai Agnikhotram
Senior Vice President at Sygnum Bank leading bank-to-bank integration and enablement for digital-asset banking. He is an announced speaker at Eurasia Tech Week 2026 in Istanbul.
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Sipay
Payments and embedded finance platform offering payment processing, digital wallets, prepaid cards and FX for merchants and consumers across emerging markets. Serves 6.3M users and 25,000 merchants.
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Spyke Games
Spyke Games is an Istanbul-based mobile gaming studio that raised one of the largest seed rounds in European gaming history — roughly USD 55 million in 2022, led by Griffin Gaming Partners, Index Ventures, and Makers Fund — on the strength of its founding team's track record in casual and social gaming. The studio focuses on multiplayer social casual titles with deep live-ops loops and player-to-player interaction as a retention driver, and is part of the generation of second-wave Turkish mobile studios (alongside Dream Games and Spyke Labs alumni) trying to turn the country's engineering depth and low-cost production into a durable mobile entertainment cluster. For the directory, Spyke represents the next chapter of Turkish mobile gaming following the Peak Games / Zynga exit, and a data point on how extensively Turkish founders have now captured international venture appetite for casual gaming.
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Take Off Istanbul 2026
International startup summit co-organized by the Turkish Presidency's Investment Office, bringing 5,000+ attendees from EMEA and Central Asia. Features the Take Off Pitch Contest with cash prizes, B2B matchmaking, and strong government support. Free for selected startups and investors.
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Tarfin
Tarfin (Tarfin Tarim A.S.) is an Istanbul-headquartered agrifintech company that helps farmers buy fertilizers, seeds, feed, equipment and fuel from authorised retailers and pay at harvest time using machine learning-based risk assessment. Its Tarfin Mobil app lets farmers compare local input prices, submit purchase applications typically evaluated within minutes, and track payments due at harvest. The company serves more than 65,000 farmers through 1,500+ authorised retailers across 75+ cities in Turkey, and also operates in Romania. It separately runs Tarfin Flex, a consumer buy-now-pay-later product.
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Trendyol
Trendyol is Turkey's largest e-commerce platform, operating a marketplace, express delivery service, digital wallet, and food delivery product that together serve tens of millions of customers. Founded in 2010 by Demet Mutlu, the company attracted a major investment from Alibaba Group and has grown into one of the most valuable private technology companies in Europe with a valuation exceeding $16 billion. Trendyol processes millions of orders daily through its logistics infrastructure spanning hundreds of thousands of merchants. The platform is a dominant force in Turkish digital commerce and an increasingly important player in cross-border e-commerce across the broader region.
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Türkiye Exporters Assembly (TİM)
The Türkiye Exporters Assembly (Türkiye İhracatçılar Meclisi, TİM) is the umbrella body of Turkish exporters. It organises the Istanbul Global E-Export Summit (IGEXX), a cross-border digital commerce and e-export event in Istanbul, in collaboration with the Electronic Commerce Operators Association and the Ministry of Trade.
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UserGuiding
No-code product adoption platform for building in-app onboarding flows, tooltips, walkthroughs, knowledge bases and surveys to reduce churn. Founded 2017; clients include Uber and UNICEF.
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Vispera
Image-recognition and AI platform for retail and CPG companies, automating shelf monitoring, planogram compliance, price tracking and competitive intelligence from in-store imagery.
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Webrazzi Fintech 2026
Webrazzi's anniversary edition fintech conference at Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent, bringing together Turkish industry leaders to discuss digital banking, open banking, blockchain integration, AI-driven financial applications, and digital payments.
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Webrazzi Summit 2026
The 20th-anniversary edition of Webrazzi Summit, Turkey's most influential technology and entrepreneurship conference, organized by tech media outlet Webrazzi at the Wyndham Grand Istanbul Levent on 21 October 2026. A single-day program of simultaneous panels, keynotes and workshops spanning e-commerce, fintech, AI and machine learning, digital marketing and sustainability, gathering founders, corporate innovators and investors.
