New Round Investment for Tasit.com Completed – There are Familiar Names among Partners!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 24, 2011
We have learned that auto classifieds service Tasit.com has received a new round investment. The amount is not certain yet, but we have some hearsay that have yet to be confirmed. Tasit.com has guaranteed to be on the safe side for the next period with the new round of investment that has been finalized with [...]
iPara: New Startup From GittiGidiyor Founders
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on November 21, 2011
New Project of GittiGidiyor founders, iPara has gone online. Partners of this new startup include Serkan Borançılı, Burak Divanlıoğlu, Aydonat Atasever, Tolga Kabataş’ın and Cenk Angın, current GM of GittiGidiyor. iPara is aiming to create a safe shopping platform for both e-trading websites and users. iPara lets its members make shopping with their iPara accounts [...]
Markafoni’s Sister Site MissPera Is Online
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on October 7, 2011
In the past weeks, we shared the news on a new website based on hearsay information and our researches, and finally Markafoni’s new sister website MissPera has gone online. As we have said on the article dated 27 September, MissPera is a service that is similar to Zizigo, but it focuses on cosmetics. And as Zizigo does, [...]
Peak Games Gets 11,5 Million Dolar Investment
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on October 5, 2011
We have earlier written about Turkey’s popular social gaming company Peak Games received investment from Hummingbird Ventures and Earlybird Venture Capital. Peak Games came to the fore again with its partnership with RockYou. Today we have heard that the company has received a new investment. The company does not want to make an official statement on the [...]
Tinypay.me Raises $1M from Aksoy Internet Ventures
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on September 14, 2011
Aksoy Internet Ventures, founded by Aksoy Group (also the founder of Sahibinden.com) for investing in internet start-ups, invested 1 million dollars in Holland based e-trading platform, tinypay.me. In April 2010 we had written about tinypay.me, whose founder Melvin Tercan participated in Webrazzi Agenda: E-Trading meeting as one of the speakers in March 2011. Melvin Tercan [...]
Official Statement from Trendyol on Investment– Investment Amount is 26 Million Dollars!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on August 17, 2011
We had shared the news on the new round investment Trendyol received from major global investor companies Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and current investor Tiger Global and official information that were confirmed. Following the first hearsays we shared with you on July 22, we published the rates of company’s shares on official records in [...]
Intel Capital Made Grupanya Investment – Grupanya’s Value is About 40 Million Dollars!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on August 16, 2011
We have learned that Intel Capital’s Grupanya investment, which we shared based on the hearsays we received in March, has been finalized as 25th July. This investment is the second biggest investment in Turkey’s internet market following Intel Capital’s investment in Nokta. We have contacted Grupanya on the investment; but it did not want to [...]
Trendyol Gets Investment from Kleiner Perkins!
One Comment by Arda Kutsal on July 25, 2011
[SPECIAL NEWS] Though yet to be confirmed, we have heard that popular private shopping club Trendyol has completed new round of investment funding. The investment was made by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the investor of world’s giants including Groupon, Zynga and Twitter, and Trendyol has been valuated at a level of nearly 150 million dollars. As there [...]
AlkislarlaYasiyorum.com Acquired by Nokta
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on July 14, 2011
We already knew that Nokta would make new acquisitions in Turkish Internet market following Intel Capital investment, while the company’s co-founder and CEO Tümay Asena, who spoke at Webrazzi Agenda meetings, mentioned of the company’s plans for this aim. We have confirmed new acquisition news that we had been hearing of for a while and [...]
Private Shopping Club Vipdukkan.com Gets $5M Dollars Investment From ePlanet Capital
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 29, 2011
vipdukkan.com is one of the private shopping start-ups in Turkey, which is not very known to public yet, but is continuing with firm steps forward. It has recently finalized the investment negotiations that we have been hearing about for a while. Investor of major companies including Skype and Baidu, ePlanet Capital has made an investment [...]