Yemeksepeti receives $44m investment from General Atlantic
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on September 17, 2012
We had written about investment meetings for Turkey’s leading online food order service Yemeksepeti in July. And last week, we told that the investment got resulted and it would be announced today. Finally today is the day and Yemeksepeti announced more information about investment it hasn’t shared yet. It was announced that Yemeksepeti has received investment [...]
inploid.com receives investment from Galata Business Angels
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on September 17, 2012
inploid became popular when it received investment from Dragons Den Turkey and got listed in Wired 100 list; and now it receives investment and mentorship support from Galata İş Melekleri (Galata Business Angels). inploid, the knowledge and experience sharing website included new features in April, and we have learned that it received 300.000 lira worth investment from [...]
Mackolik Internet Services majority shares sold to Perform
No Comment by Noyan Ayan on August 31, 2012
Perform Group plc, the global leader in digital sports content and marketing, has acquired 51 percent of Mackolik İnternet Hizmetleri Ticaret A.Ş., which owns 10 sports websites, including two of the leading Turkish sports websites Mackolik.com and Sahadan.com. With this acquisition, Mackolik.com‘s total valuation was specified as 80 million lira. Perform Group pls has paid [...]
Hepsiburada.com is in investment process with global giants [EXCLUSIVE NEWS]
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on June 18, 2012
Lately we had been receiving hearsay information that some global ecommerce companies and funds were interested in Hepsiburada.com, the largest ecommerce company in Turkey. Even global ecommerce giant Amazon was among the companies that we heard would be a partner of Hepsiburada.com. We have sped up researching about this hearsay information, since our credible sources [...]
GrupHediye.com receives 1.5m TL investment, changes its business model
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on May 28, 2012
We have introduced you Gruphediye.com as a startup that enables sending gifts to friends as a group before. Now the startup has adopted a new business model and gone international with the support of a loaded investment it has just received. The service started by Cengiz Coşkun, Talat İçbilen and Melis Sadıkoğlu, has left sales behind [...]
Peak Games Grows in the Middle East and Acquires Kammelna
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on April 27, 2012
We have been writing both investment and acquisition news about Peak Games from the day it started, and the company lastly bought a Saudi Arabia gaming company. The social gaming company, Kammelna, has 4 million active users with Baloot, a local card game. With this acquisition, Peak Games grew stronger in MENA, while the figure Peak [...]
ArcadeMonk receives investment from 212 Capital Partners
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on March 20, 2012
We have published news of two 212 Capital Partners investments last week, and it has announced its third investment for ArcadeMonk. With founders Ömer Bilge Ersoy and Alemşah Öztürk, ArcadeMonk launced its first game Kebap Dünyası (World of Kebab) last year, and got silent afterwards. Ömer Bilge Ersoy says there are 11 million social gamers [...]
Etohum Yatirim A.Ş. Makes First Investment to Biacayip.com
No Comment by Fırat Demirel on February 23, 2012
We had previously learnt that Etohum A.Ş. would make investment to some of Etohum 40 start-ups and the news of the first investment of this company, which has many familiar names among its partners, has come. Etohum made its first official investment in biacayip.com. The start-up operates in etrading with a large range of products. [...]
212 Capital Partners to Invest in Balerin.com
No Comment by Arda Kutsal on February 22, 2012
212 Capital Partners is a new company, but it has not waited long to make investments. Today we have learned that it has made its 2nd investment. Following the company’s first investment Butigo.com, the second investment went to Balerin.com. Balerin.com is an e-commerce website focused on cosmetics. It received its first investment from Emre Kurttepeli, who [...]
Sporcum.com receives second round investment from Tiger Global and Emre Kurttepeli
No Comment by Ali Altuğ KOCA on February 22, 2012
Last week Webrazzi E-Commerce’12 Conference hosted many speakers and one of them was Sporcum.com, which got its second round investment from Tiger Global and Emre Kurttepeli. The investment was completely transferred to the company, while share percentages are the same following the second round. Official records show Tiger Global holds 68.31%, Emre Kurttepeli holds 29.11%, GM Ahmet Abamor holds 1.59% and CTO M. [...]