The Venture Codex

Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

Promake offers an AI-driven platform designed to simplify and centralize digital operations for small businesses via a conversational interface that handles website setup, domain acquisition, corporate email, e-commerce infrastructure, payment integrations and digital advertising. The company launched its services globally in February and closed a $4 million financing round to support its next growth stage. Promake plans to use the new capital to reinforce its AI backbone, grow its team, expand into new geographic markets and develop additional end-to-end service layers covering business setup and management. Leadership frames the product as a digital team member that lets users perform tasks with natural language rather than complex management panels. Coverage names Emre Tekin as CEO and lists founders Eren, Evren and Dinçer as part of the founding team. Promake cites the global opportunity of serving hundreds of millions of small businesses as a long-term market objective.

Participated · Seed · May 2026

Mindtail is building next-generation hybrid casual puzzle games using an AI-native production model. The studio was founded by R. Tamer Özgen, Umut Yıldız, Sarper Karabağ and Doğuşcan Öztürk, whose backgrounds include roles at Dream Games, King, Tactile, Ace Games and Codeway; Art Director Ece Özgüle is part of the team. Mindtail aims to accelerate prototyping and lower per-iteration costs by using its AI-focused pipeline, targeting the output of a 20-person studio with a core seven-person team. The company plans to triple its headcount shortly and has established an option pool to align founders and employees. Mindtail recently raised $2 million in a pre-seed round to fund hiring, infrastructure development and marketing tests, and expects to announce its first game soon.

Led · Equity · Jan 2026

Fimple operates from London and Istanbul, delivering a cloud-native, composable core banking system built on an API-first architecture. Its platform lets banks and fintechs rapidly create and scale offerings such as digital lending and Banking-as-a-Service. The company has recently opened commercial offices in Dubai and Riyadh to support a growing customer base in the MENA region. Management plans to use newly secured capital to accelerate international expansion, particularly in GCC countries, and to advance product development and regulatory compliance. Financially, Fimple closed a $12 million Series A round in February 2025 and has now raised an additional $10 million. These successive raises underscore investor confidence in its technology and market traction, though no specific revenue or user metrics were disclosed. Ongoing investment will help strengthen its product suite while positioning the firm for further geographic growth.

Participated · Seed · Apr 2024

heybooster provides a marketing data and analytics platform that turns collected data into actionable projects. The company describes its heybooster 2.0 capability as gathering data and interpreting it for actionable initiatives. It is developing heybooster 3.0 to allow users to track marketing actions and continuously communicate with marketing solutions via a public API. To support these developments, heybooster announced a €770,000 investment. The round includes funding from Ak Asset Management, Starters Hub, and Arz Portföy, with follow-up investments from Lima Ventures and LEAP Investment. The fundraising was announced on LinkedIn and received multiple congratulatory comments.

Participated · Series A · Dec 2023

Brandefense develops advanced, artificial-intelligence-driven cybersecurity products that help organizations detect and manage digital threats in real time. Its platform concentrates on digital risk protection, brand and reputation security, and broader cyber-defense capabilities as attack surfaces rapidly expand. The company emphasizes a strong engineering culture, a clear product vision, and highly scalable technology designed for global markets. Brandefense’s solutions aim to give enterprises timely insights and automated responses to an ever-growing variety of online threats. Yapay Zeka Fabrikası describes the startup as a deep-tech player with the potential to become a permanent global competitor in cybersecurity. With AI reshaping defensive postures, the investor believes Brandefense can capitalize on this paradigm shift and scale internationally.