Ali Rıza Babaoğlan

VP @ DEVA Political Party, Turkey

📍 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Turkey
15
Total investments
6
Early stage
4
Mid stage
1
Late stage
12y
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Private Investor
Oct 2023
Salv empowers financial institutions to beat financial crime with a SaaS platform that helps them detect money laundering, share intelligence, and stop fraud. Criminals work in networks, so financial organisations should too. Using the world’s first fincrime platform that enables intelligence sharing, Salv helps banks, fintechs, and payment service providers fight financial crime more effectively and recover 80% more stolen funds. More than 100 companies across Europe use Salv to centralise their AML data, exchange intelligence, automate repetitive tasks, and reduce false positive alerts. As a result, they can beat more criminals and protect their customers better. Led by a team of crime fighters and data scientists who helped scale fincrime operations for Wise and Skype, Salv is a regulated partner and licensed KYC data processor on a mission to make the world safer by beating financial crime. The Salv platform, which allows customers to pick and choose the specific tools they need to fight crime more effectively, includes: - Real-time customer and transaction monitoring - Transaction and customer screening (PEP, sanctions and adverse media) - Intelligence sharing and collaborative investigations.
Investor, Partner
Sep 2023
wamo is a European fintech company focused on making banking, finance, accounts and admin faster, simpler and more human for small businesses. Licensed and regulated by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority as a pan-European electronic money institution, wamo delivers the speed and simplicity entrepreneurs demand from a digital bank, plus personalised insight and hands-on human support to make life a little easier when things get complicated. Founded in 2021, wamo has headquarters in Helsinki and London.
Private Investor
Sep 2022
At Bolt, were building a future where people don’t need to own personal cars to move around safely and conveniently. A future where people have the freedom to use transport on demand, choosing whatever vehicles best for each occasion — be it a car, scooter, or e-bike. Were helping over 200 million customers move around in more than 600 cities globally while also supporting more than 4.5 million drivers and couriers to earn a living. The best bit? Were only just getting started. Read more at bolt.eu
Investor
Mar 2021
Pour water💧 stir it up👌🏻 enjoy☕️ We grind freshly roasted high quality coffee, wrap it with our biodegradable Fiber Filter and pack without oxygen. So, you can brew true filter coffee without any equipment and raw materials.
Investor
Sep 2019
Ekmob creates mobile projects for companies which have mobile field teams and operations. Companies with mobile teams and field operations have some common problems such as inefficiency in management of mobile teams, communication difficulties, inability to get instant data from field, offline mobile team on the field. All these problems lead to lack or deficiency in decision-support systems. Companies suffer from serious costs because of the inefficient management of mobile field teams. With the help of Ekmob, companies can get instant orders and payment on the field, manage the customer meeting calendars, tasks and documents at the same time all-in-one application. Ekmob, with ERP integrations, also is helpful without an accounting software. Credit card collection features on Ekmob helps companies to reduce the risks by monitoring financial status.
Partner, Angel Investor
Sep 2017
Assessment Systems psikolojik ölçme ve değerlendirme alanında faaliyet gösteren bir kurumdur. Assessment Systems ürünleri, ağırlıklı olarak kurumların seçme ve yerleştirme sürecinde işe alma kararını güçlendirmek, pozisyona uygun adayı belirlemek ve iş performansı yüksek adayları tahmin etmek amacıyla tercih edilmekte; bunların yanı sıra eğitim, performans ve kariyer yönetimi uygulamalarında çalışanların gelişim ihtiyacının belirlenmesi ve takip edilmesi amacıyla kullanılmaktadır. Assessment Systems, a&dc Türkiye temsilcisidir.
Angel Investor
Jul 2016
Pandora is a virtual and augmented reality solution provider for Real Estate, Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture, Marketing, Branding, Education, Medical, Food&Beverage and Hotel markets. Pandora develops Augmented reality and Virtual reality applications for Mobile devices, Google Cardboard, Oculus, Gear VR, HTC Vive, Hololens and waiting to start playing on Magic Leap and Meta 2.
Board Member
Apr 2016
If you’re looking for a personalisation solution to increase sales, boost customer engagement and provide better insights into your customers than other solutions then look no further. Imagine a tool that already knew your customers preferences before they landed on your site, and was able to recommend the right products to the right customer at the right time. Segmentify creates a personalised shopping experience across every customer touchpoint in real-time, giving you the best advantage over your competition. Powered by machine-learning technology, Segmentify tracks and targets individual website visitors according to their unique online buying habits better than any personalisation platform on the market. Don’t take our word for it - Forbes mentioned us as one of the top machine learning companies to watch!
Investor
Feb 2016
REM People is an Istanbul based startup focused on delivering “retail technologies & field audit services” to all size of companies who have physical sales operations in markets, stores, restaurants and in any type of points of sales. REM People uses state-of-art technologies which have been developed by himself while conducting research activities to collect any type of market data that can be the source for effective decision making and taking action in sales and marketing processes and converting them into valuable insights for various departments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REM People; markaların, satış ve pazarlama süreçlerinde karar alma ve aksiyona geçmelerine kaynak oluşturacak her türlü piyasa verisini, ihtiyaçlar doğrultusunda toplayan ve bilgiye dönüştüren araştırma ve raporlama çalışmaları yürütmektedir. Piyasadan veri toplama, toplanan verinin analiz edilmesi ve raporlar aracılığı ile bilgiye dönüştürülmesi süreçlerinin tamamında kendi geliştirmiş olduğu en yenilikçi teknolojilerden faydalanmaktadır.
Investor
Jan 2016
Temizlikyolda is a SAAS technology which provides ; A well-improved improved dashboard for monitoring and managing your cleaning business. The dashboard which ensures you to supervise your personnel and online / offline orders. You can also follow up your KPI numbers in detailed statistic module. Applications with GPS tracking technology (IOS & ANDROID) for your drivers and service providers . Applications (IOS & ANDROID) for your customer's reservations. To sum up Temizlikyolda is all in one technology for managing a Cleaning Business. Temizlikyolda has already been available in Turkey, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, Kuwait, Oman and we continue to expand our service area.
Angel Investor
Nov 2015
2013 yılında kurulan Ekran İşleri, TV içerik dağıtım ve TV içerik keşfetme alanlarında güçlü mobil ve sosyal ürünler geliştirmek için yola çıkmıştır. Facebook Start, Microsoft Bizpark, Kosgeb ve Tübitak tarafından da desteklenen Girişim, 2017 yılında makine öğrenmesi alanına adım atmış ve bir canlı yayın program öneri mekanizması üstünde çalışmalar yapmaya başlamıştır. Şirketin İlk ürünü Noluyo (noluyo.tv), bir TV içerik platformu olarak (noluyo.tv) Ocak 2015'ten bu yana web ve IOS platformlarında hizmet vermektedir. https://noluyo.tv Şirketin ikinci ürünü akıllı TV Rehberi Komodor uygulaması ise Kasım 2016 itibariyle IOS ve Android platformlarında yerini almıştır. http://www.komodorapp.com ----------- Ekran İşleri, founded in 2013, is a leading tech start-up from Istanbul focusing on TV content delivery and TV content discovery. The start-up develops TV oriented mobile and social products backed up by powerful infrastructures. Supported by Facebook Start, Microsoft Bizpark, Kosgeb and Tübitak, The Start-up currently focuses on the development of a live TV recommendation engine via machine learning. Start-up's first product, Noluyo (noluyo.tv), is a TV content platform launched in January 2015. The platform is currently available on the web and IOS. Give it a go at: Web: http://noluyo.tv Start-up's second product, Komodor, an intelligent TV Guide launched in January 2017, is one of the most used TV Guides in Turkey. Komodor, a finalist at TV Connect Awards in 2017, was also featured 2 times on the App Store, selected 1st in the list "Selection From Turkey"​ also on the App Store. http://www.komodorapp.com
Angel Investor (acquired by ReklamStore)
Sep 2014
Rekmob is a mobile ad network that connects brands to consumers through mobile.
Experience · 18 entries
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Investments (15)
Founder (1)
Board (2)
2025
Co-Founder
May 2025
Our goal is to deliver innovative and captivating gaming experiences to a global audience by developing scalable and high-quality games. We aim to become a top producer and publisher, starting in our focused Merge-2 genre and then expand.
2023
Private Investor
Oct 2023
Salv empowers financial institutions to beat financial crime with a SaaS platform that helps them detect money laundering, share intelligence, and stop fraud. Criminals work in networks, so financial organisations should too. Using the world’s first fincrime platform that enables intelligence sharing, Salv helps banks, fintechs, and payment service providers fight financial crime more effectively and recover 80% more stolen funds. More than 100 companies across Europe use Salv to centralise their AML data, exchange intelligence, automate repetitive tasks, and reduce false positive alerts. As a result, they can beat more criminals and protect their customers better. Led by a team of crime fighters and data scientists who helped scale fincrime operations for Wise and Skype, Salv is a regulated partner and licensed KYC data processor on a mission to make the world safer by beating financial crime. The Salv platform, which allows customers to pick and choose the specific tools they need to fight crime more effectively, includes: - Real-time customer and transaction monitoring - Transaction and customer screening (PEP, sanctions and adverse media) - Intelligence sharing and collaborative investigations.
Investor, Partner
Sep 2023
wamo is a European fintech company focused on making banking, finance, accounts and admin faster, simpler and more human for small businesses. Licensed and regulated by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority as a pan-European electronic money institution, wamo delivers the speed and simplicity entrepreneurs demand from a digital bank, plus personalised insight and hands-on human support to make life a little easier when things get complicated. Founded in 2021, wamo has headquarters in Helsinki and London.
Member, Government Licensed Angel Investors
Jan 2023
FiBAN is a Finnish non-profit association of private investors and one of the largest and most active business angel networks in Europe with 600+ investor members in 12 countries. A matchmaker of growth-ready early-stage startups and private investors. Our three main activities are: 👉 Matchmaking startups and private investors 👉 Sharing and developing angel investing best practices via certified investor training. 👉 Representing private investors​ interest in societal matters and through producing data from the early-stage investment landscape. FiBANs Data: www.fiban.org/data For Startups: www.fiban.org/apply For Members: www.fiban.org/join In all FiBAN events and contexts, we expect our members and partners to follow our Code of Conduct. Please find it here: https://fiban.org/code-of-conduct/ FiBAN Notification Channel for reporting inappropriate behavior: https://fiban.ilmoituskanava.fi/ and on the footer of our website.
2022
Private Investor
Sep 2022
At Bolt, were building a future where people don’t need to own personal cars to move around safely and conveniently. A future where people have the freedom to use transport on demand, choosing whatever vehicles best for each occasion — be it a car, scooter, or e-bike. Were helping over 200 million customers move around in more than 600 cities globally while also supporting more than 4.5 million drivers and couriers to earn a living. The best bit? Were only just getting started. Read more at bolt.eu
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