Mustafa Ihsan KIZILTAS

Entrepreneurship / Innovation/ Equity Investment / Start-up Ventures

📍 Turkey🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2022
VC🌍 Turkey
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12y
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Venture Partner - Investor - Advisor
Jan 2022
Venture Science is a growth stage investment firm located in San Francisco. The firm is best known for its use of quantitative decision principles such as stochastic finance and multi-factor analysis in venture capital. Main investment themes are: - Storage, networking, security - Social, Mobile, Apps - Gaming - Cloud, Big Data - Hardware, Wearables, VR, Drone Tech - Ecommerce, payments, marketplaces - Life Sciences & Biotechnology
Venture Partner / Investor / Member of Advisory Board
Dec 2020
Our careers have been built as technology entrepreneurs. After successfully building and selling our companies, we decided to invest in technology ventures and help them to reach their ultimate dream. We do financial investment and provide top-level support for international growth through our investment funds. Our aim is combine the power and experience of traditional capital with the disruptive and talented technology ventures. Both sides need each other and Boğaziçi Ventures plays a key role to moderate the long-term relationship. Each of our fund has its own target focused technology vertical, investment strategy and dedicated management team. Investors can build bridges with technology companies through Boğaziçi Ventures while enjoying the benefit of high financial return of the tech industry. Boğaziçi Ventures aims at investing in tech-ventures which are willing to bring down the traditional industries and capable of developing evolutionary technologies, and engaging investors into these fields to make the ecosystem in our region grow sturdily and survive. We believe that Eastern Europe, Turkey and the MENA region are ideal geographies to develop the technology. Accordingly, we aspire the talents and capabilities in these regions to set good examples similar to our previous global success stories with proper financial and in-kind support, contribute to this geography and provide superior returns to our investors by enhancing these examples. By investing in disruptive future technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things in the fields from health to security, digital games etc.
Board Member
Aug 2016
Fast Track Your Startup to the Global World With Us! Growth Circuit San Francisco offers a comprehensive suite of services to assist Emerging Country Startups research, launch, succeed and expand in the United States. Growth Circuit offers end-to-end to those promising companies with potential to be highly successful in the U.S. market. Our mission is to enable and foster the growth of technology startups in Turkey through our accelerator programs in San Francisco, global network, valuable partners and funding at all stages from Pre-Seed to Series A.
Board Member
Sep 2015
Ankara Development Agency is the regional development agency of Ankara, the capital of Turkey. Ankara Development Agency is a public institution and was established to mobilize the potential of Ankara, and started its operations as of July 9, 2010, when the Secretary General was assigned. Ankara Development Agency aims to accelerate regional development, maintain sustainability and mitigate inter/intra-regional differences of development in line with the national development plan and principles and policies stipulated in the national programmes. In order to reach this target, the Agency aims at improving collaboration between the public sector, private sector, local administrations, universities and civil society organisations, ensuring efficient use of resources and mobilizing the local potential.
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2025
Investment Committee Member
Sep 2025
Anka Ventures, VLMedia tarafından mobil oyunlar ve uygulamalar öncelikli olmak üzere yenilikçi teknoloji şirketlerine yatırım yapmak amacıyla kurulmuş SPK tarafından onaylanmış bir Girişim Sermayesi Yatırım Fonudur. Hedefi, girişimcileri yalnızca fonlamak değil; onlara stratejik destek, global ağlara erişim ve sürdürülebilir büyüme imkânı sağlamaktır. Yatırım Alanlarımız: Mobil oyun, mobil uygulama, SaaS, yapay zekâ ve ölçeklenebilir teknoloji girişimleri Vizyonumuz: Türkiye’den çıkan girişimleri global pazarlara taşıyarak dünya çapında başarı hikâyeleri yaratmak Yaklaşımımız: Erken aşama ve devam yatırımları (follow-on), girişimcilere mentorluk ve ekosistem desteği
2022
Partner
Oct 2022
Founded in 2015, Archon PH is set to maximize the programmatic revenues of publishers and let them do their own job: making their visitors happy. We are a programmatic network focused on optimizing publisher revenues by designing an evergreen ecosystem that provides every need and opportunity a publisher faces.
Venture Partner - Investor - Advisor
Jan 2022
Venture Science is a growth stage investment firm located in San Francisco. The firm is best known for its use of quantitative decision principles such as stochastic finance and multi-factor analysis in venture capital. Main investment themes are: - Storage, networking, security - Social, Mobile, Apps - Gaming - Cloud, Big Data - Hardware, Wearables, VR, Drone Tech - Ecommerce, payments, marketplaces - Life Sciences & Biotechnology
2020
Venture Partner / Investor / Member of Advisory Board
Dec 2020
Our careers have been built as technology entrepreneurs. After successfully building and selling our companies, we decided to invest in technology ventures and help them to reach their ultimate dream. We do financial investment and provide top-level support for international growth through our investment funds. Our aim is combine the power and experience of traditional capital with the disruptive and talented technology ventures. Both sides need each other and Boğaziçi Ventures plays a key role to moderate the long-term relationship. Each of our fund has its own target focused technology vertical, investment strategy and dedicated management team. Investors can build bridges with technology companies through Boğaziçi Ventures while enjoying the benefit of high financial return of the tech industry. Boğaziçi Ventures aims at investing in tech-ventures which are willing to bring down the traditional industries and capable of developing evolutionary technologies, and engaging investors into these fields to make the ecosystem in our region grow sturdily and survive. We believe that Eastern Europe, Turkey and the MENA region are ideal geographies to develop the technology. Accordingly, we aspire the talents and capabilities in these regions to set good examples similar to our previous global success stories with proper financial and in-kind support, contribute to this geography and provide superior returns to our investors by enhancing these examples. By investing in disruptive future technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things in the fields from health to security, digital games etc.
2019
Co-Founder
Aug 2019
At Backpack, we design, build, and publish new mobile games every week. Our studio prides itself on producing fresh ideas that spark joy for our players. Beyond our studio, we believe in cooperation towards creating a positive, prosperous environment for everyone in the games industry. If you’re a motivated individual and a wizard in your field, reach out to us via jobs@backpack.games and let’s achieve great things together.
early stageComputer Games
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