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Overview

Who we areStartersHub is an early-stage venture capital firm that backs, mainly but not limited to, Turkey & CEE's founders who work to distrup the system for good. The firm invests as first/second check investor, and support startups in strategic decisions from their go-to-market to the scaling of their businesses. Thanks to its previous accelerators carried out with StartupBootCamp and Netmarble (2014 - 2016) and its own accelerator program named StartersHubXO (2017 - 2019), the fund acts as a proactive team member to startups that taken under its wings with its experience. Now as a VC investor, the firm makes long-term commitments with all the startups that it takes in, where they hustle succeed and grow together.

StartersHub has previously invested in the pre-seed/seed stages of over 80 companies mostly from Turkey, CEE, UK and US, including Zeplin, Meditopia, Segmentify, Thread in Motion, Paymes, Wisboo, Flixier, Firstbase, Knowt and Quin Audience Engine. The fund is sector-agnostic (has invested around 20 different sectors) but preferably focused on B2B SaaS and Enterprise startups solving issues with scalable solutions and making real impact.
Value addWe actively coach the founders with business strategy, KPIs and metrics. We help them raise the next round of funding and create collaborations within our portfolio startups.
Firm typeVC
Global HQ

Esentepe Mah. Büyükdere Cad. No: 201 Şişli, Levent Loft 1, Istanbul, 34373, TR

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Thesis

Funding requirementsWe invest in B2B SaaS startups hrtech, fintech, web3, martech, edtech, developer tools, cybersecurity, AI & ML, adtech, computer vision & image processing, data analytics, insurtech with early traction.
Funding stages2. Prototype3. Early Revenue
LeadSometimes
Check size$100k to $500k
Target countries Turkey USA UK Poland Romania Bulgaria Czech Republic Ukraine Lithuania Estonia Hungary Latvia Slovakia Slovenia

Team

Gülce Horataci
Sr Associate		I invest in B2B SaaS startups in hrtech, fintech, web3, martech, edtech, developer tools, cybersecurity, AI & ML, adtech, edtech...

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Websitehttps://startershub.com/
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We invest in B2B SaaS startups hrtech, fintech, web3, martech, edtech, developer tools, cybersecurity, AI & ML, adtech, computer vision & image processing, data analytics, insurtech with early traction.

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