About Alesta
Alesta is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. It is primarily based out of Istanbul, Turkey. As of Apr 2024, Alesta has invested in 50 companies. It primarily invests in Seed round in Turkey based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to Consumer and High Tech. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Postuby A lot of funds co-invest with Alesta, with names like Geometry Venture sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.Key Metrics
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Alesta's List of Top Investments
Alesta has a portfolio of 50 companies. Their most notable investments are in HUBBOX and Cosmonaut.Their portfolio spans across Turkey, United States, Australia and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, Consumer, High Tech and 24 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Alesta:1. BiSU
App-based platform offering water. The company allows users to know the pH values, and compare water prices. It also provides other grocery products such as fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, coffee, grains, and more. The application is available for Android and iOS devices.
Key facts about BiSU
- Founded Year: 2015
- Location: Istanbul (Turkey)
- Stage: Seed
- Employee Count: 165 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: 500 Istanbul, Sankonline and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Mar 27, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Developer of mobile-based casual video games. The company focuses on the development of multi-genre games which includes Mr. Demolish 3D, Link and Collect, Landlord Puzzle, Smasher Hammer 3D, and more. The games are available on Appstore and google play store.
Key facts about Pax Animi Games
3. Kidolog
Provider of an online counseling platform for parents and adults. The platform connects parents with different experts such as psychologists, pedagogues, and therapists to help with the development of children.
Key facts about Kidolog
4. Malwation
Security analytics for assessing malware analysis solutions provider. The products offered by the company include Malwation AIMA and MSP. It is a hypervisor-based automated malware analysis system. The features of the product include analytics and reports, network analysis, human simulations, malware detection, real-time customization of rule sets.
Key facts about Malwation
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Pendik (Turkey)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1M
- Employee Count: 9 as on Jul 01, 2024
- Investors: Inveo Ventures, Alesta and 4 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Dec 14, 2023, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. CareX
Provider of a medical device platform for vital signs monitoring. It offers software as a medical device based on signal processing and AI technologies that convert any camera-equipped device into a vital signs monitoring device.
Key facts about CareX
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Palo Alto (United States)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $60K
- Employee Count: 18 as on Jan 31, 2026
- Investors: Green Sands Equity, AIX Ventures and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Dec 28, 2022, $*****
Alesta's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Alesta has invested in 50 companies over the last 6 years, with an average of 4 new investments annually in the last 5 years. Its most recent first time investment was in Tiamo Games and most recent follow-on round was in Postuby.Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
2023 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
2022 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
2021 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2020 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Alesta's Investments by Stage
Alesta has made 25 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $424K and 1 investment in Series A stage with an average round size of $2.5M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 25 |
Series A | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Alesta's Investments by Sector
Alesta has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Gaming, Consumer and FinTech. Notably, it has invested in 40 Tech companies, 25 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 19 Consumer (B2C) companies and at least 19 companies focusing on Software.Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
High Tech | 5 |
Gaming | 4 |
Consumer | 3 |
FinTech | 3 |
Others | 33 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Alesta's Investments by Geography
Alesta has made most investments in Turkey (24), followed by Australia where it has made 1 investment.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Turkey | 24 |
Australia | 1 |
United States | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Alesta's recent investments
Alesta has not made any investment in 2026 so far.Here are the most recent investments by Alesta:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Apr 15, 2024 | Turkey | Seed | 4152 | ||
Nov 30, 2023 | Turkey | Seed | 5438 | - | |
Nov 02, 2023 | Turkey | Seed | 1246 | ||
Sep 05, 2023 | Turkey | Seed | 7756 | - | |
Aug 24, 2023 | Turkey | Seed | 5332 | - |
Co-investors of Alesta
Over the past 6 years, 36 investors have co-invested in Alesta's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Alesta: Techstars and Mindvest have invested in rounds before Alesta. There is 1 company where Techstars has invested before Alesta and 1 company where Mindvest has invested before Alesta.
- Top Co-investors of Alesta: 28 investors entered a company along with Alesta. These include investors like Geometry Venture (4 companies).
- Invested after Alesta: A total of 6 investors have invested in Alesta's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include entertechvc.com (1 company), Founderone (1 company) and Türk Telekom Ventures (1 company).
Recent News related to Alesta
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Postuby Receives $900 Thousand Investment Led by Alesta InvestmentBazaar Times•Apr 15, 2024•Postuby, Alesta
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Mobile game startup Tiamo received investment at a valuation of 22.5 million TLWebrazzi•Nov 30, 2023•Tiamo Games, Alesta
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OneNewOne Received Investment from Alesta Investment with a Valuation of 1 Million DollarsStartupTeknoloji•Sep 06, 2023•OneNewOne, Alesta,
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Handler received an investment of 13.5 million TL from Alesta InvestmentWebrazzi•Aug 24, 2023•Handler, Alesta
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CODE360 received an investment of 23.7 million TL from Alesta InvestmentWebrazzi•Aug 08, 2023•Code360, Alesta
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