About Maxis
Maxis is a venture capital firm founded in 2017. It is primarily based out of Istanbul, Turkey. As of Jun 2026, Maxis is an active investor, having invested in 12 companies, with 2 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Seed round in Turkey based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Retail. Most recently it participated in the $***** Seed round of Promake A lot of funds co-invest with Maxis, with names like Arya Women sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio. Maxis has team of 16 people including 4 partners.Key Metrics
Team Members
Portfolio Count
Portfolio Sectors
Portfolio Locations
Rounds of Entry
Seed & Series A
Maxis' List of Top Investments
Maxis has a portfolio of 12 companies. Their most notable investments are in Lumnion and Co-one.Their portfolio spans across Turkey, United States, Estonia and 1 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Retail and 6 other sectors, across stages such as Seed, Series A stages. Here is the list of top investments by Maxis:Provider of AI-powered autonomous mobile robots for warehouses. It offers solutions for material handling and logistics in warehouses. It also provides fleet management software for controlling the robots.
Key facts about Milvus Robotics
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Ankara (Turkey)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $5.1M
- Employee Count: 85 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: Trkiye Kalknma Fonu, APY Ventures and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jun 10, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
2. B2Metric
Cloud-based customer intelligence data platform for businesses. It provides self-service customer journey marketing insights with smart personalizations. It allows businesses to analyze and predict user behavior across multiple channels such as customer retention, segmentation, and propensity predictions.
Key facts about B2Metric
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Pendik (Turkey)
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $1.25M
- Employee Count: 30 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: INVEST101, 100th Year Venture Capital and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, May 25, 2026, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. MentalUP
Provider of vocational educational games for kids. It provides scientific and gamified brain training and fitness exercises for 4-13 children to improve their cognitive and physical skills. It offers games for preschoolers, kindergarteners, primary school students, and even adults. It improves cognitive skills such as memory, attention, concentration, analytical thinking, and visual intelligence.
Key facts about MentalUP
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: London (United Kingdom)
- Stage: Seed
- Employee Count: 36 as on May 31, 2026
- Investors: Amazon, Maxis and 3 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, Jan 12, 2023, $*****
4. Co-one
AI-based data annotation platform provider. Its crowdsourced platform is gamification supported and allows users to tag images, videos, and text for AI applications. Its features include segmentation, bounding boxes, frame annotation, object tracking, text classifications, and other tools.
Key facts about Co-one
- Founded Year: 2020
- Location: Tallinn (Estonia)
- Annual Revenue: €0 - €1M as on Dec 31, 2025
- Valuation: $*****
- Stage: Seed
- Total Funding till date: $5.69M
- Employee Count: 14 as on Sep 30, 2026
- Investors: TechOne Venture Capital, DOMiNO Ventures and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Seed, May 12, 2025, $*****
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
Maxis' Year-on-Year Investment Trends
Maxis has invested in 13 companies over the last 3 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 3 years. In 2025, it made 2 investments, while as of Jun 2026, it has made 2 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Promake and most recent follow-on round was in Co-one.Year | No. of Investments | ||
|---|---|---|---|
1st Round | Follow-on | Total | |
2026 (YTD) | 2 | 0 | 2 |
2025 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2024 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
2023 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Maxis' Investments by Stage
Maxis has made 10 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $2.19M and 2 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $7.25M.Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Seed | 10 |
Series A | 2 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Maxis' Investments by Sector
Maxis has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Applications, Retail, Consumer, FinTech and High Tech. Notably, it has invested in 9 Tech companies, 6 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 6 Software companies and at least 3 companies focusing on Consumer (B2C).Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Applications | 7 |
Retail | 3 |
Consumer | 2 |
FinTech | 2 |
High Tech | 2 |
Others | 6 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Maxis' Investments by Geography
Maxis has made most investments in Turkey (7), followed by United States where it has made 2 investments.Country | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Turkey | 7 |
United States | 2 |
Estonia | 1 |
United Kingdom | 1 |
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Maxis' recent investments
Maxis has made 2 investments in 2026 so far - Promake and Hardal.Here are the most recent investments by Maxis:
Filter this listDate | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 10, 2026 | - | Seed | 1209 | [+4] | |
May 12, 2026 | United States | Seed | 7337 | [+2] | |
Jun 10, 2025 | Turkey | Series A | 4677 | [+3] | |
May 12, 2025 | Estonia | Seed | 2451 | [+2] | |
Dec 06, 2024 | Turkey | Series A | 2722 | - |
Team profile of Maxis
Maxis has a team of 16 members including 4 Partners and 3 Principals located in Turkey. Maxis' team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in Maxis:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact Details |
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Partner | Istanbul | - | - | |
Partner | Istanbul | - | - | |
Partner | Istanbul | - | - | |
Partner | Istanbul | - | - | |
Principal | Istanbul | - | - | |
Principal | Istanbul | - | - | |
Principal | Istanbul | - | - |
Co-investors of Maxis
Over the past 3 years, 47 investors have co-invested in Maxis's portfolio companies. This includes funds and angels.
- Invested before Maxis: APY Ventures, Nevzat Aydın and 7 others have invested in rounds before Maxis. There is 1 company where APY Ventures has invested before Maxis and 1 company where Nevzat Aydın has invested before Maxis.
- Top Co-investors of Maxis: 37 investors entered a company along with Maxis. These include investors like Arya Women (4 companies).
- Invested after Maxis: INVEST101 (1 company) is the only investor which has invested in Maxis's portfolio after their investments.
Recent News related to Maxis
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D•engage Raises FundingFinSMEs•Sep 03, 2025•TIBAS Ventures, Tacirler, Trkiye Kalknma Fonu, Maxis and 2 others
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Tark Games secures $2.5M funding led by Ludus VenturesMobidictum•Jul 09, 2025•TARK Games, Ludus, APY Ventures, Maxis
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Milvus Robotics Received $4.5 Million InvestmentMaxi Haber•Jun 10, 2025•TT Ventures, Inveo Ventures, Maxis, APY Ventures and 1 other
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Zuzzuu raises $10 million from Maxis Venturesegirisim•Dec 05, 2024•Maxis Capital, https://zuzzuu.com, Maxis
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RNV Analytics, which offers AI-powered retail solutions, received $1.1 million in investmentegirisim•Nov 28, 2024•Rnv Company, Inveo Ventures, Arz Portfolio, Maxis
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Pricing Coach, which offers artificial intelligence-based dynamic pricing solutions, received $1.1 million in investmentWebrazzi•Nov 27, 2024•Pricing Coach, Maxis, APY Ventures, Kuveyt Turk and 3 others
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Focusing on insurance technologies, Lumnion received an investment of 1 million dollarsWebrazzi•Mar 08, 2024•Maxis, Lumnion, Vakıf Katılım Bankası, OBSS and 7 others
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Denbunu received an investment of $ 1.8 million under the leadership of ECsim VenturesWebrazzi•Feb 28, 2024•Denebunu, Maxis, Arya Women, APY Ventures and 2 others
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Renovated Electronic Product Market Place Getmobil received an investment of $ 6 millionWebrazzi•Feb 13, 2024•Arya Women, Maxis, Logo Ventures, TechOne Venture Capital and 3 others
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Price comparison and data platform Arabunu received an investment of 350 thousand dollarsegirisim•Jan 18, 2024•Arabunu.com, Maxis
