Business Angels are affluent individuals who provide capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity.

A small but increasing number of angel investors organize themselves into angel groups or angel networks to share research and pool their investment capital.

Angel investments bear extremely high risk and are usually subject to dilution from future investment rounds.

Over the last fifteen years that business angels have offered this matching service •Younger individuals, rather than buy a business outright and run it alone, invest in someone else's good idea and work with them to develop the business. This is like a management buy-in. A younger Business Angel can be a succession solution.•Consultants who want looking for a greater reward from the results of their work, not just fees for service. Consultants then know that their advice will directly affect their own financial position.•Companies who have generated surplus cash through their own diligence seek to invest their systems, contacts, time and money to help another company achieve growth.

Business Angels in the World

•Galata Business Angels is Istanbul’s premier angel investor organization. GBA is a formal group of executives, entrepreneurs and angel investors who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies.

•GBA members have founded companies such as AirTies, Yemeksepeti.com, Mynet.com, and Markafoni.com and been senior executives at the likes of Apple, eBay, Maxim, Turkcell and DBI.

•GBA operates as a not-for-profit organization and acts as a platform where member angel investors and aspiring entrepreneurs meet to exchange ideas about startups and discuss investment opportunities.

•GBA has already made 3 investments until today. These 3 investments are, boatbookings.com, butigo.com and the third one is confidential for now. Also, 2 more investments are on the way.

Galata Business Angels – GBA

•Vision : Become region’s premier angel investor group by consistenly investing in world class entrepreneurs and high tech businesses

•Mission: Provide a safe investment platform where members can invest in outstanding investment opportunities and entrepreneurs, while maximizing returns, mitigating investment risk, fostering social benefit and funding innovation. Promote entrepreneurship, angel investing and help develop the ecosystem by assisting other angel organizations and working with NGOs, governmental agencies and other relevant parties.

Galata Business Angels – Vision and Mission

It is a group formed by successful entrepreneurs, who know the digital industry first hand. They have been through what the young new entrepreneurs are going through. Therefore they can predict issues as well as advise them directly from their own experiences, rather than theoretical principles.GBA is an angel-investing club formed by entrepreneurs for new entrepreneurs.

What Makes Galata Business Angels Unique?

Galata Business Angels has four Committees.

- Screening Committee- Membership Committee- Marketing and Communication Committee

Our Committees

•Alemsah Ozturk – Social Media Agency 41-29 •Ali Hikmet Karabey - 212 Venture Capital Partner•Arif Akdag – Angel Investor•Ayse Arkis - VIP Dukkan •Burak Buyukdemir - E-Tohum •Burak Divanlıoğlu - Gittigidiyor-Ipara •Cem Soysal - Inventram •Elbruz Yilmaz – PI-Works •Emre Kurttepeli - Mynet •Fatih Isbecer - Pozitron •Ferhan Cook - Anyscreenproductions •Firat Isbecer - Pozitron•Fulvio Villa - GEFCO •Haluk Elci – Angel Investor•Melih Odemis - Yemeksepeti •Nevzat Aydin - Yemeksepeti •Numan Numanbayraktaroğlu - 212 Venture Capital Partner •Omer Faruk Akarca – Angel Investor•Pinar Yegin - Yegin Textile •Serhat Görgün - Inovent •Serkan Borancılı - Gittigidiyor-Ipara •Sina Afra - Markafoni •Uğur Şeker - DBI Social Media Agency•Ziya Boyacıgiller - Airties

Galata Business Angels – 24 Members