Toy Blast and Toon Blast’s maker joins FarmVille’s maker and becomes Turkey’s first unicorn Zynga announced to acquire Peak for USD 1.8 billion on June 1st. . Headquartered in San Francisco, Zynga’s acquisition is the biggest transaction so far in the Turkish startup ecosystem. With […]
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Introducing Turkish startups: Pepapp
Pepapp is based on the saying that “pep in your step”, meaning you are cheerful and happy. Now the start-up is 5 years and aims to expand with new features Pepapp offers more that basic period tracking app, accoring to the founders, Berke Uygun and […]
Introducing Turkish startups: GmPly
Though EdTech seems like a small category in Turkish startup scene, GmPly is coming strong and planning to go global GmPly means “GamePlay” and the start-up is creating interactive training videos. They are also writing the scripts and shooting the videos, with a turnkey approach. […]
Prisync, Istanbul-based SaaS company to acquire UK competitor
This is the second acquisition of Prisync, following Australian rival, Spotlite in March 2019 Turkey-based SaaS startup Prisync acquired UK-based rival Competitor Price Watch to capture a larger portion of the UK e-commerce pricing software market. In March 2019, the company had acquired its Australian […]
Turkish startups raise USD 20 million in 2020 Q1
SaaS is the star vertical for the investments and no Covid-19 effect in sight for the future investments yet Turkish startups raised USD 19.8 million funding in Q1 2020, according to Startups.watch. As the startups intelligence platform, Startups .watch announced that the Covid-19 effect […]
Amazon acquires Turkish data visualization start-up
Turkish data exploration and visualization start-up acquired by Amazon Amazon acquired Datarow, a Turkish data exploration and visualization start-up. Eren Baydemir, who co-founded the start-up with Can Abacıgil in 2017, tweeted to confirm the acquisition. “A new chapter begins for DataRow today. Our team is […]