Galata Business Angels

Individual angel members make their own investment decisions — GBA is not a pooled fund. The network centralizes deal flow screening and due diligence support, but each member chooses whether to participate, at what check size, and under what terms. Managing Director Ata Uzunhasan runs day-to-day operations and origination. Founders Emre Kurttepeli, Nevzat Aydın, Melih Ödemiş, and Sina Afra anchor the membership.

GBA sources predominantly through its founding members' reputational networks, Endeavor Turkey's entrepreneur pipeline, and TOBB's Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board. The membership's collective exit history — Mynet, Yemeksepeti, Markafoni — makes GBA a first stop for Turkish founders raising seed rounds. EBAN and GBAN memberships provide cross-border deal access, particularly into European tech hubs with Turkish founding teams.

The connection is through people, not corporate structure. Nevzat Aydın and Melih Ödemiş co-founded Yemeksepeti; Emre Kurttepeli founded Mynet. After exiting those businesses, they formed GBA as a separate entity to invest personal capital. GBA has no ownership or operational link to Yemeksepeti (now owned by Delivery Hero) or Mynet. The relationship is purely that the founders' entrepreneurial track records attract deals.