Collective Spark

We partner with ambitious tech founders early on

About Us

We focus on early-stage technology ventures. We aim to back and elevate highly driven hustlers and hackers who want to build scalable, disruptive businesses.

  • Target Stage

    We invest in pre-seed, seed and Series-A stages, where we believe we can add the most value

  • Ticket Size

    Our initial ticket size is between $500K to $1M and we can go up to $5M per startup including follow-on rounds

  • Category Focus

    We are mostly category agnostic but we have predominantly invested in fin-tech, marketplaces, SaaS/enterprise, gaming and ML/AI

  • Operational Support

    We back our portfolio companies with operational support across product & technology, growth & marketing, strategy, recruitment and finance

Our Portfolio

From our founders
From our founders
From our founders

From our founders

“Our partnership with Collective Spark has been beneficial on a number of fronts including their thought leadership in expanding our access to alternative sources of financing such as asset backed securitization which was key to the sustainable growth of our business. Their tech and marketing ops team have been instrumental in shaping our broader strategy as well.”

Mehmet Memecan Founder & CEO Tarfin tarfin.com

From our founders

“We are happy to have partnered with Collective Spark and have been benefiting from their experience in service marketplaces. Collective Spark has been helping us refine our strategic thinking as we work towards positioning Justlife as a leading super app in our target geographies.”

Ali Cagatay Ozcan & Kerem Kuyucu Co-founders Justlife justlife.com

From our founders

“Collective Spark led our pre-seed round in May’20 and participated in all three funding rounds to date. Their approach as an early-stage operational VC has been helping us to a great extent as we embarked on a journey to disrupt the logistics industry in Turkey and abroad.”

Murad Ozsert & Volkan Ozkan Co-founders yolda.com yolda.com
Our Team

Our Team

We know that building a venture is a hard journey with limited resources.

That’s why we support founders on this journey with resources dedicated to their success.

Meet our team

News

1514 – Venture Capital Funding Program (Tech-InvesTR)

Tech-InvesTR Venture Capital Support Program was established in order to enable venture capital funds to invest in R&D intensive early-stage companies to meet the financial needs of these companies. In order to ensure sustainable functioning of the program, a Cooperation Agreement was signed between TÜBİTAK and the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. With Tech-InvesTR Program, […]

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Invent Analytics Raises $7.5 Million to Further Accelerate Growth of its AI-Driven Retail Planning Solutions

Invent Analytics, a global retail planning solutions provider, today announced that it has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), with participation from Collective Spark. The funding will be used to further accelerate Invent Analytics’ growth in North America and Western Europe and […]

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MENA’s home services powerhouse with over 1 million users: Justlife

The Middle East’s leading service marketplace Justlife (previously Justmop) connects professional and top-rated service providers with people requiring home services such as cleaning, basic healthcare, beauty & wellness, maintenance and others in the MENA region. Since inception in 2015, Justlife significantly expanded the breadth of its home services offerings in the pursuit of becoming a super app […]

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One of the largest pre-seed investments to date in Turkey: Synnada raises $2.6M

Founded by Mehmet Ozan Kabak and Sami Can Tandoğdu in December 2021, Synnada.ai is building low-touch, self-contained ML systems to facilitate robust, high accuracy alerts that drive mission-critical actions in streaming data environments, aimed at eliminating alert fatigue in data-driven workflows. Synnada.ai is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and also has an R&D center in Ankara.

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Among the investors of Collective Spark are organizations supported under the TÜBİTAK - Tech-InvesTR 1514 Venture Capital Support Program, which is carried out within the framework of the cooperation agreement between TÜBİTAK and the Ministry of Treasury and Finance. Detailed information on the Tech-InvesTR Program can be accessed at https://tubitak.gov.tr/...-venture-capital-funding-program-tech-investr