Alper Karagöz, a CFA-trained investor at Diffusion Capital Partners, looks for deep-tech startups that can move from lab research to real products, judging them on technology that's hard to copy, alignment with big shifts like aging populations, and the potential for real international revenue within a few years. He tends to favor companies that sit between different fields or industries rather than fitting neatly into one sector, and he often points to tools that make complex scientific work easier for researchers as the kind of progress he finds most compelling.
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Diffusion Capital Partners
Sectors
Deeptech / Hardware, Biotech, Climate, Robotics, Materials
Rounds
Seed - Series A
Avg Check Size
€500K; Follow-on €1M–€2M
Notable Investments
Diffusion Capital Partners is Turkey's first venture capital fund focused on deep tech, based at the Arı Teknokent technopark on İTÜ's campus, and it typically invests using a staged approach—starting with checks under €500K and reserving up to €1–2M for follow-on funding in science- and engineering-heavy startups. Its portfolio includes applied industrial and agriculture technology, such as leading the funding round for agtech company Doktar, and it serves as the official venture capital partner of The Deeptech Demo Day 2025, connecting it directly with new deep-tech founders in Turkey.
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