In the ‘Seed To Series A Conversion In Turkey’ research, which was prepared by Startups.watch, only by counting disclosed equity fundings; the rates of conversions to Series A investments and the number of startups between 2012 and 2016 were examined.
The seed investments include the rounds below $1M and mostly are made by angel investors and their networks; Serie A is the first VC round with $1M+ investment. European ‘Seed to Series Conversion’ is 19%.
If we examine Turkey’s situation, from 2012 to 2016, the rate of investments which achieved to get fund from angel investors were respectively as: %16.0, %11.1, %6.3, %7.0 ve %2.3. In return, from 2012 to 2016, the number of startups were as follows 25, 63, 48, 57 ve 86.
The investment rates declined in the long term while the startup numbers increased. Although the number of startups were increasing, the possible reasons angel investors didn’t invest can be indicated as: the fact that angel investors can not find startups that can get Series A investment, entrepreneurs’s struggle to grow after seed investment, the difficulty to achieve Series A investment criteria, the lowness of the number of funds to invest in Series A, the stinginess of angel investors with their money — the insufficiency of amounts invested to accelerate companies to Series A levels.
