Investors
An investor is a natural person or legal entity who provides financial resources to various opportunities to grow their capital. In the Private Market, investors can participate in investment opportunities by being one of the categories of “Angel Investor with an Angel Investment Network membership,” “Qualified Investor” or “Qualified Investor residing abroad.”
Investors
If you're an angel investor with an Angel Investment network membership or a Qualified Investor, you can become a member of the Private Market. You can apply for membership in the Private Market by selecting the suitable investor type from among these.
Investors
If you are an Angel Investor, you can apply with a membership certificate to a domestic or international angel investment network.
If you are a Qualified Investor and a Natural Person, the total amount of your cash and financial assets must exceed 1,000,000 TL.
If you are a Qualified Investor and Legal Entity, the total of your financial assets must exceed 1,000,000 TL or you must meet at least two of the total assets, net revenue and equity criteria.
If you are a Qualified Investor Residing Abroad, you can apply for membership by documenting this status.
Establishment as a Legal Entity for Capital Investment Purposes: You must prove this situation with the trade registry record, articles of association or financial statements.
1) For individual investors, notarized identity copy or a copy of the passport,
2) For legal entities, trade registry showing the establishment and articles of association,
3) Qualified investors with a qualified investor at a bank or brokerage house must state their qualified investor status by ticking the relevant box in the online application form (This claim will be verified by BIST Private Market)
4) Qualified investors who are legal persons and do not have a qualified investor account with a bank or a brokerage house must upload the required financial statements and documents.
5) Certified Business Angel investors must upload their certification.
6) Qualified investors or business angel investors domiciled abroad must submit the documents or statements that indicate their qualified or business angel investor status.
7) Private Market membership agreement (Membership agreement is approved electronically by the user during the application on the website),
Both natural persons and legal entities may apply for membership with qualified investor status If you have a qualified investor account with a bank or a brokerage house you may immediately apply for investor membership in the Private Market. Otherwise, you may apply to a brokerage company or bank and open a qualified investor account.
Period
Sign Up
Create a membership on the platform.
Upload
Upload necessary documents.
Activation
Pay the membership fee and activate your membership.
Conditions required to open a qualified investor account through a brokerage firm or bank
You must meet at least two of the following criteria: “Total assets must be 50,000,000 Turkish Lira, annual net revenue must be 90,000,000 Turkish Lira, and equity capital must be over 5,000,000 Turkish Lira.”
- If you are a brokerage firm, bank, portfolio management company, collective investment organization, pension investment fund, insurance company, mortgage finance company, asset management company, or equivalent foreign-based organization, you can qualify as a qualified investor as a professional client.
- If you are a legal entity other than these institutions, to apply for qualified investor status, you must meet at least two of the following criteria: "The total of your financial assets, including cash deposits and capital market instruments, exceeds 1,000,0000 Turkish Lira" or "Total assets exceed 50,000,000 Turkish Lira, annual net revenue exceeds 90,000,000 Turkish Lira, and equity exceeds 5,000,000 Turkish Lira."
- If you are a natural person, to apply for qualified investor status, the total of your financial assets, including cash deposits and capital market instruments, must exceed 1,000,000 Turkish Lira.
- If you are a legal entity that is not registered as a qualified investor and do not wish to register through a brokerage firm or bank, you can upload to the Private Market platform a trade registry record or articles of association demonstrating your establishment as a company for capital investment purposes, or your most recent financial statements demonstrating that you meet the following requirements.