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The AI-native commerce stack for under-digitized SME manufacturers.

WHAT THEY’RE BUILDING

Folio AI helps SME manufacturers and makers turn scattered product data into live, sellable storefronts in minutes. Users can create rich catalogs, generate product imagery and marketing assets in the AI studio, and publish custom stores across customers, dealers, languages, and product ranges.

THE FOUNDING TEAM

Folio AI was founded by Kemal Erol, Cüneyt Bahadır, Arif Çam, and Enes Tüfekçi. Between them, the team has scaled and exited a nine-figure e-commerce business, led enterprise IT at Turkish Airlines and Yıldız Holding, built and advised AI companies in Silicon Valley, and built Folio's own technical foundation, with backgrounds spanning McKinsey, Accenture, Rocket Internet, Thiel, Stanford, and Warwick.

WHY WE BACKED THEM

SME manufacturers remain massively under-digitized, still running commerce through PDFs, static websites, manual sales, and fragmented product data. Folio is built by a team with unusually relevant founder-market fit: they have scaled and exited a major e-commerce business, operated enterprise IT at massive scale, and built/advised AI companies in Silicon Valley. That mix of commerce scar tissue, technical depth, and SME access gives Folio a credible path to become the AI-native system of record for product, customer, and dealer data across SME commerce.

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Investment date
2026 / Q1
Founders
Kemal Erol, Cüneyt Bahadır, Arif Çam, Enes Tüfekçi
Stage
Seed
Fund
Fund II
Sector
Fintech · Infrastructure
HQ
[London, the UK]
Status
Active