Loops AI raises $3.5m: Evertrace spotted İlker Selim Zorluoğlu 101 days before its first round

Loops AI has raised a $3.5m seed round with a16z speedrun and NTT DOCOMO. The Istanbul-founded company builds AI search and product discovery for online shops.

Evertrace spotted İlker Selim Zorluoğlu, co-founder of Loops AI, 101 days before its first funding announcement.

Before the round

On 20 June 2025, Evertrace detected the first signal of company formation for İlker Selim Zorluoğlu. That was 101 days before Loops AI's first funding announcement.

İlker Selim Zorluoğlu founded Loops AI in 2025 with Ari Nazir and Yusuf Bahadır. The company first announced funding on 29 September 2025, a $400k round with Monday Capital and Mantra.

What they’re building

Shoppers often cannot find a product with keyword search. With Loops AI, shoppers describe what they need in plain language, and the system matches it to the retailer's catalogue and rules.

It also offers a shopping assistant, customer operations tools, product data enrichment, virtual try-on and voice AI. Clients include Mavi, Boyner and A101 Ekstra.

The round

a16z speedrun, NTT DOCOMO, Connecticut Innovations, Monday Capital and Alumni Ventures invested in the $3.5m seed round, together with angel investors from Netflix and Google. Loops AI will use the funding to grow product and engineering, win more customers and expand internationally, starting with Japan, then Germany and Europe.

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