Selmi Haleva Kapeluto

Selmi Haleva-Kapeluto is a Partner at Actera Group, the private equity firm focused primarily on Turkey. Public profiles show him as a private equity investor at Actera beginning in May 2013, and Actera describes itself as advising funds with assets exceeding US$3.3 billion.

Before Actera, Haleva-Kapeluto worked in Turkish finance and private equity. MarketScreener lists earlier roles at TSKB Yatırım Ortaklığı from 1998 to 2000, Taurus Capital Partners from 2000 to 2002, and Antika Partners after 2002. EverybodyWiki, citing archived executive-profile sources, says he began in research and corporate finance at Türkiye Sınai Kalkınma Bankası, then worked on a Turkey-focused private equity program at Taurus Capital Partners before becoming a senior executive at Antika Partners.

His board activity is closely tied to Actera portfolio companies. LinkedIn lists board or supervisory roles at Dünya Varlık, U.N. Ro-Ro, ISS Tesis, Karnaval Media Group, PayTR, Standard Profil GmbH, and Tam Finans, plus a statutory-auditor role at Mey İçki from 2007 to 2011. MarketScreener currently lists him as a director at Vivense Teknoloji Hizmetleri ve Ticaret A.Ş. and PayTR Ödeme ve Elektronik Para Kuruluşu A.Ş.

• Actera’s stated strategy is to invest across “a wide range of industries,” with a focus on “growth capital and buyout investments in both established and emerging companies.”
• The firm says it backs companies that “are market leaders or have the potential to become market leaders in their respective industries.”
• Actera emphasizes growth and transformation rather than passive capital: it supports portfolio companies in managing and financing growth, acquisitions and divestitures, strategy development, corporate governance, and adoption of international best practices.
• Actera’s geographic focus is Turkey. Its public materials describe the firm as the largest private equity firm primarily focused on investments in Turkey.
• For founders, Actera appears more relevant to scale-up, buyout, growth-equity, and category-leadership situations than to ordinary pre-seed/seed angel rounds, though Actera has participated in Turkish mobile-gaming deals such as Mage Games and Fuse Games.