Cem Soysal

CEO with 30 years of leadership experience, 14 years of Corporate Venture Capital and M&A, with an additional 16 years in large scale P&L management positions

📍 Istanbul, Turkey🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Executive Board Member
Mar 2023
If you’re looking for a personalisation solution to increase sales, boost customer engagement and provide better insights into your customers than other solutions then look no further. Imagine a tool that already knew your customers preferences before they landed on your site, and was able to recommend the right products to the right customer at the right time. Segmentify creates a personalised shopping experience across every customer touchpoint in real-time, giving you the best advantage over your competition. Powered by machine-learning technology, Segmentify tracks and targets individual website visitors according to their unique online buying habits better than any personalisation platform on the market. Don’t take our word for it - Forbes mentioned us as one of the top machine learning companies to watch!
Executive Board Member
Mar 2021
Tarabios is developing a mobile device to monitor blood clot times (PT/INR) for Warfarin Therapy patients and will market the device soon. Its patented mechanical meaurement system can measure the viscosity of the blood on a cartridge with mircofluidic channel. The platform technology will further be developed to enable multiplexed, low cost, easy to use point-of-need tests for many more diseases.
Executive Board Member
Mar 2020
Vispera provides cutting-edge image recognition-based solutions for CPG/Retailers that accurately collects, measures & analyzes what is happening on shelves in real-time. Our best-in-class Retail Execution Solutions & Services radically improve store operations with an increase in revenue & customer satisfaction while reducing costs. At Vispera, our vision is to focus on making image recognition (IR) the standard for in-store, automated data collection. Our fundamental goal is to have our image recognition-based data analytics services and platform become the must-have store level execution tools for both retailer and supplier companies worldwide. Using Fortune 500 customer feedback, the Vispera team continuously improves our patented, in-store execution technology so that any sized, retail-based image can be recognized and acted on - instantly. Experience the Vispera difference and boost category sales to new levels. Drive Your Retail Execution to Perfection! - Transform conventional methods to automatized methods - Ensure planogram compliance with AI-based image recognition technology - Increase revenue with instant Out-of-stock actions and maximize shelf visibility - Quickly identify shelf opportunities and seize incremental sales growth - Increase operational efficiency and decrease labor cost - Win at every store with visual intelligence solutions
Executive Board Member
Jan 2019
US company that develops Earstim, the only wearable electro-stimulation device that significantly alleviates symptoms of Parkinsons disease patients without any side effect. Earstim’s efficacy once again proven by the recent clinical trial completed with 38 subjects in the US. It was a multi-centric, sham controlled, randomised, and double blind study. The team is getting ready for a pivotal study. The goal is to ease Parkinsons patients lives.
Executive Board Member
Apr 2015
KWORKS is a leading accelerator in Istanbul, helping technology-based Turkish startups become investment ready.
Executive Board Member
Feb 2014
We focus on helping our customers demonstrate their integrity and sustainability in an increasingly supply chain conscious marketplace, with the use of QD nanodots, where consumers and companies alike want to be able to track products end to end. We are about making big differences using small matter and focus on 3 main principles- Technology Matters- We are at the forefront of marker technology, research and development with an incredible team which has allowed us to become the first to market with the most innovative Quantum nano-marker technology solutions in the world. Integrity Matters- We help with product integrity and protecting the integrity of the brand to assure our customers and their customers that affiliates/ franchises / branches / independents are acting with integrity,upholding brand standards and always delivering quality products associated with our customers brand Sustainability Matters - assuring the most environmentally compliant products by making sure they are what they say they are, helping reduce to environmental damage caused by counterfeit products.
Board Member
Mar 2010
Galata Business Angels is Istanbul’s premier angel investor organization. GBA is a formal group of executives, entrepreneurs and angel investors who are interested in investing their time and money into new, cutting edge, startup companies. GBA members have founded companies such as AirTies, Yemeksepeti.com, Mynet.com, and Markafoni.com and been senior executives at the likes of Apple, eBay, Maxim, Turkcell and DBI. GBA operates as a non-profit organization and acts as a platform where member angel investors and aspiring entrepreneurs meet to exchange ideas about startups and discuss investment opportunities. Galata İş Melekleri İstanbul’un ilk melek yatırımcı organizasyonudur. Galata İş Melekleri zamanlarını ve paralarını yeni, ileri teknoloji start up şirketlerine yatırım yapan girişimciler, yöneticiler ve melek yatırımcılardan oluşan bir gruptur. Galata İş Melekleri üyeleri Airties, Yemeksepeti.com, Mynet.com ve Markafoni.com gibi şirketler kurmuşlar ve Apple, eBay, Maxim, Turkcell ve DBI gibi şirketlerde üst düzey yöneticilik yapmışlardır. Galata İş Melekleri kâr amacı gütmeyen bir dernek olarak faaliyet göstermekte olup melek yatırımcılar ile arzulu girişimcileri bir araya getirerek yatırım olanakları ve startuplarla ilgili fikir alışverişi yapmalarını sağlayan bir platform rolü üstlenmektedir.
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2024
Founding Partner
Jan 2024
Kuruluşumuzdan bu yana, DSG Investments olarak, birleşme ve satın alma (M&A) alanında global ölçekte lider bir yatırım firması olarak sektörde öne çıkıyoruz. Şirketlerin potansiyelini ortaya çıkarmak ve sürdürülebilir büyüme yaratmak için stratejik yatırımlar ve etkili iş ortaklıkları geliştiriyoruz. Misyonumuz, sektörler arası uzmanlığımız ve derin pazar bilgimizle şirketleri güçlendirmek ve onları geleceğe hazırlamaktır. Amacımız, şirketlerin kendi sektörlerinde lider konuma gelmelerini sağlamak ve yatırımcılarımıza uzun vadeli değer sağlayacak yatırımlar sunmaktır. Vizyonumuz, yenilikçi ve stratejik yaklaşımlarımızla sektördeki standartları yükseltmek ve tüm paydaşlarımız için sürdürülebilir başarılar yaratmaktır. DSG Investments olarak, yerel ve global pazarda iş ortaklarımızla kurduğumuz güçlü ilişkiler sayesinde, her yatırımı özenle değerlendiriyor ve maksimum fayda sağlamak için titiz bir strateji izliyoruz. Uzmanlık Alanlarımız: Sektörel Yatırımlar: Teknoloji, sağlık, enerji ve daha birçok alanda uzmanlaşarak, dinamik sektörel yatırımlar yapıyoruz. Stratejik M&A Danışmanlığı: Karmaşık birleşme ve satın alma süreçlerinde şeffaf ve stratejik danışmanlık sağlıyoruz. Uzun Vadeli Ortaklıklar: Yatırım yaptığımız şirketlerle sürdürülebilir büyüme için uzun vadeli ilişkiler kuruyoruz.
2023
Executive Board Member
Mar 2023
If you’re looking for a personalisation solution to increase sales, boost customer engagement and provide better insights into your customers than other solutions then look no further. Imagine a tool that already knew your customers preferences before they landed on your site, and was able to recommend the right products to the right customer at the right time. Segmentify creates a personalised shopping experience across every customer touchpoint in real-time, giving you the best advantage over your competition. Powered by machine-learning technology, Segmentify tracks and targets individual website visitors according to their unique online buying habits better than any personalisation platform on the market. Don’t take our word for it - Forbes mentioned us as one of the top machine learning companies to watch!
2022
KOÇ Group Companies VC - Investment Committee Member
May 2022
Çeşitli varlık sınıfındaki geniş ürün yelpazesi ile Yapı Kredi Portföy Yönetimi, sektöründe Türkiye’nin lider şirketlerinden biridir. Yatırım yönetimi, iş performansı ve müşteri ilişkilerindeki itibarlı geçmişi ile Yapı Kredi Portföy Yönetimi, müşterilerinin vazgeçilmez iş ortağı olmayı ve müşterileriyle ortak olarak paylaşacağı uzun vadeli değerleri oluşturmayı kendine ilke edinmiştir. Yapı Kredi Portföy Yönetimi’nde portföyler farklı piyasalarda uzmanlaşmış profesyoneller ve uzmanlar tarafından takım çalışması ile yönetilmektedir. Kurum içi araştırma ve analizleriyle, küresel çapta geniş bilgi kaynaklarını kullanarak kıstasları ve risk yönetimi kavramını göz önünde bulundurarak müşterilerine ilgili düzenlemeler ve hedefler dahilinde en iyi hizmeti sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Neden Yapı Kredi Portföy Yönetimi? • Yatırım yönetimi alanındaki gücü • Etkin iç kontrol sistemleri • Güçlü teknolojik altyapısı • Yatırım ürünleri ve hizmetlerinde sürekli ve önde gelen performansı • Uzun ve başarılı bir geçmişe sahip müşteri hizmetleri • İleri düzeyde ürün yönetimi bilgi ve tecrübesi • Geniş ürün yelpazesi
2021
Executive Board Member
Mar 2021
Tarabios is developing a mobile device to monitor blood clot times (PT/INR) for Warfarin Therapy patients and will market the device soon. Its patented mechanical meaurement system can measure the viscosity of the blood on a cartridge with mircofluidic channel. The platform technology will further be developed to enable multiplexed, low cost, easy to use point-of-need tests for many more diseases.
2020
Executive Board Member
Mar 2020
Setex Technologies is a spin out of Carnegie Mellon University, is the first commercial manufacturer of dry adhesive technology providing micro-fibrillar polymer based dry adhesives and surfaces for a wide range of product applications. Our gecko-inspired Setex® products address challenges current adhesives, and gripping materials cannot. Setex® technology enables visionary product designers to implement creative, first-to-market designs and solve tough, costly manufacturing problems. Our expertise has been developed over the years. Encouraged by the results of nearly a decade of academic research in understanding and synthesizing biologically inspired adhesives, Dr. Metin Sitti, a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, founded and spun out Setex Technologies, formerly known as nanoGriptech from the University in 2009. Since then, Setex Technologies team of subject matter experts has secured multiple research awards from numerous organizations, including the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, and the PA NanoMaterials Commercialization Center.
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