Arda Yigithan Orhan

🦾 AI Engineer 📦 Product Leader ☁️ Cloud Architect 🎙️ Public Speaker in Tech Trends & AI 🚀 Entrepreneur & Angel Investor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 4 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
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Angel Investor
Aug 2022
Founded in 2018, Merkle Science is the next generation predictive cryptocurrency risk and intelligence platform that helps crypto companies, financial institutions, and government entities detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies. Merkle Science’s proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine enables our tools to go beyond blacklists so that compliance teams may fulfill their local KYC/AML obligations and industry players may stay keep pace with the industry’s increasingly complex illicit activities. Merkle Science envisions a world powered by crypto and is creating the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe and healthy growth of the cryptocurrency industry as it becomes a key pillar of the $22 trillion financial services ecosystem. We enable businesses to scale and mature so that a full range of individuals, entities, and services may transact with crypto safely.
Angel Investor
Jun 2022
Urban Active is an Indoor Cycling and Group Fitness studio operating in Istanbul Ankara, and Redondo Beach, CA with over 20,000 Members. The company provides Indoor Cycling, Bootcamp, Yoga, Pilates and PT classes in the format of pay as you go systems with no mandatory subscription. It was founded in January 2017 in Maslak, Istanbul.
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.
Co-Founder & Board Member
Aug 2014
Yeni ofis anlayışı Kolektif House; ‘Birlikten kuvvet doğar’ felsefesiyle, girişimcilere, şirketlere, freelance çalışanlara yaratıcı, verimli, sosyal ve ekonomik çalışma alanları sunuyor. Kolektif House believes that "we are stronger together"​, and through this belief provides creative, social, and efficient work spaces for all entrepreneurs, freelancers and companies.
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2024
AI Thought Leader & Principal AI Instructor
Sep 2024
We equip corporate professionals with the essential tools and knowledge to strategically, safely and ethically integrate AI into their organizations.
2022
Angel Investor
Aug 2022
Founded in 2018, Merkle Science is the next generation predictive cryptocurrency risk and intelligence platform that helps crypto companies, financial institutions, and government entities detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities involving cryptocurrencies. Merkle Science’s proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine enables our tools to go beyond blacklists so that compliance teams may fulfill their local KYC/AML obligations and industry players may stay keep pace with the industry’s increasingly complex illicit activities. Merkle Science envisions a world powered by crypto and is creating the infrastructure necessary to ensure the safe and healthy growth of the cryptocurrency industry as it becomes a key pillar of the $22 trillion financial services ecosystem. We enable businesses to scale and mature so that a full range of individuals, entities, and services may transact with crypto safely.
Angel Investor
Jun 2022
Urban Active is an Indoor Cycling and Group Fitness studio operating in Istanbul Ankara, and Redondo Beach, CA with over 20,000 Members. The company provides Indoor Cycling, Bootcamp, Yoga, Pilates and PT classes in the format of pay as you go systems with no mandatory subscription. It was founded in January 2017 in Maslak, Istanbul.
Angel Investor
Mar 2022
We are a team of successful entrepreneurs, corporate leaders and people who know the impact of creating value together. Together, we invest in high-impact, early-stage companies led by amazing teams with global mindset all over the world.
2020
Technical Product Management and Solution Architecture Consultant
Jun 2020
Based in Austin, Texas, the ESW Capital group specifically focuses on buying, strengthening, then growing mature business software companies. By taking advantage of its unique operating platform, ESW revitalizes its acquisitions for sustainable success while making customer satisfaction a top priority. ESW and its affiliated companies have been in the enterprise software space since 1988, and the group includes notable brands such as Aurea, Ignite Technologies, Trilogy, and Versata.
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