Baris Aksoy

Early Stage VC | All things AI, Data, Cloud & Security | Board Member

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
18
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Late stage
16y
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Portfolio

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Board Member
2023
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
Board Member
2022
Soter Analytics, a worldwide leader in safety technology solutions, offers a strategic approach to workplace safety for its partners. Soter proactively enhances safety by utilizing cutting-edge, AI-driven wearable devices, sensor-free video analysis, and a team of injury prevention specialists and data evaluation experts, leading to increased productivity, improved workplace efficiency, and more robust safety culture.
Board Member
2022
Founded in Lyon, FR in 2015, DataGalaxy is the international pioneer of the modern data catalog. Our innovative Data Knowledge Catalog is dedicated to providing user-friendly metadata mapping, management, and knowledge sharing to support organizational data governance and literacy. We work to help bridge the gap between business and technical users by sharing a common understanding of data to accelerate processes, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance. Our all-in-one data management and data governance platform, the Data Knowledge Catalog, includes APIs to ease pre-existing data integration, AI services to automate data classification, and data lineage tracking to visualize data’s entire lifecycle journey.
Board Member
2022
Elucidate is a financial crime risk management company enabling financial institutions to benchmark and price financial crime risk through the Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI), an automated platform developed in partnership with leading global correspondent banks. Elucidate is an approved benchmark administrator, authorised by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and registered with the European Security and Markets Authority (ESMA).
Board Observer
2021
Measured builds smarter insurance products, using AI-driven analytics to calculate and cover our clients’ exposure in real-time.
mid stageInsurance
Board Member
2020
Cerby is the identity automation platform purpose-built to secure disconnected applications—those that fall outside the reach of traditional identity security tools. By integrating with existing IAM, IGA, and PAM systems, Cerby brings centralized access controls, automates manual security tasks, and extends governance across your entire application ecosystem. IT and security teams gain complete visibility and control, reducing risk and operational overhead. Founded in 2020, Cerby is backed by leading investors and trusted by enterprises across the globe. Get a demo to see us in action: www.cerby.com/demo
Board Member
2020
Gartner acquires Pulse to enhance your leadership community Guide Technology and Business Decisions With Peer-Driven Insights In Pulse, executives can engage in honest discussions and receive tried-and-true guidance from their peers. Over 16,000 fresh data points from polls, discussions, and surveys are generated by the Pulse executive community each week. Members can search a living knowledge base of peer-sourced data points and benchmarks, Product IQ vendor intelligence, and One-Minute White Paper industry reports. With this real-time and relevant data, leaders and organizations can make informed strategy, innovation, and technology decisions, and adapt to a quickly changing world.
Board Member
2020
Locomation was founded in 2018 by a team of the world’s foremost experts on autonomous vehicles, robotics, and artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon’s National Robotics Engineering Center and trucking industry leaders with deep knowledge and experience in every aspect of the trucking business. We are motivated by the challenge of solving problems that have hindered the trucking industry for decades. Trucks transport more than 70% of the nation’s freight. E-commerce has sharply increased the need for freight trucking services. Demand is expected to grow 36% between 2020 and 2031.1 At a time when demand has never been stronger, persistent driver shortages create capacity constraints that force carriers to turn down orders.
Investor
2020
Eclypsium establishes trust in every endpoint, server and network appliance in enterprise infrastructure (IT, cloud, data centers, network) by identifying, verifying and fortifying 3rd-party software, firmware and hardware in every device. Eclypsium’s platform continuously monitors firmware, hardware and software within each critical asset for threats, backdoors, implants and vulnerabilities, and mitigates supply chain risks throughout the asset lifecycle. Powered by world-class research team, Eclypsium was named as Gartner Cool Vendor, and a winner of Fast Company’s most innovative security companies, CNBC Upstart 100, Cyber Defense Magazine’s Most Innovative Supply Chain Security, and CRN’s Stellar Startups awards.
Board Observer
2019
Uizard is the AI-powered product design platform for product teams. Turn ideas into design proposals and interactive prototypes in minutes and handoff to your development team with smart export options.
Board Observer
2019
Transforming the Economics of Log Data Hydrolix is a streaming data lake optimized for log-intensive use cases that offers both real-time and historical analytics at scale. By combining the data structure and query performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility and cost benefits of a data lake, Hydrolix allows you to keep and analyze all your data without compromising your budget. Hydrolix takes care of streaming ingest, data transformation, and compression, maximizing the value of your data while making more log data use cases economically viable.
Board Member
2019
User-focused observability for mobile and web Embrace is the only user-focused observability platform that ties technical performance to end-user impact. Powered by OpenTelemetry, Embrace provides real user monitoring (RUM) across mobile and web, giving engineering teams the visibility and context they need to resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and deliver exceptional digital experiences. ★Embrace open source SDKs★ • iOS: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-apple-sdk • Android: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-android-sdk • Unity: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-unity-sdk • React Native: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-react-native-sdk • Flutter: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-flutter-sdk • Web: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-web-sdk
Board Observer
2019
We create digital avatars & hyper-personalized videos at scale, for businesses across the world.
Investor
2015
We’re reimagining the way banking works. We make it easy to manage your money – wherever you are in the world. We create financial freedom for all of us who live, work, travel, study or send money abroad. We’re the mobile app alternative to the banks, offering accounts you can open instantly so that you don’t lose access to the money you need every time you cross a border on a map. We’re here for everyone, not just for those with perfect credit scores or the right set of utility bills. We push the boundaries daily with over 2 million sign-ups across 31 countries.
early stageBanking
Investor
2011
CrowdStar is a global leader in mobile and social gaming developing entertainment for women. The company's flagship fashion styling game Covet Fashion entertains millions of women daily. Founded in 2008, CrowdStar has deep roots in designing inventive games for women. The company is backed by strategic investors Time Warner and Intel Capital and boasts global partnerships with Tencent, NHN and Facebook. CrowdStar's games can be found across multiple platforms including Apple's iOS, Google Play, Amazon and Microsoft.
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2023
Board Member
2023
Helping Stealth Startups to Launch, Hire & Scale. Here Recruiters Usually List Stealth Roles for early stage startups and job seekers can connect and consider those roles.
2022
Board Member
2022
Soter Analytics, a worldwide leader in safety technology solutions, offers a strategic approach to workplace safety for its partners. Soter proactively enhances safety by utilizing cutting-edge, AI-driven wearable devices, sensor-free video analysis, and a team of injury prevention specialists and data evaluation experts, leading to increased productivity, improved workplace efficiency, and more robust safety culture.
Board Member
2022
Founded in Lyon, FR in 2015, DataGalaxy is the international pioneer of the modern data catalog. Our innovative Data Knowledge Catalog is dedicated to providing user-friendly metadata mapping, management, and knowledge sharing to support organizational data governance and literacy. We work to help bridge the gap between business and technical users by sharing a common understanding of data to accelerate processes, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance. Our all-in-one data management and data governance platform, the Data Knowledge Catalog, includes APIs to ease pre-existing data integration, AI services to automate data classification, and data lineage tracking to visualize data’s entire lifecycle journey.
Board Member
2022
Elucidate is a financial crime risk management company enabling financial institutions to benchmark and price financial crime risk through the Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI), an automated platform developed in partnership with leading global correspondent banks. Elucidate is an approved benchmark administrator, authorised by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) and registered with the European Security and Markets Authority (ESMA).
2021
Board Observer
2021
Measured builds smarter insurance products, using AI-driven analytics to calculate and cover our clients’ exposure in real-time.
mid stageInsurance
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