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📍 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member
Apr 2020
In fresh food retail, there is a serious lack of insight and optimization, which leads to significant problems, the most important being food waste. On average, 10% of all fresh fruits and vegetables are wasted in supermarkets, totaling more than 100 million tons annually. Retailers not only waste products but also lose sales, with European retailers losing €4 billion in sales due to product unavailability on shelves. Cognitiwe offers fresh food retailers a range of products to help them analyze the freshness, stock levels, and sales performance of their shelf stocks. By doing so, retailers can reduce food waste and conserve resources and materials. Cognitiwe's proprietary Predictive Vision AI Platform provides real-time insights and data-driven predictions, empowering customers to optimize their operational efficiencies and improve their sustainability and profitability. With Cognitiwe, retailers can ensure that their products are always fresh and available in the right quantity. All of this can be accomplished using regular IP cameras and the cloud-based Predictive Vision AI Platform, without the need for any significant upfront investments. To learn more about Cognitiwe and our capabilities, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@cognitiwe.com.
Executive Board Member
Nov 2017
MenaPay stands for connecting consumers with the digital economy focusing on the unbanked population. MenaPay is the first, fully backed and blockchain based non-bank mobile payment solution and Super Application in the Middle East & Africa region digitalizing cash through a network of offline & online resellers. MenaPay focuses on becoming the digital bank of the region with the vision of connecting new potential consumers with the digital economy. Established in Dubai-UAE by well-known business leaders, MenaPay creates a gateway for the merchants all over the world to onboard the potential consumers in the MENA region. MenaPay offers mobile payment solution with a stable cryptocurrency and SuperApp including different financial instruments and entertainment solutions all in one application for both payment and non-payment purposes as well. MenaPay Platform digitalizes cash with a stable cryptocurrency called MenaCash which has the opportunity to become most commonly used digital currency across the region. The platform on a blockchain caters perfectly well to a society who does not use banks but at the same time opts for a multi- financial solution which is compliant to the Islamic Finance rules. Furthermore, MenaPay creates a fully transparent structure through a perfect use of blockchain technology to serve more than 400 million people across 18 countries, as their primary payment method.
Shareholder
Nov 2017
iPara, Türkiye’nin ilk Online Ödeme hizmeti sağlayan şirketi olarak ile 2012 yılında iPara Bilgi Teknolojileri A.Ş. adıyla kuruldu. Yenilikçi ve pazara yön veren çözümler ile kullanıcıların ve üye işyerlerinin sanal ortamdaki alışverişlere yönelmesinde önemli bir rol oynadı. Ürün ve hizmet gamını sürekli olarak geliştirmenin yanı sıra hem üye işyerlerine hem de iş ortaklarına katma değerli hizmetler sunarak fayda sağlamak hedefi şirketin merkezine yerleşti. Son olarak 27 Haziran 2013 tarihli 6493 sayılı ÖDEME VE MENKUL KIYMET MUTABAKAT SİSTEMLERİ, ÖDEME HİZMETLERİ VE ELEKTRONİK PARA KURULUŞLARI hakkındaki kanun ve ilgili kanunun; 27 Haziran 2014 tarihli Yönetmelik ve Tebliğ kapsamında, 28.05.2015 tarihinde Aypara Ödeme Kuruluşu A.Ş. adı ile BDDK ile lisans başvuru sürecini başlatmış olup 23.08.2017 tarihinde tüm gereklilikleri başarı ile yerine getirerek BDDK lisansının sahibi oldu. TCMB tarafından yetkili kurum lisansına ve kredi kartı ile ödeme alma güvenlik standardı olan PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) sertifikasyonuna sahiptir.
Board Member
Jan 2010
IAB TR Ekim 2007'de 23 katılımcıyla kurulmuştur. Bugün itibarıyla sektörün yayıncı, reklamveren ve reklam ajansları tarafından aynı çatı altında temsil edildiği en kapsamlı ve tek meslek örgütü konumundadır. Amacı dijital reklamcılık endüstrisinin bir bütün olarak, sağlıklı biçimde gelişmesine destek vermektir. Hedefleri doğrultusunda sertifika ve dikey eğitimlerden öğrenci işleri dijital kampı Unichallenge'a, sektörel standartların oluşturulmasından dijital reklamcılık işlerinin ödüllendirildiği uluslararası MIXX AWARDS yarışmasının Türkiye'de yapılmasına kadar pek çok alanda faaliyet göstermektedir.
Experience · 14 entries
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2024
CEO / Managing Partner
Jan 2024
Joygame, founded in 2009 and titled Türkiye’s the first gaming company, supports talented gaming studios both in terms of financing and knowhow. Joygame develops and publishes games in various genres that have achieved great success in global markets. Reaching over 100million players with different games in PC and mobile platforms, Joygame aims to provide entertainment experiences and fun to players across all continents with local content.
2021
Co-Founder
Sep 2021
Vidoven is a live video shopping platform to boost sales, tell your brand story and increase engagement. We empower brands and entrepreneurs to share their products and services with customers through humanized, real time, interactive, shoppable videos. Visit our website to learn more about us and why you should start your live commerce adventure with Vidoven 🚀
Board Member
Mar 2021
TÜBİSAD; Bilgi Teknolojileri, Telekomünikasyon ve Yeni Medya alanlarında faaliyet gösteren şirketlerin en güçlü ortak sesini temsil ediyor. TÜBİSADın 200den fazla aktif üyesi, Türkiyede yıllık 30 milyar dolarlık ticaret hacmini yönetiyor. TÜBİSAD olarak temel misyonumuz, Bilgi teknolojileri ve telekomünikasyon sektörlerini ülkemizin büyümesinin temel bileşeni olarak konumlandırırken, tüm üye şirketlerimizin ortak çıkarlarını evrensel değerlere bağlı kalarak en üst düzeyde temsil etmektir.
Boğaziçi Venture Builders (BVB) Managing Partner
Jan 2021
Our careers have been built as technology entrepreneurs. After successfully building and selling our companies, we decided to invest in technology ventures and help them to reach their ultimate dream. We do financial investment and provide top-level support for international growth through our investment funds. Our aim is combine the power and experience of traditional capital with the disruptive and talented technology ventures. Both sides need each other and Boğaziçi Ventures plays a key role to moderate the long-term relationship. Each of our fund has its own target focused technology vertical, investment strategy and dedicated management team. Investors can build bridges with technology companies through Boğaziçi Ventures while enjoying the benefit of high financial return of the tech industry. Boğaziçi Ventures aims at investing in tech-ventures which are willing to bring down the traditional industries and capable of developing evolutionary technologies, and engaging investors into these fields to make the ecosystem in our region grow sturdily and survive. We believe that Eastern Europe, Turkey and the MENA region are ideal geographies to develop the technology. Accordingly, we aspire the talents and capabilities in these regions to set good examples similar to our previous global success stories with proper financial and in-kind support, contribute to this geography and provide superior returns to our investors by enhancing these examples. By investing in disruptive future technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things in the fields from health to security, digital games etc.
2020
Board Member
Apr 2020
In fresh food retail, there is a serious lack of insight and optimization, which leads to significant problems, the most important being food waste. On average, 10% of all fresh fruits and vegetables are wasted in supermarkets, totaling more than 100 million tons annually. Retailers not only waste products but also lose sales, with European retailers losing €4 billion in sales due to product unavailability on shelves. Cognitiwe offers fresh food retailers a range of products to help them analyze the freshness, stock levels, and sales performance of their shelf stocks. By doing so, retailers can reduce food waste and conserve resources and materials. Cognitiwe's proprietary Predictive Vision AI Platform provides real-time insights and data-driven predictions, empowering customers to optimize their operational efficiencies and improve their sustainability and profitability. With Cognitiwe, retailers can ensure that their products are always fresh and available in the right quantity. All of this can be accomplished using regular IP cameras and the cloud-based Predictive Vision AI Platform, without the need for any significant upfront investments. To learn more about Cognitiwe and our capabilities, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@cognitiwe.com.
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