Dilek Dayinlarli

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at ScaleX Ventures

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 25 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Oct 2025
Were building AI scientists and the autonomous laboratories for them to operate. Join us: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/periodic-labs
Investor and Board Member
Aug 2025
Founded in 2017 with the mission to enhance individuals’ mental and physical wellbeing, Meditopia today serves more than 40 million users worldwide in 15 languages. Empowered by this global community, we offer a holistic employee assistance platform providing end-to-end wellbeing solutions for professionals and their families. From clinical psychologists, dietitians, to personal trainers Meditopia offers a wide range of professional support under one roof. With our AI-powered mental health & work coach and a rich platform featuring over 10,000 wellbeing resources, employees can easily access the support they need, anytime they need it. Beyond wellbeing, Meditopia also empowers employees to stay engaged and motivated through its social features and Meditopia Market ; a reward system where every completed activity, session, or challenge turns into points that can be redeemed for partner brand rewards. Through events, challenges, recognition, and social connection, professionals can nurture both their wellbeing and their sense of belonging at work. With Meditopia, all the wellbeing and motivation your employees need are in one place.
Investor
Apr 2025
Hilberts AI is the Growth Brain as a Service that transforms your companys growth into one unified, AI-native engine. Our axiomatic growth framework integrates 360-degree signals from growth engine to analyze, reason, and optimize strategies like a world-class growth team –only faster, smarter, and always-on. We help leading executives and growth teams manage B2C growth efficiently and be unbeatable. DM us for a free AI Growth Diagnostic, or to learn about our AI Agents. Backed by Asylum Ventures & ScaleX Ventures.
Investor
Jan 2025
Kùzu is an embedded graph database built for query speed, scalability, and easy of use. Kùzu is available under a permissive MIT license on github.
Investor
Nov 2024
Opnova is taking rework out of work by automating repetitive, mundane, and error-prone operational tasks with an agentic AI solution that can perform human-level work. We help our customers achieve a new level of operational efficiency and employee productivity, resulting in revenue growth, cost reductions, and risk mitigation. Our mission is to eliminate rework from daily work and unlock our true human potential for impactful and creative fulfillment.
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Apr 2024
Finch helps bars and restaurants grow revenue—at no added cost—while giving brands a high-impact way to engage urban audiences in real-world settings. We’re building the first connected ecosystem that unifies advertising, hospitality, and payments into one seamless platform. Now operating in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, and Austin.
Investor
Mar 2024
Open, free, and portable cloud
Investor
Sep 2023
Icosa builds domain-specific AI models optimized with advanced research and quantum-inspired techniques, enabling enterprises to deploy fast, accurate, and cost-efficient systems.
Investor
Jun 2023
Breaking barriers and enabling disruptive AI solutions by reducing computing costs via small-footprint AI models.
Investor
Jun 2023
Sales & CS teams don’t need more tasks; they need more momentum & less busywork. 82% of B2B deals die in the post-demo chaos: processes stall, teams fly blind, everyone is guessing “what’s next?“. We fix that. We align your team and your customers on a single, collaborative workspace that unites every resource and action plan. Behind the scenes, AI analyzes signals from your workspace, CRM, and emails to guide the perfect next step. For example: → A new decision-maker in the deal room? A personalized intro email is instantly drafted, waiting for approval. → Deal closed won on CRM? A full handoff summary is immediately sent to CS team on Slack. AI & automations handle the grunt work—from preparing custom assets to managing admin tasks—so your team doesn’t have to. The result? Stuck deals get rescued, handoffs & onboarding is seamless. Your team executes like top performers, gets time back to focus on customers, and revenue keeps flowing. 💙
Investor and Board Member
Sep 2022
Atlas Robotics delivers Physical AI agents that move pallets with human-level speed and flexibility, at lower cost and with superhuman safety. Commercially deployed in live warehouses, they perform the backbone task of global logistics with unmatched reliability and consistency. The Atlas platform combines robots, fleet intelligence, and a lifelong learning system to turn brownfield warehouses into the most productive and resilient facilities in the world. Every task compounds the fleet’s intelligence, creating a workforce that never tires, never calls in sick, and only grows stronger with scale.
Board Member & Investor
May 2022
Kondukto is an AppSec orchestration platform that helps AppSec teams achieve faster triage and remediation through orchestration, automation and vulnerability management capabilities.
Investor
Apr 2022
Simplified SaaS security for modern IT and security teams. Protect all apps, identities, and assets. We equip employees to use SaaS securely and manage risks effectively.
Investor & Board Member
Jan 2021
Peaka is a zero-ETL data integration platform that allows you to build your data stack in minutes. You can immediately pull in, join, and query your data from relational and NoSQL databases, SaaS tools, and APIs— all without a data warehouse or ETL processes. Some additional highlighted features: * Create new datasets and expose them by creating API endpoints. * Cache/sync historical data with one click at table granularity. No need to sync the whole data. * Create virtual data marts from scattered data and share them with teams in a minute. * Ingest streaming data by creating webhooks. Data buffering and bulk inserts are handled automatically. Contact us for detailed information about Peaka and to schedule a demo call.
Investor
Nov 2020
Upstash makes data easiest part of your job. We manage everything for you. You focus on more important things. With per-request pricing, you pay only for what you use.
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2025
Investor
Oct 2025
Were building AI scientists and the autonomous laboratories for them to operate. Join us: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/periodic-labs
Investor and Board Member
Aug 2025
Founded in 2017 with the mission to enhance individuals’ mental and physical wellbeing, Meditopia today serves more than 40 million users worldwide in 15 languages. Empowered by this global community, we offer a holistic employee assistance platform providing end-to-end wellbeing solutions for professionals and their families. From clinical psychologists, dietitians, to personal trainers Meditopia offers a wide range of professional support under one roof. With our AI-powered mental health & work coach and a rich platform featuring over 10,000 wellbeing resources, employees can easily access the support they need, anytime they need it. Beyond wellbeing, Meditopia also empowers employees to stay engaged and motivated through its social features and Meditopia Market ; a reward system where every completed activity, session, or challenge turns into points that can be redeemed for partner brand rewards. Through events, challenges, recognition, and social connection, professionals can nurture both their wellbeing and their sense of belonging at work. With Meditopia, all the wellbeing and motivation your employees need are in one place.
Investor
Apr 2025
Hilberts AI is the Growth Brain as a Service that transforms your companys growth into one unified, AI-native engine. Our axiomatic growth framework integrates 360-degree signals from growth engine to analyze, reason, and optimize strategies like a world-class growth team –only faster, smarter, and always-on. We help leading executives and growth teams manage B2C growth efficiently and be unbeatable. DM us for a free AI Growth Diagnostic, or to learn about our AI Agents. Backed by Asylum Ventures & ScaleX Ventures.
Investor
Jan 2025
Kùzu is an embedded graph database built for query speed, scalability, and easy of use. Kùzu is available under a permissive MIT license on github.
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Investor
Nov 2024
Opnova is taking rework out of work by automating repetitive, mundane, and error-prone operational tasks with an agentic AI solution that can perform human-level work. We help our customers achieve a new level of operational efficiency and employee productivity, resulting in revenue growth, cost reductions, and risk mitigation. Our mission is to eliminate rework from daily work and unlock our true human potential for impactful and creative fulfillment.
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