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Early Stage Investor @ Plug & Play

📍 Turkey🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2023
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2023
Early Stage Investor
Apr 2023
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform founded in Silicon Valley in 2006. We connect the people and organizations that drive technology forward, and turn those connections into real business outcomes. We run accelerator programs, facilitate corporate-startup pilots, invest in early-stage companies, and help governments and institutions build innovation ecosystems. Our network includes corporations, startups, investors, universities, and mentors across more than 20 industries and 60 locations worldwide. Since inception, weve accelerated thousands of startups and invested in over 2,500 companies. Our portfolio includes PayPal, Dropbox, LendingClub, Honey, and N26. Industries we work in: Advanced Manufacturing · Aerospace & Defense · Agtech · Animal Health · Brand & Retail · Crypto & Digital Assets · Deeptech · Energy · Enterprise & AI · Fintech · Food & Beverage · Health · Insurtech · Lifetech · Maritime · Media & Advertising · Medtech · Mobility & Physical AI · New Materials & Packaging · Real Estate & Construction · Semiconductors · Smart Cities · Sportstech · Supply Chain · Sustainability · Travel & Hospitality Where we operate: Americas: Silicon Valley · New York · Los Angeles · Washington D.C. · Detroit · Seattle · São Paulo · Alberta Europe: London · Munich · Stuttgart · Paris · Amsterdam · Barcelona · Madrid · Milan · Turin · Gothenburg · Vienna · Istanbul · Antwerp · Vilnius · Tirana · Yerevan · Tbilisi · Limassol · Tashkent Middle East & Africa: Riyadh · Abu Dhabi · Cairo Asia-Pacific: Tokyo · Osaka · Kyoto · Singapore · Seoul · Shanghai · Beijing · Shenzhen · Jakarta · Kuala Lumpur · Phnom Penh · GIFT City
2022
Startup Partnerships Lead
Apr 2022
GODIVA Chocolatier is a global leader in premium, artisanal chocolate. The company was founded in Brussels in 1926 by Belgian Chocolatier, Pierre Draps. Nearly a century later, every piece of GODIVA chocolate is still bursting with quality, Belgian craftsmanship, and the world’s finest ingredients. GODIVA has distribution in more than 100 countries across the globe. Customers can experience GODIVA at the iconic brand’s chocolate boutiques, chocolate cafes, GODIVA.com, and at many fine retailers.
Startup Partnerships Lead
Apr 2022
pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, and chocolate. pladis also owns regional brands such as Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, BN, Verkade and many more, delighting consumers with products across the snacking category including sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, chocolate, gum and candy. Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of its 16,000-strong global workforce spans 25 factories in 11 countries, and is founded on collaboration, agility and resilience. As a responsible business, delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world. pladis people are passionate about collaboration and creation, using consumer insights and trends to fulfil its promise of bringing happiness with every bite. This passion, combined with rapid speed to market, enables the company to bring its products from idea to on-shelf quickly, so they are available for consumers all over the world. To view our privacy policy visit: http://www.pladiscareers.co.uk/privacy-policy/
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Startup Partnerships Lead
Apr 2022
Established in 2019 to support the entrepreneurship ecosystem, Yıldız Ventures quickly became one of the leading investors in the region. Yıldız Ventures’ investment strategy relies on CVC and VC activities that target leading ventures operating within the conglomerate’s core areas of business such as food, consumer goods, retail, etc. and focus on incubation and financial investments. Yıldız Ventures invests in leading local and global early-stage technology VC funds under its venture capital activities. Yıldız Ventures that incubated Turkeys first online supermarket İsteGelsin, aims to continue supporting startups focusing on food and retail sectors. Girişimcilik ekosistemini desteklemek amacıyla 2019 yılında kurulan Yıldız Ventures, kısa sürede bölgenin önde gelen yatırımcıları arasında yer almıştır. Fonun yatırım stratejisi; holdingin ana iş kolları olan gıda, tüketim, perakende vb. alanlarda faaliyet gösteren başarılı girişimleri hedefleyerek, CVC ve VC aktiviteleri kapsamında, girişimlere sektör tecrübesi aktarımının yanı sıra, inkübasyon ve finansal yatırımları odağına almaktadır. Yıldız Ventures, girişim sermayesi faaliyetleri altında Türkiye ve globalde önde gelen, erken aşama teknoloji VC fonlarına yatırım yapmaktadır. Türkiye’nin ilk online süpermarketi İsteGelsin’i geliştiren ve sektöre kazandıran Yıldız Ventures, gıda ve perakende sektörlerini odağına alarak girişimlere desteğini sürdürmeyi hedeflemektedir.
Startup Partnerships Lead
Apr 2022
Yıldız Holding’in 1944 yılında İstanbul’da bisküvi üretimiyle başlayan hikâyesi, bugün 300’den fazla markayla 5 kıtada 4 milyar insana ulaştırdığımız gıda-atıştırmalık ürünlerimizle ve Türkiye’nin her noktasındaki perakende şirketlerimizle devam ediyor. Kökleri Türkiye’den beslenen, dalları ise dünyanın farklı coğrafyalarına uzanan global bir yapı içinde ülkemizi uluslararası arenada temsil ediyor, Türkiye’nin “Yıldız”ı olmanın mutluluğunu yaşıyoruz. Çoğunluğu Türkiye’de bulunan 80 bin çalışanımızla durmaksızın daha iyiye ulaşmayı amaçlıyor, 20’si yurt dışında olmak üzere toplam 45 fabrikamızda bisküviden çikolataya, dondurulmuş gıdadan ambalaja kadar geniş bir yelpazede üretim yapıyoruz. Ekonomik katkıda, istihdamda, ihracatta, sosyal dayanışmada ve sürdürülebilirlikte çıtayı daima yükseltiyoruz. “Mutlu Et Mutlu Ol” ilkesiyle toplumsal katkıya öncelik veriyor, gerek ürünlerimiz gerek hizmetlerimiz gerekse sürdürülebilir sosyal sorumluluk anlayışımızla 80 yılı aşkın süredir mutluluk üretiyoruz. Yıldız Holding’de ülkemiz için durmaksızın çalışıyor, bugüne değer katıyor, geleceğe yatırım yapıyoruz.
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