Kazim Akalin

Venture Capital Guy, Crypto Hodler, Family Man, Kickboxer, Dota Player & Self-claimed Gourmet

📍 Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2015
VC🌍 Turkey
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Co-Founder & Investor
Mar 2015
DNC Pharma rekabetçi bir ortamda modern teknolojiler vasıtasıyla yeni ilaçların daha hızlı piyasaya sunulabilmesi için gerekli uzun ve karmaşık ürün geliştirme ve ruhsatlandırma süreçlerini gerçekleştirmektedir.
Co-Founder & Investor
Apr 2011
HUGENT Human Resources and Consulting provides recruitment services and career opportunities on a local, regional and global level. Established its first office in 2011 in Istanbul on the Asian continent, then expanded with the opening of its first branch in 2013 in Bursa and in 2015 in Izmir to bring a fresh approach and flexible solutions to recruitment needs of organisations along with being a trusted professional partner for candidates. Specialized recruitment of middle to senior and Executive Management level and setting up of HR systems in companies. Hugent Consulting has 10 areas of expertise including Sales & Marketing, Engineering, IT, Finance& Accouting, HR and Support & Operational Functions roles. Hugent provides customizable HR consulting solutions that helps the organization to gain cost reduction and recover valuable time & helps get work done more effectively as well. This also helps in the management & standardization of HR process. Our expert consultants provide solutions for organizations in: -Create and develop customized employee handbooks, -HR Forms set up and compliance, -Audit of HR policies, procedures, forms, systems, -Orientation, Training & Development, -Wage & Salary Review, -Employee Relations, -Job description process, -Coaching System, -Performance management systems, -Termination process, -Employee Satisfaction & Retention.
Experience · 8 entries
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2017
General Partner
Jan 2017
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.
2016
Co-Founder
Jan 2016
CC Media House is the the New Media Company in Turkey and MENA.
early stageMedia Production
2015
SDC Bilişim Hizmetleri AŞ
Co-Founder & Investor
May 2015
Co-Founder & Investor
Mar 2015
DNC Pharma rekabetçi bir ortamda modern teknolojiler vasıtasıyla yeni ilaçların daha hızlı piyasaya sunulabilmesi için gerekli uzun ve karmaşık ürün geliştirme ve ruhsatlandırma süreçlerini gerçekleştirmektedir.
2011
Co-Founder & Investor
Apr 2011
HUGENT Human Resources and Consulting provides recruitment services and career opportunities on a local, regional and global level. Established its first office in 2011 in Istanbul on the Asian continent, then expanded with the opening of its first branch in 2013 in Bursa and in 2015 in Izmir to bring a fresh approach and flexible solutions to recruitment needs of organisations along with being a trusted professional partner for candidates. Specialized recruitment of middle to senior and Executive Management level and setting up of HR systems in companies. Hugent Consulting has 10 areas of expertise including Sales & Marketing, Engineering, IT, Finance& Accouting, HR and Support & Operational Functions roles. Hugent provides customizable HR consulting solutions that helps the organization to gain cost reduction and recover valuable time & helps get work done more effectively as well. This also helps in the management & standardization of HR process. Our expert consultants provide solutions for organizations in: -Create and develop customized employee handbooks, -HR Forms set up and compliance, -Audit of HR policies, procedures, forms, systems, -Orientation, Training & Development, -Wage & Salary Review, -Employee Relations, -Job description process, -Coaching System, -Performance management systems, -Termination process, -Employee Satisfaction & Retention.
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