Kaan Meralan

Engineering @ Anthropic

๐Ÿ“ United States๐Ÿ”„ Updated September 2026๐Ÿ’ผ 3 investments๐Ÿ“… 8 years investing๐Ÿ—“ Last invested May 2024
Operator-angel๐ŸŒ United States
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May 2024
Tamarind Bio is a website which allows researchers to use bioinformatics tools at scale using a simple interface. On Tamarind, scientists can use computational tools by simply selecting inputs instead of writing code or setting up a high performance computing environment. Our tools have been used by hundreds of researchers, primarily at academic institutions. We currently focus on tools in structural biology, including protein structure prediction, protein design, and molecular docking.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2022
Existing Crypto Wallets are too geeky for mainstream users. We are building a multi-chain crypto wallet simplifying user experience for the mainstream users along with a crypto card.
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2018
Collective is the first all-in-one financial platform designed to give self-employed entrepreneurs the technology and team they need so they can focus on their passion, not their paperwork. Collective handles LLC and S Corp formation, payroll, taxes, monthly bookkeeping, compliance and more all in one place, exclusively for solopreneurs.
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2024
Investor
May 2024
Tamarind Bio is a website which allows researchers to use bioinformatics tools at scale using a simple interface. On Tamarind, scientists can use computational tools by simply selecting inputs instead of writing code or setting up a high performance computing environment. Our tools have been used by hundreds of researchers, primarily at academic institutions. We currently focus on tools in structural biology, including protein structure prediction, protein design, and molecular docking.
2022
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2022
Existing Crypto Wallets are too geeky for mainstream users. We are building a multi-chain crypto wallet simplifying user experience for the mainstream users along with a crypto card.
2018
Investor & Advisor
Jan 2018
Collective is the first all-in-one financial platform designed to give self-employed entrepreneurs the technology and team they need so they can focus on their passion, not their paperwork. Collective handles LLC and S Corp formation, payroll, taxes, monthly bookkeeping, compliance and more all in one place, exclusively for solopreneurs.
2015
Co-founder & CEO
Dec 2015
Pvgna is a subscription-based on-demand video platform for esports. Compared to YouTube or Twitch, Pvgnas exclusive content is higher quality, more in-depth and from top hand-picked creators.
2008
Co-founder & Software Engineer
Nov 2008
Karniyarik LLC is spcialized at language processing, web and search applications. In the year 2009 the team got support from the Ministry of Industry with their vertical search engine framework and founded the company. Karniyarik.com is a vertical search engine for online product search. Its main purpose is to guide both online and offline shoppers (potential customers) about products of various types. It not only supplies information about product prices but also brands and categories. The main goal of the project is to be able to "Find everything with a price". Features of Karniyarik.com: * Can search both online goods and used cars * Uses crawling for product page collection * Uses semi-automatic information extractors to extract product data * Recognizes brands * Recognizes some of the product/car models * Automatically categorizes products * Uses RDFa to annotate the search results History: * On March,2009 Karniyarik.com has been opened * On July,2009 Karniyarik.com has been supported by local Government. * On January,2010 Karniyarik.com has been selected to be one of the 15 best startups in Turkey by eTohum (an organization for the local startups). This way has been supported by the organization.
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2018โ€“2024 ยท 3 investments
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