Sertac Yakin

Startup/VC Advisor

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2022
VC🌍 United States
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Apr 2022
Open source authorization system for creating and maintaining fine-grained user permissions while ensuring least privilege across your organization.
Advisor - Investment&Growth
Mar 2021
Arf is a liquidity platform for financial institutions in cross-border payments, offering short-term, revolving, and digital asset-based credit lines. Committed to transparency, Arf aims to enhance access to liquidity for cross-border financial institutions worldwide.
Founding Investor/Advisor - Growth&Investment
Dec 2014
Connected2.me; a global messaging platform with 40M+ registered users. Users are acquired by viral growth. It has anonymity feature that is not available in other messaging platforms, which allows communication without revealing your identity. We are venture-funded including 500 Startups and have offices in both Silicon Valley and Ankara, Turkey.
Experience · 9 entries
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2023
Advisor - M&A
Feb 2023
The high quality data labeling platform Ango provides fully managed, end-to-end data labeling for AI teams. With a scalable and professionally-managed labeling team, together with innovative human-computer interfaces and AI assistance, we deliver your annotations quickly and efficiently while maintaining the highest quality standards.
2022
Co-Founder
Jul 2022
Open-source, Effortless, Low-Overhead, eBPF-based Kubernetes Monitoring and Performance Testing ➡️ https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify
Investor
Apr 2022
Open source authorization system for creating and maintaining fine-grained user permissions while ensuring least privilege across your organization.
2021
Advisor - Investment&Growth
Mar 2021
Arf is a liquidity platform for financial institutions in cross-border payments, offering short-term, revolving, and digital asset-based credit lines. Committed to transparency, Arf aims to enhance access to liquidity for cross-border financial institutions worldwide.
2020
Marketing,Growth&Product Expert
Jul 2020
500 Global is a venture capital firm with over $2.7B in Assets Under Management that invests early in founders building fast-growing technology companies. We focus on markets where technology, innovation, and capital can unlock long-term value and drive economic growth. 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Our portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million. Our 140+ plus team members are located in more than 15 countries and bring experience as entrepreneurs, investors, and operators from some of the world’s leading technology companies.
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