Ufuk Civilo

Co-Founder & CEO at Ascendx | Ex-TPG Growth and The Rise Fund

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2021
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Nov 2021
Blidz is Making Shopping Fun. We are building an AI Online Shopping Mall — think Netflix for bargain hunters — inspired by the explosive success of Pinduoduo.
mid stageRetail
Board Member
Aug 2021
RubiBrands is a Hyper-Growth Marketplaces Focused E-Commerce Brands Investment Company RubiBrands is the first e-commerce roll-up company to launch out of Istanbul, Turkey, and it focuses on acquiring predominantly Amazon brands sourced from CEEMEA (Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa). RubiBrands challenges the traditional roll-up playbook: -Using Turkey as a central logistics hub, we overcome margin-eroding ---Asian supply chain problems, -We accelerate our brands, transforming them into global brands via focusing our channel growth on Amazon and beyond, in the hyper-growth marketplaces, -We invest in larger, more established, and highly profitable brands and partner up with their founders.
Investor
Dec 2020
Founded by experts in marketplace, retail, technology, operations, finance and strategy, at Merama we invest in your company, becoming a strategic partner to exponentiate the growth of each e-commerce business we work with. Our mission is to be the best and largest group of e-commerce companies in Latin America. Contact us at: info@merama.io
early stageManufacturing
Board Member
Oct 2020
We are world-class multi-brand developers combining operational excellence with customer-centricity to improve the lives of millions of families across the globe. ​We focus on brands with outstanding customer reviews and a proven track record of leading bestseller lists in high-growth niches.
early stageRetail
Investor
2016
The Rise Funds are a core pillar of TPG Rise, TPGs global impact investing platform. Founded in 2016 by TPG in partnership with Bono and Jeff Skoll, The Rise Funds invest behind impact entrepreneurs, founders, and growth-stage, high potential, mission-driven companies that are focused on achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Rise Funds deliver capabilities and expertise across a wide variety of sectors and countries at scale, focusing on opportunities in education, financial inclusion, healthcare, impact services, food and agriculture, and climate and conservation. With approximately $14 billion in assets across The Rise Funds, TPG Rise Climate, and the Evercare Health Fund, the TPG Rise platform is the worlds largest private markets impact investing platform committed to achieving measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns.
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2024
Founders Pledge Member
Jan 2024
We are a global nonprofit empowering entrepreneurs to do the most good possible with their charitable giving --- Members pledge to give a small percentage of their personal proceeds to the charities of their choice following an exit, and the community also meets up for dinners, forums and talks exploring the latest news at the intersection of charity and technology. Founders Pledge is bridging the gap between the private and social sector, by encouraging entrepreneurs to apply the same rigour and thoughtfulness to their philanthropy as they do to their business. We also provide research, consultancy and support around every donation, so that pledgers can feel confident that their funds are going to charities that are evidence based, transparent, and impactful. Membership and all services provided, including events, online content and research, are completely free, meaning that 100% of every donation made goes directly to the members​ charities of choice. To learn more about what we do, visit founderspledge.com
2023
Co-Founder and CEO
Feb 2023
An enterprise cloud software company that helps teams solve their problems by boosting productivity and transforming tech stacks on CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Dynamics 365, and Hubspot.
2021
Board Member
Nov 2021
Blidz is Making Shopping Fun. We are building an AI Online Shopping Mall — think Netflix for bargain hunters — inspired by the explosive success of Pinduoduo.
mid stageRetail
Board Member
Aug 2021
RubiBrands is a Hyper-Growth Marketplaces Focused E-Commerce Brands Investment Company RubiBrands is the first e-commerce roll-up company to launch out of Istanbul, Turkey, and it focuses on acquiring predominantly Amazon brands sourced from CEEMEA (Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa). RubiBrands challenges the traditional roll-up playbook: -Using Turkey as a central logistics hub, we overcome margin-eroding ---Asian supply chain problems, -We accelerate our brands, transforming them into global brands via focusing our channel growth on Amazon and beyond, in the hyper-growth marketplaces, -We invest in larger, more established, and highly profitable brands and partner up with their founders.
Venture Partner
Feb 2021
We are an entrepreneurial investment platform with a distinctive strength to interpret the landscape of tech innovation and a sharp instinct to act on it. We focus on digitalisation of commerce and interlocking technologies that will shape its trajectory
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