Turkey 2024

Founder Institute Turkey Mentors

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Turkey program below.

Ahmet Bahadır Özdemir

Co-Founder @ Airalo

Alperen Zeki Gokmen

Product Pioneer @ The Brutally Honest

Altan Küçükçınar

Partner @ Diffusion Capital Partners

Ari Bencuya

Startup Consultant and Web Analytics Enthusiast @ Self Employed - Startup Consultant

Atil Erken

General Partner @ Collective Spark

Aylin Şahin

CEO @ Igniters Tech Consulting

Başak Özcan

General Manager @ Garaj X TEKMER

Beliz Bediz Sinan

Partner @ The Brutally Honest

Brandy Old

Technology Development Advisor @ Hometown Startup

Craig Elias

Chief Catalyst @ Shift Selling

Elif Güngör Reis

Entrepreneurship and Business Development Expert @ Istanbul Arel University

Emin Okutan

Co-Founder and CEO @ Viveka

Guc Ozenci

Connector | Advisor @ ConnectOp

Hisham Kassim

Managing Partner @ Kassim Legal

İlknur İlkyaz Gül

General Manager @ Driventure

Irem Gurses Bilaloglu

Assistant Vice President @ Turkey Development Fund

Jason Lau

Managing Partner @ Core Strategy

Kerem Çalışkan

Kutlu Kazanci

@ Creative Destruction Lab

Mark Searle

Lecturer and Industry Fellow @ University of California, Berkeley

Mehdi Drissi

Co-founder & Product Lead @ BRIDGR

M. Erşad Zor

Head of Data @ StartupCentrum

Mike Vladimer

Mentor @ University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business & Alchemist Accelerator

Mine (Kocadag) Dedekoca

Founder @ Start-IST

Ozan Sonmez

Partner @ The Brutally Honest

Prof. Dr. Zehra Çataltepe

CEO @ TAZI AI

Rainer Ratnik

CEO @ Widen Legal Estonia

Safak Tufekci

Principal @ ScaleX Ventures

Sahin Boydas

Sahin Boydas - CEO, MovieLaLa (Istanbul FI) @ Gusto

Sebastien Toupy

Founder @ Founders Academy

Selen Senturk

Studio Manager @ SHERPA

Selma Bahcivanoglu

Managing Director @ Simya VC

Tarkan Anlar

Founder, CEO @ Scotty

Ufuk Polat

Founder @ Deplike

Umutcan Duman

Co-founder @ Evreka

Yagiz Karadeniz

Managing Partner @ DOMiNO Ventures

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