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Ali Rıza Babaoğlan

Managing Director @ Grow in EMEA | Angel Investor | Helping Startups in EMEA Region Growth

Helsinki, Uusimaa

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

Business Strategy
Solution Selling
Entrepreneurship
CRM
Start-ups
Business Intelligence
Management
Enterprise Software
SAP
Sales Management
Social Media
Key Account Management
Strategy
IT Strategy
Pre-sales
Team Management
Internet Strategy
New Business Development
Spokesperson
Go-to-market Strategy

Education

  • Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

    (2010 - 2012)

  • BSRE Alumni

    IBM Zurich Research Center

    (2008 - 2009)

  • Bachelor's Degree

    (2004 - 2008)

  • Science

    Yusuf Kalkavan Anatolian High School

    (1997 - 2004)

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2015

    Grow in EMEA boosts growth by providing consulting services and investing. As an awarded investment and consultancy company focusing on the EMEA Market (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa), we make direct investments and give market access services in the EMEA region since 2015 with our offices in UK, Estonia, Turkey and the U.A.E. General company presentation: https://link.gie.investments/company-presentation As a founder of Grow in EMEA, I am an angel Investor licensed by Turkey Min. of Finance. Certificate Number: BKY2022000850

2023

  • Private Investor

    2023

    Syndicate Investor with Salv Syn OÜ

2023

  • Investor, Partner

    2023

    Partner in Wamo, a fast growing fintech focusing on business banking solutions.

2022

  • Private Investor

    2022

    Syndicate Investor with Rocketride Syndicate OÜ

  • Investor

    2015

    Top notch RetailTech company which is chosen among the best 50 performing technology companies by Deloitte in 2019 and 2020. REM People's main focus is retail execution monitoring, digital execution tracking and retailer leaflet tracking. REM People is serving companies, such as Unilever, P&G, Henkel, Pepsi, Mondelez, Microsoft, Pernod Richard and many others in 3 different continents.

  • Member Of The Management Board

    2019 - 2022

    * Joined in Angel Investment round of REM completed in May'16 * Followed-up for $ 12 M valuated PRE-SERIE A round on Dec'19 * Become a member of the Management Board

  • Investor

    2019

    Empower your field team with a Mobile CRM and analyze real-time data from the fields.More than 5000 Field Sales Teams Close, More Sales Quickly with Ekmob SFA! * Joined in Pre Series-A (₺ 6 M valuation) round of EKMOB completed in Oct'19 * Followed-up for x4 time valuate Serie A (₺ 25 M valuation) round on Dec'20

  • Investor

    2021

    Kahvegibikahve is a startup based in Istanbul/Turkey, aims to ease brewing real coffee. To save you time for your loved ones, work, art, writing, music, movie. They produce single-serve coffee bags. We use specialty coffee and special plant-based 100% biodegradable filters. After grinding freshly roasted specialty beans, we fill them with Fiber Filters, then wrap them with envelopes that virtually contain no oxygen. True coffee, minus the hassle - https://kahvegibikahve.com Ground Coffee in Filter Bags - https://dipcaf.com

  • Member

    2023

    One of the largest and most active business angel networks in the world. Our main activity is to link potential high-growth companies to our investor members.​

  • Investor, Partner

    2020

    Our company is a joint stock company that has completed investments in land of over 150,000 m2 and low and medium zoning land since 2018, focusing on the western side of Turkey, with the potential for rapid appreciation, targeting large areas in one piece. All investments were made with equity capital and added to the company inventory.

  • Member

    2020

    One of the largest and most active business people network in Turkey