AO

Arin Ozkula

General Partner at 500 Emerging Europe

Istanbul, Istanbul

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Skills

Corporate Finance
Financial Modeling
Due Diligence
Private Equity
Valuation
Mergers & Acquisitions
Project Finance
Emerging Markets
Investment Banking
Capital Markets
Equities
Business Valuation
Finance
Investments
Venture Capital
Analysis
Management Consulting
Business Planning
M&A experience
Business Strategy

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2021

    500 Emerging Europe is a pre-seed / seed fund that invests in early stage technology companies from the region. Our aim is to back entrepreneurs with a global vision, be the first institutional money in and help them scale internationally. Launched €70M Fund II in 2021, pre-seed and seed investments from Fund II: Agave Games, Align, Altogic, Arf, Axoflow, Cypher Games, Datapad, Daytona, Ddosify, DiffuseDrive, Evidose, Fal AI, Frantic Games, Freeflow, Gesund AI, Pythagora, Integrated Finance, Kalder, Kubeark, Layer, Lonca, Nicky AI, Permify, Pine Games, Refine, Salus, Sentify, Swarm, Synnada, Ubicloud, Vidoc Security, & Village Board positions: Ango AI, Agave Games, Axoflow, Cypher Games, Integrated Finance, Kubeark, Salus, Sentify, Swarm

  • General Partner

    2021

2022

  • Community Member

    2022

    Building tomorrow's tech society with cultural diversity: 2hearts is a (non-profit) community of people with immigration backgrounds from the tech scene (founders, investors, top executives) with the mission to help underprivileged minorities.

2016 - 2021

  • Revo Capital

    2016 - 2021

  • Senior Associate

    2011 - 2016

  • Corporate Finance - Senior Associate

    2006 - 2010