CS

Cem Sertoglu

Digital East Fund | Early-stage Tech Ventures

United States

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Business Development
Strategy
Management Consulting
Social Networking
New Media
Marketing
Professional Services
Human Capital
Software
Start-ups
Entrepreneurship
Angel Investing
E-commerce
Private Equity
Leadership
Investments
Management
Product Management
Business Planning

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner - Digital East Fund

    2012

    DEF invests in early-stage, high-growth technology ventures in Emerging Europe. Investments include UiPath, Hazelcast, oBilet, Apsiyon, Tapu.com, UberCloud, Minit, DST Group (Mikro, Zirve & Parasut), Photoneo, Picus Security, FintechOS, Binalyze, Orgnostic, Anari.AI, Orgnostic, Trickest and Payhawk

  • Member of International Board of Overseers

    2024

Young Turk Ventures

2005 - 2013

  • Founder & CEO

    2005 - 2013

    Personal investment vehicle, focused on early stage internet ventures in the Turkish and EMEA markets. Investments include: - YemekSepeti (acquired by Delivery Hero) - GittiGidiyor (acquired by eBay) - PropertyFinder

  • CEO & Co-founder

    1999 - 2005

    SelectMinds pioneered corporate alumni programs in 2000 and continues to push the boundaries of technology in enterprise social networking industry to provide corporate social networking solutions that help our clients and their current and former employees build and maintain the professional relationships that drive success. SelectMinds was acquired by Oracle in 2012.

1998 - 1999

  • Vice President

    1998 - 1999