cc: Podcast: Recent Episodes
Enis, Rina & Arin
cc: covers growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula. (previously Glocal Podcast)
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Levent is the co-founder of Bunch, the OS for private market investments. Bunch is a flexible & adaptable platform that works across legal structures, asset classes & jurisdictions to fully unlock private markets for everyone.
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Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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Emre has led payment teams at several leading technology companies covering various functions like operations, payment acceptance, risk, compliance, and new initiatives. Having built high-performing commercial and operational teams paired with his in-depth FinTech knowledge enables him to create value for merchants & help them grow.
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Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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Balázs Scheidler is the Co-Founder & CEO of Axoflow, one of the hottest rising star startups from Hungary. Previously Balázs was the CTO and Co-Founder of Balabit, navigating the company through one of Hungary’s largest exits to One Identity.
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Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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Balint Orosz is the Founder & CEO of craft, which is a significant evolution in the world of docs. Craft enables their customers to create an entirely new type of document format, which is powerful, beautiful, and shareable.
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Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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Tamas Kadar is the Founder & CEO of SEON, which harnesses the power of AI to protect your business from fraud, get a 360° view of customers, and increase conversion rates.
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Melih Onvural is Product Manager at Stripe, which is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. He holds BS in Computer Science and Economics, and MCS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. He had roles as Product Manager and VP of Product of several companies.
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Istvan Csanady is the Founder & CEO of Shap3D, which is the world’s most intuitive 3D modeling app, engineered for iPad (with Apple Pencil), Mac, and Windows devices, powered by Siemens® Parasolid®.
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Merit Valdsalu is the CEO of Single.Earth, which is a GreenTech company with significant venture capital funding for scientific research and innovation development in nature-based solutions.
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Markus Lember is the CEO of Montonio Finance, which is a next generation open platform for ecommerce checkout. Montonio raised over €13m from Index and top regional firms.
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Barnabas Birmacher is the CEO of the Bitrise, which is a mobile DevOps platform build around industry-leading mobile CI/CD and DevOps tooling. Bitrise now counts 200+ people across continents, and has raised close to $100M in funding to date from investors like Insights Partners, Partech, Y Combinator, and more.
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Taavi Tamkivi is the founder & CEO of the Salv, which is an AML platform built by the creators of TransferWise & Skype's compliance. Salv gives companies the flexibility and speed they need to get ahead of financial criminals.
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Mateusz Romanowski is our third guest in the cc: Nights Warsaw event and he is the founder of SonarHome, which is a new generation platform for home buyers and sellers in Emerging Markets. SonarHome is a market leader in Warsaw, first-mover in Budapest and is expanding throughout other cities in Central and Eastern Europe.
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(Episode in English - live recording during cc: Nights in Warsaw)
Our second guest was Piotr Smolen in our cc: Nights Warsaw event. He is the founder and CEO of Symmetrical.ai. Symmetrical.ai helps companies hire and pay people at scale through smart, fast, and incredibly flexible headless payroll technology™ bundled with human service - globally.
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(Episode in English - live recording during cc: Nights in Warsaw)
Our first guest was Jakub Zielinski in our cc: Nights Warsaw event. He is the founder and CEO of Mindgram. Mindgram is a cutting-edge mental support and employee development platform offered as an employee benefit by top employers. They help employees understand their mental health issues and connect them with best-in-class providers to get the right support at the right time.
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Our third guest was Dilara Unal in cc: Nights Talent event in Istanbul. She is the co-founder of Lookup, the app that provides flexible, talent acquisition and employer branding solutions for the world’s most ambitious companies in Tech.
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Our second guest was Egem Eraslan in our cc: Nights for Talent event. He is the founder and CEO of Midas, the app that makes investing accessible to the masses in Turkey and beyond.
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Our first guest in cc: Nights for Talent was Bircan Karalar. She works for the organizational development department in Trendyol Group. Her focus areas are talent management and psychology.
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(Episode in English - live recording during cc: Nights in Bucharest)
Marius Istrate has seen how the Romanian ecosystem has evolved over the past decade. He is an active investor in a number of successful companies in Romania.
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Xenia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Planable, a content review and marketing collaboration platform used by over 4,000 teams at brands like Jaguar, Land Rover, Viber, and World Food Program. Prior to launching Planable, she built a digital marketing agency and led social for clients such as Coca-Cola. Xenia has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and she spoke on the Innovation Stage at Cannes Lions in 2018. Xenia graduated Tim Draper’s startup academy in Silicon Valley and took Planable through the Techstars London accelerator in 2017.
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(Episode in English - live recording during cc: Nights in Bucharest)
Bogdan Litescu is the Chief Garden Officer at Plant an App. He founded Plant an App in 2018.
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cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets. (Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
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1) Alictus'un kurulma hikayesi
2) Yatırım stratejisi
3) Alictus'un Satın Alınma Süreci
4) Gelecek planları
Emre Taş, 2013'de Ecem Baran ile mobil oyun şirketi Alictus'u kurmuştur ve yıllar içerisinde şirkette hemen hemen her alanda aktif olarak çalışmıştır.
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🎙Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Agave'nin kurulma hikayesi
2) Ekibin geliştirdiği oyunlar
3) Agave'nin yatırım stratejisi
4) Gelecek planları
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1) Türkiye'deki güncel oyun ekosistemi
2) 2010’ların başındaki oyun dünyasına kıyasla şu anki oyun sektöründeki farklılaşmalar
3) Spyke’ın oyun çıkarma stratejisi
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Mehmet, 2008 ve 2011 yılları arasında Oyun Studyosu’nun kurucu CEO’luğunu üstlendikten sonra 2012’de mobil oyun geliştiricisi Gram Games’i kuran ortaklar arasında yer aldı ve yaklaşık 8 yıl boyunca Gram’ın da CEO’luğunu yürüttü. Daha sonrasında ML modelleri üzerine ekiplere birlikte çalışma ortamı sağlayan Layer’ı kurdu ve günümüzde CEO’luk görevini üstleniyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) “Büyük veri”yi anlamak için MLOps ekiplerinin yaklaşımları
2) 2000’lerin başındaki yazılım dünyasına kıyasla MLOps’un ihtiyaçlarındaki farklılaşmalar
3) Mevcut yazılım ortamları neden ML geliştiricileri için yetersiz kalıyor?
4) Layer’ın aktif bir yazılım topluluğu kurma stratejisi
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Samican, 2008 yılında Bilkent Üniversitesi İşletme Bölümü’nden mezun olduktan sonra yaklaşık 4 yıl PwC’de çalıştı. Apsiyon’ da Head of Operations ve sonrasında Picus’ ta VP of Strategy rollerini üstlenmesinin yan ısıra “Girişimci Muhabbeti” adında girişimcilikle alakalı haftalık türkçe içeriklerin paylaşıldığı bir podcast serisi başlattı. Samican şu anda Synnada adında bir ML girişiminin kurucu ortakları arasında yer alıyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Dinamik sistemleri izlemek ve yorumlamak neden zor?
2) MLOps ekiplerinin korkulu rüyası: Gerçek zamanlı data ve alarm yığını
3) Synnada’dan MLOps dünyasına “generalist” “unsupervised learning” yaklaşımı
4) Zaman verisi veri tabanlarının farklı dikeylerdeki konumlanması
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Gökalp, Bilkent Üniversitesi Bilgisayar Bölümü'nde Master derecesini aldıktan ve çeşitli yazılım ekipleriyle çalıştıktan sonra Savunma Sanayii için yapay zeka ve makina öğrenmesi teknoloji geliştiren bir şirkette çalıştı. Şu anda Ango.AI'ın kurucu ortakları arasında yer alıyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) AI & ML algoritmalarını geliştirme sürecinin darboğazı: veriyi bulma
2) Yapay zekanın gelecekteki yeri
3) Ango.AI'yın medikal sektöründeki veri boşluğuna odaklanması
4) Yapay zeka, "ateşten daha önemli bir buluş" mu?
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Kazım, NETAŞ’ta Yazılım Mühendisi olarak başladığı kariyer hayatına Airties ve çeşitli kurumsal şirketlerde yazılım ekiplerinde yer alarak devam etti. Daha sonrasında büyük şirketlere blokzinciri danışmanlığı vermek üzerine kurduğu şirketi Monolytic ile 10 yıla yakın bir süre boyunca hizmet verdi. 2018 yılından beri Arf’ın kurucu ortakları arasında yer alıyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Eski para transferi dünyası hem yavaş hem pahalı
2) Finansal dünyada altyapı çok problemli
3) Blokzinciri ve stable coinler uluslararası para transferini kolaylaştırıyor
4) Arf, global para transferi değer zincirinde bir köprü görevi görüyor
5) Kriptopara’ nın günümüz finansal teknolojilerine entegre olması ve konsolidasyon potansiyeli
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Endüstri Mühendisliği mezunu Bülent, Türkiye’nin en önemli FinTech şirketlerinden biri olan İninal’ın kurucu ortakları arasında yer alıyor. Aynı zamanda yapay zeka ve büyük veri kullanarak skorlama algoritması servisleri geliştiren Colendi’nin de kurucu ortağı.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Geleneksel paranın dijitalleşme ve programlanabilirlik serüveni
2) Her şirket bir FinTech şirketi mi olacak?
3) Bugün Colendi nasıl hizmetler sağlıyor?
4) DeFi dünyasının gelecekteki evrimi
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Deniz, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Ekonomi Bölümü’nden mezun oldu. TechSign isimli bir kimlik doğrulama girişiminde başladığı yolculuğuna Superhuman projesiyle devam etti. Şu anda da Space Runners adında metaverse için ayakkabı tasarımlarını NFTler halinde yatırımcılara sunan bir girişimin kurucu ortaklığını üstleniyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) NFT dünyasındaki yatırımcıların kendilerini özel hissetme istekleri
2) Topluluk bilinci bütün crypto projeleri için çok önemli
3) Fiziksel ve sanal dünyanın bir araya getirilmesi
4) Space Runners’ ın multi-chain yaklaşımı oyun dünyasını nasıl etkileyecek?
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After gaining exposure in the private equity sector and advising startups for several years Laila joined 500 MENA in 2019. She is currently the General Partner of Algebra Ventures, a $90M early stage fund focused on Egypt.
What’s in this episode?
1) Evolution of the MENA ecosystem over the past decade
2) 500’s investment thesis in MENA
3) Comparing opportunities along the region
4) Opportunities and gaps in the funding environment
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Wharton School’da Girişimcilik üzerine okuduktan sonra Radius ve Geld’in kurucu ortaklıklarını üstlenen Sinan, 2019 yılından bu yana stable coin girişimi BiLira’nın da kurucu ortakları arasında yer alıyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Stable coin ne demek? Stable coin çeşitleri nelerdir?
2) Regülatörlerin ve geleneksel finans oyuncularının “stable coin”lere yaklaşımı
3) Gelişmekte olan ülkelerde “stable coin” adaptasyonu yakalayan oyuncular
4) BiLira’nın Metavest girişimi
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
İsmail, 2004 yılından beri Kadir Has Üniversitesi’nde Yeni Medya odaklı dersler veriyor ve yerel bazdaki medya kuruluşlarına yeni medya üzerine danışmanlık hizmetleri sunuyor. Seedify.fund, NFTPrime.com, Xerians.com gibi birçok kripto, NFT ve GameFi girişimlerinde mentorluk ve danışmanlık pozisyonda bulunuyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Farklı ülkelerin regülasyon ve okuryazarlık gereksinimlerine yaklaşımı
2) Web3 dönüşümünün Metaverse’ün gelişimine etkisi
3) NFT ve akıllı kontratların olası kullanım alanları
4) Web3 dünyasındaki kavram karmaşası
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Cecile is the Head of Impact and Sustainability, helping Pitango and their portfolio companies to apply environmental, social and corporate governance and sustain the fund’s operations accordingly. Since founding Impact First Investments which is an investment management company focusing on equity investments into for-profit social enterprises with high and measurable social impact, Cecile has been helping startups and funds for ESG governance.
What’s in this episode?
1) Diverse environment in the global startup ecosystem
2) How to support and motivate early and growth stage portfolio companies for ESG governance?
3) Keeping track of ESG metrics of portfolio companies
4) How did the biggest VC fund in Israel decide to put emphasis on the “impact” side of its investments?
5) How to establish ESG culture within a fund’s operations
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Ahmed kullanıcılarının kolayca finansal işlemler yapabilmesini sağlayan bir elektronik para kuruluşu olan Papara'nın kurucusu. Papara 11 milyon kullanıcısı ve ayda 30 milyon adet işlem hacmi ile, Türkiye'nin en önemli fintech şirketlerinden biri.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Ahmed’in avukatlık geçmişi ve Papara’nın başlangıcı
2) Banka hesabı olan / olmayan herkese yönelik çözümler
3) 11m kullanıcı, ayda 30M işlem ve 2018'den beri 100x büyüme hikayesi
4) Kredi & yatırım ürünleri ve finansal "super app" hedefi
5) Yurtdışı hedefleri ve yatırım planları
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Hakan uzun yıllardır girişimcilik ekosisteminin içinde. Bugüne kadar Lidyana, Bitlo, Krombera, Anibera, ve SuperMassive gibi girişimleri kurdu. Şu anda Ace Games'in başında. Ace Games 2020 yılında kurulmuş bir mobil oyun şirketi. Nisan 2021'de Actera, NFX ve aralarında Firefly'ın kurucusu Kaan Günay'ın da olduğu bireysel yatırımcılardan $7M'lık bir yatırım aldılar.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Hakan girişimcilik serüvenine nasıl başladı
2) Peak Games hikayesi
3) Seri girişimcilik sonrası bugün tüm odağının Ace Games'te olması
4) Ace Games’in ilk oyunu ve 2022 planları
5) Web3'te oyun dünyasının geleceği
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli, Rina Onur and Arin Ozkula.
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Miray, sağlık teknolojisi Vivoo’nun kurucusu ve şirket toplamda $10M yatırım aldı. Vivoo, ürettiği testi sayesinde kullanıcıların hem su tüketimi, pH, keton, idrar yolları enfeksiyonu gibi testlerin sonuçlarına hem de vücut bilgilerine bağlı olarak beslenme ve sağlıklı yaşam tavsiyelerine anında ulaşmasını sağlıyor.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Kandan idrara şirketin pivotu
2) İş modelindeki korunabilirlik katmanları ve sürdürülebilir farklılaşma
3) İdrarın içinde saklı verilerin büyüklüğü ve çıkarılabilen sonuçlar
4) Kişisel sağlık sektörü, pazar büyüklüğü ve rakipler
5) Ölçeklenebilirlik, donanım ayağı ve operasyonel sıkıntılar
6) Sıfırdan Silikon Vadisi’ne gidiş ve yurtdışından alınan yatırım
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(Episode in Turkish - live recording during cc: Nights in Istanbul)
Sercan, yapay zeka odaklı iş sağlığı ve güvenliği platformu Intenseye’ın kurucusu. Şirket bugüne kadar uluslararası yatırımcılardan $25M yatırım aldı ve 250 Milyar Dolarlık sektördeki öncü teknoloji oyuncusu olarak konumlanmış durumda.
Bölümde sizi neler bekliyor?
1) Intenseye’a neden yatırım yapmadık 😞
2) Perakendeden, iş sağlığı ve güvenliğine pivot
3) Tek başına bir pazarın öncüsü olmanın zorlukları
4) Donanım etrafında oluşturulan iş modeli ve ölçeklenebilirlik
5) Video üzerinde yapay zeka maliyetlerinin düşmesi ve yeni pazarların açılması
6) Türk bir girişimci olarak Amerika’da yatırım süreçleri
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Tytus is the founder of Cytowski & Partners, a specialist law firm focused on startups, venture capital and US market expansion. Since starting the firm in 2009, Tytus advised 500+ founders, raising almost $1 billion in venture financing (excluding UI Path:)
What’s in this episode?
1) US Expansion: Flip up vs. opening a subsidiary
2) Tax issues while flipping up
3) Pan-European game plan and potential European legal structures
4) How a law firm can help its clients fundraise
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Sercan is the co-founder of Intenseye, a video AI-powered health, safety and environment platform that helps the world’s largest enterprises to scale employee health and safety across their facility footprints. The company just raised $25M led by Insight, with the participation of Point Nine and Air Street Capital.
What’s in this episode?
1) Pivoting from retail to health, safety and environment
2) Problems with digitization in the HSE space
3) Hardware dependent software business model and scalability
4) Managing a Turkey - New York office structure as an early stage company
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Zaya is a Principal at the EBRD Venture Capital, a €200M fund focused on companies from 38 countries across EMEA. She has lead investments into a number of great companies like Plum, Pollfish and Picsart.
What’s in this episode?
1) Background of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
2) Reasons for setting up a VC fund for direct investments
3) Comparing different regions from talent and opportunity perspectives
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David is a Partner at Global Founders Capital, based in Israel. He has been focusing on early stage investing for almost a decade and has invested in dozens of companies.
What’s in this episode?
1) GFC’s structure with $2.5B AUM and 17 locations
2) Global approach, opportunities and the investment thesis
3) How the Israeli startup scene Americanized its culture
4) Changes in the exit landscape
5) Israel’s success in b2b and the b2c upstarts
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Sheel led 500 Fintech Fund as its General Partner and launched Better Tomorrow Ventures about 2 years ago. He is laser focused on fintech and has invested in over 100 companies over the past 5 years. His portfolio includes a number of superstars including Albert, Kin, Ethos Insurance and Unit.
What’s in this episode?
1) Fintech opportunities in the US vs. the rest of the world
2) Importance of fintech infrastructure players and the $T opportunity ahead
3) Framework to spot upcoming fintech trends
4) Unbundling and bundling in the personal finance space
5) Complex insurance value chain, full of disintermediation
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Sergiu Negut is the co-founder of FintechOS, a globally focused technology provider for banks, insurers and financial institutions born out of Bucharest, Romania. With roots in consulting, Sergiu became an angel investor and then a co-founder, helping FintechOS emerge as a leading fintech player in Europe. They've recently raised $60m in April from several prominent funds in Europe, including Draper, Earlybird, OTB Ventures, GapMinder, and Launchub. Their clients include leading banks, financial institutions & insurance companies like Raiffeisen, Societe Generale, Erste and Orange.
What’s in this episode?
1) How Sergiu moved from consulting to angel investing to being a founder
2) FintechOS's roots & the story of the switch from Softelligence
3) The path from software services to democratizing customer-centric banking & insurance applications
4) Expanding to the US & managing a large & growing organization during Covid
5) Being an Eastern European entrepreneur & how the landscape is changing now
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Neeraj is the co-founder of Sprig, the first and largest fully vertically integrated on-demand food delivery startup that raised $60M and scaled to 1,200 employees before winding it down. Since then, Neeraj relocated to Berlin and started actively investing in the startups around the future of food, including some unicorns.
What’s in this episode?
1) How you go from a soonicorn to closing up
2) Evaluating product-market-fit over time
3) Reasons for focusing on the future of food
4) Grocery craze in the VC world
5) Problems with supply chain and food surplus
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Akin started Tripledot Studios, a mobile gaming studio, and Luna Labs, a playable ads platform, in 2018. In the beginning of 2021, he exited Luna Labs to the Israeli unicorn IronSource, and also raised a $78M round for Tripledot Studios. He is an advisor and investor to many major gaming companies globally.
What’s in this episode?
1) Exited Luna Labs to IronSource (raised $555M) in February
2) Raised $85M for Tripledot Studios (annual revenue $100M+) in March
3) Why gaming is more science than art
4) How Akin supports his ‘circle of friends’ while also creating $100M+ businesses
5) Rule of thumb metrics in gaming
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Ahu Serter recognized the larger need in transportation, beyond cars, and founded F+ Ventures under Farplas. Investing in startups around smart transportation, with a special focus on companies that combine automotive, electronics, and software competencies, she is an expert on sustainable mobility alternatives for the future.
What’s in this episode?
1) Innovation efforts, F+ Ventures and Farklabs
2) Disruption in the car manufacturing value chain
3) Evolution of the mobility landscape and the rising alternatives
4) Cars as the next $T hardware innovation
5) Moonshot bets in mobility
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Sinan Guler is a professional basketball player and a very active member of the startup ecosystem in Turkey. He is passionate to become the catalyst between the sports industry and the ecosystem.
What’s in this episode?
1) SG Sports Startups Accelerator Program
2) Sinan’s ambitions in bringing together sports clubs, athletes and entrepreneurs
3) Technology adoption in sports: US vs Europe
4) Disrupting traditional sports via innovation
5) Evolution of e-sports
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Bretton Putter is a leading expert on startup and high-growth company culture. He founded the culture development platform, CultureGene, to help companies better understand how they defined, developed, and implemented their company’s culture.
What’s in this episode?
1) Software-driven company culture development
2) Experience from CxO searches for hundreds of high-growth startups
3) Good and bad examples of how company culture can affect a company
4) Strengthening culture for fully remote companies
5) Brett’s books:
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Culture Decks Decoded: Transform your culture into a visible, conscious, and tangible asset
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Own Your Culture: How to Define, Embed and Manage your Company Culture
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Julia Morrongiello is an investor at Point Nine Capital and she has been focused on B2B marketplaces for more than 2 years. Ever since Julia published the European B2B marketplace landscape in 2018, the number of B2B marketplaces in Europe grew from 20 to 300, raising a total of €3 billion.
What’s in this episode?
1) Why B2B marketplaces lagged behind B2C
2) Unbundling the value chain and identifying value creating opportunities
3) Different types of B2B marketplaces and their dynamics
4) Business models, important metrics, and benchmarks
5) Go-to-market models: SaaS enabled and managed supply marketplaces
6) Obstacles to scale and expand internationally
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Dragos Novac writes the most interesting newsletter in the European ecosystem, the Sunday CET - follow it if you don't already! Dragos lived in 8 cities and built a bunch of businesses in the digital space over the past 2 decades.
What’s in this episode?
1) Dynamics in the European tech landscape
2) EU vs. the US: Startup value chain, funding, and early adopters
3) EU vs. the US: Approach to monopolies and antitrust
4) Regulatory hurdles in technology
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
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Zaky is the founder of Bukalapak, a unicorn and one of the largest e-commerce companies to ever come out of Indonesia. Zaky started Bukalapak 10 years ago with very humble aspirations, as a commerce company targeting hobbyists and cyclists. Over the last decade, the platform has been instrumental in bringing over 4.5million of mom & pop shops and SME sellers to go digital.
What’s in this episode?
1) Starting with humble beginnings and quickly taking on bigger ambitions
2) Biggest challenges faced at the point of inflection during the startup journey
3) Going public in emerging markets as a source of liquidity and exit opportunity
4) Stepping down from the day-to-day leadership of a startup one co-founds
5) Life as an operational investor and the advantages for deal-flow access & management
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Carlo Gualandri is the Founder and CEO of Soldo, a fintech startup that focuses on the flow of money inside organizations with a focus on managing multi-user spending for businesses and enterprises. Raised $83M since its founding, Soldo has offices in London, Rome, Milan, and Dublin.
What’s in this episode?
1) 20 years of experience in startups as a 4x entrepreneur
2) Effect of Covid-19 on enterprise spendings
3) Evolution of the Italian ecosystem since the mid-1990s
4) Reasons for moving to London, but still building Soldo from Italy
5) Pan-European play and potential overseas expansion
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Melih Odemis is the Co-Founder and previous CTO of Yemeksepeti, the largest food delivery platform of Turkey acquired by Delivery Hero in 2015 for $600M. Having co-founded Yemeksepeti only 1 year after graduating from college, Melih spent years at his first endeavor against many odds, both internal and macroeconomic. Currently Melih is an active angel investor and mentor, backing early stage tech companies with defensible and scalable products.
What’s in this episode?
1) Starting entrepreneurial journeys “too early” when your market isn’t ready or mature enough
2) Having a co-founding team with little to no professional working experience
3) The psychological difficulties and inner-battles in the early days of building a category leader
4) The importance of having technical people in founding teams
5) Building and retaining a technical team in a fast growth startup
6) The dynamics of ex-entrepreneurs in building vs investing co-founders
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Artem Gassan is the General Partner of SaaS Growth Ventures, a VC fund with an operational approach to scale revenue and sales for SaaS companies in the US market. Artem is an expert to fuel growth and revenue for SaaS companies and has been involved with 500 Startups for over 6 years.
What’s in this episode?
1) Investment thesis behind backing capital-efficient SaaS businesses that lack momentum
2) Importance of sales velocity for SaaS businesses
3) Golden formula to optimize SaaS product pricing
4) Ideal SaaS metrics for seed and Series A
5) Different growth types and benchmarks
6) Ins and outs of the freemium business model
7) SaaS multiples and public comparables
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Kinga Stanisławska is the General Partner of the Experior Venture Fund and actively invests in data-driven startups from CEE. She founded one of the oldest VC funds in Poland and also started the European Women in VC initiative.
What’s in this episode?
1) Outlook of Polish ecosystem from a decade ago
2) Success of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in taking tech companies public
3) How Polish fund of funds activity gave birth to 80 new VC funds
4) Staying local, going regional or global from Poland
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John started Five9 with only $10k in his bank account and grew the company $20M annual revenue in 5 years. Five9 IPO’d in 2014 and now has a market cap of ≈$8B. John then started DoctorBase and exited it to Kareo in 2016. He is now on a mission to build the #1 offshore software development team, JetBridge.
What’s in this episode?
1) Getting to $20M ARR as a solo non-technical founder
2) Vulture capital approach in the beginning of 2000s
3) Resigning from your own company and watching it reach $8B at the public markets
4) Why John moved from enterprise SaaS to health tech
5) Deep dive into the integration problem in health tech
6) How John beat his competitors with only a fraction fo the capital
7) Tips for entrepreneurs starting in Eastern Europe
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Barbaros is the co-founder and CEO of Iyzico, the leading payment management systems platform in Turkey, which was acquired by PayU in 2019 for $165M. Prior to Iyzico, Barbaros had the opportunity to work with payment leaders such as Telecash, FirstData and Klarna. He came back to Turkey with the intention of building Iyzico, because he saw a serious gap in the market, which was unfulfilled by incumbents such as PayPal and PayU.
What’s in this episode?
1) The path that took Barbaros to Iyzico from his past at places like Klarna
2) Replicating a proven business model in an emerging market and scaling rapidly
3) The advantages of hyper-local businesses in competing with global incumbents
4) Raising funding initially from local VCs and then from internationals while remaining a local platform
5) Surviving seismic macroeconomic and geopolitical volatility while running a funding round
6) Life at Iyzico after the exit
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Emma Tracey is the Co-Founder and CEO of Honeypot, Europe’s leading developer-focused job platform. Honeypot started in 2015 to rethink the tech job market and scaled profitably to 150k developers. Honeypot eventually got acquired by XING in 2019.
What’s in this episode?
1) Candidate-driven, developer-first approach pulls more developers
2) Opening up global talent pools
3) Reasons for the early exit and why selling was better than getting more funding
4) Staying as a separate entity post-acquisition and the long term incentives
5) How Honeypot attracted top talent
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Joanne Chen is a Partner at Foundation Capital and focuses on entrepreneurs that leverage proprietary data assets to disrupt business functions. She invests in AI-first B2B applications and data platforms that are the building blocks of the automated enterprise.
What’s in this episode?
1) Diverse backgrounds from the start breed better decision making
2) Investments into companies with overseas development teams and distributed functions
3) Immigrant mentality brings resilience and perseverance
4) Perspectives on artificial intelligence and ethical concerns
Check out Foundation Capital’s Credo: https://foundationcapital.com/credo/
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One of the most prolific technology investors in Israel, Gigi is a two-time CEO, founder, board member, and was previously a super-angel, before becoming the Managing Partner of NFX. He served as the CEO of 888 Holdings, one of the world’s leading online gaming entertainment companies in the world, until mid-2011 when he turned his hobby of investing in startups into his full-time job. Gigi has either been a cofounder or board member at many giant companies such as Playtika, Kenshoo, Plarium, SweetIM, Eyeview, Gooodjob and Superfly.
What’s in this episode?
1) Running an investment fund as a group of past operators
2) Being an investment firm that’s always on the founders’ side
3) Evolving from an accelerator model into a classical seed stage fund
4) Investing heavily into network effects around the world
5) Connecting Israeli founders to the Silicon Valley
6) Running multi-country offices in scaling startups founded by Israeli teams
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Raul Popa is the founder of TypingDNA, the AI-based typing biometrics technology company that identifies users by the way they type. The need for keystroke dynamics and authentication has skyrocketed and TypingDNA leveraged its first-mover advantage to dominate new verticals in a well-established industry.
What’s in this episode?
1) How Raul can understand who you are as you type!
2) Competitors in the authentication space and growing niches
3) Raising $Ms from local, EU and US VCs, all in the same round
4) Fundraising tips and tricks to attract top tier VCs as an international founder
5) New York vs. Silicon Valley for international founders
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Anton is a General Partner at Project A Ventures, an early stage European VC with over € 460M of assets under management. Project A starts investing at Seed and Series A stages, and reserves up to € 15M for future rounds combined with heavy operational support.
Anton co-leads venture capital investment activities and the investment team.
Prior to joining Project A, Anton was the managing director of Axel Springer Digital Ventures Inc. and has built up the venture capital activities of this media company in the US.
What’s in this episode?
1) The notion of operational investing and spending resources for portfolio company assistance
2) Investing in Emerging Europe when not many VCs are looking at this region
3) Classic patterns in the main struggles emerging world founders face
4) Investing in regional champions vs global ‘helpfuls’ in the emerging world
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Richard Mabey is the co-founder and CEO of Juro, the contract collaboration platform that raised $8M from top tier investors like Seedcamp, Union Square Ventures, and Point Nine Capital. Juro’s team is dispersed in Latvia and UK, while its customers are from 65+ countries.
What’s in this episode?
1) Reasons for the developer-centric API approach and the no-code editor
2) Leveraging the tech talent in Latvia
3) Solving complex issues of large tech companies at scale
4) Importance of building a physical presence in the US to penetrate the market
5) Endless cycles of ensuring product-market-fit
6) Growth fueled by a well-crafted content strategy
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Deena Shakir is a partner at Lux Capital, a $2.4Bn stage and sector agnostic VC firm, that is looking to back mission driven entrepreneurs in frontier sectors. Deena is the first-generation daughter of immigrants from Iraq and has grown up in Silicon Valley, even before she realized she wanted a career in tech. A former journalist and then a diplomat, Deena led strategic partnerships for early stage products in health, research, machine learning and search at Google, before joining Google Ventures. At Lux she has led the fund’s investments in companies like Mos, Shiru and Neo.
What’s in this episode?
1) Lux Capital’s investment approach of investing in category defining, frontier sectors
2) The way to build conviction across different disciplines and stages
3) Coming from an immigrant family and the way that impacts your investment style
4) Discussion around impact investing vs investing in companies benefiting humanity
5) Looking for grit, ambition and discipline in founding teams
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
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Cristina Fonseca is the co-founder of Talkdesk, the unicorn help desk software company that raised $125M to date. Cristina then joined Indico Partners to fund the next generation of startups coming out of Portugal.
What’s in this episode?
1) Talkdesk’s journey starting with a startup competition
2) Challenges and advantages of international entrepreneurs in the US
3) Cristina’s focus on b2b
4) Sales tactics for international expansion
5) Evolution of the Portuguese ecosystem
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
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Allen is the Managing Director of Endeavor Catalyst, an innovative co-investment vehicle through which Endeavor can invest into its portfolio companies. Launched in 2012, Endeavor Catalyst has raised more than $120M+ across two funds and made 130+ investments to date in 27 different countries across Latin America, EMEA and Southeast Asia. Investments include Globant (NYSE:GLOB) in Argentina, Peak (acq’d Zynga $1.8Bn, 2020) in Turkey and Fetchr in the UAE.
What’s in this episode?
1) The main driver behind looking at places where not many people are looking
2) Access problem of emerging market founders and associated selection biases developed market VCs might have
3) A look at Endeavor Catalyst’s rule-based investment criteria
4) Natural patterns Endeavor sees when companies are ready to push out of their home countries/turf
5) Tell-tale signs of a company as to when they'd be able to attract serious downstream capital interest
6) Co-investing with local vs global VCs
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Gil Dibner is the General Partner of Angular Ventures, an early-stage enterprise fund focused on founders across Europe and Israel. Prior to Angular, Gil led investments across the region during his time at DFJ Esprit, Index Ventures, Gemini Israel Ventures, and Genesis Partners. He has a special eye to spot enterprise opportunities that can scale globally.
What’s in this episode?
1) Evolution of the Israeli ecosystem from 1970s
2) VC: is it an access game or a selection game?
3) Europe’s progress and opportunity in enterprise software
4) Importance of the US market for enterprise startups and how to Americanize
5) Israel’s playbook and knowledge base as a startup nation
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Oguzhan is the co-founder and CEO of BilliontoOne, a precision diagnostics company that makes molecular diagnostics accurate, efficient, and accessible for all. Born and raised in Turkey, Oguzhan studied Molecular Biology at Princeton University and received his PhD in Systems Biology from Stanford University. If that wasn’t enough star power in his resume, he also took his company to YC, only to raise $32M afterwards from the likes of Hummingbird Ventures, Neotribe Ventures and 500 Startups.
What’s in this episode?
1) BilliontoOne’s rapid speed in going to market in biotech space
2) Receiving funding from specialized VCs vs generalists in biotech space
3) Use of "back-home" or "non-US" sources and methods in building product
4)BilliontoOne’s future vision for product development and geographic coverage
5)Competing with large incumbents and public companies
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Semyon is the General Partner of One Way Ventures, the VC fund that is solely focused on immigrant entrepreneurs. As an immigrant himself, Semyon is a former professional blackjack player with the MIT Blackjack Team and has invested in 100+ companies as an angel investor. After running Techstars Boston for a couple of years, he started One Way.
What’s in this episode?
1) How to earn $Ms from casinos
2) Influence of his blackjack experience on investing
3) Experience as the MD of Techstars Boston
4) Disproportionate success of immigrant entrepreneurs
5) Importance of immigrants and the talent network effect
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
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Nina Achadjian is a Partner at Index Ventures. She began her career as a high yield bond trader at Citigroup and then joined Google’s AdSense team where she managed a multi-billion dollar book of business covering Amazon, IAC and eBay. Prior to joining Index, Nina built HIVE Ventures, the first seed venture fund focusing on Armenian entrepreneurs, where she invested in over 30 companies. Nina focuses on investments in B2B SaaS, especially on vertical SaaS to help companies in legacy industries transition from using Excel and pen and paper workflows to adopting a more modern, end-to-end solutions.
What’s in this episode?
1) Being part of a minority community and leveraging that for a competitive edge in VC investing
2) Connecting Armenia to Silicon Valley and investing in Armenian founders
3) Adding value to founders in a different geography
4) Doing the work and building relationships with founders to have access to the best deals
5) Solving the problem of being “far” from your customers as an international team
6)Selling to upstream markets and attaining a large enough addressable market
7) The perseverance of immigrant founders and instilling “hustle” into the second generation of immigrant families.
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
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Mark Suster is the Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures, the LA-based VC fund with homerun success stories such as Bird, Ring (acquired by Amazon), and Maker Studios (acquired by Disney). Prior to Upfront, Mark co-founded BuildOnline (merged with Citadon) and Koral (acquired by Salesforce).
What’s in this episode?
1) LA’s unique position and its surge as a tech hub over the past decade
2) Mark’s entrepreneurial experience and how it shaped him as an investor
3) Upfront’s conviction focused investment strategy and portfolio management
4) Success of immigrant entrepreneurs and what sets them apart
5) Opportunities to invest in European tech
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
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Romain is a General Partner at Partech, a global seed-to-growth stage fund with offices in Paris, San Francisco Berlin and Dakar. Romain has deployed over 300M into 120+ companies across 4 continents and 22 countries. Apart from Europe, Partech is bullish on investing in frontier markets, with a special focus on Africa and Southeast Asia.
What’s in this episode?
1) Looking for founders in immature ecosystems and being an early player
2) Africa and Southeast Asia as being the next unconquered frontiers in tech
3) The shattering of the notion that Silicon Valley has a monopoly over talent
4) The VC mentality of picking winners in huge markets
5) Importance of providing active platforms to startups to scale at early stage
6) Supporting ecosystems through different stages of venture funding
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets.
Andrej is a General Partner at Credo Ventures, a Central European fund that backs entrepreneurs on their global ambitions. Credo’s portfolio includes top companies from the region including UI Path, Apiary (acquired by Oracle), and productboard.
What’s in this episode?
1) Advantages and disadvantages of starting in Central Europe
2) Scaling the tech team and capabilities
3) Americanizing a company to reach its full potential
4) Importance of diaspora founders for the region
5) Pattern matching from the region’s homerun success stories
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
Reid is a General Partner at CRV, one of the oldest VC firms with investments in 400 startups including Twilio, Zendesk, and Hubspot. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired and the firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and bioengineering.
What’s in this episode?
1) Enterprise software, DevOps and SaaS
2) Importance of high founder quotient and founder market fit
3) Advantages of having a distributed workforce
4) Challenges in the Bay Area and why companies are looking for offices elsewhere
5) Categories Reid is looking into
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets. Hosted byEnis Hulli andRina Onur.
Rebecca Kaden is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. She began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused early stage fund. Rebecca was born in New York City, where she now resides. She has invested in numerous technology companies disrupting legacy infrastructures and is continuing to look at startups that will be adapting our status quo for the future.
What’s in this episode?
- Building an investment thesis and sourcing deals based on conviction
- The rise of distributed teams and exodus from established startup hubs like Silicon Valley and NYC
- The nature of investing globally and the support of local VCs in emerging markets
- Staying competitive and relevant in the VC space with a small team
- Main struggles emerging market startups face in scaling globally
- Difficulty of creating high quality content and its benefits
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin.
cc: growth journeys from emerging ecosystems to global markets. This is an introductory episode to cc: Podcast. You’ll learn the reasons for our rebranding, our goals moving forward and the upcoming guests for Summer 2020. Get ready for a small surprise.
What’s in this episode?
1) What was bad about Glocal and what’s great about cc:
2) Meet your new host
3) Learn about upcoming guests
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin. Hosted by Enis Hulli and Rina Onur.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Marcin is the founder of PriceFX, a full suite price management, and CPQ solution that raised €50M+ and opened offices in 5 countries. As the company grew to the US, it had to go through lawsuits that had no foundations but cost millions to the company. Thankfully, PriceFXcame out even stronger!
What’s in this episode?
1) How US competitors strong-arm new players through lawsuits
2) Reasons for growing regionally before pushing for the US market
3) Creating a bullshit-free culture across offices in 5 countries
4) Bootstrapping for 5 years before raising €50M
5) PriceFX’s road to an eventual IPO...
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis and Marton Medveczky.
Jan became a VC after successfully opening his first venture to the public market in Poland. With his great operational experience, he aims to bridge Polish entrepreneurs to the global scene and take the local ecosystem to a whole new level.
What’s in this episode?
1) IPO experience at the age of 27
2) Mistakes as an entrepreneur and how that is reflected in his VC mindset
3) Silicon Valley’s view on Poland a decade ago
4) The real opportunity in Central Eastern Europe
5) Scaling local impact with capital and know-how
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Vadim is the founder of 3D Look, an AI-powered mobile body measuring solution for e-commerce companies to reduce returns and increase conversions. After 2 successful ventures, Vadim is now focused on enabling personalized fashion.
What’s in this episode?
1) Early days of ad business and the mobile opportunity
2) Growing a business to +$10M yearly revenue
3) AI and ML technologies behind mobile body scanning
4) Transforming the e-commerce experience
5) Working together with your dad
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Kaan is the CEO of Firefly, the mobility-based smart screen advertising company that raised +$60M in only 2 years since its start. The company revolutionizes offline advertising, while also enabling a variety of smart city solutions. Kaan is a mastermind in fundraising, he deeply understands the investor mindset and shares his secret sauce in this episode.
What’s in this episode?
1) Defensibility and raising the entry barrier in an untouched market
2) Regulations, compliance and safety concerns
3) Sustaining the culture across development, production, and operations teams in 10 cities
4) Creating FOMO and closing +$60M
5) Talent comparisons and why Firefly chose Turkey
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Ragnar is the co-founder of Pipedrive, the leading sales CRM platform that raised $91M and has more than 90k customers from all around the globe. Ragnar is not yet another Estonian unicorn founder. He is a true ecosystem builder with non-profit co-working spaces, non-profit hackathons ran across EMEA and he is also an active angel investor.
What’s in this episode?
1) How US VCs forced Pipedrive team to relocate to the Valley
2) Growing while breakeven in a red ocean space
3) Victory of Pipedrive’s global and consumer-first approach
4) How it is impossible to beat Pipedrive because it is truly a global company
5) Ragnar’s ecosystem development initiatives around CEE
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Karoli is the founder of Jobbatical, the company that offers relocation and immigration services to top firms like Transferwise and Twilio. Karoli is passionate about creating a borderless world and re-designing the future of work.
What’s in this episode?
1) How to receive DMs on Twitter from top-tier VCs and closing $10M
2) Pivoting after realizing that your service is a vitamin rather than a pill
3) Talent arbitrage opportunity and the talent shortage that will cost $8T globally
4) Re-thinking the main pillars of the society that we created artificially
5) Country most people are moving away from and where they relocate
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Fite is an independent digital combat sports network that started in Bulgaria and grew to more than 1.5M users. Started as a generalist entertainment streaming service, Kosta realized that he had to focus on specific verticals and dominate those.
What’s in this episode?
1) Exiting and buying back the company in the early 2000s
2) Living through 2 great financial meltdowns as an entrepreneur
3) Pivoting to focus on a specific vertical and dominating that
4) Fundraising from local (Bulgarian), pan-European and US VCs
5) Evolution of the Bulgarian ecosystem over the past 2 decades
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis and Marton Medveczky.
Roland is the founder of IND Group, a fintech company that opened offices in 8 different countries and became one of the top 100 fintech companies globally. After 17 years as the Chairman, the company got acquired by Misys in 2014.
What’s in this episode?
1) Moving from building websites to servicing financial institutions
2) Digitizing a legacy industry
3) Expanding regionally around Central Eastern Europe
4) Building partnerships with other fintech players in the value chain
5) Roland’s life after exit as an angel investor
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Marton Medveczky.
Balint is the founder of Team Distinction, a mobile software development company that was selected amongst the fastest growing in Europe by Deloitte and was bought by Skyscanner.
What’s in this episode?
1) Starting a mobile dev-shop at the right time
2) Bootstrapping to exit
3) Life after exit; merging with a large organization
4) Motivations of becoming an angel investor
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Vladimir started Ubervu, a social media monitoring tool, in 2007 and grew it to 100s of customers with big names including Disney & Fujitsu. He sold it to Hootsuite in 2013 and stayed there for 3 years. He is now building Deepstash.
What’s in this episode?
1) How to sustain the culture across 3 offices in Boston, London, and Bucharest
2) The exit process and why Vladimir stay at Hootsuite for 4 years?
3) Evolution of SaaS metrics and playbook over the past decade
4) Why did Vladimir bring in a professional CEO after launching the US office?
5) Vladimir’s new adventure, Deepstash
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Tatyana is the CEO of ClaimCompass, a flight delay compensation platform that has received more than 150k claims to date! The company aims to get become the leading player in the $100B/year market with 90% left unclaimed.
What’s in this episode?
1) Competing with local mom and pop shops
2) Automating manual processes to beat competition
3) Partnerships and API strategy to further differentiate and scale customer acquisition
4) Impact of 500 Startups and fundraising from US investors as a European company
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Marton Medveczky.
Peter is the founder of NNG, the in-car connectivity company that has more than 1,000 employees across 12 offices and is one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe. Working with 30 car makers and almost all of the Tier-1 suppliers, NNG was founded in Hungary with a mission to make navigation easier.
What’s in this episode?
1) The shift from services to a product company full of pivots
2) Advantages of bootstrapping and the customer-first mindset
3) Dealing with large car manufacturers and doubling down on car connectivity
4) Peter’s changing role from CTO to CEO
5) Evolution of the Hungarian startup ecosystem over the past decade
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis
Rina is one of the few people in our region who has done the full circle, going from investing to entrepreneurship and back to investing after 2 successful endeavors. This episode is full of insights from someone who has raised around $50M from VCs, raised her own VC fund and did 40+ investments.
What’s in this episode?
1) Moving from white-collar to co-founder @ Peak
2) Raising €35M in 2 years and the explosion of social games
3) Running a highly operational marketplace business
4) Investing in 40+ early-stage startups in the region
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Hande is the CEO of Insider, an end to end growth management platform for enterprises. Started in Turkey, Insider grew regionally and raised Series A from Sequoia. The company currently has more than 500 employees in 20 offices worldwide and generates more than $20M in annual recurring revenue.
What’s in this episode?
1) Growth methodology and expansion playbook
2) Strategies to differentiate in a red ocean market
3) Sustaining the culture in 20 countries
4) Talent comparisons and why Insider built an AI team in Ukraine
5) The end goal for Insider and Hande’s motivation in growing the company
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
It is fair to call Eren a 10x entrepreneur. This episode covers Eren’s entrepreneurial journey from failed attempts in Turkey to building Udemy (raised $170M so far) and starting Carbon (raised $45M).
What’s in this episode?
1) Eren’s background and desire to build products
2) Initial entrepreneurial endeavors in Ankara, Turkey
3) Early days of Udemy and consecutive funding rounds
4) Transitioning away from Udemy and starting Carbon Health
5) The vision behind Carbon Health
6) Story of an idealistic entrepreneur and his attempts to fix important yet broken systems in the society
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
It is fair to call Eren a 10x entrepreneur. This episode covers Eren’s entrepreneurial journey from failed attempts in Turkey to building Udemy (raised $170M so far) and starting Carbon (raised $45M).
What’s in this episode?
1) Eren’s background and desire to build products
2) Initial entrepreneurial endeavors in Ankara, Turkey
3) Early days of Udemy and consecutive funding rounds
4) Transitioning away from Udemy and starting Carbon Health
5) The vision behind Carbon Health
6) Story of an idealistic entrepreneur and his attempts to fix important yet broken systems in the society
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
This is a trailer episode for Season 2. It has been 3 months since the last episode, but we’ve been working hard…
What’s in the episode?
1) Season 2 lineup. We have amazing guests again.
2) Mistakes from Season 1 and some self-criticism
3) Our multi-channel media efforts
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
SaaSPass is an on-demand identity and access management company that found ways to differentiate in a highly competitive space through better product, partnerships and a developer oriented strategy. The company grew to more than 300 enterprise customers, including the Fortune 500.
What’s in this episode?
1) Highly technical overview on the identity space
2) Detailed competitor analysis on identity access management
3) Deep understanding on identity access management, directory services, MFA, SSO
4) Focus on partnerships and system integrators
5) How blockchain affects identity management
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Developed in Turkey, with management in London, Netsparker targeted the US market from its start and became one of the largest in the web application security space with 5k customers including Fortune 500 with $40M raised.
What’s in this episode?
1) Trends in security and opportunities
2) Importance of defining the early market
3) Bootstrapping your way to a $40M round
4) Finding openings to compete with behemoths
5) Horizontal expansion strategies in security
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Started as a meditation app, now moving towards a daily mental companion, Meditopia reached 4M members in 50 countries only in 2 years! Fatih is tackling the world’s ongoing psychological crisis, step by step.
What’s in this episode?
1) Building the company for the 22nd century!
2) 360 journey of localizing an intimate app experience
3) Vision behind becoming a mental companion
4) Advantages of starting and hiring in Turkey
5) Clashing with unicorns
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Marton is with Flashpoint Ventures, actively investing in Series A stage companies around CEE, Israel and Turkey. He’ll join as a co-host in the upcoming episodes. This is an introductory episode to Marton and CEE startup ecosystems.
What’s in this episode?
1) Meet our new co-host, Marton
2) Flashpoint Ventures investment strategy and thesis
3) Central Eastern European Ecosystems: Hungary, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Greece, Turkey
4) What’s next for Glocal Podcast
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
App Samurai is a self-service mobile advertising tool for high-growth companies that grew to 50+ countries and processed more than 10B clicks annually. Now tackling the fraud problem, App Samurai spun-out its fraud detection and quality control tool, Interceptd.
What’s in this episode?
1) Navigating in the very competitive ad-tech space
2) Servicing enterprises vs. long tail customers
3) War against fraud!
4) Mastering organizational structure
5) Fundraising and investor relations
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Competera is a price management software that started in Ukraine and grew to $5M ARR from 26 countries. Alex and the team sold the product, even before having it; and faked having one by manually servicing their customers. Currently moving away from e-commerce, onto bigger things!
What’s in this episode?
1) Declining acquisition offers
2) Problems and trends in e-commerce
3) Opportunities in brick and mortar
4) Talent differences between Ukraine, UK, Israel and the US
5) Competing with giants like PriceFX, Oracle and the big 4
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Tarkan is the Founder and CEO of Scotty, a ride-sharing, food delivery and package delivery app that has done more than 3 million transactions since its start 2 years ago. The company has raised funds from more than 30 investors and built a legendary team.
What’s in this episode?
1) Turkish market outlook for a super app like Scotty
2) The defensibility of hyper-local businesses and expansion
3) Fundraising problems in Turkey and Scotty’s strategies to overcome them
4) How Tarkan convinced the best people to join the company
5) Regulation hurdles and accidents
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Onur is the CEO of Countly, a very flexible analytics platform that works on-prem and on private cloud. The company currently tracks mobile analytics from more than 1 billion devices and works with large enterprises like Microsoft, Coca Cola and Verizon.
What’s in this episode?
1) Open source strategy and power of community
2) Bootstrapping culture and its advantages
3) Managing a remotely distributed team
4) Differentiation from large players like Google Analytics
5) Resellers, partners and white label strategy
6) Potential acquirers for Countly and what’s next
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Umutcan is the founder of Evreka, a smart waste collection technology that scaled to 20 countries over the past year. After pivoting away from hardware and focusing on channel partnerships, Evreka reached an even stronger and more scalable product-market-fit.
What’s in this episode?
1) Problems of selling into a government run, very traditional industry
2) Fundraising problems due to the turbulent local market
3) Pivots away from hardware to software with a platform play
4) Regrets of not being brave enough
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Tayga is the founder of Cleanzy, a home services marketplace that operates in Spain, Italy and Turkey. After failing multiple times with different services marketplace models, Tayga saw the big need in the market for cleaning and doubled down on that. Cleanzy has grown exponentially ever since, raised a series of funding and started to expand to different markets.
What’s in this episode?
1) Scaling a very operational model internationally
2) Different parameters in prioritizing expansion markets
3) Overcoming the circumvention problem
4) Importance of supply happiness and its effect on demand satisfaction
5) The reasons why competitors failed and how Cleanzy will dominate the space.
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Selcuk started his first startup in Turkey, just to realize how hard it is to start in an immature ecosystem. He then moved to San Francisco, started 2 companies, raised funding from top tier VCs and exited from both. Joining 500 Startups after his second exit, he became a venture capitalist. He recently founded Bunch, an app that allows people group chat while playing games and raised $4M.
What’s in this episode?
1) The problems of trying to build a startup in an immature ecosystem
2) Learning from mistakes and self-improvement
3) Networking and building long lasting business relations in the Valley
4) Talent comparisons: Canada, US, Vietnam, Turkey
5) A bunch of advice and tips to entrepreneurs
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube,Facebook, andLinkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Koray is the CEO of Foriba, an extensive e-invoicing solution with enterprise capabilities. Started as an intern at the company, Koray made his way to partner and later became the CEO - just when Foriba decided to productize its service and start scaling. Operating in a dozen countries, Foriba aims to be the global leader in enterprise e-invoicing.
What’s in this episode?
1) Moving from service to product after validating the customer need
2) Leveraging regulations to grow
3) Using multinationals as an expansion strategy
4) Mergers to move into new market segments
5) Channel and network partnerships to scale sales and marketing
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Berkay exited his company, OpsGenie, to Atlassian for $295M last year. After servicing large enterprises in the infrastructure operations and management space, Berkay decided to focus on IT incident management and build a scalable product in an upcoming industry. OpsGenie only raised 1 round of funding and was sold to Atlassian 5 years after it was born.
What’s in this episode?
1) Importance of close communication with customers and fast iterations
2) Narrowing scope and dominating a growing niche
3) Talent advantages in Turkey and hiring problems in the US
4) Fundraising from US VCs as an international team
5) Reasons why Atlassian decided to acquire OpsGenie
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
Ege is the CEO @ FX Cubic, a liquidity bridge solution that sells to FX brokerages. After developing the solution for their customer in Turkey, the company productized its software, moved its headquarters to London and grew globally. The total monthly transaction volume is more than $80B and is growing rapidly!
What’s in this episode?
1) Productizing a service business with close customer interactions and feedbacks
2) Growing internationally with core development team back at home
3) Stealing customers from existing legacy competitors
4) Expanding the total addressable market in a shrinking industry
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.
This is the introductory episode of cc:. What is this podcast about? How and why did it start? All the answers to these are in this episode.
cc: is a podcast on locally incubated global startup success stories. Hosted by Enis.
You can reach us through our website or @getcced on Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, and Linkedin.