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Arin Ozkula

Community Member at 2hearts

Istanbul, Istanbul

Overview 

Arin Ozkula is currently serving as a General Partner at 500 Emerging Europe, with previous experience as a General Partner at 500 Global and roles at Revo Capital, Ünlü Private Equity Management, and Deloitte Financial Advisory Services. He has a strong background in corporate finance, private equity, and mergers & acquisitions, with a focus on emerging markets and investments in sectors like E-commerce and FinTech.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2021 - Current

    We back founders from Emerging Europe with global ambitions. 500 Emerging Europe Fund I portfolio includes Carbon Health, Billiontoone, Insider, Firefly, Plum, DroneDeploy, Vivoo, Massive Bio, Lifemote and +15 other rockstars. Launched €70M Fund II in 2021, portfolio includes Align, Arf, Agave, Axoflow, Brainbase, Cypher, Daytona, DiffuseDrive, Ecotrove, Fal AI, Fume, Gesund, Intryc, Kalder, Kubeark, Layer, Lonca, Nicky, Refine, Pythagora, Pine, Polymet, Swarm, Synnada, Ubicloud, Vidoc & Yoneda

  • Seed Investor

    2023

  • Seed Investor

    2022

Generative Media Platform for Developers

Raised $23,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Julien Chaumond, Kindred Ventures, Aravind Srinivas and Guillermo Rauch.

  • Seed Investor

    2021

  • 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.

  • Seed Investor

    2021

  • Seed Investor

    2022

  • Seed Investor

    2022

  • Seed Investor

    2023

  • 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.

500 Emerging Europe assists emerging European founders expand globally.

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