Arin Ozkula
Community Member at 2hearts
Istanbul, Istanbul
Overview
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.