Baris Ozaydinli

Founder & CEO

2021 - Current

Scooch is an AI-powered pet health subscription service dedicated to eliminating the guesswork in pet care. We've embarked on a transformative journey to redefine pet care through innovation and personalized wellness solutions to take guesswork out of pet-care and harnessing the power of technology to ensure every pet enjoys a vibrant, healthy life. Scooch has garnered prestigious awards, including AI Startup of the Year 2024 London at the UK Startup Awards, the JcDecaux Nurture Startup Challenge 2024, and Best PetTech Company of 2023 by Techround. Additionally, we were recognized as one of the top 100 startups in the UK by Startups UK.

Angel Investor

2022

Ventures Together is a community of angel investors consisting of 100+ of Europe’s leading tech entrepreneurs and operators responsible for building some of the biggest startups like Revolut, Wise, Citymapper, Beamery, Onfido, Huma, Monzo and Deliveroo.

Advisor

2020

Advising Ascension Life Fund on new investments and supporting portfolio companies.

Angel Investor & Advisor

2019

As a founder and maker myself, I love to support other founders and talented teams who are working on the greatest problems of the world. I prefer to invest in early stage tech companies that have early traction, a proven growth model and future proof vision.

Member

2019

ICE is a global network of founders & investors that has supported and accelerated tech entrepreneurs at every stage of their journey since 2009. ICE focuses on meaningful connections between its members and acts as a platform for investors, service providers and the wider venture ecosystem. ICE is founded and operated on core values: growth, contribution, equality, respect, being all in and kinship. We bring together bold, authentic leaders who share their experiences, frustrations and successes.

Pledger

2017

I truly beleive the "all for one and one for all" mentality in today's vastly polarised world where a few enjoy all the wonders of life while many suffer. We should all be part of the solution for a better vision of the future for humanity and our home, earth. I am a proud member of Founders Pledge community, a group of entrepreneurs and investors who pledge significant amount of their future success to philanthropy and for a better future. As a member of the Founders Pledge community I have committed to leveraging my success for good. Founders Pledge is an initiative enabling philanthropy amongst founders and investors through data driven donation, education and transformative relationships between business and charity. https://founderspledge.com

S23 Alumni

2023 - 2023

Scooch was among the top 30 startups to be selected from 1900 applicants to pitch at the Demo Day! Check out our pitch: https://vimeo.com/872120268

Founder & CEO

2014 - 2022

* Acquired by WWSG Fitwell is an AI powered coaching app that acts as your personal trainer, nutritionist and motivator. Often featured as one of the best fitness apps in the AppStore & PlayStore, Fitwell is helping millions of people be their personal best from more than 200 countries. Fitwell is founded with the purpose of making wellness simple, accessible and achievable for today’s time poor and over stressed people. We believe the best tool you will ever own is your own body; so we are here to help you take care of it, so that it takes care of you.

Entrepreneur In Residence

2021 - 2022

Partner & Chief of Ventures

2011 - 2017

Deviant Ventures is an acclaimed innovation and culture-marketing agency based in NYC working with global clients such as Coca-Cola, Burn, Bacardi, Sony Music and Diesel with an ambition of developing its own portfolio of brands and products. His role is to develop and lead venture projects of DV overseeing all aspects from marketing, R&D, IP rights, legal, business planning, alliances, production, sales & distribution to financial planning. www.deviantventures.com