Cem Sertoglu
Managing Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner - Digital East Fund
2012 - Current
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
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.
SelectMinds delivers networking and referral technologies that help companies form and empower current and former employees as referrers.
Raised $5,500,000.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners.
Vice President
1998 - 1999
Farmer & Company is the acknowledged expert on Scope of Work and other strategic problems facing ad agencies and their advertiser clients.