Emre Baran

About Emre:

Emre has been involved with information technology since 1999. He was a Senior Product Manager at Google before leaving after 4 years working on various AdWords and AdSense related products - building large scale artificial intelligence and analytics systems to scale and automate operations. Prior to Google, Emre was the co-founder and CTO of Yonja.com, largest Turkish social network. He has also 5 years of experience in IT consulting for telecommunications and federal & local financial systems industries in the United States. Emre holds degrees in Economics and Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA degree from INSEAD.

Looking for:

Growth potential, first player advantage

Skill set:

Automating tasks / artificial intelligence, systems architecture and scaling systems up, contacts

Representative investments:

Oktogo.ru, Wordlplay/Flowplay, Five Pumpkins, Civic Solar

I am investing:

My own money

Sectors I'm interested in investing:

Retail, Clean Tech, Gaming, Mobile, Productivity & business, e-Commerce & events, Social networks & groups

Startup stages I'm interested for investing:

Revenue, Pre Revenue, Prototype