Backing the bold, before consensus.

San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2016
Last week, ScaleX Ventures Managing Partner @DilekDayinlarli joined @federicoantoni, @aktaylor and Rica Barros for “Riding the AI Wave” at @StanfordGSB.
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With 20+ nationalities in the room, the conversation explored how AI is lowering the barriers to building, changing product-market fit, and creating opportunities for category-defining companies to emerge from anywhere.
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Pleased to be one of the partners of @istanbulslushd Investor Day. Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Istanbul and kicking off the week together.⚡
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ScaleX Ventures Founder and Managing Partner @DilekDayinlarli joined @zorluholdingtr VC Director İlker Temuzkuşu and @HBRTurkiye Editor-in-Chief Serdar Turan to discuss AI investing, founder-problem fit, and the evolving roles of VC and CVC. 💡
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New look. New site. Same Conviction.
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They discussed how venture capital and company building have evolved over the past decade, why the best technical talent is no longer concentrated in a few cities, and how founders should think about the geography of customers, capital and talent. 🌍
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Tomorrow, we’re bringing 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 to @UCBerkeley! 🎉 luma.com/2tlqokxj Builders, researchers, investors, and friends coming together to exchange perspectives on emerging technologies, and the evolving venture landscape.
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📍 University of California, Berkeley 📅 Sep 9, 4:30–6:30 PM
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Istanbul's first @clay Club gathering happened last week, and we were part of making it happen. 🎉 Founders and operators came together for a morning of hands-on sessions and real conversations around modern distribution. The recap video captures how the morning unfolded.
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We are bringing together founders, researchers, investors, and students from across the 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 for a conversation around emerging technologies and the ideas shaping what comes next. Join us tomorrow!👇 luma.com/jh3inh92
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𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐫 | 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 📅 Thursday, September 3 ⏰ 5:00–6:30 PM With the support of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Turkish Student Association.
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Yesterday, ScaleX Ventures and @SentienceCom brought builders together in Brooklyn to discuss sovereign AI. 🌐 As AI becomes increasingly personal, questions around ownership, agency, and digital identity are moving from philosophical to foundational.
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How these get answered will shape entire categories for founders, investors, and operators alike. We are working on a sovereign AI research report. Conversations like yesterday's only sharpen the thinking. More to share soon. Thank you to everyone who joined!
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For the first time, Clay Club (@clay_gtm) came to Istanbul, and we were proud to be one of the organizers behind it. 🎉 A great morning of hands-on learning around modern distribution. Clay basics, personal brand on LinkedIn, and a firsthand startup GTM story.
🤖 Made with AI
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Distribution is becoming one of the hardest problems for startups to solve. Glad to have supported an event creating space for founders and operators to learn and connect around it.
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Fresh off becoming the first global champion of @BlackHatEvents's Startup Spotlight Competition, our portfolio company Opnova co-founder and CEO Sinan Eren sat down with @theCUBE. youtube.com/watch?v=DtNzZrKX…
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The conversation gets into the identity governance gap that modern IGA platforms consistently miss, the legacy systems that have historically required months and millions to integrate, and how Opnova's approach turns that into hours.
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Replying to @periodiclabs
@periodiclabs, our portfolio company, is building AI that can conduct real-world experiments and intentionally design new materials and technologies. Proud to see co-founders @ekindogus and @LiamFedus featured by NVIDIA for Startups ahead of World Entrepreneurs Day.
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