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Emrah Yalaz Founding Partner, String Ventures www.stringventures.com
Stanford Engineering European Entrepreneurship and Innova@on February 24, 2014
Turkey’s Emerging Startup & Venture Capital Ecosystem
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Emrah Yalaz
1998 2009 2005 2007 2014 2012
adviser to Silicon Valley startups
QRM signed 35 of top 50 banks in US
QRM Interna@onal Expansion
Early employee in product
LeS Chicago for SF to pursue tech startups
Cofounded
Teaching tech
startups
2013
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Turkey Seems Ripe For a Tech Boom
Source: The World Bank, IMF, TK.gov.tr, comScore Media Metrix, SocialBakers, GP Bullhound LLP, Semiocast, Flurry
World's 15th, Europe's 6th economy
36.5m Internet users 5th in Europe
33m Facebook 10m TwiXer users (top 10 in World, top 3 in Europe)
67m mobile users 38m on 3G
185% YoY Smartphone
growth
Startup Ecosystem building up rapidly
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Turkey Is Sizeable, Young
popula@on=76m, median age =29.3 Source: TurkStat, UN
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Istanbul Is The Center
City Center
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Istanbul + Ankara = Income + Universi@es
Source: Time World University Rankings, UN
Istanbul
Ankara
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20+ Early Stage Accelerator/Incubators
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Seed Financing Dominated by Aslanoba
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2012: <200 Angels invested $10m 2013: Aslanoba invested $38m in 37 startups. Turkish Government introduced 75% Angel Investment tax write-‐off, highest in Europe 2014 Expected: >600 Angels and $200M
Startup Ecosystem Building Up
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Hummingbird $300M fund based in Belgium $40M in Peak Games (social gaming) with EarlyBird
EarlyBird $800M fund based in Germany Peak Games, seed in Metrekare (real estate classifieds)
General Atlan@c $20B PE fund based in NYC $44m in Yemek Sepe@ (GrubHub clone)
Tiger Global $2.8B PE fund based in NYC. Mynet (Yahoo clone), $26M in Trendyol (Gilt clone) with KPCB
RTP Ventures $750M fund of RuNet Holdings in Moscow $3M Investment in Lidyana (fashion ecommerce)
Venture Capital Dominated by Foreigners
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Marquee VCs and Corps Are Lurking
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iLab both an investor and incubator, focuses primarily on classifieds, price comparison and ecommerce investments: Gipgidiyor (ebay clone), Kariyer.net (online job pos@ng) 212VC largest early-‐stage, local $30M VC fund investments: Solvoyo (supply chain), CloudArena (hotel management Saas)
Turkish VCs Play Catch Up
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Problem: 20+ Turkish Accelerators + Seed Programs + Angels = liXle innova@on + lots of ecommerce + copy cats
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Why?
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1. Not adop@ng US model to fit Turkey’s ecosystem YC model works for YC
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2. Missing out on top talent VCs fail to differen@ate great technical talent from good
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3. Investors without innova@on background VCs lack product and growth marke@ng skills, few experiened 10x tech solu@on
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4. Limited connec@on to Silicon Valley LiXle experience about what Silicon Valley demands and how it operates
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Solu@on ≠ Accelerator
Accelerator = Shallow talent pool → Compe@@on-‐like applica@on → Batch Process → Graduated Rapidly → Investment Frenzy at Demo Day Disserves Investors and Technical Founders
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Solu@on ≠ Incubator
Incubator = Shallow talent pool → Compe@@on-‐like applica@on → Batch Process → Provide Office Space → Keep Around with government subsidies Yields Zombie Startups
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Solu@on = New VC Model 1. Win the talent war early: scout and recruit top technical and design talent, especially at universi@es
2. Inject product know-‐how early and retain talent to build products aiming at global or regional leadership
3. Place growing products in Silicon Valley to overcome the shallow ecosystem (e.g. YC prep-‐school)
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Sample Porxolio Companies
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imcom revolu@onary
furniture buying experience using depth sensors and projec@on mapping www.imcom.com.tr
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Surfio
fully interac@ve gesture/touch-‐controlled
large surfaces www.surfio.com
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hXp://bit.ly/1hIY8Y9
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SigmaRD Advanced
Computer Vision and Natural User Interfaces tools www.sigmard.com
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hXp://bit.ly/1eo8aWC
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Emrah Yalaz [email protected] www.stringventures.com Stanford Engineering European Entrepreneurship and Innova@on February 24, 2014