startnowhow turkey vs. uk
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Caglar [email protected]
EntrepreneurAngel Investor
Ex-Investment Banker/Trader, New York & Hong Kong & LondonAlumnus of Bogazici (’99), Kings(’03), Harvard(’07), NYU Stern(’10)
Entrepreneur Angel Investor
(Turkey)
(Turkey)
(Turkey)
(United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom)
United Kingdom
£800Million - £1BillionAngel + Seed
Investment made in 2014!
Most invested sectors:(1) Technology!(2) Food & Drink
(3) Business Services(4) E-commerce
(5) Retail
UK ANGELS
Crowdfunding :
A or B Class Shares??
Preemption rights??Voting right??
Donations
United Kingdom Turkey
Loans Equity
Fongogo
Via CrowdTubeMost Popular Crowdfunding website in the UK
500,000,000 USD
1 Billion USD
140 Million USD
Acquired by German ‘Helpling’’ valuation at 32 Million EUR
Acquired by Playtechvaluation at 15 Million USD
800 Million USD
Acquired by HPvaluation at 11.7 Billion USD
Acquired by Googlevaluation at 500 Million USD
Acquired by Facebookvaluation at $20 Million USD
Acquired by E-bay: 215,000,000 USD
589,000,000 USD
Acqired by Nasper :280,000,000 USD
Acquired by amazon.com
25% sold to Abraaj PE, valuation: 400,000,000 USD
Recent valuationsUK vs. Turkey
Turkish Startups
1. Why all e-commerce and B2C?
2. Why lack of any
technology/R&D
companies in the
ecosystem?
Last sold to Russian Sberbank Group for 3.53 Billion USD
HAKAN ATESFounder, CEO
Roy Raymond, Stanford Gradfounded the company with $80K
sold, Leslie Wexner for $1M: good deal?? only few years later worth $13 Billion!
he committed suicide!!!
Harvard dropout1.18 Billion Users$104 Billion IPO
$244.25 Billion as of 29th Sep 2015
Watch OUT!