Arın Özkula

Investing Profile

Sweet spot: $1M Range: $250K–$3M Fund: $70M

500 Emerging Europe thesis

500 Emerging Europe was extremely helpful in recruiting our country head in Istanbul and enabling us to make our first key hires. Whenever we had trouble with our hardware manufacturing and needed to change suppliers and facilities, one of the introductions we received from Enis led to a direct conversion in us switching our entire hardware manufacturing and assembly process. 500 was very helpful with potential client introductions to us such as Turkish Airlines, Peak Games and Carbon Health. They’ve helped us establish both a backend development and also a client-facing sales team in Turkey.

Sector and stage focus

  • Seed: Sales & CRM, Developer Tools, Gaming/eSports, Cloud Infrastructure, AI, Cybersecurity, SaaS, Enterprise, FinTech, Generative Tech/AI
  • general: Investors who invested in diverse founders, Investors who invested in female founders, San Francisco Bay Area, New York City
  • Pre-seed: Enterprise, Generative Tech/AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Gaming/eSports, SaaS, Developer Tools, Sales & CRM, FinTech, AI

Recent investments by Arın Özkula

Arın Özkula has 2 named past investments in the public record. The most recent:

Company Stage Date Round size
BLISKO Seed Jul 2022 $4M
Caretta Pre Seed Dec 2025 $1M

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