Mehtap Ozkan
Founder and Managing Director at Techno Optimism
- Role
- Founder and Managing Director at Golden Horn Ventures
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mehtap Ozkan
Mehtap Mae Ozkan has been an entrepreneur, investor and founder of several technology companies. She is the founder and Managing Director of Golden Horn Ventures, a venture capital fund for making investments in companies outside of the US with global technology ideas.She is the founder of Techno Optimism Conference, which is a technology conference in Seattle, exploring new technologies with positive impacts in all aspects of our society from health and longevity to AI and productivity in industrial output to art and finance revolution. It is a conference celebrating positive-sum technology developments and leaving behind zero-sum mentalities.She is also a Fellow of the fourth class of the Middle East Leadership Initiative and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Experience
Founder and Managing Director
Feb 2011 — Present
Golden Horn Ventures is an early to growth stage venture capital firm. Mehtap has founded Golden Horn Ventures with the idea that global technology companies can come from anywhere. Invested and incubated companies in Turkey and Middle East and helped them grow to be global companies.Mehtap has invested in consumer tech, e-commerce, metaverse, finance, enterprise and mobile gaming companies.
Skills
- Business Strategy
- Due Diligence
- Corporate Development
- Strategic Partnerships
- Corporate Finance
- Investments
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Entrepreneurship
- Mobile Devices
- New Business Development
- Management
- Product Management
- Venture Capital
- Board of Director Experience
- Angel Investing
- Strategic Planning
- Business Development
- Marketing Strategy
- Leadership
- Executive Management
- Board of Directors
- Software Development
- Emerging Markets
- Start-Ups
- Strategy
- Private Equity
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