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pitchdrive · venture investor [2021 – present]

pitchdrive is a pan-european early-stage fund, founded by the team behind the rydoo exit, with our first vintage in 2020. i joined the investment team in 2021. i write pre-seed and seed checks up to €2m, sector-agnostic but leaning toward b2b software. our hard criterion is fast execution and commercialization. i've brought 15+ deals that the fund has gone on to back.

the founders i back execute fast, iterate fast, and are interesting to be around. the ones i don't: builders stuck without progress who won't change how they work or what they believe, founders who build before they sell, anyone running a company with a 9-to-5 mentality.

alongside investing, i spend a lot of time on partnerships and outside relationships across other investors, corporates, and tech partners. i opened up mena and apac as new geographies for the fund.

chapter · founder [2025 – present]

chapter started out of a pattern. there's a lot of interesting talent across europe that doesn't meet each other, because even at the city level the communities are isolated. so i started bringing them together. the promise is simple: everyone in the room is building something worth knowing about, go ask around. co-founders have met this way. companies have started.

today it's 7 fellows and 230 builders hosted across our events, from 800+ applications. 7 of those companies later got into yc and 1 into a16z, all before they had any backing. main hubs are london, stockholm, and munich, with pop-ups in other european cities a few times a year. events run on a regular cadence, with smaller dinners and firesides in between, and a residency or two each year.

previous · [before 2021]

two builds before pitchdrive. first, a high-end design brand in ecommerce. then a creative advisory and media platform i ran with two close friends, working with most of the turkish designer brands of the time and getting featured by off-white and iwc, among others. exited the platform at 19.

the brand taught me that timing matters more than competition. you can be alone in a market and still be too early. the platform taught me the opposite shape of the same lesson: if you're building for a real need, you don't need novel technology or a clever idea to scale and monetize. somewhere in those years i also advised series a startups, focusing on growth and gtm.