Tunya Irkad

Tunya Irkad

Investment Analyst, 500

Tunya joined the 500 Team based in Istanbul a year ago as an Investment Analyst, to invest in early-stage startups emerging from CEE and Turkey.

Her main responsibilities are contributing to the pipeline by finding startups, meeting with them, and analyzing them by conducting the due diligence processes. In addition, she is the ESG specialist responsible for measuring the impact of the portfolio companies and reporting to the investors.

She is also coordinating the fund’s communication and community efforts, leading the content creation, PR, and organizing events under 500 and their private brand “cc:”, such as internal events such as Founder Dinners fueling the community within the portfolio, and external events such as Office Hours and cc: Nights.

She holds BSc in Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University and prior to joining the 500 teams, she was the Analyst of Galata Business Angels, the prominent angel investor network in Turkey with 40 members.

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