Baris Aksoy

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Early stage Venture,Seed,Venture

Baris is a General Partner at AV8 Ventures. He joined AV8 from Google, where he served as the Head of Global Strategic Business Development in Media & Entertainment industry vertical, covering AI and infrastructure technologies.

Prior to Google, Baris was the CFO at Anvato and led the acquisition by Google. Earlier, Baris was an investor at Intel Capital, covering global consumer and enterprise investments. While there, he invested in companies like Yume (IPO), OpenFeint (acq by Gree), Crowdstar (acq by Glu), Sense Networks (acq by YellowPages), and Caring.com (acq by Bankrate), many of which were acquired or went public during his time there. As a product manager and engineer, he held leadership positions at Calix and Alcatel.

He received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
2
Baris Aksoy has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jan 5, 2016, when Monese raised €1.12M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Jun 21, 2022 Neol Seed $5.20M Blockchain Detail
Jan 5, 2016 Monese Seed €1.12M Banking Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
1
Baris Aksoy has 1 current jobs including Board Observer at Rephrase.ai , .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Rephrase.ai Board Observer Jan 1, 2019 Detail