Overview
- Gender
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male
- Investor Type
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Investment Partner,Angel
- Investor Stage
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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
Baris Aksoy has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on
Jan 5, 2016, when Monese raised €1.12M.
Jobs
Baris Aksoy has 1 current jobs including
Board Observer at Rephrase.ai
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Organization Name |
Title At Company |
Start Date |
End Date |
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Rephrase.ai
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Board Observer |
Jan 1, 2019 |
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