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Aydin Senkut

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and President of Felicis Ventures. He’s been an angel investor in promising start-ups since the end of 2005. His current portfolio emcompasses over 30 companies including Buzzlogic, Cake Financial, Dogster, Meraki Networks, Mint, Social.im Shopittome, Yapta, Yume Networks, Webs.com, Weebly and others.

Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, he was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Japan and Asia Pacific.

Milestones

  • Invested in Credit Karma. (11/4/09)
    Posted 11/4/09 at 1:41pm
  • Invested in Producteev. (7/19/09)
    Posted 9/1/09 at 6:10pm
  • Invested in Y Combinator. (3/16/09)
    Posted 10/26/09 at 12:07pm
  • Invested in CrowdFlower. (2009)
    Posted 10/12/09 at 7:24am
  • Invested in Foodzie. (12/16/08)
    Posted 12/16/08 at 2:23pm
  • Invested in Posterous. (12/08)
    Posted 12/22/08 at 2:57am
  • Invested in Producteev. (7/15/08)
    Posted 8/26/08 at 7:39am
  • Invested in Handipoints. (5/2/08)
    Posted 3/27/08 at 2:56pm
  • Invested in Goodrec. (3/08)
    Posted 8/28/08 at 10:17am
  • Invested in VentureBeat. (2/11/08)
    Posted 2/11/08 at 4:27pm
  • Invested in Mesmo.tv. (10/1/07)
    Posted 10/5/07 at 3:39am
  • Invested in Mogad. (8/1/07)
    Posted 1/11/08 at 12:33am
  • Invested in The Auteurs. (8/07)
    Posted 4/19/08 at 2:45pm
  • Invested in Trivop. (6/1/07)
    Posted 9/3/07 at 5:15am
  • Invested in Omnidrive. (12/1/06)
    Posted 7/23/07 at 11:33pm
  • Invested in Loomia. (6/1/05)
    Posted 7/17/07 at 5:34pm
  • Invested in Yamli.
    Posted 10/10/08 at 7:18pm
  • Invested in Cake Financial.
    Posted 9/6/07 at 9:38am
  • Added position as Founder at Foodzie.
    Posted 1/11/08 at 1:01am
  • Added position as Board Member at imageshack.
    Posted 7/6/09 at 11:39pm
  • Added position as Investor/Advisor at CrowdFlower.
    Posted 9/12/09 at 10:57am

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Credit Karma 11/09Series A$2.5M5
Producteev 7/09Angel$180k5
Y Combinator 3/09Unattributed$2M4
CrowdFlower 2009Unattributed$1.2M8
Foodzie 12/08Seed$1M9
Posterous 12/08Angel$725k11
Producteev 7/08Seed$180k9
Handipoints 5/08Angel$550k5
Goodrec 3/08Seed$1.1M7
VentureBeat 2/08Seed$320k7
Mesmo.tv 10/07Series A$900k7
Mogad 8/07Series A$500k4
The Auteurs 8/07Series A$750k5
Trivop 6/07Angel7
Omnidrive 12/06Angel$800k4
Loomia 6/05Seed$1M6
Cake Financial Seed8
Yamli Angel2

Sources

  1. Credit Karma Raises $2.5 Million To Take The Mystery Out Of Credit Scores (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  3. Y Combinator Gets The Sequoia Capital Seal Of Approval (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Crowdflower Communication [edit]
  5. Foodzie Raises $1 Million For Its Specialty Food Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. Group Blogging Via Email's Posterous Raises $725K (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  7. Producteev launches Group Task Management App at LeWeb08' (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Handipoints Receives $800k from Charles Rivers and Angels (virtualworldsnews.com) [edit]
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  10. VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  11. techcrunch.com [edit]
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  17. cakefinancial.com [edit]
  18. venturehacks.com [edit]

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