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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 (/company/freewebs), 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.

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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$1M10
Posterous 12/08Angel$725k11
Producteev 7/08Seed$180k9
Handipoints 5/08Angel$550k5
Goodrec 3/08Seed$1.1M7
VentureBeat 2/08Seed$320k7
Yamli 2008Angel2
Mesmo.tv 10/07Series A$900k7
Mogad 8/07Series A$500k4
The Auteurs 8/07Series A$750k5
Trivop 6/07Angel7
Omnidrive 12/06Angel$800k4
Cake Financial 2006Seed8
Loomia 6/05Seed$1M6

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  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]
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  17. cakefinancial.com [edit]
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