Number of Founded Organizations 3
CB Rank (Investor) 80,188
  • Investor Stage  Early Stage Venture, Seed

Murat Aktihanoglu is an entrepreneur, investor, author and technologist. He is the co-founder and managing director of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, a seed-stage fund and technology incubator in New York City (http://eranyc.com).

He is also the founder of Entrepreneurs Roundtable, an organization which holds monthly meetings

connecting investors with promising startups through introductions and short pitches in New York City, Turkey, Japan, China and India (http://eroundtable.net).

Previously he started a series of technology startups, last of which was Centrl, a location-based social network.

He is the co-author of the book "Location-Aware Applications" published by Manning Publications (http://manning.com/ferraro).

He is a mentor at World Bank's InfoDev program, a partner at US State Department's Global Entrepreneurship Program, a board member at Turkish American Business Forum (http://forum.org), co-founder of Turkish Founders Club (http://turkishfoundersclub.com), advisor at MIT Enterprise Forum New York (http://www.mitef-nyc.org), Standard Start (http://www.standardstart.com), Girls In Tech (http://girlsintechnyc.com) and Turkish Women's International Network (http://www.turkishwin.com).

Murat holds a Masters degree in Computer Science and a BS in Electrics and Electronics from Bilkent University, Turkey.

He has managed engineering teams at Silicon Graphics Inc. in Mountain View, California and Sony Corporation in Tokyo, Japan as well as consulting for AT&T, Logitech, Pioneer, Panasonic and various startups in Silicon Valley and New York (http://holoscape.com). He is a frequent speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences and panels, such as Mobile Marketing Association Forum, Monaco Media Forum, Ultra Light Startups, Siggraph, New York Entrepreneur Week. (http://www.linkedin.com/in/murat and http://twitter.com/muratny) Blog: http://muratak.com.

Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 1
Murat Aktihanoglu has 2 current jobs as Founder and Managing Partner at (ERA) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator and Founder at Unype. Additionally, Murat Aktihanoglu has had 1 past job as the Founder and CEO at Centrl.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Centrl
Founder and CEOJan 2007Jul 2010
Number of Events 4
Murat Aktihanoglu has participated in 4 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, Next Gen Summit on Jun 11, 2022.