İlker Turan is a senior professional with extensive experience in climate-tech and impact investment. He is the Founding Chairman at Peerless Ventures, CEO at Climateware, and one of the founding partners of Semtrio, investing in climate solutions to scale the impact of climate economy. İlker holds a bachelor's degree in economics at Sabancı University and has hands-on experience in business development, sustainable finance, and building climate startups. He embraces the innovator’s mindset; striving to maximize the potential of businesses and people, empowering life-long learning, and leading a culture of growth. He is architecting a climate ecosystem at Peerless Ventures, a climate-focused Venture Capital, with Semtrio, Net Zero Climate Investments, Nextep, climacarta, and springfox. The ventures specialize in impact investment, carbon economy, regenerative finance, sustainability consultancy, climate technologies and more. Peerless Ventures set out to drive transformational change in the business world, building forward-thinking companies and investing in climate frontiers. The network of businesses forms an impact alliance, building scalable and all-around solutions to realize climate pledges towards net zero. İlker’s professional interests center around information architecture and domain-driven design. Outside of work, he is passionate about game art collection, anime, and cooking.