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Nexverse is a community where entrepreneurs, creators and storytellers come together to discuss, build and experience tomorrow, today. Through world-class events and themed experiums, we inspire, educate, and collaborate on fields related to all frontier technologies, discuss the promises and challenges of the future, and show a glimpse into a world of wondrous ideas.Within Nexverse, there is currently Nextopic and Nexville. Nextopic is an event series to help entrepreneurs and innovators think outside of the box, and look at both sides of the coin to see the utopic developments and dystopic challenges emerging technologies will bring. Nexville is an immersive museum where people can see what the world would look like in 10 years, try the latest the world of frontier tech has to offer, and be inspired for tomorrow.As the founder, I develop the overarching vision of the organization, lead our Nextopic and Nexville teams, and work hands-on on all aspects of the company to turn our vision into reality. The first fruit of these efforts will take place on April 11th, 2020 as our first event, Nextopic: Future of Experience.

San Diego, Ca, Us

The Frontier Tech Investment Network, or FTIN for short, is an investment network founded within Syndicate 708 (formerly LightSpeed Innovations) to connect venture investors with early stage startups in Deep Tech via monthly pitch events.As one of the co-founders of this initiative, I expanded the network by forming relationships with over 20 VCs such as BVP, DFJ, JetBlue Ventures, and Embark Ventures. Throughout my term with the company I sourced, evaluated, and down selected 82 startups since the first pitch event in July 2017.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Syndicate 708 (formerly LightSpeed Innovations) is an aerospace startup accelerator offering startups access to a large network of experts, mentors, and investors. Portfolio companies go through intensive 4-month business bootcamp. Our companies are in areas ranging from rocket propulsion, asteroid mining, drone hardware, and flight intelligence to nanosatellite imagery, virtual/augmented reality, and building habitats on Mars.As an associate partner, I was involved with sourcing, organizing, interviewing and selecting for our 4th (NewSpace focus) and 5th (Drones & NewSpace focus) cohorts. Our 2017-01 Space Cohort was in collaboration with the United States Air Force and featured 9 companies. The latest 2017-02 Cohort featured 8 companies. Besides co-teaching the accelerator curriculum, setting up events and leading the expansion of the LightSpeed Innovations brand, I worked directly with 7 of the companies, Lumenora, RedWorks, Orbital Sidekick, Koolock, 4th Law, Voyager Space, and Space Exchange on their business development, market research, customer outreach and pitching efforts.

San Mateo, California , Us

The Space Tech Summit is a multi year initiative of Draper University, Global Startup Ecosystem and LightSpeed Innovations that brings together hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, and creatives under one roof to address humanity’s grandest challenges via space technology. The summit also serves to bring key stakeholders that will accelerate both the exploration and commercialization of the Space ecosystem.Along with 5 other partners, I organized a 250-people 2-day conference. I composed the event agenda and narrative for 19 panels/talks and determined the optimal speakers and organizations. I invited and confirmed 100 speakers from industry, startups, government, media, investment and influencers such as Tim Draper and Naveen Jain.

The Wharton Alumni Angel Network is a network of angel investors backed by the strength of Penn and Wharton in order to foster an entrepreneurial community. Its two chapters located in New York and Southern California aims to surface high quality early-stage investment opportunities for Wharton and Penn investors, match entrepreneurs with the right set of investors and deliver events and educational resources for the community.As a summer analyst and the only intern in the organization, I worked closely with several of the angel investors and the chair of the Southern California chapter, Ellen Chang. In partnership with LightSpeed Innovations Aerospace Accelerator, I analyzed the commercial drone & flight control markets for the portfolio company Qelzal and identified 7 partnering opportunities. Qelzal is a startup that provides aircraft and obstacle avoidance systems for commercial drones. I attended the pitches and participated in the screening of 16 startups in industries including EdTech, travel, healthcare & AR/VR. Prepared a 30-page due diligence report to assist our angel investors with a potential investment in Saambaa, a digital advertising startup. Assisted the network in sourcing 5 deals in VR, wearables, drone solutions, and data analytics by going to conferences including VRLA, MIT STEX, AUVSI and incubators & coworking spaces such as WeWork & EvoNexus. Helped organize a 50 people networking/panel event in LA for August and an 8 startup aerospace pitch event at Penn for November. Expanded and optimized the network's social presence by sourcing 2 channels and revising the 4 available. I am continuing to contribute as much as I can by working part-time in my final semester at Penn.

San Diego, Ca, Us

LightSpeed Innovations is an aerospace startup accelerator offering startups access to: large network of experts, mentors, and investors. Portfolio companies go through intensive 3-month business bootcamp, including: Deep Space Industries, PhaseFour, and KubOS. The Penn Aerospace Club (PAC) is partnered with LightSpeed to offer a Space Investment Strategies course at the University of Pennsylvania. The course is split between seminars and a research project with LightSpeed and other NewSpace Startups.My responsibilities as project team lead were: Organizing weekly debrief meetings with Founder & CEO, Ellen Chang. Reaching out to and interviewing industry professionals from venture capitals, startups, corporations and academia. Attending conferences representing PAC, such as MIT New Space Age Conference 2016. Pulling industry data from sources such as CB Insights, Mattermark, CrunchBase and the Tauri Group to provide a comprehensive overlook of the market and investment prospects. Researching the viability of a seed-stage venture fund and create a fund outline.

Luxembourg, Lu

212 is a leading venture capital in Istanbul that was founded by a seasoned group of industry veterans with the common vision of cultivating eco-system in Turkey and its region.As a summer analyst, I conducted market, competitive, regulatory and technological due diligence for Fintech & Hospitality Tech industries. Analyzed top 5 competitors to portfolio company HotelRunner and identified 8 possible exit strategies. Attended and participated in mentorship meeting with startup CEOs seeking investments and growth advice. Received full-time offer and continued to work part-time during fall 2015 semester

Cape Town, Western Cape, Za

iXperience is a summer career accelerator in Cape Town, South Africa, that caters to top students from universities around the world. iX teaches students practical, in-demand skills in a unique and immersive learning environmentDuring this program, I designed and deployed a dynamic web application, Samarit, a crowd-sourced crime reporting application (http://sleepy-earth-5504.herokuapp.com/). Attended a 160-hour web development boot camp and learned 3 programming languages - Ruby on Rails, HTML & CSS. Expanded the iXperience brand to the University of Pennsylvania by collaborating with Wharton Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Club, PennApps & Weiss Tech House

Kadıköy, İstanbul, Tr

DokuzBucuk is an all-purpose boutique shared office space company in Istanbul to aid the budding community of entrepreneurs.As a co-founder and managing partner, I, along with my partners, was one of the pioneers of low-cost shared office spaces in Istanbul. Expanded to several locations throughout Istanbul serving both the European and Asian sides. Over my time, I led negotiations with 11 firms from Italy, Iran and Azerbaijan for branch and liaison office services. Worked on 4 deals regarding event-planning and office solutions with companies including “Sky-Life Magazine” and the Turkish political awareness organization, “Oy ve Otesi”​http://www.dokuzbucuk.com/

As a market development intern, I designed and determined optimal solutions for the logistics of imports and exports to and from 6 of Turkey’s and Italy’s leading polyurethane technologies companies. Led the team responsible for expanding into China by communicating with companies such as LK Machinery.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Aerospace And Energy Entrepreneurship

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