🏖️Had our @500ee pre-Summer Founder Dinner in Istanbul. We've been actively throwing Founder Dinners across Budapest, Zagreb, Belgrade, Warsaw, Tallinn, Riga, Athens, and Sofia over the past 2 months!
🐚Amazing to see how the portfolio is evolving with founders from 🇹🇷Turkiye, 🇷🇴Romania, 🇵🇱Poland,🇪🇪Estonia, 🇭🇺Hungary, 🇭🇷Croatia, 🇬🇧UK and the 🇺🇸US. We are truly building bridges across 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 and stitching ecosystems to the US.
🌊What's to come?
🐬A stronger push to increase awareness and elevate the brand across 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
🐟Continue doing one investment a month, minimum
🏊Spread the team throughout the region
🤽Bring international investors to join follow-ons, shooting for half the portfolio until the EOY
⛵Put more 500 Emerging Europe stickers everywhere😉
SAVE THE DATE, EVERYONE! 🚀
Join the 500 Emerging Europe team for cc: Nights Warsaw!
📍Venue: Mindspace
🗓 Date: October 13rd - 6 PM CET
👮🏻♂️Moderator: Arın Özkula & Esat Acar
RSVP -> https://t.co/QLLkJYToCd
Excellent agenda & amazing guests as always!
WE ARE VERY EXCITED!
🤩Unveiling 500 Emerging Europe - a €70M early stage fund focusing on 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 (Turkey, Central Eastern Europe and the Baltics).
🤟Follow us on Twitter: @500ee
https://t.co/7vLMzg92iG
Recent highlights
- Made 14 investments, with a few more in the works
- Will make ~15 more investments from this fund, with an increasing focus on Eastern Europe & the Baltics
- Final close towards the end of the year
🚨🚨 Rebranding Alert!! 🚨🚨
We are now 500 Emerging Europe (@500ee) - we wanted to clearly highlight our focus, not only on the Turkish, but also the Eastern European & Baltics ecosystems. More below, thank you @mikebutcher for the coverage
https://t.co/WQxriVOlsI
- We'll be holding @getcced events & office hours across Budapest, Bucharest, Zagreb, Tallinn, Berlin, Sofia, Warsaw, and Helsinki in 2022 - follow the @500ee team for updates.
- @esatacar is in Warsaw for the next 2 months. Drinks on him if you want to meet with him!
🌌@rinaonur (@SpykeGames): How Gaming Pulls You Right Back in
🎆Alper (Agave): Life After a $7M Seed Round
🎇Ezgi (Cypher): Recruitment in the Hyper-Competitive Gaming Space
🪐@aemretas (@AlictusOfficial): Bootstrapping a Gaming Company All the Way to a $300M Acquisition
🔥Turkish gaming ecosystem is 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗘
🥇#1: Turkey received the most investments in the gaming space in EMEA in 2022. Correct me if I'm wrong @serkanunsal@startups_watch😊
🤩Join our cc: Nights | Gaming event to hear from the best!
📢 https://t.co/trG5ZQzE8P
Big day for us today: We're launching the beta version of @datapadio on @ProductHunt 🔥🔥🔥 Looking forward to all your feedback & support 🙌 🕺🧿
#startups#buildinpublic
https://t.co/KZ5qsvzuu0
🚨 Launch Alert 🚨
We are now live on Product Hunt!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Click the link below to check it out and support us ❤️
https://t.co/viKyf6Df6q
#buildinginpublic
Aylardır bu an için çalışıyoruz. Sonunda @datapadio canlıda 🎉 Bize destek olmak isterseniz upvote verebillir, yorum yazabilir, bizi paylaşabilir ve uygulamayı deneyip feedback verebilirsiniz. Desteklerinizi bekliyoruz 🙌
https://t.co/YzXHzcM7YH
😍Warsaw is fun and all, but have you seen Wroclaw yet?
⛲Had a great time in Poland over the past week thanks to @vestbee_com's VC Summit and @WolvesSummit with @esatacar
👼I'll be coming to Poland more frequently and hoping to announce more exciting news soon!
Thrilled to announce our investment in @layer_ai alongside @HummingbirdVC & @FjLabs !
❔ Declarative MLOps platform to help data teams produce ML applications
⭐ Led by @immecevit, previously co-founder at Gram Games, a leading gaming co acquired by Zynga
✨ Talented team of 20+
🕒 cc: Office Hours
📋 Join our Office Hours to meet with investors and mentors! We’ll book a 30 minute slot for you.
📌 The next Office Hours is on 25 March at 10.00-16.00 with @esatacar.
📍 @kolektifhouse - Levent
📢 Details and application form: https://t.co/F1qajiqPe2
🕒 cc: Office Hours
📋 Meet with investors and mentors! We’ll book a 30 minute slot for you.
📌 The next Office Hours is on 25 March at 10.00-16.00 with @esatacar.
📍 @kolektifhouse - Levent
📢 Apply: https://t.co/F1qajiqPe2