Dilek Dayinlarli, Founder & Managing Partner at ScaleX Ventures, Istanbul, Turkey. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Dilek Dayınlarlı is the founder and managing partner of ScaleX Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm she co-founded in 2017 in Istanbul, Turkey, with prior investment experience at the firm 212 where she backed companies like IyziCo and Insider. Her investment thesis targets B2B software, AI, bioinformatics, robotics, and cyber security, focusing on seed to Series A stages across Central and Eastern Europe plus Turkey. The firm typically writes initial checks between €300,000 and €3 million and operates as an operator VC that connects startups with advisors to support global scaling. Notable portfolio companies include IyziCo, a major financial technology firm in the region, and Insider, a global marketing automation software company backed by Sequoia Capital. Dayınlarlı is a deep-tech investor who also serves as a technology columnist for Hürriyet, a Horizon 2020 jury member for the European Union, and an instructor at Stanford University. She is recognized as one of Turkey’s first Kauffman Fellows and was named one of Turkey’s most successful female leaders in 2017 for her contributions to the technology sector.
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