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Sixty years of complementary experience, one approach.

We learned by living it: how successful products are developed, where companies strain at each stage, and which decisions accelerate growth.

The founding partners’ combined sixty years in technology, entrepreneurship and business is not merely the sum of past projects.

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Founding partners

  • A. Caner Sandıkçı

    Founding partner

    He began his professional life in high school as a computer programmer at Arçelik. He graduated from Robert College in 1986 with the Sait Halman Computer Award. From 1986 to 1992 he was Information Systems and Business Development Manager at Divan Group, part of Koç Group. After completing undergraduate and graduate degrees in development economics at Boston University in 1994, he worked as a senior equity analyst at Global Menkul Değerler from 1994 to 2002.

    In 2003 he founded Fora Kurumsal Finansman, advising many companies on share purchases and sales; in that period he was involved in nearly a hundred projects. He is a founding partner of IKC Teknoloji.

  • Ali Akdeniz

    Founding partner

    An electronics engineer and technology entrepreneur. For about twenty years he has worked in the technology sector on software development, product management, building teams and company growth. At different times he invested in e-commerce and digital advertising, and took an active role in new technology businesses from idea through product and scale.

    In 2019 he founded Gelal, focusing on logistics technology. He later extended that work with Sentigo, and started ajan.io, a venture focused on putting artificial intelligence to work directly in business processes. He now works on founding technology companies, developing products and teams, and forming new ventures that can produce long-term value. He is a founding partner of IKC Teknoloji.

Management bodies

  • Board of directors

    The board sets IKC’s long-term direction and which companies its own capital will go to. We do not run the companies’ day-to-day from here. Strategy, risk and accountability sit on the board’s table.

  • Investment committee

    The investment committee will decide whether to invest in a company. It will ask the five questions, examine the commerce and the technology, and give a reasoned yes or no. That decision is kept apart from the board’s oversight role. The committee’s formal establishment is not yet complete.

  • Operating and advisory network

    When a company we have invested in needs an outside view on technology, product, growth, finance or strategy, this network connects that expertise. It is not a standing roster; it comes in when the need arises.

If you want to talk to this team, get in touch.

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