How to run an accelerator or incubator programme that funders renew
The programme cycle a funder reads: selection, intake, mentors, the middle of the cohort, measuring change and reporting, with what we would do at each stage.
Ozan Sönmez
Ozan Sonmez is a startup mentor, angel investor and accelerator builder, and a Co-Founder of The Brutally Honest. He has more than 15 years of work across Silicon Valley, MENA and Europe.
He spent about 1,000 days in Silicon Valley as Managing Director of the investment arm of METU, investing in more than 20 Turkish founders scaling in the US.
He wrote Tech for Good: A Blueprint for Impactful Innovation and hosts the podcast Empires of Innovation with Ozan Sonmez.
Background
- Co-Director of Founder Institute Türkiye since 2020
- Türkiye's first Certified Business Incubation Manager
- Certified trainer by Stanford CPD
- Head of the EMEA region for the Innovation Accelerator Group, UC Berkeley
- Lead Program Designer of UNDP's SDG Impact Accelerator, Türkiye's first global social impact accelerator
- Contributed to forming the MIT Enterprise Forum Pre-Accelerator Bootcamp in MENA and trained 1,000+ startups across the Middle East over five years
- Mentor in 500 Startups programs in the Middle East and Malaysia
- Lead mentor and pitch coach, Endeavor Türkiye
- Member of the UBI Global Advisory Board
- LP and angel memberships: Founder Capital, EstBAN, FiBAN and Boğaziçi Ventures