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Join fellow peers who lead innovation in an intimate deep-dive discussion with Studios directly to hear how they work & what they've built
About this Event
Studios are the newly fused marriage of Venture Capital Firms & Startup Founders.
Usually, startup founders decide if they want to give equity to a venture firm but what happens when it's the venture firm starting the company & deciding which founder they want to give equity to?
Studios are company builders. They solve real problems by matching great business ideas with proven entrepreneurs & then they take those ideas, test them, & back them with funding, along with a set of defined resources, in order to launch & grow powerful startups ready to scale. - GSSN, The Global Startup Studio Network
Alper Celen is the founder of ENHANCE, a venture builder specializing in online vertical marketplaces that improve lifestyles in the Middle East & Africa. Enhance wholly owns JOIGIFTS.com, the leading online gifting platform in the Middle East. Previous to Enhance, Alper was the founder of online food ordering service FOODONCLICK.com in Saudi Arabia (acquired by DeliveryHero in 2015). Alper is an active investor & advisor in the Middle East high-tech ecosystem. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Alper was a management consultant in his own boutique consultancy Commit & previously held leadership roles at McKinsey & Co., Nokia, Ansys, IBM, & NASA subcontractor Millitech. Three satellites he helped design are still in Earth orbit.
Yuri Iskhakov is the founder of NANO, a digital agency, & Ai Venture Studio.
As an agency, NANO takes on the role of a technology partner & helps customers plan & implement solutions by leveraging subject matter expertise, human-centered design, artificial intelligence & multiple data science disciplines, such as machine learning, NLP, Deep-Learning & Cognitive Computing.
As an Ai venture studio, NANO LABS assembles smart teams of engineers & entrepreneurs who know how to build great companies. NANO LABS has created 5 ventures including Joolez - a diamond ring marketplace, Deviate - a talent marketplace, ErgoAi - work injury monitoring app, Reco - product recommendation platform, & True Learning - Adaptive Learning Platform for online courses.
ORGANIZERS
The NYC Innovation Collective's mission is to support the growth of the overall innovation ecosystem by empowering the countless innovation leaders who help run it. We facilitate knowledge exchange, opportunity creation, & interpersonal connection for the community by providing year-round programming via our networking socials, deep-dive roundtables, public panels, city-wide demo days, & annual summits.
Some of our members include directors & managers of innovation programs such as Incubators, Accelerators, Studios, & Labs in every industry/vertical & are backed by funds, corporates, universities, government, or founders directly. As a result, we have one of the largest global networks of founders, investors, mentors, vendors, & resources.
If you would like to learn more, stay tuned via our email newsletter, apply for membership, or volunteer as an Ambassador by contacting arthur@nycinnovationcollective.com.
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