Breakaway Partners OÜ

Serhat Pala is President of NuFund Venture Group, one of the largest early-stage investment organizations in the US with over 350 members and 100+ investments, and General Partner at Cross Ocean Ventures, which focuses on immigrant founders in high-growth technology. He is a serial founder who co-founded and scaled Confirm BioSciences to over $50M in revenue before its acquisition in 2020, and has served as an LP in multiple venture funds while mentoring through accelerators including Techstars and NYU Stern. His investment focus spans pre-seed and seed stage companies globally across sectors including AI/ML, SaaS, healthtech, fintech, and deep tech.

Zeynep Ilgaz is a General Partner at Cross Ocean Ventures who invests in technology companies and advises founders on fundraising and growth strategy. She co-founded Confirm B, a consumer diagnostics company that achieved retail distribution in over 20,000 stores and was acquired for a nine-figure sum. Ilgaz serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Yale Ventures and mentor with Berkeley SkyDeck and Techstars, supporting early-stage startups across fundraising, investor relations, and scaling operations.

Haydar Nur is a venture capital operations professional who began in the field in 2019 while pursuing engineering studies. He has worked on investor operations and evaluation systems at Geometry Venture Development, Cross Ocean Ventures, and NuFund Venture Group, progressively incorporating automation and AI tools into venture intelligence workflows. He currently leads operations and growth at KRTR.ai, a venture intelligence platform, and holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University.