About
Dilek Dayinlarli has invested as an angel since 2017 and has held board seats at several companies. She was previously an investor at 212, an early-stage technology venture capital firm in Istanbul, and earlier worked as Director of Strategy and Analysis at Groupon, a management consultant at Accenture, and a business developer at Koc Group. She holds a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University and an MBA from Johnson & Wales University, and is one of the first Kauffman Fellows selected from Turkey.
Invests in
CybersecurityFintech
Experience
- ScaleX VenturesFounder & Managing Partnercurrent2019 — present
- Periodic LabsInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- Hilbert's AIInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- MeditopiaInvestor and Board Membercurrent2025 — present
- KuzuInvestorcurrent2025 — present
- OpnovaInvestorcurrent2024 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- UbicloudInvestorcurrent2024 — present
- HyperbeeAIInvestorcurrent2023 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- Icosa ComputingInvestorcurrent2023 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- FlowlaInvestorcurrent2023 — presentLondon Area, United Kingdom
- Finch NetworkInvestorcurrent2024 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- UpstashInvestorcurrent2020 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- Atlas RoboticsInvestor and Board Membercurrent2022 — presentPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- KonduktoBoard Member & Investorcurrent2022 — present
- VC3 DAOGenesis Membercurrent2022 — present
- PeakaInvestor & Board Membercurrent2021 — presentPalo Alto, California, United States
- ResmoInvestorcurrent2022 — present
- LocomationInvestorcurrent2020 — present
- HipporelloInvestorcurrent2020 — present
- InvidyoInvestorcurrent2020 — present
Education
- Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessGuest Lecturer, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
- Johnson & Wales UniversityMBA, Corporate Strategy
- Yıldız Teknik ÜniversitesiB.S., Mechanical Engineering
Skills & more
Early Stage InvestmentVenture Capital20Start-ups99Management Consulting50New Business Development44Internet8Technology1Competitive Analysis96Business Planning28Strategy99E-commerce80Product Development27
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MarketingTelecommunicationsFinancial ModelingFinanceCoachingFranchisingCustomer ServiceCustomer ManagementProduct MarketingSegmentationMarketing StrategyLeadershipFrom Dilek's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business1,187
Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberPeter FentonGeneral Partner at BenchmarkSteve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesDavid SzeAdvisory Partner at GreylockKatherine BoyleGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (American Dynamism)Hunter WalkCo-founder & Partner at Homebrew
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Also attended Johnson & Wales University2
Also attended Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi6
Shared employers
Also worked at Kuzu1
Also worked at Opnova2
Also worked at Finch Network1
Also worked at Kauffman Fellows Program365
Jenny LeeSenior Managing Partner at Granite AsiaTobi CokerDeal Partner at Felicis VenturesRoi Bar-KatManaging Director at Intel CapitalAvi BharadwajInvestment Director at Intel CapitalNick WashburnSenior Managing Director, Intel Capital (North America)Vinnie LauriaFounding Partner at Golden Gate Ventures
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Investments
Investor
DataRowGenialisGenomizeInsiderIyziCoPicus Security
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Colleagues at ScaleX Ventures
Alper Mat
Venture Partner at ScaleX Ventures
Arjun Sethi
Co-founder, Chairman at Tribe Capital Firstlook
Berkay Mollamustafaoglu
General Partner at ScaleX Ventures
Cansen Başaran-Symes
Advisor at ScaleX Ventures
Chrysanthos Chrysanthou
Advisor at ScaleX Ventures
Dilek Dayınlarlı
General Partner at ScaleX Ventures
Itxaso del Palacio
General Partner at Notion Capital
Magdalena Yesil
Board Director: SoFi, Zuora, Smartsheet at Operator Collective