Kaan is the founding partner and general manager of the Hackquarters Startup Accelerator & Corporate Innovation company. After studied Mechatronics engineering with Mathematics, he joined several tech companies and international corporate companies. For the last six years, he is fully involved in angel investment, growing startups, and leveraging innovation for corporates. Currently, Hackquarters and Kaan are shareholders over 20+ startups, Hackquarters has +60 corporate clients in Forbes 500 including Facebook, Bayer, Visa, and under Hackquarters Startup programs there are more than 200 startups under management in different industry programs such as Fintech, Insuretech, Healthtech. Kaan is also Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative Fellow’18 at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.