Evren Ucok

Investor at EUI

Panellist

I am a high-conviction equity investor focusing on:
- Capital markets (especially asset and investment management)
- Consumer internet (focusing on late stage growth and especially ecommerce)
- Enterprise software (focusing on funds and local champions)
- Biotech (typically early stage, phase 2 or 3)
- Other deeptech (includ. decarbonisation, energy transition, techbio, space, defense, etc.)
- Specialist funds (often anchor and senior advisor)

I cofounded or seeded several important regional tech champions
- Trendyol Group, one of the biggest ecommerce companies in the world
- Peak Games, mobile gaming (not gambling) first unicorn exit from Turkey
- Earlybird Digital East, the first institutional VC fund from Eastern Europe that returned ca. 14x

- Uipath, the biggest tech IPO from Europe

Before that, I worked at Oliver Wyman for ca. 14 years, advising financial institutions on key strategic decisions backed by cutting-edge financial models.

I am a citizen of Turkey and EU with diverse personal interests including macro-history, languages, mental models, chess prodigies, astronomy, cosmology and longevity.

I enjoy fine dining, especially Japanese cuisine, classical music, R&B and hiphop, dancing, traveling and performing arts especially movies and opera.