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Keiretsu Forum CEO Williams Visits the Incubation Center

Keiretsu Forum CEO Williams Visits the Incubation Center

Randy Williams, CEO of Keiretsu Forum, the world's largest angel investor network, Aydın Koç, co-founder of Keiretsu Forum Istanbul, and Aslı Gözören, General Manager of Keiretsu Forum Istanbul, visited the BAU Incubation Center.

MORE THAN 1,000 MEMBERS ON 3 CONTINENTS
 
Keiretsu Forum is the world's largest angel investor network, with more than 1,000 members in 23 chapters on 3 continents. This international network of chapters offers portfolio companies and presenting entrepreneurs support in finding capital and resources at the international level, and promises "comprehensive partnership" to all its members around the world who enjoy co-investing and building social relationships across chapters. To date, Keiretsu Forum has invested more than 320 million dollars in more than 400 companies.
 
Angel investing is not an entirely new concept for our country; it is a phenomenon embedded in our entrepreneurial culture. Keiretsu Forum Istanbul aims to bring a more institutional structure to investment activities in Türkiye that are still carried out on an individual basis, and at the same time to integrate them into the global investment community.
 
WHAT IS AN ANGEL INVESTOR?
 
An Angel Investor is a person who invests in a business opportunity at the very beginning (start-up) stage and provides capital for businesses to grow or develop. Another definition describes it as a special type of investor who invests in companies with high risk and high growth potential at a very early stage of their establishment.