About Cenk Bayrakdar
Cenk Bayrakdar is founding partner and managing director of Revo Capital, a venture firm that invests in early-stage technology companies in Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Baltics. Revo invested in DefensX in April 2023, and he sits on its board. He is also on the selection committee of BIST Private Market and an advisor to Panorama.
Earlier he worked at Arçelik and then at Corbuss, where he was business development coordinator from 2001 to 2002. At Turkcell he headed partnership development from 2002 to 2004. He later held several senior roles there: chief information and communication technologies officer, chief product and services management officer and, until January 2013, chief new technology business officer.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Cenk Bayrakdar in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Cenk Bayrakdar works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Cenk Bayrakdar in the News
- Kahuna raises $100 million funding from Revo Capital
- Revo Capital, Fund III’ün ilk kapanışında 86 milyon dolar topladı ve oyun sektörüne genişleyeceğini duyurdu
- Türkiye’s largest VC, Revo Capital, plans $100M investment in regional startups
- Siber güvenlik girişimi DefensX, Revo Capital'dan yatırım aldı
Sources
- SECSecure Industries, Inc. Form D, filed Jul 20, 2026
- SECCleatus, Inc. Form D, filed May 19, 2026
- SECLogiwa Technology, Inc. Form D, filed Apr 15, 2021
- Company siteHome page of revo.vc (what Revo invests in)
- Company siteDefensX page on revo.vc (Revo entry April 2023)
- SEC filingTurkcell annual report on Form 20-F for 2009, executive biographies
- SEC filingTurkcell Form 6-K, January 22, 2013, announcing his resignation effective January 31, 2013
- Company siteCLEATUS seed round announcement quoting him, May 14, 2026 (cleat.ai)