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Veysel Berk

Entrepreneur, Founder of Çaycı and Mobil Kasa

Veysel Berk is the founder of Çaycı and Mobil Kasa. He studied at Boğaziçi University and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and got his PhD at University of California Berkeley.As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked with Steve Chu, Nobel Laureate in Physics and US Secretary of Energy in Obama’s administration. Veysel’s discoveries have been published in Science Magazine, 2013. The same year, he was able to raise $1M seed-funding for his Silicon Valley technology startup Wallit, in less than two weeks from angel investors and venture capitals such as executives from OpenTable, HP and PocketGems. Wallit also received coverage in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Reuters. Apple chose Berk's application as the future app in 127 countries.

Simple Decisions Make A Difference: The Story Of A Million Dollar Ride

My real and breakthrough story started in America, when I was working on my postdoctoral project which was about the high resolution microscope.

As a post-doctoral fellow there, I had the chance to work with Steve Chu, the US Secretary of Energy in the Barack Obama administration and Nobel Laureate. One day, while talking on the phone with a Silicon Valley professional about a small project which I carried on as a hobby, I got a ‘meeting’ invitation. This invitation wasn’t for a quick coffee chat at Starbucks. I accepted to do the 2-hour travel on a hot summer day after spending hours in the laboratory to invent high-resolution microscope to collect images of living bacteria. I didn’t know that this invitation was for a million-dollar trip. And then I was the founder and CEO of a start-up company in Silicon Valley which aims at socializing ‘enhanced reality’ experience by providing ‘virtual walls’ at popular locations. With this business idea, I succeeded in getting 1 million dollars as an investment capital in a period of less than two weeks from the corporate directors of companies such as Opentable, HP, Storm Ventures and the angel investment. Every problem has a solution if you analyse well.

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