Please sign up here:
http://tfc1.eventbrite.com/

Thursday, October 21, 2010 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Chadbourne & Parke LLP, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, 10112


At this inaugural event, we are very privileged to have as speaker:

Santo Politi – General Partner, Spark Capital

http://sparkcapital.com/team/bio/santopoliti

“Santo Politi is a founder and General Partner of Spark Capital and his approach has been very successful. Santo has led Spark’s investments in Admeld, Inform, CT-100/CNET (acquired by CBS), Genie, IPWireless, KickApps and OneRiot, Tashtego, Triggit. He has also participated in Spark’s investments in thePlatform (acquired by Comcast),  5min.com (acquired by AOL) as a board member. Santo most recently was a Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) with an investment focus on media and entertainment infrastructure. His investments at CRV include BigBand Networks (NASDAQ:BBND), Broadbus Technologies ( acquired by Motorola) and Groove Mobile (acquired by LiveWire Mobile). Prior to joining CRV in early 2001, Santo served as President of New Media for Blockbuster Entertainment, where he was responsible for establishing a new operating division focused on extending the company beyond its brick-and-mortar retail stores into digital broadcast and video on demand. Before his work at Blockbuster, Santo co-founded BT Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Bankers Trust. Some of his successful investments at BT Venture Partners include Aether Systems (NASDAQ:AETH), Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ:NVTL) and DigitalThink (NASDAQ:DTHK). Santo has held various engineering and management positions with the Video Systems Division of Matsushita Electric Industrial; Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems Company; and Weston Instruments, a subsidiary of Schlumberger Industries.”

The pitching startups at the event:

Igal Zakuto http://boomset.com
Sanem Eruçar http://avidtrips.com
Mesut Darendeli http://www.limocart.com
Metin Ozkuzey http://evvive.com
Piraye Yurttas http://celmatix.com
Fatma Yalcin InnoLaunch


TFC is a pitching and learning platform for Turkish entrepreneurs and

students to demo their products, polish their business plans, meet
other entrepreneurs, pitch to investors and get funded.

Our goal is to help startups with Turkish founders and to build an
ecosystem for Turkish entrepreneurs.

Venue Sponsor:

Chadbourne & Parke LLP
http://chadbourne.com

Event Partners:
Entrepreneurs Roundtable
http://eroundtable.net
Turkish Women’s International Network
http://turkishwin.com
Turkish American Business Forum
http://forum.org