This document provides biographical information about Caglar Karatas and discusses his background as the chairman of Turkish Bankers, an entrepreneur, angel investor, and former investment banker. It also provides statistics on Karatas's angel and seed investments in 2014, which totaled between £800 million to £1 billion pounds in the UK, primarily in technology, food/drink, business services, e-commerce, and retail. Examples of successful crowdfunding campaigns in the UK are also mentioned.

1. Caglar Karatas
Chairman@TurkishBankers.org
Entrepreneur
Angel Investor
Ex-Investment Banker/Trader, New York & Hong Kong & London
Alumnus of Bogazici (’99), Kings(’03), Harvard(’07), NYU Stern(’10)

2. Entrepreneur Angel Investor
(Turkey)
(Turkey)
(Turkey)
(United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom)
(United Kingdom)

3. United Kingdom
£800Million - £1Billion
Angel + Seed
Investment
made in 2014!
Most invested sectors:
(1) Technology!
(2) Food & Drink
(3) Business Services
(4) E-commerce
(5) Retail

4. UK ANGELS

5. Crowdfunding :
A or B Class
Shares??
Preemption rights??
Voting right??
Donations
United Kingdom
Turkey
Loans Equity
Fongogo

6. Via CrowdTube
Most Popular Crowdfunding website in the UK

10. 500,000,000 USD
1 Billion USD
140 Million USD
Acquired by German ‘Helpling’’
valuation at 32 Million EUR
Acquired by Playtech
valuation at 15 Million USD
800 Million USD
Acquired by HP
valuation at 11.7 Billion USD
Acquired by Google
valuation at 500 Million USD
Acquired by Facebook
valuation at $20 Million USD
Acquired by E-bay:
215,000,000 USD
589,000,000 USD
Acqired by Nasper :
280,000,000 USD
Acquired by amazon.com
25% sold to Abraaj PE, valuation:
400,000,000 USD
Recent valuations
UK vs. Turkey
Turkish
Startups
1. Why all e-
commerce
and B2C?
2. Why lack of
any
technology/
R&D
companies in
the
ecosystem?

11. Last sold to Russian Sberbank Group
for 3.53 Billion USD
HAKAN ATES
Founder, CEO

12. Roy Raymond, Stanford Grad
founded the company with $80K
sold, Leslie Wexner for $1M: good deal??
only few years later worth $13 Billion!
he committed suicide!!!
Harvard dropout
1.18 Billion Users
$104 Billion IPO
$244.25 Billion as of 29th Sep 2015

13. Watch OUT!