Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arya Women Investment Platform

Deniz is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arya Women Investment Platform, Turkey’s only women focused investment group, providing networking, training and acceleration as well as investment opportunities for female founders and corporate clients. Founding her first company when she was 26, after starting her career at Ernst & Young, Deniz is a social entrepreneur and investor. She invests personally as well as through the Rising Tide fund which is part of a global movement to increase women’s participation in angel investing with a global community of successful business women across Europe, Middle East, Africa and the USA. Deniz holds an MBA from Koc University and a B.S. in Economics, Business, and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University.