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Arman Anatürk
Managing Partner, KAPITAL. Founding Partner, HackGroup.
Arman Anatürk is the Managing Partner at KAPITAL and a co-founder of HackCapital, an investment infrastructure platform focused on sustainable finance and impact investing.12 He is passionate about using technology to address major global challenges like climate change and food security.1
Some key points about Arman Anatürk:
Professional Background
- Co-founder and CEO of HackCapital, which provides fundraising and liquidity tools for impact funds and startups1
- Managing Partner at KAPITAL, a global SPV solutions provider5
- Founding member of FoodHack, described as the world's largest foodtech community1
- Previously held roles at companies like CoderCourse and OneRoof Agency2
Entrepreneurial Ventures
Anatürk has been involved in creating several interconnected initiatives:
- HackCapital: An investment platform aiming to unlock billions in new capital for private companies working on impact solutions1
- FoodHack: A large foodtech community1
- ClimateHack: Another venture in the climate tech space6
Roles and Responsibilities
- Registered Financial Advisor in Switzerland3
- Luxembourg Business License holder3
- Part of the Management Board for KAPITAL Luxembourg Sàrl, along with Camille Bossel and Emilie Dellecker3
Anatürk is based in Luxembourg and has over 500 connections on LinkedIn.4 His work primarily focuses on democratizing access to climate tech investments and supporting impact-driven founders, funders, and managers with their capital raises.2
Highlights
Pleasure to be on stage last week at the Fit4Start Graduation representing KAPITAL
The 6-month program supported by the Ministry of the Economy took us through a packed agenda with tailored support and introductions to the Luxembourg financial ecosystem.
A huge thank you to the whole Luxinnovation GIE team, coaches, particularly Simone La Torre and Charlotte Christensen and all the jury and partners that contributed throughout the program.
Congrats extends to the fellow graduates of this edition which was full of interesting companies working on solutions like advanced super-insulation materials (Thermalytica Inc.) to simplifying Scope3 emissions in supply chains (ClimateCamp).
Now with further support from the Ministry of the Economy secured, KAPITAL are excited to establish Luxembourg as our European headquarters in what is clearly the place to be for financial service providers with global ambitions.
Further details on the program and the batch of graduates can be found here: https://lnkd.in/e2jyMJ6r
#Luxembourg #FinancialHub #Fintech #Fit4Start #MinistryOfEconomy
Just a friendly reminder. Your investors don’t necessarily need to, nor should, sit directly on your cap table.
Founders, typically in the early stages, tend to bring in multiple investor directly as shareholders - this is even more true in a down market.
But a cap table with many investors means:
📉 Slower company decision making - the opposite of what you want as a startup.
📑 More administrative paperwork (and costs) - somebody needs to handle all those shareholders and their annual tax reports.
👀 Negative signalling - later stage investors tend to avoid companies with a large number of direct shareholders (see comments).
This is particularly true for companies across Europe - looking at you Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy..
Yes, some investors might ask (or force) to sit directly on the cap table, but this is often shortsighted. Nobody wins here.
Do yourself, and your investors a favor, use an SPV to roll up smaller tickets (we typically advise any tickets under <1M).
There's plenty of solutions out there to do this. Pick one that works for your specific case and investor base (e.g. jurisdiction, tax treatment, regulatory).
Think its too late to tidy up your cap table?
KAPITAL's SPVs can be used to retroactively roll-up your investors, even after they've invested. It's a sensitive process, but we've handled complex cases for founders from Seed to Series B+.
Focus on the fundraising, leave the paperwork behind: https://lnkd.in/eEUMWbRf
