A Acikgoz
Senior Investment Advisor at Anka Ventures
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolA Acikgoz is a Senior Investment Advisor and founder-operator with eight years of experience helping startups scale product, growth, and operations from San Diego. He co-founded Retinas, a VR-focused health tech company that shipped multiple immersive products (including a UNICEF-recognized SELP) and led product, fundraising, DevOps, and go-to-market efforts. His background in electrical-electronics engineering and Stanford GSB innovation training underpins a hands-on blend of technical product delivery and investor-side strategy. Having led mission-driven ventures that served disaster-affected populations and medical trainees, he brings empathy for entrepreneurial pain points and practical playbooks for growth. Notably, he has shifted from building ventures himself to advising founders on scaling—so he speaks both the operator’s and investor’s language.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical-Electronics Engineering at TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji ÜniversitesiGraduate School of Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, Graduate School of Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at Stanford University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (5)
oculus4
virtual-reality3
edtech2
augmented-reality2
aframe2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
retinas/selp
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
VR based Social and Emotional Learning Platform
Contributions:29 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 7 months
learning-platformvirtual-realityturkeysocialunicef
retinas/SELP
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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