Betül Çolak

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Betül completed law faculty with honors and a minor degree before pursuing an Advanced Master's Program in Law and Finance at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands. Her thesis, titled "Navigating Risk and Regulation: Venture Capital Investment Phase Risk Management within the EUVECA Framework" underscores her commitment to understanding alternative investment schemes, particularly focusing on legal risk management and expertise within the venture capital industry. Additionally, she successfully completed the Leiden Leadership Program, an esteemed extracurricular honors program at Leiden University designed to equip master’s students with the knowledge, insights, and skills necessary to make a significant professional and societal impact.

She, currently, specializes in capital markets and private equity and venture capital deals, where she has been actively involved in numerous venture capital fund establishments, including the first green venture capital fund in Türkiye, and various investment deals. She provides consultancy services ranging from fund structuring to liquidation for venture capital investment funds; portfolio management companies, and investors. Her responsibilities also include counseling venture capital deal negotiations, involving term sheets, shareholders and investment agreements, convertible loan agreements, option agreements, conducting due diligence processes, and overseeing transaction closures.