Investor | Published Author | Podcaster | Consultant | Mentor | Private Equity Professional
About Me
Kıvılcım Çaylı is the author of “The Startup Investor's Handbook” and “Startup Valuations in Emerging Markets” (academic book chapter), an investor who has made technology investments in five different countries, a management consultant, and a private equity & venture capital expert.
He holds MBA (Master of Business Administration), CPEP™ (Chartered Private Equity Professional), and FMVA® (Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst) degrees and Capital Markets Activities Level 3 & Derivative Instruments Licenses. After many years of corporate work experience in global companies and entrepreneurial experience in companies he founded, he has contributed to the growth journey of nearly a hundred companies in his management consultancy career.
He is the CEO of Kanvas Management Consultancy Company and Kılıç Çaylı & Partners Law Office. He makes his personal investments under the Pareto Ventures brand.
He continues to contribute to the investment community with numerous articles published in the field of capital markets and investments, as well as his podcast titled “Investor, I'm Talking to You, Entrepreneur, You Understand.”
Podcast
Yatirimci Sana Soyluyorum Girisimci Sen Anla
The name of the podcast approximately means: “Investor, I'm saying this to you. Entrepreneur, I mean it for you to take the hint."
Two experienced names in the investment and entrepreneurship ecosystem, Kivilcim Cayli and Oguz Aslan, come together in this podcast.
Kivilcim Cayli, as an investor and private equity professional who has made numerous technology investments in many countries and is known for authoring the book "The Startup Investor's Handbook", shares the challenges and opportunities of the ecosystem from an investor's perspective.
Oguz Aslan represents the perspective of the entrepreneurial side as an entrepreneur, mentor and trainer who has taken part in numerous trainings and events.
In this podcast;
It simplifies the details that investors should pay attention to in a way that entrepreneurs can understand,
We reveal what investors expect from entrepreneurs.
Videos
Some of the Events I've Attended and Speeches I've Given
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The Startup Investor's Handbook
There are dozens of books in Turkish, thousands of web pages, blogs and articles for startup founders and entrepreneurs.
However, until now there was no Turkish book for startup investors that explains the nature, logic, legal and financial aspects, analysis methods of investment, in other words, the entire investment process from A to Z.
We set out to fill this gap with a comprehensive “bedside book” and this book you are holding in your hands has emerged.
If we can ignite a “spark” in your mind about startup investing and help you move forward on the path to becoming a part of this world, our book has achieved its purpose.
Startup Valuations in Emerging Markets
This chapter focuses on unique challenges in startup valuations in the emerging markets, and approaches to address them. Each emerging market has distinct characteristics than another and the developed ones, including but are not limited to macro factors such as inflation, currency fluctuations, or political instability and company specific factors caused by a startup’s unpredictable nature and its interaction with the market and the third parties.
Startup valuation is subjective to some extent, and there is a certain need for a reliable framework to facilitate investment decisions. The author curates 10 startup valuation methods and proposes modifications and adjustments to them, trying to combine them in a startup-specific but practical method in the context of emerging markets.
Additionally, the investor perspective is highly involved in the chapter to give a solid understanding that the valuation practice is a tool to assess an investment and to build an investment decision; it is not an aim itself. And the emerging market startups can provide fruitful investment opportunities for risk-takers.
Important components of the valuation process such as due diligence, performance metrics, qualitative factors, portfolio strategies, exit strategies and the regulatory scene are also elaborated.