Iskender Dirik
About
Iskender works in the following industries: "Computer Software", "Internet", "Industrial Automation", "Consumer Services", "Information Technology & Services", "Professional Training & Coaching", "Venture Capital & Private Equity", and "Investment Banking". Iskender is currently Portfolio Company (acquired by Twitter) at Scroll. Iskender also works as Co-Founder / Managing Director (gGmbH) at 2hearts, a job Iskender has held since Jun 2020. Another title Iskender currently holds is Managing Director Samsung NEXT Ventures / General Manager Europe / Global Head of „Media Tech“ at Samsung Next. In Iskender's previous role as a Managing Director/Founding CEO Microsoft ScaleUp (Continental Europe) at Microsoft, Iskender worked in Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland until Sep 2019. Prior to joining Microsoft, Iskender was a Managing Director at Bauer Venture Partners GmbH and held the position of Managing Director at Hamburg Area, Germany. Prior to that, Iskender was a Interim M&A Bauer Media Group (Digital) at Bauer Venture Partners GmbH, based in Hamburg Area, Germany from Jan 2015 to Oct 2016.
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Iskender Dirik's current jobs
Building an internet that’s better for you and better for journalism.
Building tomorrow's tech society with cultural diversity: 2hearts is a (non-profit) community of people with immigration backgrounds from Europe's tech scene with the mission to help underprivileged minorities.
• Supporting and investing in entrepreneurs and startups who are building >> software << that could complement Samsung’s global hardware footprint. • Focus stages: Seed and Series A/B; ticket sizes: 200k-3m$. • Focus areas: 1. Media Tech 2. Edge 3. AI/Frontier Tech 4. Healthcare • Personally responsible for our activities and team in Europe and globally leading our Media Tech focus area (covering gaming, video, audio, mixed reality, synthetic media and monetization with a focus on creator tools & tech infrastructure). Media Tech Portfolio: Forte, StreamElements, Spatial, Scroll, Dapper Labs, PlayVS, Vidrovr, 8i, and more.
🤖 Human-centered programming of robots: Programming industrial robots is a complex, time-consuming and expensive tasks, done by experts. Today, most of the industrial have to be re-programmed when the task, the process or the surrounding changes. Wandelbots provides a solution for that. With Demonstration-based teaching robots can be programmed without writing a single line of code. Now, the task experts are able to teach robots even in dynamic and complex environments. By showing the robot how a certain task shall be performed, the concrete control program is learned and automatically generated.
Half VC, half start-up. EQT Ventures is a multi-stage VC with €1.2bn across two funds to help fuel European tech start-ups to become global winners.
αlphalist is a leading, exclusive network of top CTOs.
📣 Enabling everyone to be more successful through outstanding & impactful presentations 🎬 My hobby: I'm passionate about the secrets of impactful presentations since school and university. Over the years I've developed the "Commandments of Outstanding Presentations" (COUP) framework and deliver it through a unique masterclass format.
Empowering the best people and businesses to disrupt.
Iskender Dirik's past jobs
I've founded Microsoft ScaleUp in Berlin (covering Continental Europe) and built a program with a 100(%) founder NPS from scratch: • International task force & most exclusive startup program within Microsoft. • Part of Microsoft‘s Cloud + AI Platform Team • Mission: Helping enterprise-ready B2B tech startups to scale. • Disruptive Growth Accelerator: Top 3 Accelerator worldwide, No. 1 global Corporate Accelerator. • Focus Segments: B2B + (Deep) Tech (AI, SaaS, Cloud, Big Data, IoT, Blockchain, etc.). • Focus Markets: Continental Europe (incl. Nordics). • Focus Stage: Series A (already raised or short before)
• Venture Capital Investor • 100 Mio. Euro Corporate Venture Fund of Bauer Media, Europe's leading magazine publishing and radio broadcasting house.
One of the World's leading media companies and Europe's largest magazine publisher and radio house.