Gokhan Celiker

Revenue is the result. Process is the variable⚙️ You can’t optimize based on the outcome alone; you need metrics describing the process itself. The Problem: Measuring only eCPM (The Finish Line)🏁 The Solution: Measuring auction mechanics - bid responses and latency⏱️ To stop revenue leakage, you must monitor timeouts for both Prebid Client and Prebid Server. If you aren't tracking bid drop-offs, you're just guessing. Find your "revenue sweetspot" 🎯 Read more: https://lnkd.in/diVzgA7T #AdOps #Programmatic #HeaderBidding #Setupad

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Fundraising isn't dating. It's a sales funnel. And most founders don't track it, so 3 months go by while they're still "in conversations." Here's the brutal math (seed round, current selectivity): 100-200 investor outreaches → 15-20% reply rate → 15-30 first meetings → 5-10 partner meetings → 1-3 term sheets → 1 close If you're not tracking conversion at each stage, you're not fundraising. You're hoping. Founders who close faster don't have better luck. They have better systems: 1. They track the funnel weekly Where are leads dying? Outreach, first meeting, partner meeting? Each bottleneck has a different fix. 2. They iterate the narrative Every week: one sharper answer to the question that killed the last meeting. 3. They batch meetings 10 meetings in 2 weeks beats 10 meetings over 2 months. Compression creates urgency. Urgency creates leverage. 4. They treat "no" as data A fast no is worth more than a slow maybe. It frees you to find the real yes. If your fundraise feels stuck, stop asking "Who else can I talk to?" Start asking "Where is my funnel breaking?" I stress-test fundraising packages for founders. Deck, model, cap table, assumptions. You get a written findings memo and a 90-minute call showing you what breaks before investors do. Link in comments. #fundraising #seedstage #venturecapital #startups

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Moah Studio is now an approved design partner for Y Combinator companies. David Sheldon-Hicks recently shared that Territory Studio is registered as a YC partner. That was the nudge for us to register Moah as well. We believe we can create real value for founders by working differently. We use the newest tools to accelerate product roadmaps, without the billable pressure of large agencies, and with founders directly involved. Our experience spans reshaping product roadmaps for AAA gaming companies and helping data platforms prepare for $40M raises. That perspective translates well to startups searching for product-market fit and a clear path forward.

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We Invested in Feltsense, Agentic Founders That Build and Scale Startups At Blitzscaling Ventures, we invest in founders building systems that can reshape how markets form and scale. Feltsense is exploring a new frontier led by Marik Hazan. They are building agentic founders that can create, launch, and scale startups autonomously, (yes, you read that right, AI agents building companies) we call this trend Autonomous Organizations. Historically, startups scaled through human coordination to scale. Teams hired people, built products, and expanded step by step. Feltsense introduces a model where AI agents can ideate, build, test, and iterate continuously. This has the potential to dramatically accelerate company formation and innovation cycles. We believe this represents an early signal of a broader shift. Software is evolving from a tool used by entrepreneurs into an active participant in entrepreneurship itself. If agentic startups can proliferate across markets through shared infrastructure, this may create compounding advantages in data, workflows, and distribution. This is a bold bet on the future of entrepreneurship. We are proud to support the Feltsense team as they explore what autonomous company creation can look like at scale.

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Thrilled to announce that Together Fund is investing in Sentra, alongside a16z speedrun! You track results in Jira. Decisions in Notion. Conversations in Slack. But the reasoning, the debates, trade-offs, and context behind why you chose A over B, disappears into what we call "Dark Matter." A decision made in March looks insane by July because no one remembers the constraints that made it smart. I lived this firsthand at Twitter scaling from 800 to 8,000 employees, and at Google while launching AI Overviews to billions at planet scale. The problem isn't process. Process is compensation for something deeper: organizational amnesia. An organization’s "Systems of Record" doesn’t solve this, they encode it. They store what happened, never why. That's why we are investing in Sentra. Sentra is the always-on collective memory that eliminates organizational amnesia by maintaining accurate context for all members and agents, functioning as an operational nervous system. It connects to every channel where work happens, meetings, Slack, email, code commits, docs, calendars, and treats them not as artifacts to search, but as living signals to synthesize. The fleeting and the permanent, unified into a memory that understands. The founding team is built for this: - Jae Gwan Park (CEO): Product-first founder, memory systems research at UofT and MIT - Ashwin Gopinath (CSO): Former MIT professor, created "Reflexion" (NeurIPS 2023), agents that learn from mistakes, 2x founder - Andrey Starenky (CTO): Early Vapi engineer, ex-IBM, built to process enterprise-scale data firehose Together is an operator-led fund. We invest in problems we've lived. This is one of them. Many congrats Jae, Ashwin and Andrey, we are so excited to partner with you! Read the full thesis: https://lnkd.in/gixj9cE4 Book a demo: https://www.sentra.app/ #OrganizationalMemory #AI #Sentra #TogetherFund #a16z #ContextGraphs

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