Murat Aktihanoglu

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at ERA (http://eranyc.com), an early-stage venture capital fund and technology accelerator in New York City that has invested in and accelerated 230+ startups since 2011. Murat has a Masters Degree in Computer Science and he has started multiple technology startups in NYC after having worked in Silicon Valley as a technologist. He started Entrepreneurs Roundtable, a non-profit, in 2007 in New York City to help the startup ecosystem grow and connect the entrepreneurial community with each other and investors through free monthly events that have been going on every month since 2007. He is also the author of the book “Location-Aware Applications” published by Manning Publications and a frequent speaker globally on technology, venture capital and entrepreneurship.