# Ali Rıza Babaoğlan

> I back founders, speak about AI and the digital economy, and write about the parts of building that never fit on a pitch deck: time, focus, and the long road. I’m usually a quiet name on the cap table; this is where I think out loud.

Personal site of Ali Rıza Babaoğlan — entrepreneur, angel investor, keynote speaker, and founder of Grow in EMEA. It collects his essays, the events he has spoken at, the startups he has backed, and how to reach him.

The site is fully translated into 11 languages, each under its own prefix: English (/en/), Türkçe (/tr/), Español (/es/), Português (/pt/), Русский (/ru/), العربية (/ar/), हिन्दी (/hi/), اردو (/ur/), 中文 (/zh/), 日本語 (/ja/), 한국어 (/ko/). Links below use English (/en/); swap the prefix for any other language.

## Writing (English)
- [The Clock of Life](https://alibabaoglan.com/en/blog/clock-of-life/): A short reflection from the plains of Tsavo on why fulfilment lives in the ordinary present, not somewhere down the road we keep rushing toward.
- [The Power of Silence](https://alibabaoglan.com/en/blog/power-of-silence/): On focus and solitude, and why the ideas worth keeping rarely arrive in meetings — they surface in the quiet, when the mind has room to wander.
- [Shaping the Uncertain](https://alibabaoglan.com/en/blog/shaping-the-uncertain/): Notes from the stage at IT Arena in Lviv on AI and the digital economy, and the work of making an uncertain future legible enough to act on.

## Pages
- Home — https://alibabaoglan.com/en/
- Writing — https://alibabaoglan.com/en/blog/
- Talks — https://alibabaoglan.com/en/talks/
- Portfolio — https://alibabaoglan.com/en/portfolio/
- Contact — https://alibabaoglan.com/en/contact/ (meetings via https://cal.com/alibabaoglan)

## Talks — events spoken at
- IT Arena — Lviv, Ukraine
- EMERGE — İstanbul, Türkiye (2023)
- RiseUp Summit — Cairo, Egypt (2015)
- Wolves Summit — Warsaw, Poland (2022)
- GULF-FIN Investors Summit — Helsinki, Finland
- ARAB NET — Beirut, Lebanon
- Startup Festival — Mdina, Malta
- NEXT — Hamburg, Germany
- e-Estonia — Tallinn, Estonia
- EDGE Game Expo — Dublin, Ireland

Private corporate talks for: Roche, SAP, Vestel, DenizBank, Bakıoğlu Holding, AGT, T.C. Ekonomi Bakanlığı, TİM, TUSAŞ.

## Portfolio — startups backed
- Bolt — https://bolt.eu/en/
- Salv — https://salv.com
- Wlthy — https://wlthy.io
- Wamo — https://wamo.io
- Ekmob — https://ekmob.com
- Rem People — https://rempeople.com
- Dipcaf — https://dipcaf.com
- Rawsome — https://www.rawsome.com.tr/en
- Saastech — https://www.saastech.io/en
- SlideBeast — https://www.linkedin.com/company/slidebeast/
- Kreditano — https://kreditano.com/en/

## Notes
- The contact email is intentionally not published in plain text (anti-spam). Use the contact page or the booking link above.
- Full text for LLMs: https://alibabaoglan.com/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap: https://alibabaoglan.com/sitemap-index.xml