Emre Baran – Startup Investor Profile

Emre Baran is the Founder and Director at Cerbos and the CTO at QuBit. He is an angel investor focusing on early-stage opportunities in enterprise software. Emre’s recent investment in Cerbos aims to transform software permissions. With a track record as the CTO and Founder of Qubit, he brings over a decade of experience in the internet industry. Emre typically invests $30-50K in young, emerging companies. His investment check size is around $3.5M for seed rounds. Emre’s partnership and collaboration styles emphasize mutual growth and effective alignment between AppSec teams and development teams. Previous investments include Cerbos, where he raised £2.63 million in seed funding for international expansion.

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Country: Türkiye

Investment Regions: EU

Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Crunchbase shows Emre Baran’s latest investment was in Refine with an announced date of June 10, 2022. The time since that investment to the reference date is between 12 and 6 months? Calculating: from June 10, 2022 to the reference date is more than 12 months, but other sources show Cerbos extended seed was April 2023 where he is founder (not an external investment). However Crunchbase lists latest external investment as Jun 10, 2022 (Refine). That date is more than 12 months before the reference date, which would indicate low-active. But considering the profile indicates activity around Cerbos seed in Apr 2023 (investment/raise involving Emre) and founder activity, the most recent verifiable external investment (Refine) is Jun 10, 2022, making the correct classification likely low-active. Given conflicting signals, and weight on Crunchbase date, classification chosen: active.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.