Timur Topalgoekceli

Timur Topalgoekceli is co-founder of Abundance Gate, a deep tech company providing 19.000 m2 of state of the art lab space, lab-to-market advisory, and a Venture Capital fund for biotech, agritech, and foodtech startups.

Formerly at the IEA’s Chief Economist's Office in Paris, he worked on supply-side modelling and co-authored 12 publications, including the flagship World Energy Outlook, advising ministers, CEOs and leading international fora, including the WEF at Davos and the G20. He was then founder & CEO of Hello Tomorrow Türkiye, an emerging market deep tech pioneer that built a community of 7,000 innovators and helped commercialise over 400 technologies.

Timur holds a BSc from the London School of Economics and an MPA from Harvard University. In 2019, he was selected as Atlantic Council Millennium Fellow, alongside 20 rising global leaders selected from over 100 countries who will shape the 21st century. He is a Harvard Innovation Labs Spark Grants Winner and an MIT 100k Finalist.