Bülent Tekmen is one of Turkey’s leading serial entrepreneurs. He received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Yıldız Technical University and successfully completed the Executive Education General Management Program at Harvard University Business School. Starting his professional career as an information technology specialist, he provided professional consultancy for various projects undertaken by several Fortune 500 companies in Turkey and the Middle East. In addition to this, he also supported numerous important companies in different sectors, including finance, telecommunications, and retail. The most remarkable part of Bülent Tekmen’s career is his involvement in startups and serial entrepreneurship. In addition to his pioneering and leading ventures like Ininal, he launched another startup called Colendi. Bülent Tekmen also co-founded Next Ventures, an investment firm that supports high-potential technology startups around the world. Ininal, one of Turkey’s most important fintech companies, was founded by Bülent Tekmen in 2012 with the goal of becoming an alternative leader in payment systems, despite not being a traditional bank. It adopted the slogan “The Bank for the unbanked” and aimed to provide an alternative payment system to conventional methods. Colendi, founded in 2016, is a financial services platform that brings together consumers, businesses, and financial institutions to democratize banking services. Colendi aims to address a chronic financial problem that directly affects over 3 billion people with no bank accounts and over 5 billion people who cannot access credit.